Director of Organizing

Are you an experienced Community Organizer? Do you know organizers who are looking for a new challenge at an organization with a proven track record of winning meaningful campaigns for poor and working-class people?

Help PUSH Buffalo find an experienced Organizing Director.

This is a Dream Job for someone who wants to make a significant impact at the intersection of housing and climate justice, and who wants to work with an intersectional, member-driven, POC-led organization.

PUSH Buffalo is one of the premier community-based green-development organizations in the country. Working with a dynamic leadership team, the Organizing Director has the opportunity of a lifetime to grow the organization’s power to a new level by:

·      building effective campaigns and a robust team of community organizers in a vibrant and diverse community on Buffalo’s West Side and in its acclaimed Green Development Zone;

·      nurturing c3 and c4 coalitions to transform the power structure of the city of Buffalo for generations to come;

·      contributing to a growing statewide organizing ecology responsible for some of the most advanced Climate Justice legislation in the country;

·      cementing national alliances aligned with a Just Transition framework;

·      achieving a Homes Guarantee, social housing, and anti-displacement protections for tenants in a rapidly gentrifying city;

·      by raising the profile of PUSH in climate justice work internationally.