Operationalize and strengthen Essie’s membership strategy in alignment with the Director of Organizing Programs, ensuring that systems, data, and partnerships drive growth, retention, and impact.
Strengthen organizing systems, member data infrastructure, and tracking tools, supporting an organizing strategy that empowers the development of an increased number of member leaders.
Translate the organization-wide member strategy into clear systems, plans, and team execution, while supporting the development and coordination of membership engagement approaches across campaigns and programmatic work.
Assess Essie's base's strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities; develop strategies to deepen engagement and retention.
Develop and manage impact metrics for organizing work, including member activation, leadership pipeline, retention, and political engagement benchmarks.
Design and implement new and priority organizing/power-building trainings to develop skills within membership and staff that facilitate member leadership.
Partner with the Director of Organizing Programs to identify training needs in response to evolving member strategy, campaign priorities, and base assessment findings.
Serve as the strategic driver of Essie’s Oakland and Bay Area-wide organizing and contribute political leadership in the landscape.
Directly manage 1-3 staff members.

5–7 years of experience in organizing, ideally in distributed, networked, or chapter-based models
Experience in program design, implementation, and evaluation, including developing metrics and using data to inform strategy
Skilled in facilitating workshops, trainings, or popular education sessions
Experience managing staff, preferably leading a team directly, with an emphasis on coaching and development
Ability to support colleagues and members with direct experience of incarceration with empathy and accountability
Impeccable attention to detail and effective writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
Adept with Mac operating systems, Google Suite, and MS Office Suite (especially Excel, Powerpoint and Word)
Commitment to the beliefs and values of Essie with a demonstrated passion for progressive politics, specifically in gender justice, race justice, and ending mass incarceration.

Associate Director of Organizing

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