Join the FLOC Team!
Current openings:
-Full time field staff
-Part time communications intern
-Field Organizing Internship
Position: Field Staff
Type: Full time
Salary: based on qualifications
Location: Dudley, North Carolina
Starting date:As soon as possible
GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
From April until October field staff will be responsible for visiting camps, responding to worker calls, recruiting new members, and investigating and resolving worker complaints. All staff work out of the Dudley office during the day six days per week, and coordinate camp visits 3-5 nights per week. Field staff must be prepared to work long and irregular hours including weekends and holidays as necessary.
From November to March, field staff will work on building community support for the Reynolds campaign, which includes coordinating supporter meetings and committees, giving presentations, and organizing campaign actions.
Field Staff responsibilities include:
Member Organizing
• Visiting labor camps and speaking with workers about the union, our contract, and the Reynolds Campaign
• Organizing regional worker meetings and coordinating drivers
• Investigating worker complaints and facilitating a solution
• Meeting with workers as they arrive for the growing season and as they leave for Mexico
Community organizing
• Organizing fundraising events
• Networking with allies
• Organizing community actions around the Reynolds Campaign
Office work
• Data entry
• maintaining accurate records of camp visits and locations and communication with members
• Maintaining records of community supporters
• providing limited direct services to local associate members
QUALIFICATIONS
• Flexible schedule, willing to travel and work evenings and weekends
• Able to travel for 1-2 week periods
• Fluent Spanish is required
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice/labor rights issues
• Basic computer and writing skills
• Must have valid driver’s license and a car and be willing to drive for work
• Proficient administrative/computer skills
HOW TO APPLY
Please send a cover letter and resume to Briana Kemp at bkemp@floc.com. Please be sure to mention what date you are available to start.
Position: Communications Intern
Type: Part time
Salary: Unpaid
Location:Work can be done remotely
Starting date:As soon as possible
The position requires approximately 15 hours per week, which can all be done remotely and on a flexible schedule after training. Intern must be available to travel to Dudley for 1-2 full days of training.
Responsibilities will include:
- Update website weekly
- Update FLOC’s social media presence including Twitter and Facebook as needed
- Drafting and sending a monthly update to our website subscribers
- Updating and maintaining a working media list and sending media releases when appropriate
- Drafting and sending fundraising appeals to our donors list
- Creating flyers for demonstrations and events
- Creating and editing flyers for our members
- Drafting solidarity statements with other labor struggles
- Collaborating with staff about new marketing ideas for FLOC
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Publisher or similar editing software is highly desire
- Proficiency in oral and written communication skills
- Bilingual in English/Spanish is preferred
- Knowledge of social media tools
- Basic website design skills
- Previous experience working with marketing, graphic design, public relations is a plus
-Concerned with issues of social justice
To apply please email cover letter and resume to Briana Kemp at bkemp@floc.com. Applications accepted until position is filled.
Position: Organizing Intern
Type: Part time
Salary: Unpaid; Housing and travel stipends available
Location:Dudley, NC
Starting date:As soon as possible
This internship consists of becoming trained as a union
field representative in North Carolina. This summer internship will consist of irregular
working hours, frequent traveling within North Carolina and consistent
interaction with farmworkers to help solve grievances, provide information on
labor rights, and encourage union membership.
Responsibilities and Expectations:
Field Organizing
- Visiting
labor camps and speaking with workers about the union, the union contract, and
the Reynolds Campaign
- Organizing
regional worker meetings and coordinating volunteer drivers to provide
transportation for members in preparation for constitutional convention
- Investigating
worker complaints and facilitating a solution
- Meeting
with workers as they arrive for the growing season and as they leave for Mexico
- Updating
data bases to report camp visits, problems and general worker information
- Answering
calls and responding to inquiries from workers
Qualifications
- Flexible
schedule, willing to travel and work evenings and weekends
- Fluent
Spanish is required
- Demonstrated
commitment to social justice/labor rights issues
- Basic
computer and writing skills
- Must
have valid driver’s license and be willing to drive for work
- Proficient
administrative/computer skills