Organizing Manager

Organizing Managers support people and program management within SURJ’s National Organizing Department (NOD). Each NOD Organizing Manager holds some amount of responsibility for staff supervision, project management, and cross-departmental coordination. At the same time, each Manager has unique realms of work that will depend on who they are supervising, and what campaigns they are managing at any given time. Thus, Managers are expected to be “generalists” who can both execute on their specialized realms of work and also share in the collective management load for NOD-wide program work and team health.

A successful person in this role will understand their own shared interest in leading campaigns to organize white people; be excited to work in a collaborative, hyper-interdependent team; and be willing to try new things, learn from experiments, and strive for growth over perfection. Additionally, successful Organizing Managers will bring a low-ego attitude and be able to understand their role as “swiss army knife organizers” in a political moment that requires creativity and nimbleness.