Fall 2025 Regional Organizing Directors
Empower Project
Empower Fall 2025 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 (RO).
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.
It’s 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.
It’s 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 2025 we’ll 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 Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jersey.
Core Responsibilities:
- Recruitment and screening to 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 on September 8th, 2025 and lasting through November 14, 2025.
The work schedule is six days per week with Saturdays off. Regional Organizing Directors will work Sunday - Thursday 11:30am - 8:30pm Eastern. Fridays are a shortened schedule, ending at 5:30pm Eastern.
We will also work the full week before the November election.
The salary for this position is $7,000/month plus healthcare benefits and 16 hours of personal time that can be taken over the course of employment.
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.