Organizing & Advocacy Associate

Full-time, exempt position

Overview

The Reproductive Health Access Project mobilizes, trains, and supports clinicians to ensure equitable access to sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion. By centering communities most impacted by barriers to care, RHAP fills critical gaps in clinical education and care delivery. RHAP organizing and mobilizing is building a movement to change the way reproductive health care is provided. RHAP develops practical, evidence-based, patient-centered clinical tools and resources that set a clinical standard in the U.S. and are used widely around the world. Our clinical training programs develop primary care clinicians who provide, advocate for, and teach full-spectrum sexual and reproductive health care. Our technical assistance programs creatively address barriers to providing high-quality abortion, contraception, and management of early pregnancy loss care in primary care settings. Through our national organizing and mobilizing, we are building a movement to change the way sexual and reproductive health care is provided.

The Reproductive Health Access Network pulls together over 8,000 primary care clinicians from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Canada to come together virtually and in-person to engage in advocacy, clinical training, peer support, and leadership development. The Network is organized nationally through online listservs, national virtual gatherings, and in-person meetings at national and regional conferences, and locally/statewide through the Cluster structure.

 

Role

As the Organizing & Advocacy Associate, you are a critical member of an interdisciplinary team working to build, expand, and support the Reproductive Health Access Network, a national community of primary care clinician activists. You provide essential logistical and administrative support for this program. You are detail-oriented, enjoy working with people, and are a stickler for follow-through. You work quickly and collaboratively. This is a full-time, remote position that reports directly to the Manager of Organizing & Advocacy and works closely with the other members of the Network team. 

 

Preference will be given to candidates who are able to commute to Brooklyn 1-2 times per month. 

 

Over the course of a typical year, the Network prioritizes:

• • Organizing clinicians to engage with their professional organization (primarily the AAFP), connecting through 27 state-based “Clusters” and 3 professional cohort Clusters,
  • responding to legislation and policies that affect access to reproductive health care,
  • providing education on sexual and reproductive health topics, 
  • leadership development, and
  • community building opportunities. 

Throughout all of your work, the Organizing & Advocacy Associate will apply the organization’s values.

 

Priority Responsibilities

1. Provide administrative & logistical support for the Reproductive Health Access Network, including state-based Clusters and national Network meetings
   • Works with Cluster leaders and Network staff to ensure that logistics for Cluster and national meetings (technology, food, space, materials, etc.) are in place.
   • Creates, updates, and tracks registration for Cluster and national meetings, prepares and processes sign-in sheets, and communicates with Sr. Program Coordinators as needed.
   • Takes notes for Network team check-ins and other relevant meetings. 
   • Administrative support for Access List, RHAP’s virtual clinical listserv.
   • Collaborates with the Manager of Organizing and Advocacy to develop standard-of-practice material and update Network procedural documents
2. Network Communications and Data Hygiene
   • Compiles clinical content and creates monthly Network newsletters. 
   • Regularly checks and maintains the Network email account, directing emails as appropriate.
   • Regularly updates and cleans data using EveryAction and the Network Drive. 
3. Maintains and organizes storage unit items and conference materials
   • Tracks inventory of RHAP materials and resources
   • Coordinates the shipping and receiving of materials 
   • Maintains organizational needs of the unit 
4.  Provide administrative & logistical support for the organization’s Papaya Workshops. 
   • Coordinates with appropriate RHAP staff and partners to ensure that all the necessary materials are sent to workshop hosts in a timely manner. 
   • Tracks training requests and identifies facilitators as needed.
   • Ensures that kits are complete and tracked. 
   • Processes sign-in sheets as needed. 
5. Ethics and Integrity  
   • Uphold the Reproductive Health Access Project Code of Ethics in all facets of professional and personal work interactions.          
   • Apply a race equity lens in decision-making and priority setting: considering equity implications and effects of implicit bias on marginalized communities within and outside of RHAP.
   • Understand and practice confidentiality concerning non-public information about RHAP, staff, board, supporters, and all other third parties.        
   • Demonstrate commitment to the organization’s values as listed in the Introduction to the Code of Ethics.
6. Relationships
   • Maintain respective and collaborative relationships with all RHAP staff, board members, external vendors, and partner organizations, including local and national reproductive health, rights, and justice groups and primary care partners.
   • Serve as an ambassador for RHAP, representing the organization in various external venues and partnerships.
   • Travels to conferences 2-3 times per year
7. Other duties, as assigned.
   
