Organizing Director

Description

This position is only until November 2026.

The Organizing Director will advance the organizational goals for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress, primarily ensuring the campaign gets its message out through direct voter contact. This role will be ideal for someone who has experience in high intensity environments, able to translate data into performance, and who enjoys setting and accomplishing lofty goals. 2+ cycles of electoral experience needed, and competency in campaign tools such as Votebuilder, Mobilize, and Reach. Strong preference for a candidate that lives in New York City (or has a good base of knowledge on NYC). 

Duties: The Organizing Director’s role is to develop and execute a comprehensive, high-touch field plan that includes voter/community engagement via various forms of voter contact methods, including but not limited to street canvassing, text/phone campaigns, events, and strong relational organizing. The director will need to set, monitor, and report specific goals and benchmarks for voter contact and turnout. This role will require strong leadership skills to provide guidance and support to achieve these goals, also strong project management and the ability to inform and adhere to organizational processes. The field director will collaborate across the departments to provide a holistic field strategy. This role will also oversee a departmental budget. 

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement a data-driven field plan.
• Hire, train, and manage relevant field staff.
• Work collaboratively with other campaign departments to ensure campaign efforts are properly integrated.
• Create staff and volunteer training materials.
• Develop appropriate metrics and manage systems of accountability for staff and volunteers.
• Collaborate with and facilitate communication between field teams from partner campaigns and coordinated campaign offices.
• Facilitate communication between the field team and other campaign departments.
• Analyze data and modeling to create and track progress in voter contact universes.
• Leverage innovative voter contact tools and integrate them into the field plan.
• Additional duties as assigned by Campaign Manager.

Competencies: 

• Ability to adhere to tight deadlines and rapidly shifting factors
• People-oriented, can motivate a team and can provide leadership
• Problem solving, ability to creatively think on their feet
• Thrive in a collaborative and heavily team-based environment
• Be highly organized and structured
• Have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Be data driven 
• Capable of motivating and managing staff and volunteers

Salary & Benefits: Gross monthly compensation for this role ranges from $7,500-10,000 per month based on experience. This role is eligible for benefits including medical benefits including vision/dental, accumulated paid time off. This is not a Campaign Workers’ Guild eligible role.