Reports to:

Director of Grassroots Organizing

About us:

As the JVP family of organizations, we are growing, developing and mobilizing a powerful grassroots, multiracial base of Jews toward Palestinian freedom and the end of Israeli apartheid, occupation, and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

About you:

A committed and passionate organizer, you thrive on coaching others, supporting strong & durable groups, and developing leaders. You enjoy thinking about organizing at scale: how to best support smaller groups of JVP members across the country to engage in strategic action and build power as part of a larger whole. Your organizing approach is rooted in relational work, building real power, and creating movements that are prepared to fight for collective liberation.

Core responsibilities of the role:

We are hiring two full-time staff persons to add capacity to JVP’s field organizing program, particularly to support pods. Pods are local JVP formations around the country that are smaller than full chapters (chapters are larger power centers). Right now, pods are a primary main way distributed organizing (organizing groups of members to take action & build power across different geographies) happens at JVP, but these roles could include other experiments or shapes around distributed organizing in the future. The specific responsibilities and scope of these and other JVP field organizing positions are subject to shifts if the needs, political conditions, or structure of JVP’s field program changes. At this time, JVP has close to 40 pods around the country, which will be divided up into two portfolios for the two people in this role.

Support JVP pods to effectively build power and take strategic action:

• Develop existing & new pod leaders, including through coaching, problem-solving, and connecting to both JVP and external resources & trainings. This means supporting leaders to build organizing skills as well as strategic capacity & alignment, so that member leaders can effectively hold powerful local organizing and in turn build others’ leadership, as well as identifying and cultivating the leaders needed to organize effectively as JVP in their local context.

• Build strong groups, including through supporting pods with effective group structures, building strategic alignment, cultivating a liberatory organizing culture that is anti-racist and anti-oppressive, and organizing in accountability to Palestinian-led movement.

• Mobilize in effective & strategic ways, including rapid response, participating in national campaigns & mobilizations, participating in locally-rooted campaigns & mobilizations, legislative organizing, and media outreach and engagement. This happens with robust support and coordination with other staff who lead campaigns, communications, and legislative work. 

• Identify and support the emergence of potential new pods, including implementing the pod chartering process through 1:1s, leadership assessments, establishing the relationship to the organization, and supporting new pods to set up initial structures and organizing plans. 

Connect JVP pods to the broader organization through relationships and systems: 

• Embed pods in broader organizing structures, including collaboration with regional chapter organizers for regional power-building, connecting pods to nearby chapters (larger power centers), and by recruiting participation in JVP calls, gathering, and leadership development offerings.

• Ensure effective communication, infrastructure, & coordination with pods, including pods’ participation in national, operational, communication, and data expectations and structures.

• Build and maintain the relationship between each pod and the broader organization, including multi-directional feedback and mutual accountability between JVP and local pods. 

• Create structures for skill-building and relationship-building across pods.

Strengthen distributed organizing as whole at JVP through observations, assessments, and experiments:

• Identify needs, gaps, and opportunities to strengthen distributed organizing at JVP based on ongoing assessments in the field, which in turn shape organizational priorities and approaches.

• Support meeting those needs or seizing those opportunities (such as resource or training creation) in collaboration with the broader field team and with direction from the field team leadership.

• Collaborate effectively with fellow staff to support strong distributed organizing. In particular, collaborate with the fellow distributed organizer in particular to meet the above functions for the program as a whole, learn from each other, and innovate on support and coordination structures at scale. 

• Support experiments in distributed action & organizing which may extend beyond the current pod model.

Skills & Qualities we are seeking:

• Develops effective leadership: Holds an orientation where being a leader means developing leaders, and effectively supports leaders’ growth through coaching, training, support, and feedback. Ready and able to identify and develop the leadership needed to build a multi-racial, multi-generational base of Jews for Palestinian liberation across varied local contexts. This specifically includes the leadership of: young Jews; Jews who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), Mizrahi and/or Sephardi; white anti-racist Jews; and trans, queer, working-class, poor, and/or disabled Jews. 

• Builds strong groups: Works effectively with groups, showing a commitment to high-functioning, inclusive groups and building the structures & skills that enable them. Attuned to culture and group dynamics, and able to support groups to build and shift internal culture in liberatory ways. Has strong facilitation instincts and fundamentals. Can effectively support groups to: create organizing goals, focus their energies in strategic ways, build a base, build power locally, and take strategic action.

• Relational and communicative: Understands that organizing is fundamentally built on relationships. Has enthusiasm for meeting and engaging with people, builds authentic relationships across lines of difference, and communicates effectively with others (both verbally and written). Able to build and hold organizational (vs individual) relationships effectively.

• Strategic, thoughtful, and curious: Able to focus on top-line goals in the work and how we get there. Oriented towards building power and the pathways to achieving our goals, and can in turn support others in building strategic capacity. Can grasp the subtleties of complex issues, identify patterns, hold nuance and balance conflicting priorities. Approaches challenges with curiosity.

• Scale & systems thinker: Able to conceive of effective organizing at scale and support effective systems & approaches to effectively meet the needs of people and groups across the country. Balances an ability to zoom in and organize relationally with the skill of zooming out and creating systemic approaches and experiments for large-scale organizing. 

• Aligned with and rooted in JVP’s values, overall political analysis, and strategy: Has a commitment to building power both locally and nationally towards JVP’s political goals. Understands why JVP is building power as a US-based Jewish organization in the movement for Palestinian freedom. Rooted in values of justice for all people, and works to express those values in their work & organizing approach, including in forging connections across movements.

Other important info:

JVP is a union workplace, and this role is part of our staff bargaining unit with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.

Travel: Some travel required, including for in-person visits to pods, leadership development gatherings, and staff gatherings.

Benefits of working at JVP include: A four day, 32 hour work week for bargaining unit staff (unless we are in rapid response); up to 16 accumulated vacation days per year; Up to 12 sick days per year; 17 paid holidays (9 floating and 8 federal). Health, vision, and dental insurance with premiums currently paid by JVP, and 15% of family benefits to be paid by JVP. Paid bereavement leave, parental leave, and medical leave, as well as leave without pay. Flexible Spending benefit. 1% of salary paid into 401k by JVP.

Accessibility Information: Physical requirements include long periods of sitting, working on a computer in chunks of time that can extend to 8 hour days, and consistent communication via computer.

Application, process, & timeline: 

We aim to be transparent and efficient in our hiring process. Each question you will be asked throughout our hiring process ties directly back to one of the skills and qualities listed above. In each stage, you will be asked to provide examples of these skills and experiences or how you would draw on your experience to handle a scenario commonly found at JVP. Our typical hiring process includes the following stages: 

• Job application: You will not be asked to submit a cover letter. Instead, the application consists of several questions related to the role you are applying for. Your answers will be assessed anonymously by the hiring committee, based on the skills outlined above. You may be required to upload a CV or resume, but the first round decisions will be based primarily upon your answers to the initial set of questions. 

• 25 min video interview: usually with the hiring manager and staff members you would work with on a regular basis

• Written work assessment, responding to a scenario commonly found on the job.

• 50 min video interview: May be the same group of staff or a slightly larger group as the first interview 

• Reference check

We anticipate our hiring process for this position will take about 6 weeks from the job closing to a job offer. The goal start date for this position is Sept 8, 2025, but that is subject to change. We let candidates know after each step in the process, once we’ve made a decision, whether they are moving forward to the next stage or not, so candidates know the status of their application. 

People of color, Sephardi and/or Mizrahi applicants, people with disabilities, and trans or gender non-conforming applicants strongly encouraged to apply.

JVP does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. veteran.