Senior Regional Organizer - New York

About the role:

Indivisible is seeking creative, experienced Organizers to organize, support, and grow local groups in their state or states, and develop new groups. This includes working with Indivisible group leaders and activists to take action on Indivisible’s national campaigns, developing and supporting group leadership, building strong state structures and communication streams, growing our volunteer base and building an activist pipeline, and executing strategic turf plans in collaboration with group leadership.

This role presents a unique opportunity for dynamic self-starters who excel in relationship building, project management, and leadership development, and who want to grapple with how to build a powerful social movement.

Candidates may be based anywhere in NY within their turf. The position involves some travel, up to 20% each year, with ebbs and flows depending on the work.

This is a full-time role expected to require 40 hours of work per week; the salary for this position is $83,900 a year. Indivisible offers a comprehensive employer-sponsored benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; a company-sponsored Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); FSA with limited matching, and a 401(k) retirement plan with up to a 5% employer match. Employees are fully vested upon becoming eligible.

What you'll do:

Organizing in Turf: 85%

• Build power. Organize groups in your turf around Indivisible’s national priorities and campaigns. Create strong, trusted relationships with group leaders and activists across your turf. Provide the guidance, feedback, structure, and support they need to organize effectively and develop as leaders.
• Maintain a working relationship with group leaders across your turf and routinely provide updates, resources, and support to help drive key calls to action to members and activists.
• Coach groups and members on Indivisible’s theory of change and knowledge resources, and equip them with the tools they need to execute local strategic actions and participate in national Days of Action.
• Develop stronger statewide coordination among groups and activists and build strong, clear communication structures within your turf.
• Identify, recruit, and develop new group leaders and volunteers to grow our reach and ability to organize at scale.
• Support the development of state structure(s) by identifying and recruiting leaders to help build that structure.
• Develop and execute strategic turf plans to hit short-term campaign and long-term power-building goals.
• Report, track, and record real-time data.
• Proactively engage in critical, data-driven analysis to unearth lessons learned and best practices focused on your own turf.

Programmatic Support: 15%

• Take part in department projects and special initiatives to build our structure and long-term capacity.
• Collaborate effectively with team members and leadership to coordinate work internally, surface insights, provide feedback, and thought partnership to peers, and support organizational priorities.
• Contribute to a safe, welcoming, and inspiring organizational culture for staff to excel in.
• Accountability is at the heart of our success. Be accountable to our movement, our organization, and our team.
• Uphold Indivisible’s values of creating an inclusive and equitable working environment.

Qualifications:

• Field Expertise & Strategy
• • Strong understanding of what power is, how to build it, and how pressure campaigns work. At least 2-3 years/cycles of demonstrated experience in community, labor, movement, or electoral organizing.
  • Experience developing and implementing field plans, tracking and assessing progress, and adapting as needed.
  • Ability to train activists in skill development, power-building, and strategic planning.
  • Ability to tackle problems with actionable plans, generate smart, innovative approaches, and think outside of the box.
  • Strong communication and writing skills. Experience building communication structures within turf.
• Ability to Manage in Complexity
• • Relentlessly results-oriented; strong track record of meeting or exceeding goals.
  • Thrives as a team player and collaborator, particularly when problem-solving cross-team issues, thinking through lessons learned, and planning and executing departmental projects.
  • 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 both verbally and in written communications.
  • An exceptional team player; exemplifies a work style that is flexible, respectful, collaborative, and nimble.
  • Can build trust, confidence, and followership with a diverse range of staff, volunteers, and field partners across race, gender, and other identities.
• 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, and other group identities, both internally and externally.
  • Experience organizing in communities of color and/or building multiracial organizing efforts, and prior training in anti-oppression, equity, and inclusion.

About Indivisible Project

We’re building something new. We’re a progressive grassroots organization that began in the aftermath of Trump’s election. We’re working to build a democracy that reflects a broad, multiracial “we the people,” one that works for all of us and is sustained by all of us. To support this movement, we’ve built an incredible team at the national level. We dream big, we support each other, and we have fun doing it. For more information about Indivisible’s vision, mission, and theory of change, click here.                              

We’re changing what’s politically possible. Indivisible is part of the powerful progressive movement reaction to Trump, fighting the racist, misogynistic, plutocratic, and authoritarian agenda trumpeted by Trump and the GOP congress. Don’t take our word for it; Indivisible has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show multiple times, as well as in the New York Times and in pretty much every other major news outlet in the country.

We’re building together. We’re building a new organization every day - a rare opportunity to model what we want to see in the world. We’re deeply committed to equity and building a diverse and inclusive organization.

We’re looking for you. If you want to fight for the soul of American democracy, there’s no better place to be than Indivisible. We’re looking for more team members who are passionate about building an inclusive democracy and committed to getting results. It’s an exciting, fulfilling place if you’re someone who wants to fight fiercely for the progressive world we want to have.

Every one of us on the national team is here because we believe this movement is the best way to retake and build progressive power in this country. Does that ring true for you? If so, great - throw your hat in the ring to join our team. Let’s start #winning together. For more information about Indivisible’s organizational principles, click here.

Indivisible Project is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, including bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, sex, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, ancestry, national origin, marital or family status, caregiving responsibilities, genetic information, class or caste, personal appearance (including size and weight), immigrant status, military status, veteran status or other legally protected status. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of support needs at the time of application.