COMMUNITY ORGANIZER RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: August 2, 2024 - The Community Organizer plans events and speaking engagements for advocacy, recruits and trains indigenous organizers with disabilities, and assists in fundraising activities. Ensures compliance with all regulations and standards while providing hands-on assistance with daily living activities. Develops and implements skill-building series, sustainability plans, and conducts evaluations to measure the impact of campaigns.

Tips for Community Organizer Skills and Responsibilities on a Resume

1. Community Organizer, Empower Communities, Durham, NC

Job Summary:

  • Use market data, membership trends, and other information to develop and execute comprehensive, information-driven recruitment plans for girl and adult membership growth in assigned communities.
  • Partner with Volunteer Recruiters to create and execute Service Unit recruitment plans. 
  • Provide direction, training, and resources to support local Service Unit recruitment activities.
  • Cultivate opportunities to engage in and regularly communicate with schools, community organizations, and faith-based institutions to increase awareness of and participation in Girl Scouting. 
  • Partner to reach prospective families including attendance at key events, distribution of recruitment materials, along with other identified opportunities.
  • Create community-based promotion plans to reach families, researching and identifying community-specific social media, locations, and word-of-mouth strategies to reach prospective families. 
  • Compile, assess and share information gathered in the field.
  • Accurately communicate to prospective families about Girl Scouts and the join process for all pathways.
  • Carry out identified strategies to ensure membership conversion and placement goals are met.
  • Contact and assist prospective members with membership registration and placement through email, phone, and in-person contacts. 


Skills on Resume:

  • Recruitment Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Volunteer Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Community Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Promotion Strategy (Hard Skills)
  • Field Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Prospective Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Membership Conversion (Hard Skills)
  • Registration Assistance (Soft Skills)

2. Community Organizer, United Together, Boulder, CO

Job Summary:

  • Help convert groups of interested families into a functioning troop with a troop leader. 
  • Participate in ongoing efforts to improve process efficiency.
  • Support annual and ongoing troop catalog initiatives for new troops, collect and input accurate information.
  • Provide and maintain accurate updates, feedback, and documentation of customer records in a timely manner.
  • Adhere to council policy, standard operating procedures, and working guidelines, and alerts others to process improvement enhancements.
  • Provide authentic, responsive, and high-level internal and external customer service.
  • Maintain strong working relationships with other troop coordinators and recruitment staff, ensuring strong, collaborative planning and delivery to meet goals. 
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues in other divisions, collaborating to achieve organizational goals.
  • Maintain proficiency in recruitment and youth program-related trends, cultural data and demographics, marketing and sales techniques, effective communication, and knowledge of communities and organizations.


Skills on Resume:

  • Troop Formation (Soft Skills)
  • Process Efficiency (Hard Skills)
  • Catalog Support (Hard Skills)
  • Record Management (Hard Skills)
  • Policy Adherence (Soft Skills)
  • Customer Service (Soft Skills)
  • Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Recruitment Proficiency (Hard Skills)

3. Community Organizer, Neighbor Networks, Albany, NY

Job Summary:

  • Design and execute community-oriented events and activities in support of CR’s mission.
  • Manage programs, from inception to completion, that support community engagement strategy.
  • Launch experiments to test various engagements and activations to reach and engage younger consumers and communities of color
  • Manage digital tools, spaces, and sites to allow for community engagement.
  • Serve as a relationship manager and skills developer with top volunteer leaders.
  • Develop training programs and resources, grounded in diversity, equity and inclusion, for all members to receive support and empowerment.
  • Work with Strategic Communications and Social Media teams to design program outreach tools including digital assets, videos, social media, emails, and other media.
  • Identify success metrics for each program and provide oversight to ensure necessary tracking, delivery, pacing and optimization.


