Arkansas State Organizing Director

Core responsibilities:

• Lead legislative advocacy, state-level communications, and state-based organizing strategies in coordination with national office staff and aligned with TTJ's overall goals and policy agenda.
• Recruit and train stakeholders and advance them through TTJ's leadership development pipelines while providing state-specific feedback.
• Maintain or coordinate relationships with legislative members and staff, state regulatory agencies, lobbyists, allied organizations, local-level office holders, and members of Congress.
• Work in close coordination with TechTonic Justice's organizing team, staff, and partners to align organizing and legal strategies.

This role fights the ground-level harms AI causes low-income communities by supporting local justice movements to identify and fight harmful uses of AI, creating durable pathways to accountability and protection for those impacted by AI decision-making.

Required skills and experience:

• Extensive organizing experience with significant responsibility for strategy, campaign leadership, and managing staff (approximately 5+ years of organizing, including 2+ years of staff management).
• Proven ability to build and execute successful organizing campaigns.
• Experience working with diverse communities and coalitions, including the ability to navigate complex, multi-entity partnerships.
• Comfort articulating the intersections between poverty, race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, language, age, disability, and related characteristics.

Compensation and benefits:

• Salary: $95,000-110,000 depending on experience with anticipated annual cost-of-living increases
• 100% of quality medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance for the employee
• 50% of dependents' medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Automatic 4% contribution to Vanguard 403(b) retirement account
• Unlimited paid time off (subject to approval)
• Monthly internet reimbursement up to $75
• Professional development fund of $1,500
• Mileage and travel costs covered
• Schedule flexibility for health needs or caregiving responsibilities

TechTonic Justice fights the ground-level harms AI causes low-income communities by supporting local justice movements—legal aid organizations, frontline service providers, grassroots organizers, and affected communities—to identify and fight harmful uses of AI through a multidimensional advocacy approach blending litigation, community activation, public education, and narrative advocacy.