National Member Organizer

Reports to: Organizing Director 

Location: Remote (East Coast preferable with frequent travel; approximately one week per month)

Salary: $70,000 - $80,000

Start Date: July 6, 2026

ABOUT THE ROLE

The National Member Organizer is the person who holds the whole thing together from the inside. While other national organizers are focused on geography and formations, this role is focused on the national membership infrastructure, making sure members are plugged in, leaders are being tracked and developed, national spaces are running well, and campaign support tools are available to squaDDs across the country.

This is not a purely administrative role. The National Member Organizer is also an active organizer building relationships, recruiting, and developing members in their own community and geography. They move as a coach: they are not doing the work for squaDDs, but they are a resource, a connector, and a consistent presence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Member Systems & Engagement

• Own and manage national member engagement infrastructure: working groups, The Portal, national calls, and the member calendar
• Ensure all members are meaningfully plugged in placed into a local formation, working group, or national initiative
• Own member-facing communications (email, text, and beyond) that keep members informed, connected, and clear on how to engage
• Coordinate follow-up after onboarding spaces (welcome calls, interest meetings) so every member has a clear next step
• Maintain systems for tracking participation, engagement, and member progression in EveryAction and related tools
• Manage the member intake pipeline from first contact through Street Team, squaDD, and leadership
• Coordinate internal and external training opportunities for squaDDs and national members, including scheduling, logistics, and follow-up

Leadership Development

• Maintain a clear picture of who the core leaders are across the organization and who needs support
• Coordinate and execute a distributed 1:1 system with national members, pulling lists, assigning outreach
• Identify emerging leaders and connect them to appropriate growth pathways
• Maintain a regular meeting cadence with developing members

Campaign Infrastructure & Support

• Support squaDDs local campaign refinement
• Provide tools, templates, and guidance to strengthen campaign development across formations
• Support the Organizing Director in identifying and bringing in external trainers to further develop our members’ skillset 
• Ensure campaigns across regions maintain strategic coherence and alignment with organizational priorities, pillars, and grand strategic objective. 

Member Data & Systems Coordinator

• Maintain and manage the organizational calendar to ensure events, programs, and actions are tracked and communicated across teams
• Produce regular reports and dashboard summaries that surface progress, gaps, and resource needs to translate data into actionable insights for the organizing team
• Support cross-team logistics and follow-up to ensure programs and actions translate into measurable recruitment, retention, and campaign advancement

Skills & Qualifications

• Strong orientation to volunteer leaders with the ability to recruit and develop leaders over time, as well as build and manage volunteer teams
• An ideal candidate will have had experiences with neighborhood teams, or local campaign building
• Strong communicator who is able to write resources, guides, slack posts, emails and other forms of communication with volunteer leaders
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple projects, teams, etc at the same time
• Experience with and ability to use multiple digital/distributed organizing tools and platforms (Every Action, Mobilize, AirTable, New/Mode, text and phone bank tools, etc)
• Commitment to and demonstrated experience building a cross class, mutiracial movement
• Commitment to the vision of the Freedom Papers
• At least 3 years of experience in community organizing, campaign strategy, or related fields.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, including the ability to work with diverse communities and navigate conflict
• Strong strategic thinking and planning skills, with a focus on developing and executing effective campaigns.
• Experience with database management and tracking metrics.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and to travel as needed.

About Dream Defenders: Dream Defenders is a National Black Freedom Organization fighting for safety and a good life for all.  Our membership is made up of diverse youth, young adults and students. Long Term we fight to end our generation’s support for capitalism, project an alternative vision of society, and affirm that interdependence and redistribution of wealth is the solution to poverty and racism, through organizing hundreds of thousands of young Black people into a national movement organization fighting to govern.

"Dream Defenders”, a project of Tides Advocacy, a 501c4, is an “at-will” and equal opportunity employer. Applicants and employees shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender (including pregnancy and gender expression) identity, color, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application."