Surge Resource Organizer

Position: Resource Organizer

Supervisor: Deputy Director

Salary: $70,000 FTE

About Surge Reproductive Justice:

Surge is a Reproductive Justice (RJ) organization. RJ is an approach to health equity

and reproductive health that uses a holistic lens to look at the whole person, their

family, and their community for empowerment opportunities. The RJ approach brings

together diverse communities and perspectives to reach solutions that are led by the

communities most affected by reproductive oppression and racial injustice.

Our mission is to mobilize communities to build a world where all people can make

powerful, self-determined choices for their bodies and the future of their families and

communities. Our work centers Black women, femmes, and Black queer and trans

people for a movement that rises from the bottom up. Currently we are working on

Black perinatal health, Medicaid access for doulas, and decriminalizing sex work in the

state of Washington.

About the Position:

Surge Reproductive Justice seeks a Resource Organizer who will work with the

Executive Director, Deputy Director, and board to steward and implement the

fundraising strategy at Surge. This individual will need to bring both innovation and best

practices to ensure Surge Reproductive Justice is implementing a creative, effective,

and mission-aligned approach to resource mobilization and maintaining the current $1.5

million dollar budget. Design, implement and track a robust, diversified, and measurable

annual development plan to attract and retain a broad base of support from donors.

Monitor and evaluate progress toward fundraising goals; and recommend changes or

additions to the plan, as needed.

Metrics and Measures of Impact:

● The Resource Organizer will be expected to design a development plan that has

the goal of raising a minimum of 20% of the total organizational budget through

the Resource Mobilizing Program and individual donors.

● The Resource Organizer will be expected to annually identify prospective grants

in the amount that equals to or greater than the annual organizational budget.

Responsibilities will include:

Resource Mobilizing Program and Sustainers Circle (40% of time):

● Research best practices for grassroots donor engagement, management and

recognition

● Create and lead a Resource Mobilizing Program cohort program and Sustainers

Circle that meets the annual giving goals and strategies:

○ Conduct meetings with resource mobilizers, and other key stakeholders.

○ Develop and organize RMP activities, trainings, and engagement process

○ Cultivate resource mobilizers who want to solicit gifts from their networks

○ Measure and evaluate impact of RMP on gifts received

● Create a donor list and tracking system with existing and new data

● Oversee donor data, ensuring the ongoing integrity of the donor database and

processing of all gift entries and acknowledgements.

● Develop proactive and innovative strategies to identify and recruit new resource

mobilizers

● Design and steward annual giving campaigns

● Design and steward recurring online giving campaigns

Grant Support (40% of time)

● Build a grants calendar with dates and relevant tracking information

● Research prospective grants and foundations and develop and maintain a

tracking system

● Attend prospective grant informational sessions

● Assist with LOI’s and grant applications as needed

Program and Administration Support (20% of time):

● Co-Design the SRJ annual report

● Collaborate with the Communications Lead to visually highlight SRJ work through social

media, media development, and visual content.

● Represent SRJ in funding spaces

● Be proactive in finding opportunities to highlight SRJ's work and raise awareness of the

work to potential funders and donors.

● Support other Surge team members on joint projects and all team events

● Participate in Surge team building activities and political education curriculum

Specific skills and experience that are most critical for this job include:

● Will be inspired and passionate about reproductive justice and ensuring that all

communities and people have access to resources and have autonomy over their

bodies and community to create or not create the families they choose, and to

thrive in their communities.

● Analysis and commitment to anti-racism.

● Track record as a collaborative teammate who can also thrive in

independent projects.

● A well-developed interpersonal skill set — especially active listening,

empathy, patience, and relationship building.

● Flexibility to adjust to the needs of an emerging organization.

● Experience in fundraising and grant writing.

Employee Benefits

● 23 paid time off days a year and 11 paid floating holidays

● Kaiser HMO and PPO plans w/ zero deductible

● Delta Dental plan

● 401K and Roth IRA plans with $1500 match annually

● Life, short-term and long-term disability, and A&D insurance

● Regional ORCA pass at $10/month

Background Check

A criminal background will not automatically eliminate you from consideration. A criminal

history background check will be conducted on the final candidate prior to beginning

employment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

RVC is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for

employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual

orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other class protected by

law. Assistance and/or reasonable accommodations during the application process are

available to individuals upon request.

To request assistance or accommodation, please contact info@rvcseattle.org.

Please submit resume and cover letter to info@surgenw.org and with the subject "Application for Resource Organizer"