Executive Director of Organizing

EXECUTIVE PROGRAM SPECIALIST - 06854

The Agency You’ll Join The New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City’s economy stronger.

We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team.

The Mayor's Office of Mass Engagement is the fundamental connection between City Hall and New York City residents throughout the five boroughs. The primary mission is to establish deep partnerships with communities in order to actively engage New Yorkers in City government. To this end, you will be directly responsible for integrating government into communities by working with Mayoral agencies to ensure the effective and efficient deployment of government services and the Mayor’s top policy priorities and initiatives.

The Executive Director of Organizing responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Managing the borough based organizing team.
• Building out a team that can hold relationships with New Yorkers at many levels. The team will hold community and faith leader relationships while also building relationships with broad groups of New Yorkers who are interested in volunteering with government.
• Working with the OME front office, the FDC and the co-governance team to build strategy around how to open up government and mass campaign initiatives to thousands of NYers.
• Working with the FDC and the OME emergency team to make sure that organizing staff are available in their regions for any emergencies where they can be connected to local community.
• Building out a long‑term strategy to maintain and grow a robust organizing structure in OME.
• Other duties as required.

A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and three years full‑time satisfactory professional experience related to the projects and policies to be studied in the particular position including eighteen months of experience in a managerial, consultative, administrative or supervisory capacity.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

Salary: $83,718.00 – $