May Day Strong Campaign Coordinator (1 Year Contract)

Established in March of 2025, May Day Strong (MDS) launched a multi-year campaign for community and worker justice responding both to the rise of authoritarianism and to the UAW’s call to align contract expiration across all bargaining units, sectors, and geographies for May 1, 2028. We are currently building a robust campaign marked by an escalating series of actions that culminates in mass actions by working people and community residents that will stake out bold new demands for the common good and change the terrain of what's possible via militant community-labor struggle. When unions and community coalitions organize across industries, sectors, and geographies, our collective power grows exponentially. When union power combines with community power, a united working class offers our best chance of defending against the billionaire takeover and our greatest hope for transformative change at the scale and pace that’s required. To achieve this, we must equip the movement to take action and achieve material victories now, with 2028 as a strategic flashpoint rather than imagined future.

Title: May Day Strong Campaign Coordinator

Housed at: This position will be based at Organized Power in Numbers (OPIN), which is one of the anchor organizations of the May Day Strong Coalition.

Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000, depending on experience

Duration: 1 Year Contract

Role and Responsibilities

The Campaign Coordinator will function as a full time lead project coordinator of May Day Strong. They will be a key leader driving the May Day Strong’s national alignment efforts across labor and community organizations while overseeing regional planning and training initiatives and partner collaborations that will lead to greater social/political transformation and equity. Specific responsibilities include:

• Serve as lead staff for the May Day Strong space — holding the whole, sustaining relationships with folks from all the organizations, and building community.
• Staff and support the Working and Executive committees, and partner organization engagement and ensure strong decision-making processes, timely follow-through, and accessible documentation of agreements and lessons learned.
• Help develop and implement a 12-month organizing plan, including weekly calls, in-person convenings, high-stakes decisions, etc.
• Maintain consistent communication with members to sustain engagement, relationships, and shared strategy.
• Lead the opt-in process for founding members and coordinate recruitment of new organizations.
• Represent May Day Strong in external spaces, including ecosystem coordination tables and other partners.
• Work directly with the May Day Strong Data/Digital/Tech Coordinator, the Communications Coordinator, the Lead Field Coordinators from Organized Power In Numbers and Bargaining for the Common Good, Regional Leads and Strikes Schools Lead and other positions as hired.
• Staff the creation of a shared fundraising plan and manage relationships with funders
• Regular travel required

Essential Qualifications

• 5 years leadership experience in mission-driven, labor, community, or advocacy organizations.
• Commitment to labor and community partnerships and May Day Strong’s mission, to uphold workers rights, racial justice, immigrant rights, economic justice, and labor solidarity.
• Experience leading organizational change with a deep understanding of equity, belonging, anti-oppression, and inclusive leadership practices; ability to operationalize values of justice and inclusion.
• Ability to analyze complex issues and translate them into clear, actionable strategies or tactics - connecting strategy to execution across departments and teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, and communication skills—with the ability to work across lines of difference and maintain trust with staff, members, leadership, and external partners.
• Familiarity with national labor, community organization and political landscape.
• Please note: We will ask for references once you are in the later stage of the process

Equal Opportunity Employer

OPIN recruits, hires, trains, transfers, and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of individual merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

We provide a competitive benefits package, healthcare, and generous time-off policies.