Skills on Resume:

  • Event Design (Hard Skills)
  • Program Management (Hard Skills)
  • Engagement Experiments (Soft Skills)
  • Digital Tools Management (Hard Skills)
  • Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
  • DEI Training (Hard Skills)
  • Collaborative Outreach (Soft Skills)
  • Metrics Oversight (Hard Skills)

4. Community Organizer, Hope for Change, Tallahassee, FL

Job Summary:

  • Conduct one-on-one outreach and increase client participation in the program and neighborhood affairs.
  • Participate in organizing and facilitating regularly scheduled community meetings to understand the needs of the client base.
  • Participate in developing and/or partnering with external parties to provide a series of family support workshops that focus on these topics: curriculum based positive parenting, school success, personal development, and parent leadership training.
  • Participate in developing and/or partnering with external parties to provide a series of informational workshops of special interest to the Latino community.
  • Participate in recruiting, training, and overseeing client volunteers.
  • Facilitate a series of periodic (weekly and/or bi-monthly) leadership meetings for client volunteers.
  • Identify important neighborhood concerns and civic events that are relevant to the client base and then develop/implement campaigns to engage clients.
  • Collaborate with community-based organizations (CBO) and other neighborhood groups in community coalitions and improvement campaigns.
  • Build a sense of community with the client base through social, cultural, or celebratory event(s).
  • Participate in creating bi-lingual forms, flyers, and informational documents needed for the program.


Skills on Resume:

  • Client Outreach (Soft Skills)
  • Community Meetings (Soft Skills)
  • Workshop Development (Hard Skills)
  • Latino Community Support (Soft Skills)
  • Volunteer Management (Soft Skills)
  • Leadership Facilitation (Soft Skills)
  • Neighborhood Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Bilingual Document Creation (Hard Skills)

5. Community Organizer, Rise Up Collective, Richmond, VA

Job Summary:

  • Meeting with residents one-on-one to understand their needs and help connect them with leadership opportunities
  • Connecting residents with one another who share similar passions and can learn from one another and collaborate on projects
  • Knocking on doors in neighborhoods surrounding future potential housing sites
  • Meet with and help garner support from potential allies.
  • Serving as a Community Builder or Programs Coordinator as needed at a Mutual Housing community.
  • Maintain appropriate documentation to demonstrate that all contractual requirements are met. Participation in timely and accurate filing of progress reports required by the funder.
  • Stay abreast of services and programs being provided by other CBOs and government agencies by fostering working relationships with them.
  • Provide referrals to clients and connect them to relevant services offered by CBOs and government agencies.
  • Respond to all phone messages, client requests, staff requests, and emails as appropriate and in a timely manner.
  • Attend all meetings as scheduled and participate in meetings 


Skills on Resume:

  • Needs Assessment (Soft Skills)
  • Community Networking (Soft Skills)
  • Neighborhood Canvassing (Hard Skills)
  • Ally Support (Soft Skills)
  • Program Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Documentation (Hard Skills)
  • CBO Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Client Referrals (Soft Skills)

6. Community Organizer, Grassroots Action, Eugene, OR

Job Summary:

  • Develop and lead the execution of the plan for expanding, supporting, and mobilizing a statewide network of advocates with first person experience of hunger
  • Identify and develop working relationships with potential advocates and allies from Northwest Harvest’s partner network, internal network, and the general population.
  • Create and participate in opportunities to expand the network of advocacy partners, including attending coalition meetings and doing presentations.
  • Assist with development of and lead in the execution of strategies to engage and mobilize a network of first-person experienced advocates.
  • Recruit from a network of first-person experienced advocates participants and speakers for public hearings, media stories, Hunger Action Day, and other events.
  • Create and lead events and activities to turn out supporters to ensure participation from the base, including trainings, workshops, and forums.
  • Develop and lead implementation of get out the vote activities for NWH’s no cost grocery stores with the intention to scale program for partner food banks’ adoption.
  • Collaborate with Learning & Impact Department staff to support and communicate about advocacy opportunities with participant advisory councils for Northwest Harvest no-cost grocery stores.
  • Research and develop curriculum and speaker list for Leadership in Advocacy Fellowship.


