O'ahu Organizer

Hours: Full Time

Compensation: Starting at $72,000 annually + benefits

Location: O‘ahu; on-island and inter-island travel required

Start Date: June/July 2025 or ASAP

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Overview:

Our Hawai‘i is hiring a passionate, self-directed, full-time organizer to join our growing team and help to build a powerful, people-led movement for a Hawai‘i that puts local working people first — not big money interests. This organizer will play a central role in identifying, recruiting and training grassroots leaders, helping to support the growth of local organizing hui, planning organizing events, and laying the foundation for our advocacy and electoral work. The right candidate is someone who can develop and empower others, build deep relationships and move people to action.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Basebuilding & Volunteer Engagement – 50%

• Recruit new volunteers and members through outreach, events, and one-on-one conversations
• Develop and facilitate political education, leadership development, and training programs
• Manage volunteer onboarding and maintain active engagement with supporters via our outreach platforms, calls, text, email, and in-person outreach
• Help incubate, coordinate, and support local organizing teams across O‘ahu and elsewhere

Event Planning & Mobilization – 30%

• Help lead planning and execution of public organizing events
• Coordinate logistics, recruitment and turnout strategies, and follow-up actions for events
• Mobilize volunteers and community members for campaign, advocacy and electoral opportunities

Organizational Support & Strategy – 20%

• Collaborate with other team members to align grassroots work with broader strategy
• Track data and outcomes in CRM tools (e.g. Action Network, Action Builder)
• Contribute to strategic planning, campaign development, organizational development, and fundraising
• Participate in regular internal planning meetings
• Represent Our Hawai‘i publicly in partner spaces, the media, and elsewhere as needed and appropriate

Reports to: Managing Director

Key Relationships:

• Our Hawai‘i staff, contractors, and board members
• Volunteer leaders, supporters, and local team captains
• Partner organizations and coalition allies

Qualifications:

Required:

• Strong commitment to Our Hawai‘i’s mission and values
• Comfort speaking with people from all walks of life, and the ability to inspire action
• Willingness to occasionally work evenings/weekends and travel inter-island as needed
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and follow-through

Preferred:

• At least 1 year of experience in grassroots organizing, campaign fieldwork, or movement building
• Training experience and background
• Experience with Action Network, Action Builder, VAN, or other similar digital and online-to-offline organizing tools
• Social media, communications, and spokesperson aptitude and experience

About Our Hawai‘i:

Our Hawai‘i (Our Hawai‘i Action, Our Hawai‘i Foundation, Our Hawai‘i PAC) is building a movement to create a Hawai‘i that puts kama‘āina and kānaka ‘ōiwi — not big money interests — first. Grounded in our past, looking toward our future, and rooted in shared values of aloha, kuleana, and mālama pono. Founded in 2021, we educate, organize, advocate, and engage in elections to expose the corruption and complacency holding our islands back and advance an agenda to make Hawai‘i work for all of us, not just the wealthy few.

Our Hawai‘i is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider applicants for this position without regard to any category protected by applicable law, including but not limited to: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or uniformed service member status.