Director of Organizing

ABOUT USCPR

The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) is part of a global movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

We are a national network of activists and organizations who are committed to freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people and who work to end U.S. complicity in their oppression.

We work on seeding and supporting local organizing and advocacy campaigns with a cross-movement and abolitionist lens, connecting local campaigns to internationalist Palestinian demands and visions for freedom, while also engaging in policy change at the federal level.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Organizing Director is responsible for driving the programmatic strategy of the organization according to its mission, values, and strategic plan, and to executing annual objectives with the program team. The Director will be supporting organizing staff, organizing coaches (contractors), organizing fellows and volunteer organizers to develop deeper organizing skills as well as holding day to day team management.

The Director of Organizing reports directly to the Managing Director, and works hand-in-hand with the Director of Communications, Director of Development, Political Director and Director of Organizational Resilience to ensure cohesive and integrated campaigns, programs, and events, and will represent USCPR in public facing coalitions and events, holding relationships with key Palestine and cross-movement partners.

We are looking for an experienced organizer who has experience with capacity building in movements, including building the leadership of youth and BIPOC organizers, building and sustaining coalitions, and leading campaigns focused on transformative change at the national and local level. An ideal candidate will support our team with organizing, mobilizing, and expanding support for Palestinian rights among a broad array of progressive allies from Black, brown, indigenous, immigrant, disability rights, and other traditions and movements.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Overarching Responsibilities:

• Supervise & support our three member organizing team (National Field Organizer, Coalition Manager, and Manager of Congressional and Grassroots Advocacy), bringing a strategic eye to how our communications and development fit together with organizing & advocacy. Including working and building long term meaningful relationships with our networks that range from local organizers, to Palestine-led organizations, to national cross movement organizations.
• Provide and manage programs designed to offer strategic support, training, workshops, and resources to increase engagement with our campaigns, including primarily:
  • A) deepening strategy for a national campaign connecting divestment from the military industrial complex to sanctions, and
  • B) national strategy and capacity building for grassroots advocacy to build the political space for legislation to end military funding, create an arms embargo on Israel, and more accountability measures called for by the Palestinian people
• Oversee the progress and development of the departmental work plan, budget, campaign plans, and individual staff plans. Establish - in collaboration with the Managing Director - realistic, standardized mechanisms for the management, tracking and assessment of campaigns across departments.
• Oversee the planning of the programmatic aspects of USCPR convenings and conferences.
• Lead 1-2 of our campaign areas with support from organizing team
• Engage in public speaking, writing, and media, lifting up the work of USCPR.
• Build stronger organizers within the organization, our staff team, organizing coaches, organizing fellows, and volunteer organizers in our networks
• Lead annual personnel evaluation of programmatic staff.
• Own hiring process for program department team members, including identifying and prioritizing needs, creating hiring protocols and/or matrices, identifying hiring committees, and bottom-lining the hiring process.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Qualifications for this positions:

• Experience facilitating strategic planning processes for national campaign plans
• Minimum of two years of distributed organizing experience or transferable skills, for instance, working in national teams or coordinating national campaigns for chapter-based orgs
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience, including at least two years in a director level staff position and 3 years of staff management and supervision
• Experience organizing in/with communities of color and/or building progressive organizing efforts, particularly in Palestinian or Arab, Black, Latine, and/or Indigenous communities
• Deep passion for seeing the liberation of Palestine in our lifetime and an analysis of systems of oppression and possibilities for liberation as interconnected.

Desired qualities:

• Experience conducting and facilitating workshops and trainings
• Pre-existing relationships with organizations in left spaces
• Robust and transformative organizing strategy that advances Palestinian liberation demands in U.S. policy and synthesizes and pushes forward cross-movement partners’ demands
• Experience in local community organizing
• Effective communicator, both written and oral, and willingness to speak publicly and do media interviews on Palestine
• Arabic, Spanish language or additional language skills a plus
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly required.

USCPR offers a competitive benefits package, including employer-paid medical, dental and vision insurance, 15-20 days of vacation, floating holidays, personal time off, and 36-hour work weeks.