Infrastructure and Powerbuilding Manager (Midwest)

POWER USA; Michigan; On-site; USD 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) with employer match

Parental leave

Sabbatical leave

Job summary

re:power is seeking an Infrastructure and Powerbuilding Manager (Midwest) to deepen partnerships, strengthen movement infrastructure, and cultivate local leadership. The role emphasizes relationship-building, strategic planning, and learning across multiple states with a focus on Michigan.

The ideal candidate will have 3–5+ years in organizing or base-building, provide coaching and facilitation, and travel regularly to support regional initiatives within the United States.

Qualifications

• 3+–5+ years in community organizing, movement building, or civic engagement.
• 3+–5+ years supporting leadership development, base-building, or organizational capacity building.
• Strong relationship-building across diverse communities and stakeholders.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to think strategically while managing multiple priorities and projects.
• Detail-oriented with strong project management capabilities.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, racial justice, and collective liberation.
• Willingness to travel regularly within designated regions and for national events.

Responsibilities

• Support regional/state strategies to strengthen sustainable organizing infrastructure (MI focus).
• Build and deepen relationships with partners and community stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration and shared learning across ecosystems.
• Support member engagement strategies and leadership pipelines.
• Help identify gaps and tailor responsive strategies with partners.
• Collaborate with internal teams to align partner needs with strategy.
• Support long-term partner collaborations and program evaluation.

Skills

Community organizing

Movement building

Civic engagement

Relationship-building

Facilitation

Coaching

Project management

Written & verbal communication

Strategic thinking

Travel readiness

Job description

Infrastructure and Powerbuilding Manager (Midwest)

Position: Infrastructure and Powerbuilding Manager (Midwest)

Status: Full-time, exempt

Location/Time zone: Anywhere in the Midwest convenient to travel; Preference for candidates in MI

Starting Salary Range: $68,000 - $83,000 annually

About Us

re:power is a national organization seeking to build a critical mass of social justice movements and their leaders who embody the ideology and practice of liberatory organizing, an organizing practice that is pro-Black and grounded in community, collective action and abundance. Our ultimate vision is a liberated, multiracial democracy, free from the oppressive systems of white supremacy and patriarchy.

We work towards our vision of inclusive politics by offering training and strategic support to leaders and organizations across the progressive ecosystem. Our trainings build skills, strategy, and soul in organizers, campaigners, elected officials, and other leaders across our movement. re:power offers trainings on organizing, campaigning, technology, collaborative governance, and leadership development and resilience .

Formerly known as Wellstone Action, in 2018 we rebranded into re:power - maintaining the depth and breadth of our training curriculum, but explicitly centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Since 2019, re:power has been led by Karundi Williams, our first Black woman Executive Director, who has led our small but powerful organization to success.

In the last five years, re:power has trained and supported more than 10,000 organizers, candidates, campaigners, and leaders across our movement. Our alumni reflect the communities we center — 83% identify as BIPOC as do the majority of our trainers, 76% are women, 7% are trans and gender expansive, 37% are LGBTQIA, and 14% are youth (ages 18–24). We are proud of what we’ve accomplished together in such a short time, and also know that in order for our communities to continue winning and driving positive change, we must keep building our skills, capacities and networks. At re:power, we thrive in this transformational work. Our team is laser-focused on achieving our mission. Join us!

Position Overview

Re:power is looking for an Infrastructure and Powerbuilding Manager who can deepen re:power’s relationships with partners in priority states to fortify movement infrastructure, strengthen organizational capacity, cultivate local leadership, and expand sustainable pathways for learning and development towards building people power. The Infrastructure and Powerbuilding Manager will work closely with organizational partners, movement leaders, trainers and community members to strengthen leadership pipelines, support organizational growth and sustainability, identify and develop emerging trainers, and help cultivate long-term organizing infrastructure within key geographies across the United States. This position will play a key role in helping strengthen organizing ecosystems across multiple states, with an initial focus on Michigan.

The ideal candidate is deeply relational, collaborative, strategic, and grounded in a strong commitment to social justice and collective liberation. They are hopeful and creative, center joy, able to navigate complexity with care and clarity, and committed to fostering cultures of healing, relationship, collective care and accountability within movements and organizations.

Primary Responsibilities

Partnership Management & Program Support: In collaboration with the Senior Director of Programs & Powerbuilding and the Programs & Power Building Team:

• Support the development and implementation of regional/state based strategies to strengthen sustainable organizing infrastructure across priority states (Michigan) and geographies.
• Build and deepen relationships with organizational partners, movement leaders, and community stakeholders in priority states and emergent geographies.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen collaboration, alignment, and shared learning across organizations and regional movement ecosystems.
• Support organizations in strengthening their member engagement strategies, leadership pipelines, and long-term organizing sustainability and powerbuilding campaigns.
• Help identify gaps, opportunities and emerging needs with local state and regional partners and support creating responsive strategies to address them.
• Collaborate with internal re:power teams to ensure alignment between partner needs and broader organizational strategy.
• Support the implementation of long term partner collaborations in partner states.
• Support the ongoing data collection, evaluation, iteration, and improvement of programs and learning experiences.

Leadership Development & Capacity Building: In Collaboration with the Programs & Powerbuilding team:

• Provide coaching, technical assistance, and leadership development support to organizational partners, staff, and movement leaders.
• Support the development of member and staff leadership development pipelines within partner organizations.
• Help recruit and support participants for re:power programs, trainings, and national convenings, including our biannual Camp re:power.
• Identify and support the development of localized training benches and leadership infrastructure that can support long term organizing efforts within priority states and emergent geographies.
• Foster spaces for learning, reflection, growth and skill-building rooted in re:power values and movement sustainability.

Participant Experience & Learning Environment Design: In collaboration with the Programs & Powerbuilding Team and Training Director:

• Ensure all trainings and learning spaces are participant centered, inclusive, accessible, and grounded in values aligned facilitation practices.
• Design learning environments that support engagement, belonging, curiosity, and collective care and accountability.
• Integrate healing centered, relational, and trauma informed approaches into training design and facilitation approach.
• Support systems and practices for participant feedback, reflection, and continuous improvement.
• Help cultivate learning spaces where people across differences can build trust, deepen skills, and move toward shared goals together.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have the following professional and personal qualities, skills, and characteristics. It’s okay if you don’t meet every single requirement!

• 3-5+ years demonstrated experience in community organizing, movement building, civic engagement, or related social justice campaigns.
• 3-5+ years experience supporting leadership development, basebuilding, member engagement or organizational capacity building efforts.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the proven ability to cultivate trust across diverse communities, organizations and stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to think strategically while also managing multiple projects, shifting priorities, and evolving partner needs.
• Detail oriented with excellent project management skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, racial justice, healing, and collective liberation.
• Ability to navigate complexity with emotional intelligence, flexibility, and care.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to travel regularly within designated regions and for national gatherings/programs.

Compensation and Benefits

Starting salary for this position ranges from $68,000 - $83,000 with new staff typically coming in at the middle of this range. In an effort to counter pay inequality, the Infrastructure and Powerbuilding Manager (Midwest) starting salary is nonnegotiable and benchmarked to competitive markets in the nonprofit sector. re:power offers a comprehensive benefits package with excellent health/life/disability insurance, including these and other employment-related benefits:

• 95% employer-paid health and 90% employer-paid dental insurance premiums for staff and their families;
• 100% employer-paid life and disability insurance;
• exceptionally generous and flexible paid time off;
• 401k retirement benefits with a 4% employer match;
• 90 days of paid parental leave;
• 12 weeks of paid sabbatical leave

re:power is an equal opportunity employer. We eagerly invite people of color, Native American and Indigenous people, immigrants, women, genderqueer and nonbinary people, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and others to apply for all open positions at re:power.

re:power offers a lively and highly rewarding professional environment. We are committed to creating a world where our lived experiences, perspectives and ideas are fully represented and that starts first within our organization. This position can be located anywhere in the United States convenient to regular travel, with a strong preference to Eastern time zones.