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Description
People’s Tech Project seeks a skilled, experienced storyteller able to help shape and execute plans to win the resources Black, Brown and immigrant communities need to take on the high-stakes role technology plays in society today.
Salary: $79,560-$85,680
Benefits: include 4 day/32 hour flexible work week, PTO of 20 vacation, 15 sick, and 7 floating holidays, plus organizational holidays, paid short and long term disability, 90% employer coverage of healthcare plans for staff, opportunities to enroll in dental and 401k plans
Location: Remote position anywhere in the continental US, must be able to work core hours of 11am – 4pm EST. All candidates must be able to travel to the Northeast corridor at least quarterly.
People’s Tech Project: Who we are and what we do
People’s Tech Project supports community groups fighting at the intersection of race, inequality, and technology to win a future where technology helps build dignity, justice, and liberation, rather than exacerbating oppression and harm in the hands of big corporations and the state.
People’s Tech Project is fiscally sponsored by Movement Alliance Project, a 501(c)3 organization, and we are based in Philadelphia, but have remote staff in other states as well.
People’s Tech emerged from Movement Alliance Project’s long history of community organizing in Philadelphia and around the country. We have rich experience in this field and have led many successful community-based and power-building local campaigns around expanding internet access and limiting corporate power, predictive analytics in courts and sentencing, and policing technology. Our leadership also played a central role in the national movement sector focusing on tech justice, and we have led coalitions and built key tools and resources for this sector, particularly on issues of racist predictive analytics in the criminal legal system.
People’s Tech was launched in June 2022 to address key challenges in both the local Philly movement ecosystem and the national movement for tech justice. Community movement groups directly experience how technology impacts their daily lives, but need support to develop strategies that incorporate how tech shapes the systemic oppression they are fighting. The national sector for tech justice has won important victories, but it is small, fighting on too many fronts, and largely too disconnected from these movements for human liberation and the priorities of those most impacted.
Our aim is to ensure that we are making our movements stronger and better positioned to fight for their own visions of liberation. For basebuilding organizations, we envision a strong and coherent social movement ecosystem armed with the analysis to understand how technology oppresses people, and to incorporate that analysis into their fights to win human liberation. Nationally, we envision a technology justice sector grounded in the material needs and leadership of impacted communities and their organizations, that works in step with social movements to successfully win power away from the tech sector as one crucial part of their collective work.
At People’s Tech, we are still developing our organizational structure, culture, and policies, and are experimenting with and evaluating practices and frameworks to see what fits us best. Our staff describes People’s Tech as inclusive, adventurous, caring, and enthusiastic, and we value clarity, transparency, support and accountability, being grounded in community and hope, growing everyone’s leadership, and supporting each other. We are excited to welcome candidates who are eager to join our growing team and work with us to develop our direction and impact.
About the Resource Organizer:
The Resource Organizer role is for an experienced storyteller and excellent writer who can manage the details of essential fundraising work and clearly articulate our strategy, in order to win the resources Black, Brown and immigrant communities need to take on the high-stakes role technology plays in society today.
You should be a highly organized individual with demonstrably strong project management skills. You are a planner who is always looking ahead, anticipating shifts and roadblocks and able to offer solutions to keep projects on schedule and ensure deadlines, particularly external deadlines from grant funders, are met.
With clarity regarding the crucial role resource generation plays in building community power for the long term, you also have experience in grant research, writing and reporting. The Resource Organizer should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the social justice foundation landscape and its key players. You have experience telling the story of justice-seeking organizations to multiple audiences, and are able to craft compelling proposals that resonate with these funders, making a clear case for how our work advances their goals.
We’re looking for someone who, in addition to these project management and writing skills, believes in our mission and approach to community organizing. You are someone interested in dismantling institutions and shifting power both within the tech justice field and in philanthropy, while building power in the communities best positioned to win. And, you bring that passion to your work environment daily with a willingness to learn, collaborate, and build trust with your colleagues.
Core responsibilities:
- Support the execution of strategic fundraising plan in collaboration with the executive director, advisory board, and managing director.
- Assist in building and maintaining strong connections with prospective and current funders.
- Manage grant processes from start to finish, including timely grant applications and reporting by handling writing, data collection, and administrative tasks.
- Proactively seek out opportunities and create compelling materials (slide decks, one-pagers, etc) to showcase the organization’s work to potential funders.
- Engagement with programmatic work, including attending and participating in convenings, workshops, and meetings, in order to build a robust understanding of our programs for communications and grant writing purposes
Qualifications + Skills
Required:
- Strong Written and Oral Communications Skills and ability to tell community organizing stories compellingly to multiple kinds of audiences.
- Excellent Project Management: thinks ahead, takes initiative, is self-managed, creates plans, refers to the plan and keeps the team on schedule, especially with respect to fixed external grant deadlines.
- Funder Experience: strong knowledge base of social justice foundation landscape and key players, and the ability to tailor the People’s Tech message in a way that resonates with their funding priorities.
- Grant Management: experience managing grants, including researching and writing grants and reports, and overseeing the grant process.
- Political Analysis that Aligns with People’s Tech, including a critique of racial capitalism and a clear assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of philanthropy in this moment.
- Culture Add: Reliable, emotionally mature, willingness to learn from and collaborate with colleagues.