Lead Organizer

EducateUS is building a movement of voters laser-focused on advancing sex education across the country. We believe that universal access to sex education can change the world.

The Role

The Lead Organizer is responsible for EducateUS’s organizing activities, with the goal of building the grasstops and grassroots power necessary to change U.S. public school sex education for good. The Lead Organizer cultivates relationships with state and local partner organizations, school board candidates, and individual advocates, and provides these local organizers and advocates with the training, resources, and support they need to win for sex education. Their work is key to positioning EducateUS as the go-to source of information and support for local advocates, school board candidates and school board members who want to champion sex ed in their campaigns and policies.

Lead organizer responsibilities and projects will include:

• Work with partner organizations and advocates to assess gaps in their strategy, skills, infrastructure, and resources, and develop plans to help them fill those gaps. Where the Lead Organizer or another member of the EducateUS team has the capacity to do so, we provide the needed support directly. When outside support is needed, the Lead Organizer works with our partner organizers and advocates to secure it.
• Educate our constituencies on the benefits of organizing for sex education and teach them how to become more effective advocates and organizers for sex ed and related issues.
• Collaborate with the EducateUS Youth Advisory Board on projects in their own communities. Identify opportunities for YAB members to support the Lead Organizer’s projects, and support YAB members in developing their own projects and campaigns.
• Grow and maintain coalition relationships. Represent EducateUS at conferences and in policy and organizing strategy sessions.
• Run the school board candidate endorsement program, including outreach to encourage candidates to apply, vetting and interviewing candidates, supporting candidates in a variety of ways, and helping them learn how to govern once elected and/or decide whether or not to run again if they do not win.
• Plan and execute public action campaigns that engage individuals across the country in effective direct action for sex education.

Required skills and experience:

• Experience working on at least two political, electoral, or issue campaigns as a field organizer or in a digital organizing strategy role.
• Experience organizing in-person (such as door knocking, community meetings, tabling, and one-on-ones) as well as online (such as pressure campaigns and peer-to-peer texting programs).
• Experience training people how to do things. This might be organizing related, but could also include tutoring, teaching people how to use an unfamiliar platform, or providing coaching on improving a skill.
• At least one year of people management experience, including employees, interns, or volunteers.
• A strong project manager – able to design a plan, create a roadmap, and follow through to make sure tasks and details are all executed. Able to identify when plans need to change or when additional knowledge or capacity is needed.
• A smart strategist – able to develop effective organizing plans and identify improvements that could be made to existing plans.
• A skilled and reliable advisor – someone partners feel confident in turning to when they need help or a sounding board.
• Passionate about the fight for universal public school sexuality education, and existing familiarity with sex ed issues.
• Able to organize with comfort and skill across lines of difference and in the communities that many EducateUS candidates and partners are in: red or purple/mixed partisanship areas, low-income communities, and communities of color.
• Excellent advocacy, consensus-building, coalition-building, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work collegially and collaboratively with other staff and other organizations to successfully achieve campaign and program work plans and goals.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Able to analyze complex issues and communicate them to a variety of audiences.
• Adaptive, with the ability to think on the fly, be creative, and pivot when circumstances require it.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in politically sensitive and high-pressure environments.
• Effective time management skills, including attention to detail while maintaining the ability to prioritize, manage, and complete multiple tasks in a timely manner.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, work independently with limited direction, solve problems and follow through on commitments in an all-remote environment.
• Comfort working remotely and using the technology that facilitates that. EducateUS currently uses Google suite, Slack, Monday, EveryAction, and Zoom.

It would be a bonus if you brought any of the following:

• Deep canvassing field experience
• Train the trainer experience
• Experience working with young organizers and advocates
• Public speaking experience

This position reports to: Executive Director

This position supervises: One intern

Location/Travel: Remote within the United States. Expected travel approximately 3-5 times per year for staff retreats, conferences, coalition or candidate meetings, and similar.

Compensation & Benefits:

The salary for this role is $80,000 annually.

EducateUS provides the following benefits to full-time employees: Health and dental insurance reimbursement up to maximum allowable caps, 3 weeks PTO, 12 paid sick days, 11 paid holidays as well as the workdays between Christmas and New Years, 3 personal days, bereavement leave, and voting leave.

To apply: Please send your resume to leadorganizer@educateusaction.org with “NAME, LEAD ORGANIZER” in the subject. In lieu of a cover letter, please provide your responses (max 500 words per prompt) to the following:

• Tell us about a time you developed or helped develop a strategy for an organizing campaign. What steps did you take to create the plan? What role did you play in executing the plan? How did you decide when the plan needed to be adjusted?
• Tell us about your experience building relationships with partners, candidates, and/or coalitions. We are especially interested in hearing about a time you’ve organized and built relationships in communities that are different from your own.
• Why are you interested in working for EducateUS in particular?

Application deadline: February 28, 2026. We anticipate a start date for this position in mid-May.

EducateUS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equitable hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, uniform service member status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Women, people of color, including bilingual and bicultural individuals, LGBTQIA persons, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Those whose experiences and perspectives have been traditionally under-represented in the field of sexual health are particularly encouraged to apply.

EducateUS provides the following benefits to full-time employees: Health and dental insurance reimbursement up to maximum allowable caps, 3 weeks PTO, 12 paid sick days, 11 paid holidays as well as the workdays between Christmas and New Years, 3 personal days, bereavement leave, and voting leave.