Join the Patients Union Field Organizing Team

Core responsibilities:

• Working with the Chief of Campaigns and Chief of Organizing, identify and travel to locations where an organizing push could result in building power for the union and meaningfully improving people's lives
• Identify and recruit members to join the union, in person and on the phone
• Develop leaders in communities we are organizing in through 1:1s
• Contribute to designing trainings and mutual aid efforts that build the skills and buy-in from members
• Help develop strategies for identifying potential members through online outreach
• Plan events, including direct actions, trainings, and mass meetings

This role creates positive change by building a mass membership organization that fights for healthcare access for all Americans, particularly marginalized communities, using direct action and organizing to transform the profit-driven healthcare system.

Required skills and experience:

• At least 3 years experience in grassroots base-building and/or union organizing (not just electoral cycle-focused), focused on building power with poor and working class people, people of color, immigrants, and other marginalized communities
• Experience with membership recruitment and 1:1 leadership development
• Experience with designing and leading trainings, especially political education and leadership development
• Strong political analysis of why the healthcare system's failures impact poor people across the political spectrum, and a willingness to work with people across the political spectrum
• Willing to do significant travel, and ideally able to spend significant time (3+ weeks) at the site of a local fight when needed
• A creative, flexible, proactive, learning-oriented mindset
• A deep commitment to transforming the healthcare system using organizing, direct action, and radical solidarity

Compensation details:

• Organizer (3-5 years experience): $90,000/year
• Senior Organizer (6-7 years experience): $100,000/year
• Organizing Director (8+ years experience): $120,000/year

The Patients Union is building America's first union of patients - a cross-class, cross-partisan, multi-racial mass membership organization fighting for a future where everyone in America has the healthcare they need, regardless of identity, location, or employment status.