Associate Director of Organizing
Essie Justice Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Oakland • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,000 - $120,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Operationalize and strengthen Essie’s membership strategy in alignment with the Director of Organizing Programs, ensuring that systems, data, and partnerships drive growth, retention, and impact.
- Strengthen organizing systems, member data infrastructure, and tracking tools, supporting an organizing strategy that empowers the development of an increased number of member leaders.
- Translate the organization-wide member strategy into clear systems, plans, and team execution, while supporting the development and coordination of membership engagement approaches across campaigns and programmatic work.
- Assess Essie's base's strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities; develop strategies to deepen engagement and retention.
- Develop and manage impact metrics for organizing work, including member activation, leadership pipeline, retention, and political engagement benchmarks.
- Design and implement new and priority organizing/power-building trainings to develop skills within membership and staff that facilitate member leadership.
- Partner with the Director of Organizing Programs to identify training needs in response to evolving member strategy, campaign priorities, and base assessment findings.
- Serve as the strategic driver of Essie’s Oakland and Bay Area-wide organizing and contribute political leadership in the landscape.
- Directly manage 1-3 staff members.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of experience in organizing, ideally in distributed, networked, or chapter-based models
- Experience in program design, implementation, and evaluation, including developing metrics and using data to inform strategy
- Skilled in facilitating workshops, trainings, or popular education sessions
- Experience managing staff, preferably leading a team directly, with an emphasis on coaching and development
- Ability to support colleagues and members with direct experience of incarceration with empathy and accountability
- Impeccable attention to detail and effective writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
- Adept with Mac operating systems, Google Suite, and MS Office Suite (especially Excel, Powerpoint and Word)
- Commitment to the beliefs and values of Essie with a demonstrated passion for progressive politics, specifically in gender justice, race justice, and ending mass incarceration.
Benefits
- full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) with up to 3% match
- substantial vacation package
- monthly personal wellness stipend
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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