Campaign and Organizing Associate Director
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Coaching and managing Organizers for Indivisible's Battlegrounds Campaign. Leading innovative programs within a rapidly growing progressive organization.
Responsibilities:
- Supervise an average of 4 Organizers across states. Provide supervisory support, guidance, professional development, structure, feedback, and evaluation to your staff.
- Contribute to a welcoming and inspiring organizational culture for staff to excel in, and provide ongoing opportunities for team members to lead and grow.
- Lead priority programs and campaigns, both within our team and across departments, to help achieve organizational goals focused on key electoral geographies.
- Work with organizers to develop strategic turf plans to hit campaign and organizational goals.
- Actively manage the organizers 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.
- Work with Battlegrounds Leadership to build a productive and intentional team environment.
- 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.
Requirements:
- 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, and not afraid to think outside of the box.
- 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 the ability to pivot from big picture to detailed implementation as needed
- Understanding of race, gender, sexuality, and other aspects of identity, and their intersections, and how that plays out in the work
- 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.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and trust across race, gender, class, and other group identities, both internally and externally
- An exceptional team player; exemplifies a work style that is flexible, respectful, collaborative, and nimble.



















