Organizing Director

Finding Home ATX (FHATX); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Finding Home ATX (FHATX) seeks an Organizing Director to catalyze collective action on homelessness across Central Texas. This strategic role drives FHATX’s communications, organizing, and fundraising, partnering with a Leadership Group including the Downtown Austin Alliance, ECHO, City of Austin, Travis County, and other stakeholders to align efforts.

The position is part-time, flexible, and contract-based, ideal for an Austin leader with systems-change expertise ready to guide a regional

Qualifications

• Experience addressing homelessness or poverty in Austin
• Existing relationships with policymakers, funders, and service providers in Austin
• Familiarity with Austin's funder landscape or fundraising networks
• Strong written and oral communications across diverse audiences

Responsibilities

• Lead FHATX's regional organizing, communications, and fundraising strategy
• Coordinate with the Leadership Group and multiple partners to advance a data-driven, equitable homelessness response
• Rally support, manage campaigns, and oversee multiple projects with deadlines
• Represent FHATX in diverse forums and foster collaboration among stakeholders

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Policy & systems change

Fundraising

Strategic communications

Coalition building

Job description

The Organizing Director will play a vital leadership role in catalyzing collective action to address homelessness across Central Texas. As the strategic engine behind Finding Home ATX’s communications, organizing, and fundraising efforts, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape and amplify a unified community response to homelessness. The Organizing Director will work closely with a collaborative Leadership Group composed of the Downtown Austin Alliance, ECHO (Ending Community Homelessness Coalition), the City of Austin, Travis County, and a range of private and nonprofit partners. Together, they have coalesced around a shared goal: to create an equitable, data-driven, and lasting response to homelessness in Austin and across Travis, Williamson, and Bastrop counties. This is a rare chance to guide a regional coalition that has channeled over $465 million in investments toward transformative impact—an infrastructure poised for renewed leadership and strategic direction.

This part-time, flexible contract role is ideal for a respected Austin leader with a deep understanding of systems change, political dynamics, and the power of collaborative strategy—someone ready to shape the next chapter of homelessness response in Central Texas.

Qualifications

• Previous professional experience addressing homelessness and/or poverty in Austin
• Existing relationships and credibility amongst policymakers, funders, and service providers
• Familiarity with the funder landscape in Austin, either as a funder or fundraiser
• Strong written and oral communications skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences and stakeholders
• High level of emotional intelligence
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders.
• History of rallying support and partnership around a common cause.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the capacity to manage multiple projects and deadlines.