Medical Debt Organizer

Core responsibilities:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with members and volunteers, including conducting regular one-on-ones, identifying and developing leaders, and running trainings
• Lead popular education and organizing conversations on calls, making meaningful connections between debt systems, structural issues, and member experiences
• Organize high-level direct actions that move the needle on campaign work and deepen relationships with and among members
• Support the team lead on targeted research projects designed to inform and strengthen campaign work

This role creates positive change by building collective power to fight for better financial conditions through debt renegotiation and abolition, public funding of social goods, and advancing anti-capitalist and anti-racist economic policies, specifically focusing on medical debt and healthcare financialization.

Required skills and experience:

• 5 years of experience in community and/or worker organizing, or in a closely-related field
• Experience working on issue campaigns and confidence executing strategies for distributed organizing and large-scale mobilizations
• Skilled relational organizer with experience and success in leading effective teams and developing new leaders
• Strong communication and writing skills, and experience with data-informed online organizing including multi-channel digital engagement tracking, list segmentation, A/B testing and CRMs

No specific benefits, compensation, or salary information mentioned in the job posting.

The Debt Collective is an experimental union for debtors that builds collective power to fight for better conditions in financial lives through debt renegotiation and abolition, public funding of social goods, and anti-capitalist and anti-racist economic policies.