Community Organizer

Title: NIA Community Organizer 

Employment type: Full-time

Salary: $45,000- $60,000

Location: Maricopa County, Pima County 

Reports To: Organizing Director

NIA Community Organizer — Phoenix

NIA — Network of Impact Architects. The NIA Community Organizer builds the organized people power that makes structural change possible.

The NIA Community Organizer is a base-building organizer responsible for developing grassroots leadership, building organized community power.. This is a mid-level organizing role for an experienced organizer who is ready to go deep in building the relational infrastructure that drives campaigns and sustains long-term people power.

The NIA Community Organizer works across multiple organizing paths simultaneously: building intimate organizing circles inside apartment buildings and reaching broader community members through outreach at faith institutions,community events, and neighborhood spaces. They identify and develop leaders from those paths, run organizing containers including listening sessions, assemblies, and NIA Building Circles, and mobilize the base for public campaign actions.

This role is not issue-specific, The Organizer builds a base of leaders equipped to fight on any issue — housing, childcare, immigration, economic security, etc. 

The NIA Community Organizer reports to the Organizing Director and works closely with the Campaign Campaign Lead on day-to-day campaign coordination.

About The Organization

Arizona Coalition for Change is a community power-building organization that empowers everyday people to transform their community through building civic power, leadership development, and community collaboration. We work to develop and uplift voices in communities to take on the nation’s most pressing issues.

Our Voice Our Vote Arizona (OVOV) is one of the state’s leading civic and electoral justice organizations. We empower communities to influence decisions that impact their lives through organizing, leadership development, and advocacy. Our work ensures that Arizonans—particularly those historically excluded from political power—have the tools, voice, and representation needed to shape the policies that affect them most.

Organizational Beliefs

Our Voice Our Vote Arizona and Arizona Coalition for Change  is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly encourage women, people of color, and LGBTQ candidates to apply. We deeply value the expertise of lived experience and strongly value and seek to invest in applicants that have shared lived experience with the constituents we currently and hope to work with, including folks of color, those who are immigrants, or children of immigrants to the US, those whose first language is not English, trans and queer individuals, and others from communities who have been impacted by systemic inequities. Our team members must be passionate about developing relationships and building grassroots power for BIPOC communities in the state. We have undertaken a new strategic direction, doubling down on transformative organizing by establishing a culture where leaders are liberated through collective movement building, leadership development, and risk-taking.

Core Responsibilities

Base Building and Community Outreach

• Execute a disciplined base-building strategy across multiple entry points — apartment buildings, faith institutions, community events — to identify and recruit community members into the organizing pipeline.
• Conduct relational outreach that goes beyond contact-making — building real relationships, surfacing self-interest, and assessing leadership potential in every interaction.
• Facilitate house meetings and community gatherings that move people from individual experience to collective analysis and action.
• Manage member communications to keep the community connected and engaged between actions.

Leadership Development and Political Education

• Identify and develop emerging leaders through sustained one-on-one relationship building, deliberate testing, and structured accountability — moving people progressively from participation to ownership.
• Facilitate ongoing leadership development spaces that are sustained not one-time trainings — where leaders build the skills, analysis, and confidence to organize others.
• Facilitate political education that connects community members’ lived experience to structural forces — helping them understand power, how decisions get made, and how organized people change outcomes.
• Prepare and support leaders to take public action — Ex:testifying at city council, speaking at forums, and representing the organization in decision-making spaces.
• Conduct structured debriefs with leaders after every major action to develop their capacity to reflect, assess, and grow.

Campaign Action and Field Operations

• Organize and mobilize community members for coordinated campaign actions, public hearings, and major organizing events.
• Work closely with the Campaign Manager and Campaign Lead to connect field work to campaign strategy and political targets.
• Feed real-time field intelligence — emerging leaders, political openings, and obstacles — to the campaign team in a timely and organized way.
• Maintain accurate, detailed records in the organizing tracking system..

Ideal Skills and Experience

• 2–5+ years of experience in community organizing, base building, or grassroots campaign work.
• Demonstrated experience building relationships with working-class communities — including communities of color, immigrant communities, and communities directly impacted by systemic inequities.
• Experience facilitating community meetings, house meetings, or organizing circles.
• Ability to identify, develop, and test emerging leaders in a relational organizing model.
• Strong 1:1 conversation skills,  the ability to listen deeply, surface self-interest, and make a clear and compelling organizing proposition.
• Comfort with data tools, field trackers, and basic organizing technology including slack and digital canvassing tools.
• Experience with — or strong willingness to learn — policy and political education in an organizing context.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish  and Swahili strongly preferred and other languages relevant to the organizing district. 
• Deep commitment to racial equity, economic justice, and community-led change.
• Ability to work evenings and weekends as the organizing calendar requires.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.

Benefits:

• Top-of-the-line medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
• 401(K) plan with employer matching options
• Paid time off for holidays
• Extended paid time off for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years
• 10 paid time off (PTO) days
• Paid family and sick leave
• Professional development opportunities
• 10 hours of paid community service to support our community
• Strong team culture!

To Apply send your cover letter and resume, and two references to [email protected]. Include “NIA Community Organizer in the subject line. In the cover letter please thoroughly explain why you are a strong fit for this position.