Job Title: Senior Director of Organizing

Employee Type: Full-Time

Reports To: VP of Organizing

Department: State Organizing

Entity: NDWA

Hours per Week: 40

Salary: $122,000 - 144,000

Work Location: Remote

Start Date: January 5, 2026

BACKGROUND:

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the leading national voice for dignity, respect, and recognition for domestic workers in the United States. NDWA was founded in 2007 by organizers and worker leaders in six cities representing nannies, house cleaners, and care workers, and now represents an alliance of more than 70 local organizations across 22 states and 395,000 domestic workers nationally.

We envision a society where domestic work is valued as essential to our collective well-being, domestic workers are leaders in shaping the care sector, and domestic work jobs are good, economically secure jobs.

For over 15 years, we’ve worked to advance our mission by making domestic work visible. We’ve worked to pass policies that enable rights and higher wages for domestic workers across the country, changed public awareness and opinion about the dignity and value of care work, and built the capacity and leadership of domestic workers to organize and advocate for their rights.

We see the next era of our organization as an opportunity to move domestic work from newfound visibility towards transformation, and we’re ready to elevate care workers to the essential workers of the 21st-century economy.

We’re a multi-racial, multi-lingual organization building a powerful movement rooted in the human rights, dignity, and equality of domestic workers, care workers, immigrant women, and women of color.

Position summary:

The Senior Director of Organizing is primarily responsible for providing direction, management, and supporting the development of NDWA’s local and state organizing strategies and campaigns, with a focus on nannies, housecleaners, and homecare workers in the private pay market. This includes helping with the development of organizing programs and campaigns that will support growth, build power, and deliver wins to domestic workers. The Senior Director of Organizing will also be responsible for overseeing the overall engagement and leadership of our affiliate network in our national initiatives, campaigns, capacity building programs, and ongoing communications with the field.

This position reports to the VP of Organizing and manages the Directors of three local NDWA Chapters and the Director of Local Organizing Programs. They are part of the Organizing division leadership team, and also work closely with policy/advocacy, digital, and communications staff. The ideal candidate for this role has extensive experience with grassroots or labor organizing, running issue-based campaigns, and developing and managing organizing staff; they must be able to work independently as part of a remote team, and provide direction to teams across multiple states and areas of work.

Primary Responsibilities:

Develop organizing strategies and infrastructure

• Lead the development of local organizing models and pilots with on the ground chapter and affiliate organizers, including evaluating strategies, drawing and sharing lessons learned.

• Build alignment and best practices across the NDWA field of affiliates and local chapters on key organizing challenges, questions, theories and strategies.

• Explore new opportunities for domestic worker organizing on a local and state level, including identifying new affiliate organizations in priority geographic areas.

• Support the creation and implementation of strategy cohorts with local organizers to share learning and sharpen strategy development and organizing skills.

• Support NDWA’s annual affiliate regranting program and participate in the staff regrant committee to determine grantmaking priorities and funding decisions.

Manage local directors and support with the development of local organizers

• Supervise the NY, DC-MD-VA, and PA Chapter Directors, who focus on building NDWA’s domestic worker base in those states, winning campaigns to raise standards for domestic workers at the state and local level, and managing 3 to 5 chapter staff.

• Ensure effective execution of state and municipal policy, budget, and electoral campaigns to advance a care agenda and raise standards for domestic workers; together with local staff, cultivate relationships with key elected and administrative officials and partner organizations.

• Supervise the Director of Local Organizing Programs, who coordinates engagement of NDWA affiliates in state coalitions and campaigns, capacity building initiatives, strategy cohorts, and other programs.

• Provide tools, best practices and coaching to affiliate directors, program directors and/or lead organizers for base-building and strategies to raise standards for domestic workers.

Provide leadership in local and national campaigns

• Provide strategic direction and leadership to local, state, and national campaigns focused on extending rights and protections for domestic workers and enforcing those rights.

• Work with civic engagement and policy staff to develop legislative goals and agendas; coordinate with digital, communications, and administrative teams to ensure effective execution of campaign tactics.

• Ensure alignment of local, state and national campaigns to strengthen and enforce domestic worker rights - develop goals and strategies that ladder up and down.

• Support the development and coordination of affiliate and chapter engagement in national campaigns and tactics.

• Through NDWA’s 501c4 sister organization, Care in Action, manage voter engagement work in select states with NDWA Chapters and civic engagement programs.

Provide leadership in overall organizing and field building strategy

• Participate in Lead Organizing Team meetings.

• Provide leadership in NDWA National Membership Assemblies and other national events and programs, including leading affiliate and chapter participation and programming.

• Oversee communication to the field on opportunities, updates, and events, including written bulletins to local organizers and regular calls with affiliate and chapter directors.

• Keep NDWA national staff up to date on relevant local work and campaigns, share input from affiliates and chapters on strategic questions, and identify training or support needed.

• Represent NDWA in relevant national coalitions and partnerships with other power building organizations and networks.

• Travel requirement: 20%

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience as an organizer in a social justice organization or union

• 5+ years supervising and developing organizers

• Experience with coalitions, coordination between different groups, managing disagreement, and building alignment and shared goals

• Experience with worksite or legislative campaign development and management

• Experience with voter engagement field programs

• Skilled popular education trainer and facilitator

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Proficiency with technology for project management, remote communications, and member engagement tools

• Detail-oriented, excellent time and project management skills, and ability to execute high quality work on multiple different projects and teams simultaneously

• Ability to work independently and provide effective staff supervision in a remote work setting

• Familiarity with organizing strategies with low wage and immigrant workers and knowledge of the domestic work sector; prior experience with worker centers a plus

• Bilingual English and Spanish required

How to Apply: Please apply directly to the job posting and send resume, cover letter, and writing sample. Applications will only be accepted electronically, and solicitations to individual staff are unlikely to be responded to.

NDWA provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

NDWA is a union employer; this position is a senior management position and will not be part of the bargaining unit.

NDWA participates in the E-Verify program and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.