Associate Director of Community Organizing

Position: Associate Director of Community Organizing
Location: Los Angeles office

Status: Full-time, exempt (40 hours per week)

ABOUT CNVP

The California Native Vote Project’s (CNVP) mission is justice and self-determination for Native American communities through multigenerational power building, organizing, and civic engagement. CNVP is the first-of-its-kind statewide effort to engage Native American communities across dozens of counties to build political power through an integrated voter engagement strategy, which centers community organizing, and braids on top of that other strategies to achieve people-powered movements — including political education, leadership development; voter education, registration and protections; policy advocacy; research; and Native candidate preparation.

Position Overview

The Associate Director of Organizing will assist in directing next phase of the CNVP’s organizing strategy. This position requires someone with significant political and/or community organizing, strategic campaign development, and supervisory experience. This role, in collaboration with senior leadership, will serve as a key decision maker in strategies for Southern California organizing and campaign work; leader on projects and initiatives; and represent CNVP at partner and coalition tables. This position will also build out organizing training and mentorship programs for both internal and external audiences.
This role will have direct reports. The position is full?time and exempt.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and evaluate an organizing strategic plan in collaboration with all the teams. This should include understanding the needed number of organizers, types of training, and logistical needs for accomplishing the plan and maintaining organizational culture and morale. 
• Act as a spokesperson for CNVP with allied organizations, community groups and media.
• Co-create with staff and delivers Indigenous values-based organizing curriculum to internal and external audiences, including knowledge bases such as campaign development, base building, effective one-on-ones, and more.
• Lead planning, strategy, and implementation of organizing campaigns in partnership with senior leadership team.
• Develop political and community support for organizing campaigns in accordance with 501(c)3 guidelines.
• Lead the evaluation of organizing, mobilizing, and engagement strategies and campaigns — define and track success metrics, communicate findings and implement improvements.
• Support a culture of excellence, teamwork, inclusiveness, and accountability; build leadership practices that support the recruitment, development, engagement, and retention of a talented organizing team.
• Create, maintain, evaluate, and adapt a structure that informs the necessary teams of impacted community members experiences, priorities, and concerns to develop community-supported solutions.
• Provide supervision, leadership, and mentorship to the organizing staff, offering ongoing feedback and opportunities for growth and professional development. Ensure that the team has clarity at all levels by modeling, building, and supporting effective communication, coordination, and a performance-oriented culture.
• Coordinate increases in membership base.
• Develop uniform standards for review and evaluation of campaigns and develops metrics tomeasure campaigns’ effectiveness.
• Ensure the tracking, reporting and analysis of all membership activity in their purview.
• Develop recommended budgets, allocate resources effectively, and plan and implement program activities as appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range is $90-105K.

Please submit your cover letter and resume on the application form at https://canativevote.org/careers/ and indicate ‘Associate Director of Community Organizing’ under Position You’re Applying for.