ROC-UNITED DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) is new national restaurant workers’ organization dedicated to winning improved conditions for the nation's restaurant workers. Founded initially after 9/11 by restaurant workers displaced from the World Trade Center, ROC has grown into a national organization with 5000 members in eight states. Over the last seven years in New York, ROC-NY has won nine campaigns for restaurant workers against exploitative employers, winning over $5,000,000 in unpaid wages and discrimination payments for restaurant workers, as well as improvement in working conditions; published four reports on the industry; won a statewide minimum wage increase; opened a worker-owned restaurant, COLORS, and much more. ROC affiliates in Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Maine, Miami, Los Angeles, and Washington DC all similarly engage in three areas of work: waging campaigns for justice against low-road employers; promoting responsible employers taking the ‘high road’ to profitability; and conducting research and policy work to lift conditions industry-wide.
ROC seeks a full-time Development Director to develop resources that will help ROC continue to grow.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under direct supervision of the Co-Directors of ROC-U, this Director will engage in the following:
1) Prospect new charitable foundations and government funding opportunities to which ROC can apply
2) Develop relationships with program officers and funders
3) Write grant proposals and reports
4) Prospect and help reach out to new individual donors
5) Help conduct fundraising events for the local affiliates and national
6) Train local affiliates in fundraising and financial management skills
QUALIFICATIONS:
- At least 2-3 years successful fundraising experience
- Experience working with community-led grassroots organization
- Excellent writing and oral communication skills
- Understanding of community/labor organizing
- Demonstrated commitment to racial, social, and economic justice
- Restaurant industry experience a major plus
COMPENSATION Negotiable based on experience, plus benefits. Immigrants, women, and people of color encouraged to apply. Send cover letter and resume to saru@rocunited.org.
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