Senior Organizing Manager
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$ 67500 - 72500
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NOW HIRING: Senior Organizing Manager
New Era Colorado Foundation and New Era Colorado Action Fund is seeking a fulltime Senior Organizing Manager who will manage our regional organizing hubs and design leadership development programs to engage young people in the political process and win on the Youth Agenda.
To apply:Please submit a resume. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. If the job is still posted we encourage you to apply! Priority Deadline is May 9th. Ideal start date of June 2nd!
About New Era Colorado:
New Era aims to build a youth movement that fights for a common vision of the world: one that centers equality prosperity love and joy. A vision where everyone is treated fairly has their basic needs met and can thrive. Young people are the most impacted by the challenges and issues we face today and have the capacity to dream bigger designing the solutions towards this future. And yet young people are often shut out from the halls of power and ignored by elected officials. Thats why at New Era we organize young people to participate in the political process develop as leaders and find a political home. Since our founding in 2006 weve registered more than 250000 young people to vote and consistently turn out those registrants at one of the highest rates in the country. Weve won critical protections for student loan borrowers played a key role in ballot measure campaigns to protect abortion rights and climate enacted voter preregistration for 16 and 17yearolds advocated for key improvements to our voting systems and more. Get to know us:WebsiteFacebookInstagram
About the position:
New Eras next Senior Organizing Manager will be responsible for managing and developing organizers in our five regional organizing hubs (Northern Colorado Boulder Denver Southern Colorado and the Western Slope). You will support our ontheground organizing strategy by developing and supporting organizers to build and engage a base of young people execute regional and statewide issue campaigns and develop relationships with local partners and government in their regions. Additionally you will manage and support the design of our leadership development pipeline to ensure Regional Lead Organizers are moving young people in our regions from activists to resourced and skilled leaders.
As a member of New Eras program leadership team you will collaborate with the Organizing Director in shaping the strategic direction of New Eras statewide grassroots organizing in order to build political power for young Coloradans while advancing the Youth Agenda! As part of the full leadership team you will consult on organizational decisions strategy and ensure a strong organizational culture. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled organizer and thoughtful peoplemanager who is excited about growing young peoples momentum for progressive political change.
Job Responsibilities:
The Senior Organizing Manager reports to the Organizing Director Director and is responsible for:
Design and manage our leadership development Design and manage New Eras leadership development pipeline by supporting Regional Lead Organizers to recruit and move young people from activists to leaders in support of the Youth Agenda. Play a critical role in the development and maintenance of our leadership ladder. This includes managing and supporting the Organizing Director in redesigning our preregistration program the Colorado Democracy Challenge to be a more holistic civic engagement training program for high schoolaged young people.
Managing our regional organizing hubs Manage support grow and develop New Eras five Regional Lead Organizers to develop their regional organizing hubs by engaging young people in their communities through the political process and developing them as leaders. Support RLOs in developing the peertopeer organizing and coalition building strategy for all of New Eras locallybased issue campaigns.
Program and organizational leadership Work closely as a strategic thought partner with the Organizing Director and the rest of program leadership to design strategic programmatic campaigns. Advise on strategic decisions identifying goals strategies and tactics for achieving change and building out campaign plans as an organizational leader with the Regional Lead Organizers in mind. Work to facilitate strong working relationships and communication across New Eras program team. Work with the full leadership team to ensure organizational strategy cohesion and a strong team culture.
What Were Looking For:
Excellent management skills: You are an excellent people manager who has experience directly managing individuals or teams. You have the ability to build lead foster and empower staff to meet the results and outcomes of the work. You have an eye for effectiveness and equity and you are excited to foster learning and growth.
Strategic project planner:You are a strategic and flexible project planner with the ability to manage and execute organizing campaigns with a human centered approach. You can plan a campaign from start to finish and support Regional Lead Organizers to do the same.
Relationship building:You have the ability to deepen cultivate and manage relationships with partners stakeholders and coalitions. You are ready to lead others to grow these skills and manage them to hold and foster their own programmatic relationships.
Fluency commitment and leadership to antiracism and equity:You have a deep investment in New Eras antiracism and equity work and are committed to support and lead the organization through its growth. You have the ability todesign and center equity and antiracism in plans.
Commitment to New Eras mission:You are passionate about the work New Era does to engage young people in the political process and believe in the power of peertopeer organizing. You believe in the power of young people grassroots organizing and policy change.
Preferred but not required
Experience with political databases including VAN EveryAction and ThruTalk
Prior knowledge or experience working in Colorados political landscape and progressive ecosystem
Position Details Compensation and Benefit
This position is based out of New Eras Denver office This position will also require occasional travel to our regional hubs in Northern Southern and Western Colorado. This is a permanent fulltime exempt managementlevel position. The salary range is $67500$72500annualized commensurate with experience.
Benefits include healthcare (medical dental and vision; employer pays 85% of the premium) $300 annual wellness stipend minimum $250 annual professional development funds SIMPLE IRA with 3% employer match $600 annual tech stipend RTD Ecopass generous holiday and time off eight week paid sabbatical eligibility after four years of employment and paid parental and family leave benefits.
This role will include inperson work. New Era Colorado is committed to the safety of our employees and requires proof of full vaccination status for all employees unless a religious or medical accommodation is granted. If you have any questions about our safety protocols please contact us at.
New Era Colorado Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all and strongly encourage women people of color people with disabilities immigrants refugees and members of the LGBTQ community to apply. We do not require formal education.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
