About The Right To The City Alliance (RTTC) 

Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) emerged in 2007 with a strong and powerful vision to 1) halt the displacement of low-income people, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQ communities, and youth of color, and 2) protect and expand affordable housing in tandem with a broader movement to build democratic and just healthy communities for the 21st century. 

Since its inception, RTTC has quickly grown to encompass over 90 community-based racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice organizations located in 26 states and 45 cities. Representing true grassroots power and leadership of the most impacted, RTTC’s member organizations weave together local on-the-ground organizing, policy, and advocacy campaigns to build a robust and unstoppable national movement for inclusive, healthy housing and community development. 

Organizational Work Culture

We take the work seriously, but not ourselves: Right to the City is committed to a work culture of care and balance. We understand that rigor and rest are compatible and both are necessary to reach our movement building goals. We actively work to audit our policy and culture in service of our commitment to racial justice and feminist praxis. Principled struggle and generative conflict are core commitments and we take a transformative approach to resolving harm. While we take our commitments seriously, our work environment commonly includes jokes, laughter, celebration and all other manner of enjoyable human experiences. 

Position Summary

RTTC’s Senior Organizer of Campaigns will help lead the development, coordination, and implementation of RTTC’s national Homes for All campaign, working alongside member organizations to build shared strategy, strengthen local and state campaigns, and advance our national demands around Rent Control and Social Housing. A major focus of this role will be co-leading RTTC’s Homes for All Campaign Committee, which brings together the Tenant Power Committee (TPC) and Our Homes Our Land Committee (OHOL), as well as co-leading the Tenant Union Working Group. These are key member-led spaces for developing shared campaign strategy, coordinating across local and state fights, and building durable tenant unions, tenant leadership, and organizing infrastructure across the Alliance.

We are looking for an experienced organizer and strategist who can build strong relationships with grassroots member organizations, facilitate member-led strategy and decision-making, and help translate shared political vision into coordinated campaigns and organizing. The ideal candidate is collaborative, adaptable, and grounded in a deep commitment to self-determination, community power, and transformative organizing. They are excited to work across different political and geographic contexts and to help build the organized tenant power necessary to win dignified, affordable, and safe homes for all.

This position Reports to: Associate Director of Campaigns and participates in the Campaigns Team and Organizing Department.

Job Responsibilities

1. Homes for All Campaign Strategy & Coordination (Approx. 30%)

• Co-lead and coordinate campaign strategy and member engagement for RTTC’s Homes for All campaign, with a focus on Rent Control and Social Housing.

Duties/Tasks:

• Lead the Homes for All Campaign Committee (TPC + OHOL), including agenda and strategy development, facilitation, member engagement, and coordination with committee co-anchors.
• Work with member organizations to develop shared campaign strategy, goals, targets, timelines, tactics, and opportunities for coordinated action across local, state, and national fights.
• Support member organizations in assessing political conditions, power, organizational capacity, and campaign opportunities and challenges.
• Strengthen connections between local and state campaigns and RTTC’s national Homes for All strategy while respecting the autonomy and conditions of individual member campaigns.
• Facilitate member-led strategy development and decision-making and support the leadership development and meaningful participation of member leaders in national campaign spaces.
• Develop campaign proposals, organizing interventions, political education, strategy tools, and other resources in collaboration with members and RTTC staff.
• Coordinate with Organizing, Research/Policy, Communications, Membership Engagement, and other teams to ensure campaign strategy is supported by aligned research, narrative, organizing, and communications work.

2. Tenant Union Working Group & Tenant Power Building (Approx. 30%)

• Co-lead RTTC’s Tenant Union Working Group (TUWG) and support the development, coordination, and strengthening of durable tenant unions and tenant organizing infrastructure across the Alliance.

