The Organizing Manager leads a team of community organizers to build out a dues-paying base of working/middle class Asian Americans in Virginia and provide them with leadership development so that collectively we can have the skills, actions, and power to win changes in policies and programs to improve our communities. The Organizing Manager provides day-to-day management support to community organizers and is a member of the leadership team working with the Executive Director to inform strategy and programming. This position will also engage with partners in Virginia, NAKASEC national and the other affiliates to design and implement national organizing campaigns as appropriate.
Responsibilities
Base building & campaign development (35%)
- Design strategic and effective campaigns with deep community buy-in that improve material conditions for our community, shift the relations of power, develop community leadership, and build a dues paying base of passionate and skillful Hamkae Center members.
Staff & team management (35%)
- Effectively coach and supervise organizers to recruit members, develop community leadership, and manage teams toward designing and winning campaigns, shifting relations of power, developing leaders, and building a powerful base of dues-paying Hamkae Center members.
- Contribute to the preparation and completion of grant proposals and reports as needed.
- Plan and administer budgets for the organizing team.
- Create, evaluate, and modify as needed infrastructure and processes (including data management) to support base building, membership recruitment, and leadership development.
Organizational responsibilities (20%)
- Serve on the Leadership Team, representing the organizing team’s perspectives while working collaboratively to advance the organization’s priorities and to foster a healthy organizational culture. Be a thought partner to the Executive Director and other team leads and take initiative to make recommendations on new programming, campaigns, strategic plan implementation, and other organization-wide efforts.
- Represent Hamkae Center (and NAKASEC as needed) in a wide range of external settings, consistently advancing the organization’s priorities and interests
- Strengthen relationships and strategic collaboration with external partners, and foster connections to new partners
- Participate in organization-wide shared duties and expectations for full-time employees as assigned. These can include (but are not limited to) participating in outreach events, supporting non-partisan election protection activities on Election Day, promoting fundraising opportunities, and co-facilitating collaborative meetings
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Key Competencies & Qualifications
- Prior work experience
- Ideally 3+ years of relevant professional experience in community organizing with demonstrable experience in member recruitment, base building, and campaign development.
- Campaign development & resource management
- Experience contributing to and creating new programs or strategies, while identifying, managing, and mitigating potential risks in tasks and projects. Must be comfortable with developing spreadsheets and understanding and manipulating data for analysis.
- Strategic proficiency
- Ability to synthesize Hamkae’s Theory of Change, Strategic Plan, Organizing Fundamentals, and input from the community to design and effectively execute strategic organizing campaigns.
- Building up and maintaining existing strategic relationships
- Project & time management, problem solving
- Excellent independent time, task, deadline, and project management skills; while also managing workload, priority-setting, evaluation sessions, and supporting team in managing their workload and priorities.
- Adaptability & resilience
- Readily offering support and encouragement to other staff, tolerating ambiguity, setbacks and stress to not affect performance or motivation in the long term, while taking appropriate care of self, and seeking and engaging well with feedback. Embracing and seeking to understand change.
- Self-awareness & conflict management
- Understanding individual, team, and organizational strengths and limitations and using that understanding to consider what resources and time is needed to develop yourself and the growth of your team members in each situation, decision, or process.
- Communication skills
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly in different situations and group settings (including with individuals whose primary language is not English) with basic public speaking and presentation skills to internal and external audiences to describe Hamkae Center’s impact, theory of change, goals, organizational model, communities served and their strengths and needs, position on relevant policies, and services & outreach programmatic details.
- Demonstrating good writing skills in English with the ability to create and copy-edit public facing communications with ease.
- Trust, empathy, & integrity
- Modeling the kind of behavior they want to see in others and demonstrating the capacity to support themselves and others in the workplace and community through active empathetic listening.
- Maintaining strong moral and ethical standards and following organizational guidelines around privacy, trust, and ethical conduct in alignment with our core values.
- Leadership & teamwork
- Ability to lead a group and their own work with confidence, skill, and the ability to identify areas of support while also displaying a commitment to improving the skills, abilities, and knowledge of self and team. Confidently utilizes performance improvement plans and corrective action when needed, creating a learning experience to improve and avoid similar issues in the future.
Preferred Qualifications (not required)
- Keenly aware of the power of language and representation: Uses references and examples that speak to the experiences of a diverse audience, particularly the communities we aim to reach.
- Background: 1+ years of supervising community organizers or other supervisory position related to community engagement. Prior knowledge of or experience in Virginia’s legislative or political environment, media relations, strategic communications, or civic engagement.
- Understanding of social media: Can leverage social media as a strategic tool
- Bilingual skills: Asian languages – preference for Korean, Urdu, or Hindi.
- Dues Paying Base: experience building a due paying membership base
Additional Details
- Location: Northern Virginia
- Job Type: full-time, FLSA exempt, regular employment, hybrid
- Reports to: Executive Director
- Pay: $65k
- Benefits:
- Full health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Simple IRA matching program after 2 years of employment.
- Paid time off, vacation, sick days (if you, a partner, or a family member are sick), and other leave time customized to your unique circumstances. We close week of July 4th and between December 25 – January 1 for reflection and rejuvenation.
To Apply Applications are closed.
Send resume and 3 professional references to the Executive Director at hello@hamkaecenter.org with subject “Organizing Manager – [First Name] [Last Name]”.
Appropriate professional references are people who can speak about your character and work/volunteer experience. At least one of the references should come from someone who supervised you. We have found it helpful if applicants could let references know that someone with Hamkae Center will contact them if only to facilitate references responses. When sending reference information, please include the references:
- Full name
- Phone Number and/or Email address
- Short description of your professional relationship with the reference
Priority deadline: 11:59pm EST on October 10, 2025. After priority deadline, applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
About Hamkae Center
Hamkae Center organizes Asian Americans in Virginia to achieve social, economic, and racial justice. Through community organizing, public policy advocacy, civic engagement, and youth leadership development, Hamkae Center works to build a future in which low- and middle-income, immigrant, people of color, and marginalized communities can fully participate in U.S. society and work together as makers of lasting change. We are the Virginia affiliate of the NAKASEC Network.
Hamkae Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. People from a wide range of backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. We are committed to a diverse workplace and supporting our staff with ongoing career development opportunities.
