2026 Regional Organizing Directors

Empower 2026 Regional 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:

• Recruitment and screening to evaluate and hire Community Organizers applicants.
• Manage and lead a team of up to 10 Organizers and foster a supportive team culture of excellence and accountability.
• Ensure all Organizers and CM data is entered in a timely fashion, meeting program-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 Organizers, maintain a regular 1:1 meeting schedule with direct reports. 
• 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 peers and Empower Project leadership.
• Collect critical feedback on training materials from Organizers 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 May 18th, 2026 and lasting through November 13th, 2026.
The work schedule is five days per week, Monday through Thursday, from 11:30am 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 $7,000/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.