Skills on Resume:

  • Advocacy Network Expansion (Hard Skills)
  • Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
  • Partner Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Advocate Mobilization (Hard Skills)
  • Recruitment (Soft Skills)
  • Event Leadership (Hard Skills)
  • Voter Outreach (Hard Skills)
  • Curriculum Development (Hard Skills)

7. Community Organizer, Community Connections, Madison, WI

Job Summary:

  • Facilitate meetings of the Leadership in Advocacy Fellows and Community Advisory Networks, including follow-up communications to members.
  • Develop and lead the implementation of a plan for follow-up engagement of Leadership in Advocacy Fellowship/Community Advisory Network.
  • Work in partnership with first-person advocacy leaders to assist them in developing and executing advocacy campaigns in support of their food access goals.
  • Co-lead cross-functional efforts to increase internal understanding of the importance of centering lived expertise in everyday work.
  • Collaborate with the Department of Health and DSHS SNAP-Ed to define monthly meeting agendas for the Community Advisory Network.
  • Contribute to maintenance of database of outreach contacts, and utilizes systems to track and evaluate progress towards advocacy goals
  • Manage financial transactions to support Leadership in Advocacy Fellowship and Community Advisory Network, including negotiating and routing contracts, processing payment invoices, and maintaining required payment records for partnering individuals and organizations.
  • Assist with planning Hunger Action Day activities and recruitment of attendees.
  • Support Public Policy Manager by co-facilitating conversations around Right to Food with network of first person advocates.


Skills on Resume:

  • Meeting Facilitation (Soft Skills)
  • Engagement Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Advocacy Support (Soft Skills)
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Agenda Setting (Hard Skills)
  • Database Maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Financial Management (Hard Skills)
  • Event Planning (Hard Skills)

8. Community Organizer, Voices United, Santa Fe, NM

Job Summary:

  • Work to expand a network of active refugee leaders with a core leadership team committed to social change efforts that will benefit immigrant and refugee communities 
  • Build relationships with refugee and immigrant leaders through relational one-on-one meetings.
  • Facilitate events and meetings that promote the welcome of refugees and immigrants
  • Identify and coordinate meetings and events with policy makers involved in discussions about refugee resettlement and/or immigration issues at the national, state, and local levels of government, in partnership with the CWS Policy and Advocacy team.
  • Work with refugee and community leaders, resettlement office staff, volunteers, supporters, and allies to develop informed policy goals, objectives, and priorities to share with national, state, and local policy makers, in partnership with the CWS Policy and Advocacy team
  • Connect with faith-based organizations and immigrants’ rights organizations and collaborate around shared goals.
  • Conduct trainings on community organizing, leadership development, voter registration, civic engagement, media outreach
  • Lead voter registration efforts at naturalization ceremonies, cultural events, and in refugee neighborhoods.
  • Assist in connecting refugee leaders with education efforts among ally communities in the surrounding rural and suburban regions.
  • Participate in coalition and issue campaign meetings on behalf of CWS and Texas local affiliates Refugee Services of Texas


Skills on Resume:

  • Network Expansion (Soft Skills)
  • Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
  • Event Facilitation (Soft Skills)
  • Policy Coordination (Hard Skills)
  • Policy Development (Hard Skills)
  • Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Training Delivery (Hard Skills)
  • Voter Registration (Hard Skills)

9. Community Organizer, Local Impact, Baton Rouge, LA

Job Summary:

  • Develop plan for texting or phone banking tipped workers from database of over 10,000 workers, activating member leaders and volunteers as needed to build the base
  • Phone bank, email, and use broadcast messaging, and peer-to-peer texting to engage tipped workers in organizing and mobilization efforts
  • Develop committee of restaurant and other tipped workers that will lead strategy and actions in the fight for One Fair Wage
  • Supporting individuals who want to take leadership in the One Fair Wage campaign and work individually with emerging leaders to develop their skills
  • Campaign Coordination Lead and re-engage the local coalition of organizations representing various tipped worker sectors, support the development and implementation of a legislative targeting strategy, support local press events and other communications efforts, and more. 
  • Assist in translation of outreach and training materials and occasional meeting and event interpretation
  • Support communications and online presence by creating simple graphics, copywriting and translation
  • Activist Training Program in accordance with specifics of several grants, including coaching interns and implementation of summer camps.
  • Support statewide efforts aiming to demonstrate in Sacramento in coordination with 350 Sacramento in the role of a local partner
  • Coordinate with other coalitions and organizations around the state to mobilize the Sacramento community around statewide issues