Duties/Tasks:

• Co-lead the Tenant Union Working Group, including strategy and curriculum development, facilitation, member engagement, relationship-building, and coordination with participating organizations.
• Support the formation, growth, and sustainability of tenant unions and resident-led organizations across different formations, including building-level, manufactured housing, citywide, and corporate-landlord organizing.
• Develop shared organizing frameworks, tools, trainings, and political education that strengthen tenant base-building, leadership development, democratic governance, and long-term organizational sustainability.
• Facilitate peer learning and strategy exchange among tenant leaders and organizers, creating opportunities for members to learn from organizing models, campaigns, challenges, and victories across geographies.
• Help member organizations assess their tenant-organizing capacity and identify concrete opportunities to deepen base-building, leadership development, dues/member structures, organizing systems, and campaign strategy.
• Connect tenant union development to Homes for All campaign priorities, including Rent Control, Social Housing, tenant protections, anti-displacement, and pathways toward resident ownership and community control.
• Support coordination and collective strategy among tenant unions organizing against shared corporate landlords or confronting similar political and economic conditions.
• Help develop systems to track tenant union development, member participation, organizing needs, and progress toward shared TUWG goals.
• Identify opportunities for mutual aid, rapid response, community defense, and other forms of solidarity that strengthen tenant organizations and their ability to defend their members.

3. Campaigns Team & Alliance Alignment (Approx. 25%)

Area 1: Colead Homes for All Leadership Assembly & Alliance Campaign Coordination (Approx 10%)

Duties/Tasks:

• Co-lead the planning, development, and facilitation of Homes for All Leadership Assemblies, including agenda development, member engagement, strategic discussion, and follow-through.
• Ensure alignment between the Homes for All Campaign Committee, Tenant Union Working Group, HFA Leadership Assembly, and broader Homes for All campaign direction.
• Support cross-campaign strategic planning and coordination across Rent Control, Social Housing, tenant organizing, and related member campaigns.
• Support broader Homes for All and Alliance-wide member spaces, convenings, trainings, actions, and political education as needed.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with RTTC member organizations, organizers, tenant leaders, allies, and movement partners.
• Represent RTTC in relevant coalition, movement, funder, and partner spaces as needed.
• Area 2: Support Campaign Team Leadership, Organizing Department & Cross-Team Alignment (Approx 15%)
• Supervise and support National Organizers of Campaigns, including regular supervision, work planning, priority-setting, feedback, evaluation, and professional development.
• Support National Organizers in strengthening campaign strategy, facilitation, member relationships, and their ability to support and uplift member leadership.
• Coordinate division of labor across Campaigns staff and help ensure staff capacity and work plans are aligned with campaign priorities and member needs.
• Participate actively in the Campaigns Team and Organizing Department, contributing campaign analysis, strategic recommendations, work planning, evaluation, and coordination.
• Work collaboratively with organizers and other staff to identify connections across campaigns, member needs, and opportunities for coordinated intervention.
• Integrate political analysis and changing political conditions into campaign strategy and work planning, including tracking national trends impacting housing justice and tenant organizing.
• Collaborate across departments to connect organizing and campaign strategy with communications, narrative, research, policy, membership engagement, resource development, and other organizational functions.
• Maintain accurate information about member engagement, campaign developments, and organizing relationships in RTTC’s internal systems and contribute to shared evaluation and learning.
• Take on additional campaign and organizing responsibilities as political conditions, member needs, and organizational priorities evolve.

4. Administrative, Data & Organizational Participation (Approx. 15%)

Area 1: Data & Tracking (Approx. 5%)

Duties/Tasks:

• Track engagement, campaign participation, and member coordination
• Maintain accurate records of meetings and strategic plans
• Support reporting and evaluation processes

Area 2: Organizational Participation & Transformative Praxis (Approx. 10%)

• Participate in staff meetings, retreats, convenings, and cross-team projects
• Engage in transformative justice and political education spaces
• Support a culture of principled struggle, alignment, and accountability
• Contribute to alliance-wide democratic processes

Common Expectations for all positions: 

• RTTC intentionally builds collaborative and transformative culture through:
• Organizational participation: (Approx. 10% of time)  team planning, staff meetings and trainings, national convenings, collaborative projects across teams, and HR/administrative tasks common to all positions.   
• Evolution of the work: Areas of work may change over time based on organization and movement needs, and always in consultation with the organizer.
• Transformative Praxis: Participate in RTTC’s transformative justice program to align our practice with our values and principles. Build staff unity and cohesion, and principled struggle amongst all team/staff members.  
• Location & Travel: Location is negotiable. RTTC has concentrations of staff in the following areas: Philly, Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn (physical office), and the SF Bay Area. Travel is required; frequency and duration of travel is negotiable. On average, this position will be expected to travel [1-2 times per month for a total of 5-10 days per month, year round].
• Travel is generally required for all RTTC staff; frequency and duration of travel is negotiable. On average, this position will be expected to travel [1-2 times per month for a total of 5-10 days per month, year round]. 

