Lead Organizer

About the Texas Organizing Project (TOP)

Founded in 2009, TOP is the leading statewide organizing group in Texas, advancing racial and economic justice through community and electoral organizing. Our programs are anchored in the three largest metro regions of the state:
Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. TOP has a base of more than 300,000 members and supporters who reflect Texas’ growing population of Black and Latino families. Through on‑the‑ground organizing, grassroots leadership training, direct action, policy advocacy and electoral engagement, TOP has made substantial gains in policy solutions and public investments in neighborhood infrastructure, family‑sustaining jobs, affordable housing, community schools, health access and immigrant rights that have improved the lives of our communities.

TOP also runs the largest independent grassroots electoral field operation in the state, engaging hundreds of thousands of voters of color each election cycle.

The Lead Organizer will supervise a team of community organizers and will work to ensure our healthcare campaign is interconnected with our other counties. The lead organizer is responsible for planning, executing, and evaluating our team’s organizing approaches to ensure that our base of directly affected communities is front and center in decision‑making and building our people power. This is a management‑level position that reports directly to the Campaign / Organizing Director.

The lead organizer will supervise community organizers, who work directly with our base.

• With members of the staff team, build a membership base with a focus on directly‑impacted folks from Black and Latino communities.
• Support organizers in developing strong leaders in accordance with TOP’s established leadership ladder.
• Manage, train and develop organizing staff to ensure consistent practices and implementation of organizing tools (door knocking, phone banking, one on one, etc.) to reach campaign goals and complete administrative tasks like conducting performance reviews, approving timesheets, etc.
• Support organizers experimenting with new methods to build a base and develop strong leaders in order to continually improve TOP’s approach to building people power.
• Facilitate/lead effective organizing weekly check‑ins and team meetings.
• Take part in co‑creating campaign plans with grassroots leaders and other staff.
• Support organizers to engage their members and leaders in campaigns that achieve short‑term victories and make measurable progress toward TOP being a pro‑Black organization that is dismantling racial capitalism.
• Work with other lead organizers and campaign directors to build a strong organizing culture within TOP.
• Maintain a working knowledge of significant developments and trends in the political and racial justice sphere in Black and Latino communities.
• Represent TOP at community activities to enhance the organization’s community profile.
• Establish good working relationships with community partners to help achieve the goals of the organization.
• Develop and manage membership recruitment, development, and retention systems.
• Consistently track, input, and support organizers to input data into the Every Action database, training provided.
• Participation in electoral organizing during election season on an as‑needed basis, including door‑knocking and phone‑banking.
• Embodied TOP values, putting into practice organizational and individual staff development practices.
• Assist with fundraising as needed.
• Assist with other duties assigned as necessary.

• 3‑5 years of experience as community organizer, including base building and leadership development.
• At least 1 year of experience managing a team, project, or campaign,…