California Organizing Manager

About Mothers Against Media Addiction

MAMA’s mission is to end childhood screen addiction, support families in raising healthy kids, and prevent runaway tech. We do this by educating parents, getting smartphones out of schools, and ensuring technology products have basic safeguards like other consumer products. Our goal is to live in a world where real-life experiences and interactions remain at the heart of a healthy childhood.

Since its inception in 2024, MAMA has rapidly established a platform for parents and caregivers of all backgrounds to engage in advocacy. Having grown to 551 chapters nationwide and contributed to landmark child digital safety legislation in California, New York, Nebraska, Illinois, South Carolina and other states, we are deepening our commitment to centering the leadership of multicultural communities, including Latine, Black, and Indigenous communities in our ongoing advocacy and organizing work, by specifically targeting these communities for leadership roles in California.

MAMA is hiring a bilingual English/Spanish California Organizing Manager with a dedicated focus to engage communities of color in CA, specifically Latine, Black, Indigenous, AAPI, and immigrant communities. This is a founding role on MAMA's new organizing department and is central to a California-based initiative supported by the Kapor Foundation designed to build volunteer Chapter Leader infrastructure, organize BIPOC parents, and drive civic engagement in tech accountability campaigns.

Bilingual English/Spanish fluency, both written and spoken, is required for the role.

This is a front-line organizing and relationship-building role. The California Organizing Manager will recruit and develop Chapter Leaders, move members from passive followers to active advocates, execute campaigns, and sustain the essential community management functions that keep MAMA's chapter network operating at full strength. The position reports to the National Organizing Director.

The ideal candidate is deeply rooted in local communities, has deep advocacy experience in Sacramento, and brings proven experience in grassroots organizing, member engagement, and field campaigning.

This function is essential to MAMA's growth and capacity building for grassroots engagement, organizing and power building. The California Organizing Manager will own the full volunteer Chapter Leader (CL) recruitment and onboarding pipeline for the State:

• Proactively recruit and screen Chapter Leader candidates in priority states and geographies, including through coalition partnerships and relationship-building with particular focus on BIPOC communities in California
• Vet incoming Chapter Leader applicants; manage acceptance, rejection, and follow-up communications in a timely and relationship-centered way
• Send and track onboarding decks, Chapter Leader agreements, and onboarding materials; follow up with new CLs to ensure completion
• Maintain up-to-date Chapter Leader lists and records in Every Action; conduct regular audits to ensure accuracy
• Develop and refine onboarding materials, CL guides, and application processes to reflect evolving organizational priorities

The California Organizing Manager is the primary point of contact for MAMA's Chapter Leaders and a key driver of member engagement:

• Respond to Chapter Leader emails and Slack messages; manage inquiries, troubleshoot challenges, and provide timely follow-up on outstanding items
• Conduct regular 1:1 check-ins ("deep dives") with Chapter Leaders to assess engagement, surface needs, and identify opportunities for deepening involvement
• Support Chapter Leaders in designing and executing local actions, education events, and community campaigns
• Prepare chapter announcements and support newsletter content related to chapter activity and community updates
• Connect Chapter Leaders to one another and to relevant resources, training, and campaign opportunities within MAMA's network

As the lead implementer this initiative, the California Organizing Manager will:

• Build and maintain partnerships with priority multicultural California-based Latine, Black, Indigenous, AAPI, and immigrant organizations with for example UnidosUS California affiliates, MALDEF, Dolores Huerta Foundation, Latino Community Foundation, PICO California/Faith in Action, California Native Vote Project Families In Schools, and with tech policy partners like Scott Foundation and NAACP, Latine Ad-hoc committee, Tech Equity Collaborative.
• Facilitate culturally grounded community workshops in English and Spanish at trusted community institutions
• Adapt MAMA's existing curriculum on social media addiction, AI chatbot risks, and algorithmic harm for Latine and BIPOC community contexts, in collaboration with community advisors
• Mobiliz parents to take direct civic action and join organized campaigns…