NY RENEWS Coalition Organizer

Epwx; New York (NY); À distance; USD 75 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Remote work stipend

Vacation days and holidays

Cell phone stipend

Résumé du poste

NY Renews is seeking a motivated organizer to lead statewide coalition organizing, engage member groups, and drive campaign planning and execution. The role includes supervising regional organizers, coordinating with the Steering Committee, and supporting Indigenous Solidarity priorities.

Ideal candidates have at least four years of organizing experience, strong planning skills, and a commitment to climate justice and equity.

Qualifications

• Excellent organizational, writing, and communication skills; strong facilitation and/or training skills.
• Ability to build trust with diverse partners and communities.
• Experience organizing campaigns across legislative, labor, or social justice work.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with deadlines without sacrificing detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively, including in urgent moments.
• Capable of end-to-end project management and coordination.
• A strong racial justice lens and experience with communities of color.
• Commitment to social, economic, racial, and climate justice.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and G Suite.

Responsabilités

• Organize and engage NY Renews member organizations and oversee actions and mobilizations.
• Supervise and support regional organizers and coordinate with Steering Committee.
• Develop and implement campaign plans and manage day-to-day coalition activities.
• Build relationships with member groups, recruit new members, and coordinate across campaigns.
• Lead planning for lobby days, rallies, hearings, and direct actions.
• Maintain membership lists and records of engagement.
• Help design trainings and materials for campaign objectives.

Connaissances

Organizing

Campaign planning

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Team leadership

Outils

Microsoft Office

G Suite

Description du poste

NY Renews is seeking a motivated, organized, and dedicated staffer to lead the NY Renews coalition’s organizing efforts with member groups statewide. This person will work collaboratively with coalition staff, leadership, and dozens of NY Renews member representatives on a daily basis. The person in this role must be a team player who thrives in a fast-paced and highly social environment. This is a position for an organizer in early to mid-career with experience carrying out organizing plans. Candidates must have at least four years of organizing experience.

Application Deadline: November 20, 2026; applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

Please note: We do not permit the use of generative AI in NY Renews work.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

About the Role

The Coalition Organizer will be responsible for organizing and engaging NY Renews’ member organizations, bottom-lining mobilizations and actions, and managing the NY Renews Organizing Committee. The person in this role is also responsible for supervising and supporting regional organizers across the state. Together, these activities will provide the organizing support for the strategic direction of NY Renews, as directed by the coalition’s Steering Committee. The Coalition Organizer will also play a supportive role in campaign planning and management and, over time, take on more ownership of those responsibilities.

Coalition Member Engagement

• Create and maintain relationships with point people at NY Renews member organizations and allies
• Recruit and onboard new coalition members as needed
• Directly engage and organize member organizations to build alignment, strengthen their partnership, and coordinate actions across our campaigns
• Build strong relationships: ensure you’re on members’ speed dial and call with pertinent information, to strategize, and engage on NY Renews’ campaigns

Day-to-day Organizing and Administration

• Manage and update NY Renews’ membership and contact list of over 400 organizations
• Keep accurate records of members’ engagement and communications with the coalition
• Bottom-line organizing efforts around lobby days, rallies, turnout for hearings and public meetings, legislative office visits, direct actions, and other mobilizations, with support from member organizations

This work looks like being the lead planner behind each of the efforts above, as well as helping to execute day‑of

This person must be committed to strategies that help member organizations build power and increase the number of people who engage in NY Renews actions to improve the quality of that engagement over time

This person must be a strong planner who can calendar out and execute sustained campaign actions over time

Manage the NY Renews Organizing Committee, including creating agendas and written proposals, and conducting outreach and coordination for Organizing Committee calls and meetings, ensuring accountability for Organizing Committee work

Maintain clear communication between the Organizing Committee and Steering Committee

Support the Indigenous Solidarity Director in engaging and mobilizing coalition members around the coalition’s Indigenous Solidarity priorities

Work with coalition member groups to help them take on independently run actions supporting the coalition’s climate justice and policy goals

In conjunction with coalition members and staff team, develop popular education trainings and materials for NY Renews campaign objectives for member organizations; present to organizations on behalf of NY Renews as necessary

Help member organizations leverage their assets (base, digital platforms, email list, etc.) in service of the coalition’s climate justice vision and policy goals

