National Organizing Manager

Summary

Join Popular Democracy as their National Organizing Manager, Climate! This full-time position focuses on implementing strategic base-building plans with affiliates to support their climate campaigns. You will lead the Climate Defenders Member Leadership training program and support affiliates in developing political education and skills training materials. The role involves significant travel for in-person trainings and meetings. While 10 years of relevant experience is estimated, the focus is on fulfilling the position's needs. The successful candidate will report to the Chief of Basebuilding and will be part of a collective bargaining unit with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Significant experience as a community or labor organizer
• Experience facilitating trainings using popular education methodology
• A track record of effectiveness in base-building, campaigning, and electoral engagement
• Meaningful experience in, and dedication to, work focused on climate change
• Demonstrated commitment to scaled recruitment and leadership development, especially of those most impacted. This includes a deep commitment to building base-building people’s institutions as a core element of building power
• The ability to collaborate with diverse organizations and partners
• Results-focused, team-oriented, organized, and responsive
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly for site visits, training, and other affiliate engagement, as well as occasional internal staff meetings
• A commitment to social, racial, and economic justice and a deep understanding of challenges facing low-wage workers, immigrant communities, communities of color, disabled people, LGBTQ+ folks, and people at the intersections of the above communities

Responsibilities

• Partner with fellow Base-Building Department staff and the Senior National Organizer for Climate Justice to develop multi-year goals and a work plan to significantly grow the number of Black, Latinx, and low-income communities engaged in climate justice organizing and campaigning
• Support Popular Democracy affiliates with the growth of their climate base-building. This will include identifying a strategic basebuilding goal, regular 1:1 support for affiliate organizers, helping to anchor a national community of community organizers on climate, work with affiliates to center base-building in their climate campaigning, and more
• Lead in person and virtual political education and skills training for affiliate members through the Climate Defenders Member Leadership Academy
• Collaborate with Popular Democracy staff to drive scaled list-building and follow-up organizing engagement, to provide organizing skill and political formation training offerings to grassroots members and organizers engaged on climate, to support week-long climate organizing blitzes that bring together organizers and members from across affiliates to work together closely in a single place, and more
• Support Popular Democracy affiliates in launching and/or building out emerging climate organizing efforts and serving as the climate point person for a set of affiliates
• Engage with the larger climate justice movement to build transformational and deeply collaborative partnerships
• Support fundraising work, including participation in funder meetings and preparing reports and proposals

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 15 vacation days your first year
• 12 sick days per year
• Additional PTO, including holidays
• Contributions to individuals’ 401K plans