Organizing Director

The Organizing Director is a senior leader responsible for developing the people, systems, and strategy that make organizing the foundation of the organization’s work. This role leads the NIA Organizing Fellowship, manages the organization’s team of organizers, and cultivates a statewide bench of trained leaders. The Director also strengthens the internal frameworks that align organizing across all programs—ensuring the organization’s campaigns, outreach, and leadership development efforts are coordinated, strategic, and grounded in powerful, relationship-based organizing.

The Director builds and maintains high standards for how the organization recruits, trains, and supports organizers—ensuring every campaign, outreach effort, and leadership initiative is grounded in strong relational organizing. Working closely with political, advocacy, communications, and data teams, the Organizing Director ensures that organizing drives impact across civic, advocacy, and electoral arenas and reflects a shared vision for long-term community power.

About The Organization

Arizona Coalition for Change is a Black-led organization with a dynamic multicultural team that empowers everyday people to transform their community through building civic power, leadership development, and community collaboration. We advocate for lasting progressive public policies that change the dynamics of communities by putting people first. We work to develop and uplift voices in communities to take on the nation's most pressing issues.

Organizational Beliefs

Arizona Coalition for Change and Our Voice Our Vote Arizona is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly encourage women, people of color, and LGBTQ candidates to apply. We deeply value the expertise of lived experience and strongly value and seek to invest in applicants that have shared lived experience with the constituents we currently and hope to work with, including folks of color, those who are immigrants, or children of immigrants to the US, those whose first language is not English, trans and queer individuals, and others from communities who have been impacted by systemic inequities. Our team members must be passionate about developing relationships and building grassroots power for Black and other people of color communities in the state. We have undertaken a new strategic direction, doubling down on transformative organizing by establishing a culture where leaders are liberated through collective movement building, leadership development, and risk-taking.

1) Organizing Strategy, Leadership, and Development

• Lead the organization’s overall organizing vision and strategy, ensuring that all work reflects strong relational and power-building practices.
• Manage and coach organizers to meet goals, build skills, and deepen leadership capacity.
• Create systems, standards, and tools for field planning, campaign design, and leadership development that ensure consistent, high-quality organizing.
• Build a culture of learning, accountability, and reflection that develops organizers into strategic, disciplined leaders.
• Develop and implement a year-round training and learning plan that advances organizing skills, political education, and leadership development.
• Work collaboratively across departments—advocacy, communications, and data—to ensure organizing drives and complements policy, narrative, and electoral work.
• Use data and evaluation to assess organizing performance, base growth, and campaign impact, and adjust strategy accordingly.

2) NIA Organizing Fellowship

• Lead the NIA Organizing Fellowship from recruitment through completion, overseeing curriculum design, onboarding, coaching, and post-fellowship pathways.
• Teach and model core organizer competencies such as relational 1:1s, issue-cutting, power analysis, campaign planning, leadership ladders, direct action, and Peaks & Valleys cycles.
• Track and evaluate fellow progress, ensuring measurable growth in organizing skills and readiness for next-step leadership roles.
• Coordinate with internal teams and partners for host-site placements, mentorship, and post-program career opportunities.

3) Campaign Support, Coalitions, and Partnerships

• Partner with the Political & Advocacy and Communications teams to ensure organizing is fully integrated into campaigns and issue work.
• Represent the organization in coalition spaces, partner meetings, and alignment tables to strengthen statewide collaboration and shared strategy.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partner organizations to align efforts around base-building, leadership development, and campaign impact.
• Provide strategic input and coordination support to multi-organization campaigns, ensuring organizing tactics and priorities are aligned with shared goals.
• Support organizers in translating community relationships into actionable campaign plans that build power and achieve measurable wins.

4) Systems, Evaluation & Integration

• Collaborate with the Data and Research team to build organizing dashboards and metrics that track progress, outcomes, and impact.
• Establish systems for documentation, debrief, and reflection that strengthen organizing quality and consistency across the organization.
• Ensure the organizing framework—Peaks & Valleys, Head–Heart–Hands, leadership ladders, and campaign arcs—is fully embedded across teams and regularly assessed for effectiveness.

Ideal Skills & Experience

• 7–10 years of experience in community relational based organizing; at least 3 years in a senior management or director-level role.
• Proven success managing organizers and leading training or fellowship programs.
• Demonstrated skill in power analysis, issue-cutting, campaign development, leadership training, and direct action.
• Strong ability to coach, train, and develop staff and fellows.
• Excellent systems thinker who can operationalize frameworks into clear plans, tools, and processes.
• Familiarity with Arizona’s civic and political landscape preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Commitment to equity, inclusion, and long-term organizing as the path to community change.

To apply, send your cover letter and resume, and two references to careers@azc4c.org. Include “Organizing Director“ in the subject line. In the cover letter, please thoroughly explain why you are a strong fit for this position.

Benefits:

• Top-of-the-line medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
• 401(K) plan with employer matching options
• Paid time off for holidays
• Extended paid time off for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years
• 10 paid time off (PTO) days
• Paid family and sick leave
• Professional development opportunities
• 10 hours of paid community service to support our community
• Strong team culture!