Campaign Management

NY Renews’ Steering Committee sets the direction and policy strategy for the coalition, and both our staff and our member-driven committees inform and implement that strategy. This role is a key component in keeping our campaigns on track. To this end, they will work hand-in-hand with the Deputy Director and Executive Director to:

• Implement annual and long-term campaign plans to grow member power and win policy victories, around a climate justice budget fight and our local site fights around data centers, for example
• Actively engage in additional committees, including Steering Committee and Lobby Committee
• Lobby and participate in direct advocacy efforts to further our campaigns
• In partnership with the Indigenous Solidarity Director, ensure Indigenous Solidarity work is well integrated across coalition spaces
• Bring information from member organizations into strategic and tactical discussions across spaces

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent organizational, writing, and communication skills; strong facilitation and/or training skills
• Ability to develop and maintain genuine working relationships of trust and solidarity with a wide variety of partners from diverse backgrounds
• Experience as an organizer with legislative, labor, issue, electoral, or other social justice campaigns
• Exceptional ability to juggle multiple, simultaneous projects with cross-cutting stakeholders and deadlines, without sacrificing attention to detail
• Ability to work collaboratively, including in moments of urgency
• Ability to independently manage projects from conception to completion
• A strong racial justice lens and experience working with communities of color
• Commitment to social, economic, racial, and climate justice
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and G Suite

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Experience working with coalitions
• A background in the climate justice movement
• Working proficiency in Spanish
• Experience organizing in New York State
• Experience working with Indigenous communities

TRAVEL, NIGHTS & WEEKENDS

This role will work with organizers and member organizations in all parts of New York State, including regional organizing partners on Long Island, Central and Western NY, and the Capital District.

This position requires travel within New York State (up to 25% of the time during the legislative session, January-June, up to 15% the rest of the year).

This position requires the occasional ability to work nights and weekends.

LOCATION

Candidates must live in New York State.

TEAM MEMBER EXPECTATIONS

• Strong alignment with NY Renews values and mission: a strong racial justice lens; commitment to social, economic, racial, environmental, and climate justice; commitment to Indigenous sovereignty
• Works together according to the Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing and the Principles of Working Together
• Ability to develop relationships of trust, solidarity, and accountability with a wide variety of partners from different backgrounds
• Highly proactive and can lead multiple projects simultaneously

MANAGEMENT

This position will report directly to the Deputy Director. They will work closely with the rest of the NY Renews staff as well as staff at our member organizations.

COMPENSATION

The salary range for this position is $75,000–95,000 annually based on experience and qualifications pursuant to the NY Renews salary formula

This is an exempt salaried position

NY Renews provides employees with 100% health and dental insurance and provides 80% of costs for family coverage, as well as 20 vacation days a year plus holidays, and a cell phone, internet, and home office stipend for remote workers.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This is a remote position, but occasional in-person meetings in New York City or Albany may be required. The person in this role will be expected to travel within New York State up to 25% of the time during the NYS legislative session. NY Renews full-time staff work an average of 40 or more hours/week, with some critical campaign weeks requiring more work and some slower weeks requiring less. Candidates located within New York State are strongly preferred.

FLSA STATUS

ABOUT NY RENEWS

NY Renews is a coalition of almost 400 environmental, justice, faith, labor, and community groups, and the force behind New York’s climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Preservation Act (CLCPA).

NY Renews is governed by a Steering Committee of representatives from environmental justice, community organizing, labor, youth, faith, and climate organizations across New York State. The Steering Committee sets the strategic direction for the NY Renews coalition. We operate in accordance with the Jemez Principles of democratic organizing and are committed to collective decision-making and leadership of frontline communities. NY Renews staff are directed by the Executive Director and Steering Committee.

The NY Renews coalition comprises two legal entities: NY Renews, a 501 (c)(4) project hosted at the Working Families Organization; and the NY Renews Resource Center, a project of the State Democracy Project, a 501(c)(3).

EQUITY & INCLUSION

• NY Renews is committed to equity, inclusion, and justice. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the values we fight for in the world. Black, Indigenous, and people of color, people with disabilities, people impacted by the climate crisis, women, non-binary, and LGBTQ people are especially encouraged to apply.
• NY Renews celebrates diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
• As part of this commitment, NY Renews will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If accommodations are needed to participate in interviews, please let us know in your application.