Associate Organizing Director

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