   

   
   Job Qualifications

• Community Familiarity: Experience working with the New Mexico reproductive health, rights, and justice communities, as well as an understanding of the dynamics between these communities, is highly desirable. Experience working in a reproductive health clinical setting is highly desirable.
• Positive Communicator:  Enjoys talking to and partnering with others; is comfortable supporting people through decision making and challenges in their work. Has excellent listening skills and approaches relationships collaboratively and with an open mind.
• Project Management and support: Experience in working with others to plan and execute projects, events, and initiatives.
• Self-direction: Takes initiative in what can sometimes feel like chaotic or ambiguous environments, and motivated to explore solutions instead of waiting for directions. Detail-oriented, patient, highly organized, and follows-through on all responsibilities, and communicates concerns and challenges if they arise. Is responsive and works quickly and collaboratively.
• Communications: Strong overall written and oral presentation skills, and the ability to communicate with people of various backgrounds and experiences.Is an active and compassionate listener and communicates their thoughts clearly. Able to write clearly and effectively for a variety of audiences and formats.
• Knowledge: Understanding of or interest in learning about community organizing and campaigns, using online resources to support organizing, and event planning.
• Resilience: Able to withstand being exposed to biased, anti-abortion/reproductive rights beliefs and incidents from external sources and help community members facing similar challenges in their own advocacy.
• Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work as integral part of a team of hard-working, energetic professionals, taking input from a variety of assertive colleagues.
• Prioritization and Detail Orientation: Ability to set and meet goals, prioritize, plan, manage, and complete work on deadline and in optimum quality. Responds to constantly shifting daily events and priorities with strategic thinking and planning and humor and enthusiasm.
• Commitment to Reproductive Justice: An understanding of and commitment to issues affecting the reproductive health/rights/justice community, as well as an understanding of racism, classism and other systems of intersectional oppressions is critical.
• Language Ability: Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in English is required. 
  

   

Work hours & compensation

This is a full-time, fully remote, exempt position that involves occasional travel. Starting salary is $58,460.00. Benefit eligibility begins after 30 days of employment. These benefits include:

• • 20 days of paid time off a year on an accrual basis, 
  • 92 hours annually for sick and wellness time, 
  • 11 paid holidays
  • 16 hours annually for professional/personal development time off 
  • Full company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance, 
  • Annual employer contribution to a health reimbursement account (HRA), 
  • Flexible spending account (FSA)
  • 403(b) account with a 5% company contribution after one year of employment
  • Generous work-from-home setup stipend

Preference will be given to candidates who are able to commute to Brooklyn 1-2 times per month.

Work Environment

Please note that the Reproductive Health Access Project is a 100% remote organization, with occasional in-person conferences and events. We ask that all employees be available online during our core hours of 11am-4pm EST, unless otherwise discussed.

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• • While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to work efficiently in a space without significant interruptions, especially during meetings.
  • The employee is required to sit and use a computer for a large majority of working hours.
  • Occasional in and out-of-state travel to conferences and meetings may be required.
  • The employee may be required to work outside for programmatic duties such as tabling.
  • This position is full-time (40 hours a week), with the employee’s regular full-time schedule to be approved by the supervisor. RHAP’s core hours are 11am-4pm Eastern Time, with flexibility for the remaining hours.
  • The employee will occasionally be asked to work evening and weekend hours for special program events or as necessary, usually 1-2 times per month.
  • Some work at off-site locations may be required; RHAP aims for accessibility in any off-site location that we have control of, but some of them may not be fully accessible.
  • The employee is regularly required to communicate effectively via computer, via phone, and in person

 

Application Instructions 

Send cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references to hr@reproductiveaccess.org. In your cover letter, please let us know where you heard about this position and why you are the right candidate for the role. Applications will be closed and begin review on Tuesday, December 3rd. Only complete applications will be reviewed. Please, no phone, email, or fax inquires. 

 

The Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any individual based on any non-merit factor and is committed to an equitable workplace where everyone is treated as a respected and valued member of the team. In fact, RHAP actively seeks to build and maintain a diverse staff with regard to race, sex, gender identity, age, ability, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. In addition to Federal law requirements, RHAP complies with applicable New York State and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.