VP for Community Mobilization Housing Works

Full-Time Position based at NYC or WASHINGTON, DC

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversee our contributions to national and global organizing, including supervision of a Director of National organizing and multiple regional Field Organizers, peers and volunteers across the country.
• Facilitate advocacy participation by C2EA state chapters and coalition partners
• Carry out advocacy and lobbying work with elected officials and staff in Washington, DC and in selected state capitals
• Lead the development and execution of national and state-level C2EA and Housing Works advocacy campaigns and events
• Unify advocacy messaging for a common domestic-global theme of Universal Access to treatment, prevention, care and support
• Represent Housing Works with global, national, regional and local AIDS, AIDS housing, harm reduction, people of color, LGBT, antipoverty, faith community, public health and other activist organizations and coalitions

Issue Areas:

• HIV/AIDS, including domestic and global initiatives
• AIDS housing, homelessness & supportive housing
• Medicaid, Medicare and other federal health care programs
• Substance abuse and mental health
• Harm reduction
• Civil rights for people living with HIV/AIDS and other disabilities
• LGBT rights

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree preferred
• Understanding of and commitment to aggressive advocacy on HIV/AIDS and homelessness;
• Top-level organizing, writing, supervision and teamwork skills;
• Commitment to development and promotion of advocacy leadership by people living with HIV/AIDS;
• Experience in writing, editing and electronic communications, including competence in current database, web, and publishing software and hardware, including HTML as necessary;
• Understanding of and commitment to harm reduction principles
• Ability to carry out culturally competent and racially aware organizing work – ability to speak Spanish and/or other languages a plus;
• Commitment to multi-level advocacy, including direct action and civil disobedience.

Salary based on experience.  Housing Works is an equal opportunity employer and particularly seeks to hire people living with AIDS and HIV and/or other disabilities, people of color, LGBT people, people in recovery, and those with a background of poverty and/or homelessness.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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