Hybrid Senior Manager, Organizing – Youth

at Common Cause

• Job title: Senior Manager, Organizing – Youth
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $97,850 - $113,300 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager, Organizing overseeing youth engagement and building a stronger organizing program at Common Cause. Role is remote within the lower 48 US states with frequent travel required.

Responsibilities

• Lead work to build people-power across the organization
• Recruit, train, and sustain a diverse base of volunteers and members, and develop their capacity for independent leadership and action
• Proactively build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including community leaders, partners, policymakers, and others
• Represent Common Cause in coalition spaces, including leading coalitions
• Develop strategic plans to leverage existing organizing strengths and tactics, and implement new approaches that support a focus on collective, in-person organizing
• Lead key components of the national organizing strategy, including leadership development, base-building and relational organizing, partnerships and coalitions, strategic actions, and program evaluation
• Provide guidance and informal mentorship to interns, volunteers, and team members, coordinating their work to support team goals
• Develop and implement a plan for youth engagement in our grassroots organizing efforts across the country, identifying in-person and virtual engagement strategies
• Analyze trends and metrics to measure youth engagement, political behavior, and electoral issue attitudes to inform strategy
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with coalitions and other partners focused on students, youth-led movements, and others who want to engage youth in organizing efforts
• Provide customized support plans, coaching, and technical assistance to state teams and organizers
• Create support plans that can be scaled across teams
• Develop an organizing curricula (including toolkits and resources) to be used across our organization
• Develop and facilitate peer learning and collaboration across states, making judgments on best practices and knowledge-sharing opportunities
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Experience leading successful student- or youth-focused organizing efforts
• Demonstrated knowledge of the motivations, political engagement, and voting attitudes among young people in and outside of college campuses (especially Gen Z and Gen Alpha), with a demonstrated commitment to centering the voice of youth and developing young leaders
• Demonstrated ability to lead and facilitate effective trainings, and to coach organizers to improve their skills and impact, both in-person and virtually
• Experience managing coalitions or groups that represent stakeholders with diverse interests to achieve a goal
• A track record of leading organization-wide change initiatives
• Demonstrated understanding of the legislative process in at least one state
• Have managed at least one staff member, intern and/or Fellow
• Ideally you have worked in an organization that operates across multiple states or regions
• Ability to travel around the country up to 40% of the year (especially during legislative cycles) for team, cross-team, and/or all staff retreats
• Willing to have a social media presence on behalf of Common Cause, including being tagged on posts and creating content on behalf of the organization (as needed, Common Cause may provide accounts for staff members to use)
• Per our nonpartisan policy, Common Cause staff members may not currently be in elected office (or running for office); on the Steering Committee or Finance Committee for any political candidate; or affiliated with the leadership of a political party

Benefits

• A robust healthcare plan that covers 97% of employee’s medical care, 100% of employee’s vision and dental benefits, and 75% of family medical care and 100% of family vision and dental benefits
• Long-term disability and life insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off including 20 Days of Vacation and 10 observed Holidays per year, and additional days off for Thanksgiving and Winter break
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible spending accounts
• A 401k retirement savings plan, with immediate Employer Match
• Dependent Care and Pet Care Support when you travel for work
• Funds for professional development
• And more! See more details here: https://www.commoncause.org/our-benefits/