Senior Organizing Manager

ABOUT THE JOB

The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of Senior Organizing Manager in the National Political Advocacy Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY or Washington, DC. This is a hybrid role that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight (8) days per month. 

The National Political Advocacy Department builds power to achieve an accountable, representative democracy. We have ambitious goals across Reproductive Freedom, Democracy and Voting Rights, Systemic Equality, Immigration, Trans Justice, Criminal Justice and other core issues in order to protect and expand civil rights and civil liberties, and advance the freedom, equality, ability to prosper, and humanity of all People.

Our department conducts analysis, develops policy, crafts world class campaigns and situates the ACLU to have impact across legislative, administrative, and electoral levers. We are policy experts, lawyers, community organizers, lobbyists, campaign strategists, electoral specialists, program managers and more. We partner across the ACLU to drive national efforts, and support and amplify the priorities of our affiliates. We work to center principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging in our approach.

The Senior Organizing Manager will report to the Deputy National Organizing Director. This term-limited position is part of a collective bargaining unit and is expected to end on September 30th, 2025. 

This position is part of a collective bargaining unit. It is represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU). 

YOUR DAY TO DAY

• Design and lead complex, multi-tooled organizing campaigns from planning to execution, on multiple campaigns at a time.
• Develop goals, strategies, tactics, and budgets, with minimal need for management level guidance.
• Spearhead the development of robust organizing goals, plans, strategies, tactics, and budgets to achieve concrete political/policy outcomes on specific campaigns and other programming.
• Demonstrate ability to skillfully and strategically deploy the full spectrum of sophisticated organizing tactics and tools, including but limited to [phonebanking, text banking, bird dogging, rallies, marches, picketing, canvassing, petitioning, social media storms, online action sessions or forums] to advance policy/political outcomes.
• Demonstrate ability to identify, retain and manage consultants/contractors, with sufficient knowledge to ensure that performance is appropriate on the basis on pricing, quality and timeliness.
• Work in coordination with other senior stakeholders, affiliate staff, and national staff.
• Work hand-in-hand with policy counsels and campaign strategists in developing organizing plans and strategies, integrating them into broader campaign plans.
• Help coordinate the day-to-day activities of other organizing staff, working on organizing plans or to execute organizing tactics.
• Develop strategic partnerships that expand the ACLU’s influence in ways the ACLU would otherwise not have operating alone.
• Convene and execute on-the-ground organizing meetings and events in priority jurisdictions to support campaigns and other programming.
• Track programs’ progress to goals, highlights, and other data through standardized reporting templates, and demonstrate the ability to identify the need to and execute upon plan adjustments, as necessary.
• Produce clearly-written and compelling call and text scripts for priority campaigns on tight deadlines.
• Closely track political developments, and identify strategic organizing and advocacy opportunities for the ACLU.
• Leverage permanent volunteer teams (including the call team and text team) and recruit, train, and manage campaign-specific volunteer teams, either in person or remotely.
• Propose and implement the creation of new volunteer teams and systems that address the strategic and programmatic needs of ACLU campaigns.
• Leverage organizing tools (e.g. click to call tools, dialers, etc.) that are fundamental to volunteer teams and organizing strategies.
• Maintain awareness of the work to facilitate representation of the Department internally and externally.
• Exercise significant independent judgment to solve problems and determine creative solutions.
• Demonstrate an ability to be flexible and adjust priorities as necessary in order to adapt to changing external environment.
• Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned.

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