Organizing Manager

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November 22

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SURJ Sports Investment

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SURJ Sports Investment is a sports-focused investment firm that backs and scales game-changing innovations across the sports ecosystem, with a strategic emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The firm invests in technologies, leagues, and partnerships that enhance fan engagement, athlete development, and commercial opportunities both locally and globally, aligning with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 to grow the regional sports industry. SURJ positions itself as a bridge between global sports assets and MENA markets, delivering both impact and financial returns.

51 - 200 employees

⚽ Sports

💸 Finance

📋 Description

• Organizing Managers support people and program management within SURJ’s National Organizing Department (NOD). • Each NOD Organizing Manager holds some amount of responsibility for staff supervision, project management, and cross-departmental coordination. • Managers are expected to be “generalists” who can execute on their specialized realms of work and also share in the collective management load for NOD-wide program work and team health. • Write proposals and plans that include setting goals, tactics, timeline, and staffing for organizing programs and campaigns, and project manage NOD staff to execute those plans. • Participate in high-level execution of program work, and maintain connection to SURJ’s base by building in periodic touch-points with leaders and members. • Supervise select staff members in the National Organizing department. This includes weekly supervision check-ins; ensuring quarterly or phase-based workplans are created; tracking progress on work plans; and being point on all HR-related matters for those staff members. • Maintain consistent lines of communication with other Organizing Managers and Directors from other departments when it comes to setting programmatic goals, establishing cross-team and cross-departmental work plans, and setting up systems of tracking and accountability.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience with campaign organizing, managing teams, and developing internal systems • 5+ years experience with volunteer recruitment, training and management • Experience managing complex projects with many moving pieces including personnel and budgets • Experience holding the big picture of an organizing campaign with very little external guidance • Has some experience supervising or overseeing others; ready to execute formal supervision. • Willingness to work irregular hours: Typically, staff work on average one weekend day per month and one night per week. • Experience designing and leading teams through processes of campaign or action planning, execution, and evaluation • Experience designing and facilitating meetings, trainings, and/or group gatherings that move people into action • Experience organizing volunteers and members • Experience with rapid response organizing that builds toward longer-term campaigns • Experience coordinating activities of colleagues for specific projects • Experience organizing on issues of racial and economic justice • Familiarity with constituent relationship management systems such as EveryAction • Familiar working with a variety of digital tools to engage a diverse base • Experience with organizing and political education curriculum development • Deep understanding of SURJ’s work and theory of change • Understanding and commitment to SURJ’s work of organizing majority white communities for racial and economic justice.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual salary: $70,000 • Health, dental and vision insurance effective the first of the month following employment • 401K retirement plan with up to 6% employer match • Twenty (20) days paid time off per year, prorated • Twenty (20) days of sick leave per year, prorated • Thirteen (13) paid holidays during the course of a year • Employer paid short-term and long-term disability insurance • Employer paid life insurance • All staff works remote from home • Monthly technology support reimbursement (internet, phone)