About the role

  • Associate Director of Organizing driving membership strategies for Essie Justice Group. Strengthening engagement pathways and overseeing political agenda alignment in Oakland's community.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Job title

Associate Director of Organizing

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$110,000 - $120,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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