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About The Redress Movement

The Redress Movement is a national non-profit organization, formed in 2022, that partners with local communities to repair the harm caused by intentional policies that segregate communities.  The Redress Movement’s work centers around educating, mobilizing, shifting the narrative, and winning redress victories. The Redress Movement’s starting point is housing justice, but we work in solidarity with others who are facing the facts of history, redressing harms of the past, and healing our communities by dismantling the barriers that divide us.

About the Role

Our power as an organization is rooted in our ability to build strong partner communities in US cities that develop leaders, win on issues, and influence policy and legislation. The Senior Campaign Organizer will help us build this capacity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By providing coaching, training, project management and leadership to local neighbor leaders, the Senior Campaign Organizer will help us strengthen and expand our team of staff and member organizers.

The Senior Campaign Organizer will help to build a rich and healthy culture for our young organization. In 2026, Redress is committed to developing a culture where we continue to emphasize our local strengths through community wins in reparative housing justice, expand our base and unique identity, and skill up our people for self-sustaining leadership. We seek to do this while establishing stronger cross-team operations to build toward scalability. The Senior Campaign Organizer will be able to demonstrate their commitment to helping build this culture on our national staff and in their local partner community.

Our ideal candidate will possess project management, organizing, and campaign experience that will lend itself to leading local strategies to redress residential segregation. The right person for this position will have some familiarity with the ways in which discriminatory housing policies and practices have segregated communities across the country, a demonstrated interest in civil rights or housing justice issues, and deep connections to people and organizations across Milwaukee. 

Additionally, the role requires substantial experience in campaign management, strategic planning, data entry, coalition building, and mobilizing large numbers of people. Please note that our focus will be on demonstrated experience and success, not just number of years.

The Senior Campaign Organizer will report to the Organizing Director. 

What We’re Looking For and Key Responsibilities

These are the skills and competencies that we are looking for in our Senior Campaign Organizer.

1. Volunteer Supervision: We are looking for someone with experience advising, coaching and managing teams and leaders, providing clear direction and support that enables their success and the success of their teams and organizations. The Senior Campaign Organizer will be responsible for the supervision of canvassers and organizers, including through daily check-ins, shadowing and modeling organizing conversations, regular coaching and deep attention to their development as movement leaders. 

2. Base Building and Organization Building: We are looking for someone with experience bringing others into community organizations and issue campaigns including growing participation and membership, especially in communities of color and working class communities. Experience in designing base-building efforts is especially welcome. The Senior Campaign Organizer will be responsible for the facilitation, coordination and development of member leadership teams, and connecting local teams to our national staff and movement.

3. Issue Campaigns: We are looking for someone with experience designing and implementing issue campaigns that combine short-term goals for winning specific victories with long-term goals for building power for our people. The Senior Campaign Organizer will provide support for member-led issue campaigns at the local and statewide levels.

The character qualities that are the foundations for success in this role include:

1. Politically Clear: You know why building power through issue campaigns, policy advocacy, and transformative organizing is essential. You are convinced that racial justice and civil rights are what we need and you lift up the leadership and dignity of working-class people and people of color.

2. A Leader Who Unleashes More Leadership: You take responsibility for motivating others, coordinating effective collective action and building powerful teams—even in the face of obstacles. But most of all you unleash leadership in others, igniting responsibility and ownership in those you lead.

3. Interdependent: You bring your best, rely on the strengths of others and know that we are responsible for each other’s well-being.

4. Courageous and Determined: You draw from deep values and beliefs so you continue to take action towards goals, even in the face of change, fear, loss, conflict, and uncertainty.

5. Innovative and Relentless: You believe that you and others are capable of excellence. You believe not only that we can win but that we have a duty to win. When things get difficult you get creative and keep trying and learning until we succeed. 

Required Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years experience in organizing, including substantial demonstrated experience leading campaigns at the local, state or national level;

• Availability to work evening or weekend hours as needed;

• Strong analytical ability and critical thinking skills, as well as attention to detail and strong written communication skills;

• An understanding and commitment to the nonpartisan mission and goals of the Redress Movement;

• Familiarity with digital organizing tools including e-mail, call and text tools;

• Familiarity with tech tools and suites designed to support organizers and campaigns;

• Availability and willingness to travel as necessary; and,

• Familiarity with Milwaukee’s communities.

Preferred Experience:

• Extensive experience working in directly impacted communities and a commitment to social and racial justice organizing, as well as fluency and understanding of the challenges facing Black and other communities of color, young people of color, immigrant communities, and low-and moderate income families;

• Experience working with organizational membership, volunteers and/or community organizers;

• Existing relationships with key external constituencies and/or policy makers from diverse backgrounds and ideological positions;

• Experience working with remote colleagues;

• Familiarity with media strategy, including social media;

• A collaborative disposition, patience, and flexibility; 

• Ability to build relationships of trust and mutual respect with a broad range of people; 

• Relevant understanding of the housing crisis and its impact on Black and brown communities; and, 

• Experience driving and winning policy-focused campaigns.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

The Senior Campaign Organizer’s duties and responsibilities will include:  

• Organizing communities, including volunteer management and collaborating with Redress’ national staff, while ensuring engagement with interested Milwaukee-based residents;

• Convening and facilitating regular meetings of Milwaukee’s Redress Roundtable, as well as leading recruitment efforts for new Roundtable members as needed;

• Working in collaboration with like-minded organizations and growing a redress-focused base in Milwaukee;

• Reviewing, recommending key legislative strategies;

• Providing direct campaign strategic planning, including research and campaign design, and support plan implementation;

• Designing and facilitating campaigns, and organizing trainings for Redress affiliates and their members;

• Collaborating with other Redress teams as needed;

• Producing fundamental organizing and campaign-building tools, including research and policy briefs and digital communications, to support Redress partners as needed;

• Establishing and maintaining partnerships with relevant organizations and coalitions to move relevant campaigns;

• Supporting program fundraising, as needed;

• Other duties as necessary 

Compensation: 

The salary range for this position is $75,000 - $80,000.  Placement on the pay scale is based on the following factors: years of relevant work experience; relevant undergraduate degree (or higher) or certification received; bilingual language skills; and connections to the community. 

The Redress Movement’s benefits currently include:

• 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees·  

• 403 (b) savings plan

• Paid vacation

How to Apply:

The position is open until filled. Please email a resume and cover letter explaining your interest in the position to the Organizing Director [email protected], with the subject line “Senior Campaign Organizer - Milwaukee.” We are planning for a start date by early May 2026. 

Please note: due to the expected volume of submissions, we may not be able to return emails or phone calls about specific applications. 

The Redress Movement is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Redress Movement values diversity and inclusion in the workplace because it enhances the work we do, reflects the communities we partner with, and embodies the values we further and defend. Candidates of all backgrounds are welcome.