This position requires full bilingual fluency in both English and Spanish.
The Organizing Director is a senior leadership position and will be charged with developing and implementing statewide strategies and adding capacity to regional campaigns that builds long term power for our membership. With leadership from national organizations, the Organizing Director will also support federal issue-based campaigns. The Organizing Director provides ongoing coaching, training, supervision and support to the policy and field teams, organizers and the Deputy Organizing Director. In coordination with the Co-Executive Directors, the Organizing Director helps coordinate and guide issue campaigns in areas of school funding equity, living wage policies, criminal justice reform, immigrant rights, climate justice, workers rights, and other issues as needed as well as work closely with the Civic Engagement Director to implement the organization’s non-partisan voter engagement strategy with Organizing and Field Departments. The Organizing Director will also work closely with the Co-Executive Directors to ensure that campaign goals, strategies, messaging and funding opportunities and deliverables to funders are completed. The Organizing Director will manage large organizing initiatives, execute sophisticated trainings and conferences, develop strategic plans to demonstrate our grassroots power and represent the organization in coalition meetings and state tables. The Organizing Director is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and will, as part of the SLT, help with the implementation of our multi-year strategic plan and guide the organization’s development and overall organizational goal setting. Please note that this position will regularly be communicating with monolingual Spanish and monolingual English speaking members and staff, so consideration for this position requires fully bilingual Spanish and English fluency.
6-8 years of grassroots base building community organizing experience, at least 2 of which were doing immigrant rights organizing;
Fluency, written, reading, and spoken, in Spanish and English;
2-3 years of supervision experience required, experience managing someone who supervised someone themselves highly preferred;
Experience working at a blended c3/c4 organization and working with the c3 field team to reach organizing goals;
Experience driving an organizing campaign, start to finish, and writing large scale campaign plans;
Ability to be highly organized and highly communicative with coworkers up, down, and sideways;
Extremely strong project management skills;
Strong writing skills in English required and in Spanish preferred but not required;
Experience doing member based advocacy and creating relationships with elected officials;
Valid U.S. driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle