Coalition Lead, Washington for All (Hybrid/Remote)

OneAmerica; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

PTO + sabbatical

Relocation package

Job summary

OneAmerica in Washington State seeks a Coalition Lead to operationalize WA4ALL coalition strategy, recruit diverse partners, and align external messaging across advocacy, policy, organizing, electoral, and corporate accountability efforts.

Under the Chief of Staff, you will build a big‑tent coalition, manage complex partnerships, and drive mobilization, with a focus on racial equity and inclusive practice, in a hybrid, flex/remote setup across Seattle, Vancouver, or Yakima offices.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in coalition coordination or related work.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting, engaging, and coordinating diverse partners across labor, business, faith, service, nonprofit, community, advocacy, and/or elected‑leader networks.
• Experience leading or managing coalitions, alliances, campaign tables, multi‑stakeholder partnerships, or high‑stakes collaborative efforts.
• Strong project management skills, including tracking details, deadlines, commitments, and follow‑up across multiple workstreams.
• Strong understanding of advocacy strategy, campaign planning, power‑building, narrative change, legislative processes, civic engagement, and/or corporate pressure campaigns.
• Excellent facilitation, written communication, partner communication, negotiation, and conflict‑navigation skills.
• Deep commitment to racial equity, social justice, community power, shared leadership, language justice, and inclusive coalition practice.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, engage, and organize a broad‑based, big‑tent table across labor, business, faith, service, nonprofit, community, elected, advocacy, and other aligned sectors.
• Develop coalition strategy in alignment with organizational goals, campaign priorities, movement‑building objectives, and power analysis.
• Assess coalition health, political alignment, risks, opportunities, and capacity gaps; elevate issues early and recommend course corrections.
• Represent the organization in coalition spaces, campaign tables, partner conversations, and external meetings as appropriate.
• Manage complex partner dynamics with transparency, diplomacy, strategic clarity, and a commitment to directly impacted communities.
• Define mobilization goals, participation ladders, geographic priorities, turnout targets, and escalation calendars.
• Coordinate and track partner commitments for public actions, advocacy days, trainings, community forums, rapid response, and other collective action opportunities.
• Ensure partners have the tools, scripts, training materials, accessibility supports, and culturally responsive engagement resources needed to mobilize effectively.
• Ensure coalition partners are aligned around core messages, spokespeople, stories, timing, calls to action, and rapid‑response protocols.
• Identify opportunities for credible messengers across faith, labor, business, community, youth, immigrant, elected, and other constituencies.
• Coordinate distribution of partner updates, meeting summaries, toolkits, talking points, advocacy alerts, graphics, and campaign materials.
• Collect partner stories, community examples, local messengers, field intelligence, and feedback that can strengthen narrative strategy.
• Design and facilitate regular coalition meetings, partner briefings, working groups, campaign check‑ins, rapid‑response coordination spaces, and strategy sessions.
• Maintain coalition work plans, timelines, meeting agendas, notes, action trackers, shared documents, decision logs, partner databases, and communication systems.
• Ensure clear follow‑up after coalition meetings, public actions, partner conversations, and internal coordination meetings.
• Support internal coordination across departments and ensure coalition activity is aligned with organizational strategy.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with executive leaders, organizers, advocates, community‑based organizations, faith leaders, labor partners, business allies, service providers, nonprofit leaders, and other movement stakeholders.

Skills

Coalition coordination

Community organizing

Advocacy

Campaign planning

Facilitation

Written communication

Negotiation

Conflict navigation

Power-building

Diversity & equity

Job description

OneAmerica in Washington State seeks a Coalition Lead to operationalize WA4ALL coalition strategy, recruit diverse partners, and align external messaging across advocacy, policy, organizing, electoral, and corporate accountability efforts.

Under the Chief of Staff, you will build a big‑tent coalition, manage complex partnerships, and drive mobilization, with a focus on racial equity and inclusive practice, in a hybrid, flex/remote setup across Seattle, Vancouver, or Yakima offices.