Empower 2026 Organizing Directors
Employment Type: Full Time
Minimum Experience: Management
About Us
Empower Project is the national leader in both paid and volunteer relational organizing.
Empower Project organizes to improve people’s lives using the power of relational organizing. Together with our partners, we’ve helped boost voter turnout, especially for BIPOC communities, through our approach of tapping into personal networks of friends and family. We provide the software and expertise to help communities, progressive organizations, and nonprofits leverage their personal relationships to build power and dramatically expand the electorate. Our cutting-edge technology, Empower, stands at the forefront of the industry and is trusted by over 1,500 organizations nationwide.
It’s effective. Empower has been studied in nine different independently-run, randomly controlled trials which all found that its usage led to large and statistically significant increases in voter turnout — far more effective than phone-banking, text-banking, or door-to-door canvassing.
It’s growing fast. The number of conversations Empower facilitated grew by over 10x between the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, grew by 10x again in the 2020 election cycle, and then grew by 30x for the 2024 election cycle. In order to keep up that pace going forward, we need to grow our team and keep adding features that help our organizations!
About the Program and Role
In 2026 we’ll be running paid relational organizing programs – programs where we recruit folks to talk to their family and friends about elections and issues and then pay them for their time and effort – in several states including Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Core Responsibilities
- Supervise and delegate responsibilities to members of the organizing team.
- Work with Empower Project to evaluate and hire Community Organizer applicants.
- Manage and lead a team of RODs and CO’s, fostering a supportive team culture of excellence and accountability.
- Ensure all data is entered in a timely fashion, meeting campaign-wide standards.
- Direct organizing staff during large-scale trainings, managing key elements of technology, presentation and team coordination.
- Following the onboarding of each wave of RODs and COs, maintain a regular 1:1 meeting schedule with direct reports as well as plan and lead weekly organizing team meetings.
- Ensure that all program requirements are well-communicated by reviewing and contributing to published materials.
- Monitor the results of various accountability and organizing approaches and and share best practices with their colleagues and Empower Project leadership.
- Collect critical feedback on training materials from RODs. COs and CMs and deliver to Empower Project leadership in order to improve support materials.
- Support Empower Project leadership in monitoring and identifying trends in the CM recruitment pipeline.
- Other tasks as assigned by Empower Project leadership.
Additional consideration will be given to candidates who have existing relationships in one of our key states or are fluent in a second language, including Spanish.
Compensation
This is a full-time, remote, salaried position available August 10th, 2026 and lasting through November 13th, 2026.
The work schedule is five days per week, Monday through Thursday, from 10:30am to 8:30pm ET or MT, and shortened hours on Fridays. After Labor Day, the work schedule will be six days per week, with shortened hours on Fridays and Saturdays off. We will also work the full week before the November election.
The salary for this position is $8,250/month. Because this role has a fixed term, you will be classified as a limited term employee. For this role we offer health insurance and personal time, per our employee handbook.
Empower Project is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. Women, persons of color, and individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.
Skills Required
- Management experience
- Experience supervising and delegating to organizing teams
- Experience evaluating and hiring Community Organizer applicants
- Ability to lead and direct staff during large-scale trainings, including tech and presentation management
- Maintain regular 1:1s and lead weekly organizing team meetings
- Ensure timely, campaign-standard data entry
- Monitor organizing approaches and share best practices with leadership
- Collect and deliver training feedback to Empower Project leadership
- Support monitoring and identifying trends in recruitment pipelines
- Availability for full-time fixed-term employment Aug 10, 2026 through Nov 13, 2026 with specified hours and post-Labor Day six-day schedule
- Ability to work remotely within required ET/MT schedules
- Existing relationships in key states (Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin)
- Fluency in a second language, including Spanish
What We Do
The Empower Project provides technology, training, and funding support to organizations. We work with them to develop and implement Relational Organizing plans that fit into their larger mission as well as provide them with the training they need to develop and apply core skills in their volunteers.
