Associate Organizing Director

About the role:

The Associate Organizing Director coaches and manages an average of 5 Organizers and Organizing Managers, helps design and implement turf plans in key states, tracks progress towards overall team goals, builds a positive culture on their team, and leads cross-department projects and programs that advance organization-wide strategic priorities.

The Associate Organizing Director is an experienced organizing leader who makes an impact by building and leading an innovative program within a rapidly growing progressive organization. The position involves some travel — up to 20% each year, with ebbs and flows depending on the work.

What you'll do:

People and Culture - 60%

• Supervise an average of 5 Organizers and Organizing Managers across states.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, professional development, structure, feedback, and evaluation to your staff.
• Contribute to a safe, welcoming, and inspiring organizational culture for staff to excel in, and provide ongoing opportunities for team members to lead and grow. Build a unique and positive culture for your pod.
• Uphold Indivisible’s values of creating an inclusive and equitable working environment.

Program Management -30%

• Independently or in partnership with other organizational leadership, lead priority programs and campaigns, both within our team and across departments, to help achieve organizational goals.
• Work with organizers and organizing managers to develop strategic turf plans to hit campaign and organizational goals.
• Actively manage your team to achieve their goals - providing constructive feedback and guidance as they work towards them, creating opportunities to learn from both successes and setbacks, and holding staff accountable when they fall short.

Team Leadership - 10%

• Work with Organizing Leadership to continue to build and improve Indivisible’s organizing model and strategy
• Identify best practices both within the team and in the field, and work with leadership to scale them aggressively.
• Listen for and surface new departmental or organizational initiatives based on feedback from group leaders and/or staff.

Qualifications:

Field Expertise & Strategy

• Strong knowledge and at least 5-7 years/cycles of demonstrated experience developing and implementing field strategies; deep understanding of grassroots and grasstops organizing
• Ability to develop and implement field plans, track/monitor/assess progress, troubleshoot and adapt as needed
• Ability to tackle big, complex problems with actionable plans, generate smart, innovative approaches, not afraid to think outside of the box.

Ability to Manage in Complexity

• Relentlessly results-oriented; strong track record of meeting or exceeding goals
• At least 3-5 years of proven experience managing others to achieve ambitious goals
• Strategic and analytical thinker with ability to pivot from big picture to detailed implementation as needed
• Ability to juggle multiple streams of work, prioritize, and problem solve in complex and nuanced situations
• Comfort operating in complex and fluid environments, responding innovatively and rapidly to emerging opportunities or concerns
• Demonstrated ability to thrive year-round in a fast-paced, dynamic grassroots campaign environment while managing a heavy workload.

Interpersonal Skills

• Strong people skills; effective communicator.
• An exceptional team player exemplifies a work style that is flexible, respectful, collaborative, and nimble.
• Can build trust, confidence, and followership of a diverse range of staff, volunteers, and field partners - across race, gender, and other identities.
• Demonstrated record of mentorship and leadership development in previous positions

Cultural Competency

• Understanding of race, gender, sexuality, and other aspects of identity, and their intersections, and how that plays out in the work.
• Demonstrates self-awareness of their own multiple group identities and their attendant dynamics, and can adapt their approach as needed.
• Ability to build strong relationships and trust across race, gender, class,