We’re hiring an operations associate. Apply or share!

Title: operations associate
Reports to: development director
Apply by: March 5 for preferred consideration. Instructions below.

Hours: Full time. Occasional evenings and weekends required.
Salary: $50,000
Benefits: Paid vacation and sick days, federal holidays off, the last two weeks of the year off, BlueCross low-deductible PPO medical and dental, 100% of premiums paid for by employer.
Location: In person. Office is currently at 602 E 61st St.

Org summary: Southside Together does community organizing, primarily in Woodlawn, South Shore, primarily with Black working-class tenants, mental-health advocates, and youth. Our campaigns include the Obama CBA campaign for affordable housing, the Treatment Not Trauma campaign for free public mental-health clinics and police-free mental-health first response, and campaigns led by youth at Hyde Park Academy High School and Parkside Elementary School. We are the 2024 merger of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) and Not Me We.

Responsibilities:

• Office-space management

• Purchase and maintain supplies, furniture, and equipment

• Supervise office cleaner. Keep office and supplies organized. Do tasks to keep office clean or manage staff in doing so.

• Develop and lead staff in maintaining office practices, norms, and policies around office space, ranging from cleaning up to locking up to reporting problems.

• Coordinate use of space via reservations and calendars. Manage access to space via keys.

• Hire and manage other contractors like handymen as needed

• Development (fundraising)

• Enter individual and grant contributions into donor database and other records.

• Produce and coordinate annual and ongoing written donor thank-yous and tax acknowledgements.

• Ensure retention of monthly donors, especially by contacting lapsed donors

• Maintain organization of development-related files. Provide development-related documents for audit.

• Procure and coordinate vendors for fundraising events like gala, like venue, caterer, and musicians

• Occasionally lead certain smaller or medium fundraising events with support from development director

• Participate in development committee, fundraising from individuals, and occasionally, meetings with institutional funders (grantors)

• Make routine entries and uploads for grants (routine as opposed to writing answers to open-ended grant questions)

• Event support

• Participate in planning for organization-wide events and activities. Manage staff and volunteers working on event logistics.

• Order food and prepare supplies for organization-wide events

• Participate in events and lead logistics during them

• IT

• Track technology assigned to staff and used for other purposes like events

• Maintain printer. Troubleshoot and get warranty support for malfunctioning technology.

• Purchase technology. Research technology to purchase, with or when requested by development director.

• Support staff, especially new staff, in learning software and using computers

• When a staff member leaves, close our her staff Google Workspace and other accounts

• Data

• Supporting staff with tracking participation like event turn-out via forms and check-ins

• Maintaining good data by monitoring database accuracy, removing duplicates, and working on how we log things in our database

• Answer questions and produce reports based on data

• General

• Occasionally participate in organizing, for instance, door-knocking

Qualifications

• Past involvement in a community or labor organizing campaign as a leading volunteer or as a staff member

• Personal understanding of racial and economic justice, especially around housing, health, and/or youth

• Preferred but not required: familiarity with Chicago’s South Side and Black communities

• Comfort with people of diverse ages and backgrounds

• Associate’s degree, or two years’ full-time work experience in an office. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

• Competence in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and any database. Currently our database is EveryAction, which is related to MiniVAN.

• Ability to do household maintenance like assembling furniture

To apply: Email cover letter and resume to jobs@southsidetogether.org
Preference given to applications submitted by March 5, 2025