Wisconsin Organizing Director - Spring 2025

About Empower Project
Empower Project is the national leader in both paid and volunteer relational organizing. 

Empower Project organizes to improve people’s lives using the power of relational organizing. Together with our partners, we’ve helped boost voter turnout, especially for BIPOC communities, through our approach of tapping into personal networks of friends and family. We provide the software and expertise to help communities, progressive organizations, and nonprofits leverage their personal relationships to build power and dramatically expand the electorate. Our cutting-edge technology, Empower, stands at the forefront of the industry and is trusted by over 1,500 organizations nationwide.


Program Overview
Our ground-breaking 2025 Paid Relational Organizing program will generate 1,200,000 relational conversations with 400,000 Wisconsin voters about the Spring 2025 state Supreme Court election.

This program will:

• Initiate relational conversations with hundreds of thousands of people.
• Build a rapid-response network of trusted messengers to fight back against disinformation.
• Aim to engage thousands of sporadic and sometimes new voters for the upcoming election.

Job Description

The Wisconsin Organizing Director will lead a team of Regional Organizing Directors (RODs) and  Community Organizers (COs) for statewide paid relational organizing program.

The State Organizing Director will hire, onboard, train, lead, monitor metrics for, and coach 2 Regional Organizing Directors (RODs). Additionally, the State Organizing Director will onboard, train, monitor metrics for a team of Community Organizers (COs), as well as conduct related administrative tasks. Critically, they will also facilitate large-scale trainings alongside their organizing team, ensuring the smooth flow of operations and maximum impact of each event. The COs in each region will be responsible for building a universe of paid Community Mobilizers (CMs) to conduct calls to action before the election on April 1st.

The State Organizing Director will be responsible for the combined output of each of their direct reports during each of these cycles of outreach. The State Organizing Directors will also be expected to create a positive and safe work environment and to address the daily tasks of the campaign with flexibility and creativity.

The State Organizing Directors will be leading members of the strategic team and be encouraged to offer input into program design. This position is an opportunity to play a senior role in a groundbreaking program that will scale in 2025.

Core Responsibilities

• Supervise and delegate responsibilities to members of the organizing team
• The State Organizing Director will work with Empower Project to evaluate and hire ROD and CO applicants
• The State Organizing Director will manage and lead a team of RODs and CO’s, fostering a supportive team culture of excellence and accountability
• Ensure all data is entered in a timely fashion, meeting campaign-wide standards
• The State Organizing Directors will direct organizing staff during large-scale trainings, managing key elements of technology, presentation and team coordination
• Following the onboarding of each wave of RODs and COs, maintain a regular weekly 1:1 meeting schedule with direct reports as well as plan and lead weekly organizing team meetings 
• Ensure that all program requirements are well-communicated by ensuring direct reports review and contribute to published materials
• Monitor the results of various accountability and organizing approaches and and share best practices with their colleagues and Empower Project leadership
• Collect critical feedback on training materials from RODs, COs, and CMs and deliver to Empower Project leadership in order to improve support materials
• Support Empower Project leadership in monitoring and identifying trends in the CM recruitment pipeline
• Other tasks as assigned by Empower Project leadership

Additional consideration will be given to candidates who have existing relationships in Wisconsin or are fluent in Spanish. 

Compensation
This is a full-time, remote, salaried position starting February 10, 2025 and lasting through April 15, 2025.

The work schedule is six days per week with Saturdays off. Organizing Directors will work Sunday - Thursdays 10:15am - 8:45pm Central. Fridays are a shortened schedule, ending at 5:45pm Central.

We will also work the full week before the April 1st election. 

The salary for this position is $8,500/month plus healthcare benefits and 2 paid sick days.

Empower Project is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. Women, persons of color, and individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.