Skills on Resume:

  • Campaign Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Worker Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Committee Development (Soft Skills)
  • Leadership Support (Soft Skills)
  • Coalition Coordination (Hard Skills)
  • Translation Assistance (Hard Skills)
  • Communications Support (Hard Skills)
  • Activist Training (Hard Skills)

10. Community Organizer, Strength in Solidarity, Des Moines, IA

Job Summary:

  • Implements a plan to recruit new girl and adult members in targeted areas by using data, understanding the community, and building relationships with community volunteers and families 
  • Achieves personal, team and council goals at strategic points in an 18-month membership cycle
  • Partners with local volunteers and families to extend awareness of Girl Scouting and provide access to membership
  • Attends or facilitates virtual local community activities to ensure Girl Scouting is visible, viable, and accessible
  • Delivers and facilitates virtual and in-person meetings and presentations and talks to adults, families, community partners, schools, faith-based groups, and girls
  • Fully engages as a member of the member engagement, mission delivery and community engagement (GirlSpace) team members
  • Assist with implementation of Community activist training program, consisting of monthly training series in collaboration with several other community organizations.
  • Assist 350 Sacramento Program Director with implementation of Student Environmental 
  • Help organize large scale events including rallies, community festivals, demonstrations, candidate forums, etc


Skills on Resume:

  • Recruitment Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Goal Achievement (Soft Skills)
  • Volunteer Partnership (Soft Skills)
  • Community Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Presentation Delivery (Soft Skills)
  • Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Training Program Assistance (Hard Skills)
  • Event Organization (Hard Skills)

11. Community Organizer, Building Bridges, Little Rock, AR

Job Summary:

  • Plan events and speaking engagements for advocacy events
  • Recruit, develop and train indigenous organizers with disabilities
  • Assist in fundraising activities
  • Ensures that required documentation is complete and is in compliance with regulations and standards
  • Attends required national conferences, training, staff meetings, and other meetings/events 
  • Ensures the agency is in full compliance with all federal, state, and local licensing regulations
  • Provides hands on assistance with activities of daily living including hygiene
  • Coordinate and deliver skill-building series including promoting, recruitment, organizing speakers and facilitators 
  • Create a sustainability plan to continue to support municipalities looking to run local campaigns, including ongoing support for the network of municipalities created
  • Conduct evaluation to understand what systems change was influenced by the campaign and share findings


Skills on Resume:

  • Event Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Organizer Training (Soft Skills)
  • Fundraising Support (Hard Skills)
  • Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
  • Conference Attendance (Soft Skills)
  • Daily Living Assistance (Soft Skills)
  • Skill-Building Coordination (Hard Skills)
  • Campaign Evaluation (Hard Skills)

12. Senior Community Organizer, Advocacy Alliance, Jackson, MS

Job Summary:

  • Identify, build and strengthen relationships with community-based organizations and advocacy groups.
  • Implement a grassroots ambassador network that keeps members engaged with the latest announcements with Tempo. 
  • Manage events and local meet-ups between community members at retail locations.
  • Serve as a public-facing member to members for Tempo and fitness content. 
  • Develop and implement a holistic community strategy focused on driving loyalty for Tempo.
  • Partner with the Member Experience team on the tone of voice and best practices with supporting members daily.
  • Build relationships and establish partnerships with women’s organizations in five municipalities to identify organizations that want to develop a local campaign
  • Set up monitoring and evaluation framework to measure impact and success of the initiative
  • Work with the Digital Project Manager and a digital designer to produce and publish an online toolkit to support local organizations wanting to run a Hot Pink Paper campaign in their community


Skills on Resume:

  • Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
  • Ambassador Network (Hard Skills)
  • Event Management (Hard Skills)
  • Public Representation (Soft Skills)
  • Community Strategy (Hard Skills)
  • Member Support (Soft Skills)
  • Partnership Development (Soft Skills)
  • Impact Evaluation (Hard Skills)