Organizing Manager

Mission:

We are building a grassroots movement of everyday people to transform New York so it works for all of us. For too long, greedy corporations, billionaires, and political elites have rigged our country to work against us. We are coming together across race and age to fight for laws and win elections that put the power back in our hands and create lasting change.

Job Responsibilities:

• Supervise multiple organizers through weekly 1-1 check ins and day-to-day management practices
• Develop organizers skills through regular training, coaching, side-by-side organizing, and shadowing and modeling organizing conversations, and performance evaluations
• Plan and facilitate effective team meetings and trainings
• Ensure coverage of organizing team responsibilities
• Support organizers in building and executing event, project, and campaign plans
• Bottom line key events and mobilizations to ensure they run smoothly and successfully
• Represent For the Many in press, events, and coalition spaces as needed

Other duties & responsibilities

• Participate in weekly staff and coordination meetings
• Participate in other organizational activities, including recruiting volunteers and soliciting donors from your existing social networks, supporting organizing efforts through phonebanking, canvassing, and facilitation, attending staff retreats, and engaging with staff culture building

Work requirements

• In-person work. We expect the Organizing Manager to work side-by-side with organizers in the field and at our offices - including work in Kingston, Middletown, Newburgh, and Poughkeepsie.
• Evening & weekend hours. Depending on the needs of the work, this position will be expected to work evenings, weekends, and occasionally holidays. We provide flexible scheduling and comp time to ensure sustainability in the position.
• Ability to drive. Must have a driver's license, and daily access to a working car with current car insurance, and be willing to travel across the Hudson Valley regularly.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Experienced organizer and manager. 3+ years experience with electoral, issue, and/or labor organizing and 1+ year experience managing organizing staff.
• Politically clear & aligned. Understands why building power through elections, issue campaigns, and organizing is essential. Committed to building a multi-racial movement to transform our state and country to work for all.
• Orientation toward leadership development. Committed to, and has experience with, developing the leadership of staff and members through feedback, support, and accountability. Demonstrated ability to develop leaders from the base.
• Commitment to building a powerful organizational culture, grounded in emotional awareness, proactive and direct communication, generative feedback and debate, and support and accountability.
• Strong planner — and problem-solver. Able to develop short and medium-term plans for events and organizing projects, and able to adjust and problem-solve on the fly when things don’t go according to plan.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented. Has a strong system to get work done on time, juggle competing demands, and prioritize what is most important. Notices errors that others might overlook.
• Technologically savvy. Experience and skilled with organizing tools such as VAN, EveryAction, Airtable, Google Sheets, Scale to Win, Mobilize, Spoke, etc.

Pluses:

• Bilingual in Spanish/English
• Knowledge and understanding of local and statewide politics in the Hudson Valley and/or New York State and key issues important to working people.