Organization: Causa – Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization
City: Portland

Type: Full-Time
Primary Job Function: Executive Leadership
Secondary Job Function: Fundraising

Description & Details

The Opportunity

 

As executive director of Causa, you will work with a team of passionate and hard-working organizers to build on Causa’s impressive track record and create our next chapter. We are currently celebrating a huge victory (driver’s licenses for all!) that took 10 years of work, and now we are turning our attention to the next big campaigns, which you’ll help us shape. You will serve as our lead champion and spokesperson while also cultivating the leadership and professional development of staff, board members, and community members. Your exceptional collaboration skills will support our awesome staff, board, and partners, and your advocacy and fundraising abilities will ensure our organizational health and sustainability while advancing us toward strategic goals. You’ll directly supervise seven staff members to start and help us consider how we might restructure our staffing. We’ll look forward to working with you to create an updated logo and identity and move to a larger office. We will appreciate your ability to keep equity at the center of our work, your approachability, thoughtfulness, courage, and sense of humor.

 

Mission / Organization

 

Causa works to improve the lives of Latino immigrants and their families in Oregon through advocacy, coalition building, leadership development, and civic engagement. Latino immigrants and their families are the heart of Causa and inspire, implement, and champion our work. 

 

Causa was founded in 1995 by farmworkers, Latinos, immigrants, and allies in order to defeat ballot measures that would have negatively impacted the lives of Latino families in Oregon. The founding of Causa established a designated organization that was in charge of working towards legislation that would improve the lives of the immigrant community. 

 

Causa envisions a world where all people have the opportunities and resources needed to thrive. We envision a community that welcomes and values the contributions, strengths, and assets of Latino immigrants and their families. 

 

Causa has a budget of $775,000 and 12 staff members (11.5 FTE). 

 

More Information

 

Salary Range:  $70,000 – $75,000, depending on experience

 

Applications Requested by:  August 5, 2019

 

Link to Job Announcement and Job Description:  https://causaoregon.org/our-team/opportunities/  (Please be sure to note our application instructions in the announcement. Thank you!) 

 

Why ED Is Leaving / Interim ED:  After ten years at Causa and six as the Executive Director, Andrea Williams is leaving to have a baby.  Her last day is July 26.  Cristina Marquez will serve as our Interim Executive Director. Cristina is currently serving as Causa’s Advocacy and Civic Engagement Director and was the Campaign Manager for the No on Measure 105 effort.  She can be reached at cristinam@causaoregon.org.

 

Questions:  Feel free to contact Kathy Kniep, our recruitment consultant, with questions:  503-309-3433 / kathy@kathykniep.com.  

 

Last Updated: July 10, 2019