Distributed Organizing Director (New Salary Range. Candidates can be based anywhere in the US.)

Core responsibilities:

• Recruiting and managing volunteers in Climate Defiance chapters in key cities across the U.S.
• Helping to establish new Climate Defiance chapters
• Ongoing coaching and mentoring of volunteers and leaders via phone, video, email, and in-person meetings
• Organizing actions in multiple cities and attending events
• Running group and individual trainings with volunteers and leaders
• Working with volunteers to take on increasing levels of responsibility, including into leadership roles
• Travel to cities for site visits and actions (25% time on the road expected)
• Administrative responsibilities, including tracking volunteer outreach, turnout, and more

This role creates positive change by building, guiding, and mentoring volunteer-led chapters across the country to elevate climate change as a top political issue through direct actions and grassroots pressure on political leaders, helping to stop the fossil-fueled oligarchy overtaking our government.

Required qualifications:

• Minimum of two years of organizing or campaigning experience
• Experience managing teams of volunteers
• Experience participating in and/or leading nonviolent direct actions (creative protests, strikes, sit-ins, or blockades)
• Strong communication skills
• Flexibility and readiness for actions and site visits
• Travel expectation of 25%

Preferred qualifications:

• At least one year of experience running a distributed organizing program
• Experience in leading systematic conflict resolution
• Convictions aligned with principles of nonviolent confrontation, direct action, and disruption

Compensation and benefits:

• Salary scale based on experience: $50,000 (0-3 years), $65,000 (4-10 years), $80,000 (11+ years)
• Unlimited vacation time (with 20 days plus Christmas week encouraged)
• Group health care
• 401(k) with 7% employer contribution

Climate Defiance works to elevate climate change as a top political issue in the US through direct actions, creative protests, and grassroots pressure on political leaders, with a mission to hold decision makers accountable for their actions and stop the fossil-fueled oligarchy overtaking our government.