The Associate Organizing Director coaches and manages an average of 5 Organizers and Organizing Managers, helps design and implement turf plans in key states, tracks progress towards overall team goals, builds a positive culture on their team, and leads cross-department projects and programs that advance organization-wide strategic priorities.
The Associate Organizing Director is an experienced organizing leader who makes an impact by building and leading an innovative program within a rapidly growing progressive organization. The position involves some travel — up to 20% each year, with ebbs and flows depending on the work.
Responsibilities:
People and Culture - 60%
Supervise an average of 5 Organizers and Organizing Managers across states
Provide guidance, mentorship, professional development, structure, feedback and evaluation to your staff.
Contribute to a safe, welcoming, and inspiring organizational culture for staff to excel in, and provide ongoing opportunities for team members to lead and grow. Build a unique and positive culture for your pod.
Uphold Indivisible's values of creating an inclusive and equitable working environment.
Program Management -30%
Independently or in partnership with other organizational leadership lead priority programs and campaigns both within our team and across departments, to help achieve organizational goals
Work with organizers and organizing managers to develop strategic turf plans to hit campaign and organizational goals
Actively manage your team to achieve their goals - providing constructive feedback and guidance as they work towards them, creating opportunities to learn from both successes and setbacks, and holding staff accountable when they fall short
Team Leadership - 10%
Work with Organizing Leadership to continue to build and improve
Indivisible's organizing model and strategy
Identify best practices both within the team and in the field, and work with leadership to scale them aggressively
Listen for and surface new departmental or organizational initiatives based on feedback from group leaders and/or staff
Requirements:
Field Expertise & Strategy
Strong knowledge and at least 5-7 years/cycles of demonstrated experience developing and implementing field strategies; deep understanding of grassroots and grasstops organizing
Ability to develop and implement field plans, track/monitor/assess progress, troubleshoot and adapt as needed
Ability to tackle big, complex problems with actionable plans, generate smart, innovative approaches, not afraid to think outside of the box.
Ability to Manage in Complexity
Relentlessly results oriented; strong track record of meeting or exceeding goals
At least 3-5 years of proven experience managing others to achieve ambitious goals
Strategic and analytical thinker with ability to pivot from big picture to detailed implementation as needed
Ability to juggle multiple streams of work, prioritize, and problem solve in complex and nuanced situations
Comfort operating in complex and fluid environments, responding innovatively and rapidly to emerging opportunities or concerns
Demonstrated ability to thrive year-round in a fast-paced, dynamic grassroots campaign environment while managing a heavy workload.
Interpersonal Skills
Strong people skills; effective communicator An exceptional team player; exemplifies a work style that is flexible, respectful, collaborative and nimble;
Can build trust, confidence, and followership of diverse range of staff, volunteers, field partners - across race, gender, and other identities
Demonstrated record of mentorship and leadership development in previous positions
Cultural Competency
Understanding of race, gender, sexuality and other aspects of identity, and their intersections, and how that plays out in the work
Demonstrates self awareness of their own multiple group identities and their attendant dynamics, and can adapt approach as needed
Ability to build strong relationships and trust across race, gender, class, and other group identities, both internally and externally
Experience organizing in communities of color and/or building multiracial organizing efforts and prior training in anti-oppression, equity and inclusion
$84,150 - $122,000 a year