Resource Organizer

People’s Tech Project seeks an experienced storyteller and skilled project manager able to help shape and execute plans to secure the resources that we need to support Black, Brown, and immigrant communities to take on the high-stakes role technology plays in society today.

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 telecom and tech 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 a skilled storyteller, experienced project manager, and strong 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 ones 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.

You should be able to demonstrate or readily develop 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 for the purpose of generating resources, and are able to help craft compelling proposals that resonate with these funders, making a clear case for how PTP’s 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, dismantling institutions, and shifting power both within the tech justice field and in philanthropy, while building it 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 a strategic fundraising plan for our organization and for partners in collaboration with the Executive Director, Director’s team, and Advisory Board
• 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.
• Engage 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: demonstrated ability to tell community organizing stories compellingly to multiple kinds of audiences and to tailor People’s Tech’s message in a way that resonates with our funding priorities.
• Excellent project management: think ahead and take initiative, self-manage, create plans and keep the team on schedule and on track with the plan, especially with respect to fixed external grant deadlines.
• Grant management: experience managing grants, including researching and writing grants and reports and overseeing the grant process.
• Funder experience: Strong or demonstrably growing knowledge base of social justice foundation landscape and key players
• Political analysis that aligns with People’s Tech, including a critique of racial capitalism and an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of philanthropy
• Culture add: Reliable, emotionally mature, willingness to learn from and collaborate with colleagues.

Additional desired attributes:

• Ability to provide scheduling and administrative support to directors
• Experience implementing a strategic fundraising plan based on current and future organizational goals
• Skills in building and maintaining connections with funders/program officers
• Experience representing a community social justice organization publicly, in or through social media, online communications such as newsletters, or through earned media
• Event management, including funder briefings, press conferences, etc.

Salary and Benefits:

Salary: The Resource Organizer salary will fall between $81,150-$87,394 per year.

Exempt, Full time, 32 hours per week

Movement Alliance Project and People’s Tech Project is an at-will employer.

People’s Tech utilizes a negotiation-free salary process, in order to combat pay disparities based on personality or social position and to ensure pay parity across our roles. Salaries for all staff exist in a framework based on the position’s level of responsibility within the organization and how it fits into our internal hierarchy, which determines level, and an individual’s years of experience, which determines tier.

The Resource Organizer is a Level 2 Strategist position. Tier will be determined based on the years of experience a candidate has in a similar role. Upon receiving a job offer, candidates may negotiate the tier if they believe it is incorrect based on their experience, but not the associated salary.

Benefits: People’s Tech benefits include:

• 4 day/32 hour flexible work week
• Paid time off:
  • 20 vacation days
  • 12 sick days
  • 7 floating holidays
  • 10 organizational holidays and a winter break
• Paid short-term and long term disability and life insurance
• Additional types of leave
• 90% employer coverage of healthcare plans for staff members and opportunity to enroll in dental plan
• 2% employer match in 401k plan
• Internet stipend for remote work
• Investment in professional growth through training and coaching

Our Hiring Process and Timeline

To apply: Use our application form to apply. It includes some basic information about yourself, application questions, and a place to upload your resume.

Application deadline: We will accept applications until Thursday, April 17th, with priority given to earlier applicants.

Hiring process: We will hold initial screening calls with select applicants upon receipt of applications, throughout the application period. After screening calls, we will invite candidates moving forward to a first round interview, which will be held April 21st – May 2nd. There will be a brief exercise for candidates to complete between the first and second round interviews for those moving on to the second round, to help us understand skills and fit for the position. Second round interviews will be held the week of May 5th or May 12th. We will then conduct reference calls for final candidates.

Target start date: We would like to have the selected candidate start by June 2, 2025.

Accommodations

People’s Tech offers, upon request, accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the application, interview, and hiring process. If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact us.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, immigrants, women and femmes, LGBTQI+ individuals, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and formerly convicted, incarcerated, or systems-impacted people are highly encouraged to apply.

People’s Tech Project does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, political affiliation, exercising one’s right to family care and medical leave, medical condition, including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions, or any other category protected by local, state, or federal laws. We are not offering US visa sponsorship at this time.

People’s Tech is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a welcoming and inclusive culture and a staff that is representative of the communities impacted by the issues we fight. People’s Tech encourages all applicants who are aligned with our political vision and mission and have relevant experience to apply, even if they don’t fully meet every qualification or skill.

If you have questions about the application process, please reach out to us at contact@peoplestechproject.org. Please do not reach out with resumes or applications to this email; if you are interested in applying, use the application form below.