Colorado Democratic Party: Distributed Organizing Director

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Location

Hybrid Remote/In-Person (Colorado)

Salary

$6,250/month; Full Time Exempt, Union Covered

Benefits

include health and dental insurance, with vision insurance provided at $5.46/mo and $100 monthly cell phone stipend.

Union Membership

IBEW Local 113

Length of employment

through November 15, 2026

Team Overview

The Colorado Democratic Party is seeking a skilled and experienced Distributed Organizing Director to join our growing team. 2026 features competitive races up and down the ballot in Colorado, including the election of John Hickenlooper (US Senate), Phil Weiser (Governor), Jena Griswold (Attorney General), Amanda Gonzalez (Secretary of State), and Jeff Bridges (Treasurer), alongside competitive US House races. The Coordinated Campaign will persuade and mobilize voters to support Colorado’s Democrats in November 2026.

Role Overview

The Distributed Organizing Director leads the Coordinated Campaign's fifth organizing region. Unlike the four geographic regions, the distributed region has no fixed turf. It is responsible for the statewide campus organizing program, manages coalition organizing programs in the Hispanic, African American, and AAPI communities, volunteer leadership development in the Colorado counties without assigned field staff, statewide virtual voter contact capacity, and the relational organizing platform, REACH, used by every region in the state.

The Distributed Organizing Director will build and sustain a network of volunteer leaders who run programs in places where no staff member is standing, and will serve the four geographic regions by supplying relational organizing tools, training, and reporting. The position reports to the Organizing Director and manages a team of Distributed Organizers.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruiting, managing, coaching, and retaining a team of Distributed Organizers covering campus organizing and coalition organizing portfolios;

• Building and managing a statewide network of volunteer leaders in counties without assigned field staff, including the Western Slope, the San Luis Valley, the Eastern Plains, the high country, and the mountain counties;

• Owning the statewide campus organizing program, including relationships with student organizations, campus administrations, and student government at institutions across Colorado;

• Directing the student re-registration program, recognizing that students registered at a parent's address will not receive a ballot on campus and that Colorado's same day registration makes this work viable through Election Day;

• Overseeing coalition organizing programs in partnership with Community Organizers, ensuring that coalition work builds volunteer leaders and community relationships rather than running a parallel canvass;

• Managing the volunteer export pipeline that moves volunteers recruited on campuses and in the metro area into shifts in targeted turf, in coordination with Regional Organizing Directors;

• Serving as the statewide owner of the relational organizing platform, including account provisioning, training curriculum, list matching back to VoteBuilder, troubleshooting, and reporting, delivered as a service to all five regions;

• Designing and running statewide virtual phone bank and text bank capacity that volunteers in any county can join;

• Partnering with county chairs and county officers through the county liaison program to identify, develop, and support local volunteer leadership;

• Collaborating with the Data Director on universes, list pulls, and reporting for distributed and virtual programs;

• Reporting weekly on distributed program metrics including volunteer leaders recruited and retained, shifts hosted in unstaffed counties, volunteers exported into targeted turf, voter registrations completed, and relational program completion rates;

• Designing and delivering trainings, both virtual and in person, on relational organizing, virtual voter contact, and volunteer leadership development;

• Traveling regularly throughout the state to launch campus programs, support volunteer leaders, and staff events;

• Troubleshooting issues as they arise;

• Completing other responsibilities as assigned;

• Working in coordination with other Coordinated Campaign departments to build capacity in the counties, organize volunteers, train organizers/volunteers; and

• Maintaining a current knowledge of Party activities, goals and of general Democratic political news.

Required Skills & Background

• A strong commitment to Democratic values and to the mission of the Coordinated Campaign;

• At least two cycles of organizing experience, including at least one cycle managing organizing staff;

• Demonstrated experience building volunteer leadership structures in places where staff are not physically present, such as a distributed organizing program, a fellowship program, a virtual organizing program, or a statewide volunteer network;

• Experience recruiting, training, and retaining volunteer leaders, and a track record of volunteers who stayed;

• Experience with VoteBuilder/VAN, Mobilize, peer to peer texting platforms, and relational organizing tools such as REACH;

• Strong virtual facilitation skills, including running Zoom trainings, virtual phone banks, and text banks that people actually return to;

• Comfort managing to metrics other than raw voter contact numbers, and the judgment to know when a program is working before the contact numbers show it;

• Experience working with community organizations, campus organizations, faith institutions, or labor partners;

• Experience managing remote or geographically dispersed staff;

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills;

• Exceptional people skills and patience;

• Strong time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously under strict deadlines;

• Responsive and positive team player who enjoys versatility and constant new challenges;

• Self-starter;

• Spanish language proficiency preferred but not required;

• Familiarity with Colorado's all-mail election system, ballot chase, and the post-election cure period, or willingness to learn quickly; and

• Comfortable cold calling.

• Must have a valid driver's license, reliable mode of transportation and the ability to travel extensively at times throughout the state for more than a day at a time;

Equal Opportunity Statement

The Colorado Democratic Party is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We are better able to grow and learn together with a diverse team of employees. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation and achievement as well.

In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.