Senior Manager of Organizing

Hana Center; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid leave

Paid sick leave

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

401K

Job summary

Hana Center in Chicago seeks a Senior Manager of Organizing to lead base-building, campaigns, and leadership development for immigrant communities. You will supervise organizing staff, coordinate with the Executive Director, and align campaigns with civic engagement and program goals.

You will foster multigenerational leadership, track impact, and collaborate with AAPI and immigrant justice partners to advance systemic change. Strong preference for bilingual Korean speakers.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to immigrant rights and social, racial, and economic justice.
• Belief in communities' ability to support each other, organize, and achieve goals together.
• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience on Korean American, Asian American, or immigrant issues with campaign wins.
• At least 2 years supervising staff with building diverse teams and leadership development.
• Excellent people management; able to set goals, delegate, and manage performance.
• Strategic thinking, problem-solving, and the ability to handle multiple demands.
• Strong communication; tact and diplomacy in varied settings; conflict resolution.
• Experience leading high-stakes, fast-paced projects to completion.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise Organizing Team staff, interns, and fellows.
• Guide organizers to build a multigenerational leadership base.
• Develop organizational strategy, goals, and plans with the team.
• Oversee membership programs and ongoing member engagement.
• Manage organizing practice to integrate campaigns, civic engagement, and power building.
• Lead campaign strategies and energize base for progressive change.
• Create systems to track leadership development and impact.
• Coordinate with other programs to integrate organizing across the organization.
• Ensure training and support for community organizers; build leadership capacity.
• Build relationships with community orgs, AAPI groups, immigrant justice groups, and NAKASEC.
• Represent HANA in coalitions, conferences, donors, partners, and press.
• Contribute to grant proposals to sustain and deepen impact; report on milestones.

Skills

Immigrant rights advocacy

Community organizing

Campaign development

Staff supervision

Leadership development

Strategic thinking

Public speaking

Project management

Relationship management

Travel flexibility

Job description

HANA Center (HANA) is a Chicago-area non-profit organization working to meet the critical needs of Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities and build power toward systemic change. HANA has offices in Chicago and Prospect Heights, Illinois.

Utilizing a services-to-organizing model, HANA focuses on developing the leadership of the most vulnerable community members, including low-income, limited English proficient, undocumented immigrants, youth, women, seniors, LGBTQ+ people, and adoptees. HANA’s primary organizing communities are multigenerational Koreans and multiethnic immigrants in Albany Park and the northwest suburbs. Led by a strong community base and leadership, HANA builds community power to achieve social, economic, and racial justice. HANA organizes on-going community education and cultural programs, political education series, skills-building trainings, and year-round civic engagement. HANA also advocates for policies that support all immigrants, including undocumented, youth, adults, families, older adults, and intercountry adoptees.

Position Summary

HANA’s Senior Manager of Organizing is a key member of HANA’s leadership team. The Senior Manager provides deep understanding and experience in community leadership development, power building, base membership development, and campaigns with a focus on empowering directly impacted and vulnerable community members to create systemic changes. The Senior Manager works in close coordination with HANA’s Executive Director to build a strong team of community organizers and work with them to align base-building, campaigns, policy, civic engagement, and leadership training. A successful Senior Manager provides strategic thinking and critical support, thus enabling the organization to meet its mission and build the power of the community.

Major Responsibilities

• Directly supervise and regularly provide guidance for Organizing Team staff, interns, and fellows
• Support organizers to build a powerful base of multigenerational leaders grounded in relationship building through regular outreach, listening sessions, one-on-ones, skill-building, political education, community building programs, and leadership development
• Work closely with the Executive Director and the Organizing team to develop and articulate overall organizational strategy, goals, and plans
• Oversee and strengthen HANA’s membership program that engages members in HANA’s organizing program on an ongoing basis
• Manage HANA’s organizing practice to integrate issue campaigns, civic engagement, communications, actions/mobilizations, and community power building
• Facilitate the organizing team and community leaders to create and execute campaign strategies and goals by energizing community base and catalyzing for continued progressive change
• Create systems to track and evaluate base leadership development and strength
• Ensure coordination with other HANA programs to integrate an organizing framework across the organization and provide pathways for community members to move from services to organizing
• Identify and ensure training and support needs of Community Organizers are met equipping them with necessary tools to conduct one-on-ones; build leadership team; develop power analyses; and develop and implement campaigns
• Build strong working relationships with other community organizations, AAPI organizations, immigrant justice organizations in Illinois, and HANA’s national network, NAKASEC
• Represent HANA in various settings including coalitions, conferences, donors, funders, community partners, and the press
• Identify and contribute to submission of grant proposals that strategically sustain and deepen impact of programs and organization
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting internally and externally on the status of major programmatic milestones and impact
• Participate in and complete all required trainings
• Other duties as assigned

Key Qualification

• Demonstrated commitment to immigrant rights and social, racial, and economic justice
• A belief in communities' ability to support each other, organize, and achieve desired goals together
• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience working on Korean American, Asian American, or immigrant community issues, labor, or electoral organizations with success in developing and winning campaigns
• At least 2 years of experience supervising staff with a strong track record of building diverse teams and developing staff leadership
• Exceptional people management skills; proven ability to set goals, delegate responsibilities, and manage staff performance, train and develop cross-functional teams, coach and inspire the leadership capacity of team members, and foster a healthy organizational culture with a sense of community and pride
• Innovative approach, strategic thinking, solution-oriented and analytical problem-solving skills; ability to adapt as needed, self-manage, and prioritize between and manage multiple demands
• Exceptional communicator and ability to exercise tact and diplomacy in a wide range of organizational, partnership, and public settings; demonstrated strength in managing and resolving conflict
• Excellence designing and leading high stakes, fast-paced projects to completion; ability to replicate, expand, and deepen the impact of organizational initiatives
• Deep subject matter knowledge and program management experience in one or more of HANA’s core service areas
• Familiarity with and ease of use of common program evaluation and relationship management methods and software
• Valid driver’s license, access to a car, and ability to travel to both HANA offices and for events as needed
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends
• Ability to travel and participate in national campaigns, convenings, and conferences
• Bilingual in Korean, both verbal and written, highly preferred

Reports To

Executive Director

Compensation

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary range of $75,000-$90,000 and benefits that include paid leave, paid sick leave, health, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, and 401K.

HANA Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Womxn, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals are encouraged to apply.