2026 Regional Organizing Directors

Empower 2026 Regional Organizing Directors

Employment Type: Full Time Minimum Experience : Management About Us

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

Empower Project organizes to improve peoples lives using the power of relational organizing. Together with our partners weve 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 1500 organizations nationwide.

Its effective. Empower has been studied in nine different independently-run randomly controlled trials which all found that its usage led to large and statistically significant increases in voter turnout far more effective than phone-banking text-banking or door-to-door canvassing.

Its growing fast. The number of conversations Empower facilitated grew by over 10x between the 2016 and 2018 election cycles grew by 10x again in the 2020 election cycle and then grew by 30x for the 2024 election cycle. In order to keep up that pace going forward we need to grow our team and keep adding features that help our organizations!

About the Program and Role

In 2026 well be running paid relational organizing programs programs where we recruit folks to talk to their family and friends about elections and issues and then pay them for their time and effort in several states including Iowa Michigan Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Core Responsibilities:

• Recruitment and screeningto evaluate and hire Community Organizers applicants.

• Manage and lead a team of up to 10 Organizers and foster a supportive team culture of excellence and accountability.

• Ensure all Organizers and CM data is entered in a timely fashion meeting program-wide standards.

• Direct organizing staff during large-scale trainings managing key elements of technology presentation and team coordination.

• Following the onboarding of each wave of Organizers maintain a regular 1:1 meeting schedule with direct reports.

• Ensure that all program requirements are well-communicated by reviewing and contributing to published materials.

• Monitor the results of various accountability and organizing approaches and and share best practices with peers and Empower Project leadership.

• Collect critical feedback on training materials from Organizers 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 one of our key states or are fluent in a second language including Spanish.

Compensation This is a full-time remote salaried position available February 9th 2026 and lasting through November 13th 2026. The work schedule is five days per week Monday through Thursday from 11:30am to 8:30pm ET and shortened hours on Fridays. After Labor Day the work schedule will be six days per week with shortened hours on Fridays and Saturdays off. We will also work the full week before the November election.

The salary for this position is $7000/month. Because this role has a fixed term you will be classified as a limited term employee. For this role we offer health insurance and personal time per our employee handbook.

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.