Community Organizer

NIA — Network of Impact Architects

The NIA Community Organizer builds the organized people power that makes structural change possible.

The NIA Community Organizer is a base‑building organizer responsible for developing grassroots leadership, building organized community power. This is a mid‑level organizing role for an experienced organizer who is ready to go deep in building the relational infrastructure that drives campaigns and sustains long‑term people power.

The NIA Community Organizer works across multiple organizing paths simultaneously: building intimate organizing circles inside apartment buildings and reaching broader community members through outreach at faith institutions, community events, and neighborhood spaces. They identify and develop leaders from those paths, run organizing containers including listening sessions, assemblies, and NIA Building Circles, and mobilize the base for public campaign actions.

This role is not issue‑specific; the Organizer builds a base of leaders equipped to fight on any issue — housing, childcare, immigration, economic security, etc.

The NIA Community Organizer reports to the Organizing Director and works closely with the Campaign Lead on day‑to‑day campaign coordination.

Our Voice Our Vote Arizona and Arizona Coalition for Change is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly encourage women, people of color, and LGBTQ candidates to apply. We deeply value the expertise of lived experience and strongly value and seek to invest in applicants that have shared lived experience with the constituents we currently and hope to work with, including folks of color, those who are immigrants, or children of immigrants to the US, those whose first language is not English, trans and queer individuals, and others from communities who have been impacted by systemic inequities.

Our team members must be passionate about developing relationships and building grassroots power for BIPOC communities in the state. We have undertaken a new strategic direction, doubling down on transformative organizing by establishing a culture where leaders are liberated through collective movement building, leadership development, and risk‑taking.

• Execute a disciplined base‑building strategy across multiple entry points — apartment buildings, faith institutions, community events — to identify and recruit community members into the organizing pipeline.
• Conduct relational outreach that goes beyond contact‑making — building real relationships, surfacing self‑interest, and assessing leadership potential in every interaction.
• Facilitate house meetings and community gatherings that move people from individual experience to collective analysis and action.
• Manage member communications to keep the community connected and engaged between actions.

• Identify and develop emerging leaders through sustained one‑on‑one relationship building, deliberate testing, and structured accountability — moving people progressively from participation to ownership.
• Facilitate ongoing leadership development spaces that are sustained, not one‑time trainings, where leaders build the skills, analysis, and confidence to organize others.
• Facilitate political education that connects community members’ lived experience to structural forces — helping them understand power, how decisions get made, and how organized people change outcomes.
• Prepare and support leaders to take public action — e.g., testifying at city council, speaking at forums, and representing the organization in decision‑making spaces.
• Conduct structured debriefs with leaders after every major action to develop their capacity to reflect, assess, and grow.

• Organize and mobilize community members for coordinated campaign actions, public hearings, and major organizing events.
• Work closely with the Campaign Manager and Campaign Lead to connect field work to campaign strategy and political targets.
• Feed real‑time field intelligence — emerging leaders, political openings, and obstacles — to the campaign team in a…