
Organizing Director at Be A Hero Fund. The Organizing Director is responsible for building a patients’ union from scratch, in collaboration with the Executive Director and the rest of the team. This patients’ union will use tools like direct action, civil disobedience, and radical solidarity to win early fights around hospital and hospital department closures, dialysis centers, medicaid cuts, and other pressing issues to build long term power to transform the US healthcare system into one that prioritizes health and mutual care. . Salary. : $160,000. Specifically, the Organizing Director will:. . Establish a mass membership, locally-rooted organizing model that is flexible and prioritizes building power and winning early fights;. . Identify early fight opportunities and decide where to focus;. . Engage in active support for early fights, including being on the ground to support action planning, organizing and membership building, campaigning, communications, and other local needs;. . Build a racially, geographically, and class diverse membership power-base across the country;. . Mentor organizers to increase our collective capacity for power-building;. . Make collective decisions on organizational priorities, pivots, and new areas for concerted work;. . Travel up to 30% of the time. . . How the Organizing Director will do this:. . Fostering creativity and a willingness to experiment;. . Having a flexible mindset, willing to pivot as the organizing model is built and we learn what works and what doesn’t;. . Committed to building a mass membership that acts as a power base for the work (no smoke-in-mirrors);. . Being proactive in developing workplans and accountable to keeping them; . . Making mistakes, trying things, learning, and being honest when things aren’t working;. . Being deeply committed to transforming the healthcare system using organizing, direct action, and radical solidarity. . . Company Location: United States.