North Carolina Protect & Build Campaign Organizer

This is a full-time position that is contracted for one year. Each Protect & Build Campaign organizer will play a critical role in advancing Community Change and Community Change Action’s Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign and State Powerbuilding Strategy within their assigned state. The Protect & Build Organizer will be a key part of a peer team of organizers responsible for base-building, leadership development, campaign planning, and infrastructure development in targeted states ( NC).

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in powerbuilding with low-income communities across race, gender and ability; is passionate about organizing and is ready to collaborate to build a base of Medicaid recipients and their caregivers. This role requires a strategic, adaptive, and highly relational organizer with a strong campaign orientation.

A portion of time will be spent working with Community Change’s sister organization, Community Change Action.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Lead implementation of Community Change’s Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign by building and supporting the Medicaid Union.
• Organize impacted individuals through direct outreach, 1:1s, and leadership development to build a durable base and help shift power.
• Support state-based powerbuilding efforts in NC, integrating long-term organizing, base-building, and campaign strategies across issue areas.
• Work with grassroots partners to execute state/federal campaigns focused on protecting Medicaid/SNAP and building new governing power.
• Contribute to the development and execution of field plans aimed at influencing specific targets in alignment with national campaign goals.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (policy, communications, digital, development) to support campaign messaging, narrative development, and organizing integration.
• Identify and cultivate potential leaders.
• Provide peer support to fellow Organizers; collaborate on shared strategies and rapid response organizing.
• Track progress and report on leadership development, base growth, field metrics, and deliverables.
• Support partner organizations to strengthen their organizing infrastructure and alignment with long-term powerbuilding strategies.

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in community, electoral, or labor organizing, with a track record in base-building.
• An understanding of Medicaid, SNAP, or other social safety net programs, especially in a political or organizing context.
• Experience organizing in rural areas or with cross-partisan constituencies preferred.
• Strong campaign planning skills, with the ability to move targets, build coalitions, and integrate organizing with communications and policy advocacy.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and organize people across lines of race, class, and geography.
• Experience with leadership development and training models rooted in a powerbuilding framework.
• Strong commitment to racial, economic, and gender justice.
• Ability to travel up to 35–45% and work flexible hours as needed.
• Proficiency with digital organizing tools, Google Workspace, and databases like Salesforce.
• Understanding and use of research to inform work.
• Facilitation and training skills.
• Strong team player, familiar with team dynamics and willing to work in a team environment; experience and comfort working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.