Qualities We Are Looking For 

Bold Vision. You bring fierce imagination and deep commitment that we can and will create the world our communities need. You can share that vision in ways that inspire and compel.

Swiss Army Knife. You are resourceful and creative, willing to do what it takes to make a project succeed. You can handle a lot in a fast-paced, multi-faceted work environment.

Interdependent. You are able to work independently, self-managing your time, while maintaining close communication with remote teams . You are flexible and know that changing the world doesn't always happen between 9am and 5pm.

Low ego, high impact. You are disciplined, rigorous, and more group-centered than self-centered. You have an excellent attention to detail and keep your eyes on the big picture.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• At least 5 years of grassroots organizing experience, including substantial experience working with base-building organizations and directly impacted communities.
• At least 3 years of experience developing and leading campaigns, including campaign strategy, power analysis, goal and target development, tactics and escalation, coalition building, political education, narrative strategy, and implementation.
• Direct experience with tenant organizing and tenant unions, including supporting the formation, growth, leadership development, or coordination of tenant unions, tenant associations, or other resident-led organizing formations.
• Experience facilitating strategy development and coordination across multiple organizations, campaigns, or geographic areas.
• Strong knowledge of housing justice policy and organizing, particularly rent control, tenant protections, social housing, anti-displacement, decommodification, and community or resident ownership.
• Experience analyzing political conditions, policy landscapes, and power dynamics and translating that analysis into campaign strategy.
• Experience supervising, coaching, or developing organizers, including supporting work planning, accountability, feedback, and professional growth.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and project-management skills, including the ability to move complex, collaborative work from strategy through implementation.

Position-specific skills: 

• Ability to develop and facilitate member-led campaign strategy and decision-making processes that center the leadership of grassroots members and tenant leaders.
• Strong understanding of tenant union development and base-building, including leadership development, democratic governance, organizational sustainability, and building durable tenant power beyond individual campaigns.
• Ability to connect local and state campaigns to broader translocal and national strategy while responding to different political conditions and respecting member autonomy.
• Ability to translate complex housing policy, research, and political analysis into accessible organizing strategy, political education, and campaign tools.
• Strong facilitation and curriculum-development skills for virtual and in-person spaces, including strategy sessions, trainings, peer-learning spaces, and large member meetings/gatherings.
• Ability to build and maintain strong, accountable relationships with member organizations, tenant leaders, organizers, allies, and movement partners across geography.
• Strong supervision and coaching skills, with an ability to support organizers in developing strategy, facilitation, member relationships, and leadership practice.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across departments and disciplines, including organizing, communications, research/policy, membership engagement, and resource development.
• Strong systems and follow-through skills, including tracking member engagement, campaign developments, commitments, decisions, and next steps across multiple bodies of work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write and speak a second language, preferably Spanish
• Familiarity with Slack, CRM systems and Airtable Database management systems
• Some fundraising/grant-writing experience helpful 
• General Requirements
• Support the mission, vision and goals of the Right To The City Alliance
• Experience and familiarity with housing justice, gentrification, displacement and anti-eviction work and/or grassroots base-building organizations and transformative organizing
• Experience in multi-racial, multicultural settings
• Knowledge of common computer applications: MS Office, Google docs, Adobe Acrobat, Dropbox, Mac environment, and Zoom video tele-conferencing systems
• Access to reliable internet, phone and remote office arrangements. RTTC provides for costs of home offices.
• Drivers license and auto insurance

Salary and Benefits

This is a full-time exempt position. The salary range starts at $108,000k. Compensation commensurate with experience and competitive with our sector.  RTTC offers a generous and comprehensive benefits package including 100% medical, dental and life insurance, employer contribution towards employees’ 401k retirement plan, wellness benefits, staff development resources, and ample sick and vacation paid time off. 

How To Apply

Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and writing sample or work sample through our hiring portal at: https://righttothecityalliance.rippling-ats.com/.   References will be asked for candidates who advance in the process.  Applicants for this position will be required to submit to a background check. Candidates will only be contacted if our hiring team chooses to pursue an interview.

Right To The City Alliance is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  Applicants from communities heavily impacted by gentrification, displacement and housing insecurity are strongly encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.