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About the Role

The Community Organizer will strengthen CASA’s broad base of members committed to housing justice, understand movement building, and take action to improve housing quality and affordability in the Southwest Bronx. The role involves organizing tenants to address landlord harassment, secure repairs, prevent displacement, and stabilize communities while helping residents recognize and exercise their collective power.

Responsibilities

Support and enhance a culture that respects and honors diversity, invests in professional development and encourages self-care.
Conduct outreach weekly via door knocking, flyering, and tabling to educate community members about their rights as rent-stabilized tenants and recruit active participants.
Conduct weekly phone-banking, making on average 100 calls per week.
Organize and support four to five tenant associations to address landlord harassment, housing conditions, needed repairs, displacement risks, and other shared concerns.
Build relationships with tenants through regular outreach, one-on-one conversations, building meetings, and follow-up.
Identify shared building-wide concerns, assess organizing opportunities, and support tenants in developing goals, strategies, and action plans.
Develop representative steering committees that work collectively and assign roles based on members’ skills, interests, availability, and leadership goals.
Coach tenant leaders to plan and facilitate meetings, recruit and engage neighbors, create flyers, write letters, document housing conditions, and communicate effectively with landlords and public agencies.
Support tenant-led actions, including meetings with landlords, engagement with HPD and other agencies, press conferences, public testimony, bank accountability efforts, and other escalation strategies.
Connect tenant associations to appropriate legal, housing, and public resources while maintaining the organizer’s role as a facilitator.
Build each association’s capacity to operate independently by establishing leadership structures, shared decision-making practices, communication systems, and clear next steps.
Recruit tenant association members into CASA, identify emerging leaders, and prepare them to take leadership roles in broader housing justice campaigns.
Track contacts, meetings, leadership development, actions, commitments, outcomes, and progress toward tenant association goals.
Strengthen members’ skills, capacity and analysis through formal and informal leadership development work.
Build relationships and recruit members for training and leadership activities that encourage active participation and a sense of ownership.
Use a variety of creative methods to recruit and assess new members, maintain accurate records, and meet turnout goals for key actions and events.
Participate in and prepare members individually and in group settings to facilitate monthly CASA Membership Meetings.
Provide monthly narratives and statistical reports on work accomplished.
Create and facilitate regular workshops specific to housing rights, laws and processes.
Pursue ongoing training and learning opportunities.
Actively participate in staff retreats.
Maintain accurate database records, and identify opportunities to strengthen CASA’s organizational capacity and impact.
Remain flexible and responsive to changes in campaign goals and organizing conditions.
Perform other duties as reasonably requested.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or three to five years of progressive experience.
Tenant organizing experience is a plus.
Ability to relate to persons of diverse backgrounds.
Strong track record of a commitment to social justice.
Demonstrated commitment to leadership development, community building, and community organizing as strategies for social change.
Direct communication and conflict resolution skills.
Ability to listen and motivate people to action from diverse backgrounds.
Ability to facilitate, train and develop leaders.
Excellent writing and public speaking skills.
Must be computer literate.
Must be able to work nights and weekends as necessary.
Candidates who have developed the required knowledge, skills, and abilities through a combination of education, work experience, training, military service, certifications, or other relevant experiences will be considered, even if they do not possess a Bachelor's degree.

Skills

English/Spanish bilingual skills preferred.

Location

35 Marcy Place - Bronx, NY

Work Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Three to five years of progressive experience

Education Level

High School

Salary/Compensations

$30.22 - $32.96 Hourly

About the Company

The Crenulated Company Ltd. dba New Settlement Apartments (“New Settlement”) is a community-led, mission-driven settlement house rooted in the Bronx.
For more than 35 years, New Settlement has worked with youth, families, residents, and community members in the Southwest Bronx to build resilience, expand opportunity, and strengthen neighborhoods through after-school education and youth development, workforce development and college readiness, health, fitness, and wellness programming, community organizing for better housing and safer schools, and arts, creative expression, and community-building initiatives.
Rooted in the Bronx, New Settlement stands with community members to break systemic barriers, advance justice, promote leadership, and strengthen neighborhoods.
By ensuring agency around education, employment, housing, wellness, and creative expression, New Settlement helps cultivate an equitable society where individuals and families have the power to use their voice to create the change they wish to see.

Equal Opportunity

The Crenulated Company Ltd, dba New Settlement Apartments (New Settlement) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or military or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal laws.
In addition, the Company complies with all applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
New Settlement does not tolerate unlawful harassment of employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or military or veteran status or in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.
Improper interference with the ability of the Company’s employees to perform their expected job duties is not acceptable.