Community Organizing Manager

THE OPPORTUNITY

Let’s Grow Kids Action Network (LGKAN) is Vermont’s leading 501(c)(4) advocacy organization fighting for a child care system that is high-quality, equitable, accessible, and affordable for every family in the state. We combine grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, and electoral engagement to drive lasting policy change. Vermont’s child care system is at a turning point — and this role is at the center of the effort to ensure progress continues.

As The Community Organizing Manager, you will build and lead the field infrastructure that turns public support for child care into political action. You’ll design the statewide engagement strategy, manage a growing network of deeply invested community members, and serve as a key connector between LGKAN’s senior team and the Vermonters whose lives depend on the outcome of this campaign. (Note: We are open to hiring applicants who have more experience and adjust the role to a Director level).

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Statewide Community Engagement

• Design and lead a statewide field strategy, with a focus on digital engagement, that drives measurable outcomes across policy action alerts, voter contact, volunteer recruitment, and GOTV — building a coalition broad enough to change policy and durable enough to win elections.
• Identify, cultivate, and mobilize a diverse network of deeply engaged supporters across key regions and constituencies, with particular focus on voices that reflect the families most impacted by Vermont’s child care crisis, to help them share their stories and take action.
• Own the planning and execution of community events statewide — from public education forums to coalition convenings — and collaborate with partner organizations to expand reach and impact.
• Represent LGKAN in-person and virtually at community events, meetings, and forums, building the trust and relationships that sustain long-term movement infrastructure.

Data Management & Impact Measurement

• Build scalable systems for tracking campaign goals, partner engagement, and political impact — using data to guide prioritization and scale what works.
• Manage supporter data and segmentation in EveryAction and Mobilize, including targeted outreach to key constituencies aligned with legislative and electoral priorities.
• Integrate voter contact and advocacy targeting tools into the field plan, and report regularly on benchmarks to the senior leadership team.

Digital Organizing & Narrative

• Collaborate with the Communications Director and media firm to develop digital strategies that deepen engagement and mobilize LGKAN’s grassroots and grasstops networks.
• Contribute to email, social media, and website content, coordinating advocacy alerts and calls to action around legislative and electoral moments.
• Capture compelling stories, video, and photos at events to fuel the campaign’s narrative strategy and build a growing library of authentic Vermonter voices.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Required Qualifications

• At least one full cycle of experience in political, advocacy, or issue-based campaign work with direct responsibility for grassroots engagement or field organizing.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain relationships across diverse communities, organizations, and constituencies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex policy issues into compelling community narratives.
• Highly self-directed with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet tight deadlines, and adapt in a fast-paced campaign environment.
• Availability for some evenings and weekends, particularly during legislative session and campaign periods (approximately 2–4 evenings/month and select weekends).
• Ability to travel regularly across Vermont; mileage reimbursement provided.

Preferred Qualifications

• Firsthand organizing experience in Vermont’s grassroots or political landscape.
• Proficiency with SmartVAN/VAN and voter targeting or scoring tools.
• Experience using EveryAction or a comparable CRM for supporter data management.
• Coalition or affinity group management experience.
• Familiarity with GOTV programs and digital organizing tools.
• Lived experience navigating Vermont’s child care system is a meaningful asset.

WHO WE ARE

LGKAN is something rare: an organization with a decade of impact behind it and the energy of a start-up in front of it. For years, our sister 501(c)(3) Let's Grow Kids built one of the nation’s most effective child care advocacy campaigns — passing landmark legislation, mobilizing thousands of Vermonters, and shifting the political conversation in lasting ways. When it sunset operations in late 2025, this team led that transition with intention, carrying the mission, the relationships, and the hard-won momentum into a leaner organization built for the next chapter. We've had our own dedicated staff for just six months and are still building.

We are a small team and we intend to stay that way. For us – small is a strategic choice, not a constraint. It means every person's contribution is visible, the work is real, and you'll stretch across the mission in ways that grow you. Our team brings over three decades of combined advocacy and organizing experience, and we work in a way that reflects that: warm and relational, focused and scrappy when the moment demands it, and deeply trusting of one another's expertise and judgment. Schedules are flexible.

We work primarily remotely from across Vermont, with regular team gatherings, statewide community events, and a real presence in Montpelier during legislative session. Our organizational structure means you'll have genuine autonomy over how and where you work. We take sustainability seriously. We have full lives outside of this work — families, communities, commitments — and we believe that's what makes us better advocates for those we serve. Schedules are flexible. We trust each other to get the work done.

If you're looking for a large organization with established systems and a clear ladder to climb, we're probably not the right fit. But if you want to do serious, high-stakes advocacy work alongside talented and dedicated people — in an organization where your fingerprints will be on everything — this is a remarkable place to be.