Associate Organizing Director

About the role:

The Associate Organizing Director is a seasoned people manager who leads a team of ~5 organizing staff across multiple career levels. While this role focuses heavily on driving team performance, setting clear metrics, coaching for growth, and holding staff accountable to shared campaign goals, the Associate Organizing Director also provides strategic oversight for state field programs, campaign execution, and cross-department initiatives.

We are looking for an experienced organizing leader who loves people management and building and leading innovative programming in a rapidly growing progressive organization. The position involves some travel up to 20% each year, with ebbs and flows depending on the work.

Indivisible offers a comprehensive employer-sponsored benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; a company-sponsored Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); FSA with limited matching, and a 401(k) retirement plan with up to a 5% employer match. Employees are fully vested upon becoming eligible.

What you'll do:

People and Culture - 60%

Supervise ~5 organizing staff across multiple states and experience levels.

Provide regular guidance, mentorship, structure, feedback, and evaluation to support team members’ ongoing growth.

Use program metrics and tracking systems to manage individual staff performance, holding team members accountable to shared goals and addressing gaps early through proactive coaching.

Contribute to a safe, welcoming, and inspiring environment for staff to excel in, and provide ongoing opportunities for team members to lead and grow. Build a unique and positive culture for your team.

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 across experience levels 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.

Qualifications:

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, and 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 the 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 who exemplifies a work style that is flexible, respectful, collaborative, and nimble.

Can build trust, confidence, and followership of a diverse range of staff, volunteers, and field partners - across race, gender, and other identities.

Demonstrated record of mentorship, coaching, 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 their 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.

About Indivisible Project

We’re building something new. We’re a progressive grassroots organization that began in the aftermath of Trump’s election. We’re working to build a democracy that reflects a broad, multiracial “we the people,” one that works for all of us and is sustained by all of us. To support this movement, we’ve built an incredible team at the national level. We dream big, we support each other, and we have fun doing it. For more information about Indivisible’s vision, mission, and theory of change, click here.

We’re changing what’s politically possible. Indivisible is part of the powerful progressive movement reaction to Trump, fighting the racist, misogynistic, plutocratic, and authoritarian agenda trumpeted by Trump and the GOP congress. Don’t take our word for it; Indivisible has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show multiple times, as well as in the New York Times and in pretty much every other major news outlet in the country.

We’re building together. We’re building a new organization every day - a rare opportunity to model what we want to see in the world. We’re deeply committed to equity and building a diverse and inclusive organization.

We’re looking for you. If you want to fight for the soul of American democracy, there’s no better place to be than Indivisible. We’re looking for more team members who are passionate about building an inclusive democracy and committed to getting results. It’s an exciting, fulfilling place if you’re someone who wants to fight fiercely for the progressive world we want to have.

Every one of us on the national team is here because we believe this movement is the best way to retake and build progressive power in this country. Does that ring true for you? If so, great - throw your hat in the ring to join our team. Let’s start #winning together. For more information about Indivisible’s organizational principles, click here.

Indivisible Project is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, including bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, sex, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, ancestry, national origin, marital or family status, caregiving responsibilities, genetic information, class or caste, personal appearance (including size and weight), immigrant status, military status, veteran status or other legally protected status.

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of support needs at the time of application.

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