Executive Director of Organizing
CityOfNewYork
Posted: February 6, 2026
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Quick Summary
The Executive Director of Organizing is responsible for overseeing city services, coordinating public agencies, and managing public property in New York City.
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Job Description
The Agency You’ll Join:
The New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City’s economy stronger. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team.
The Team You’ll Work With:
The Mayor's Office of Mass Engagement is the fundamental connection between City Hall and New York City residents throughout the five boroughs. The primary mission is to establish deep partnerships with communities in order to actively engage New Yorkers in City government. To this end, directly responsible for integrating government into communities by working with Mayoral agencies to ensure the effective and efficient deployment of government services and the Mayor’s top policy priorities and initiatives.
The Problems You’ll Solve:
The Executive Director of Organizing responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Managing the borough based organizing team.
- Building out a team that can hold relationships with New Yorkers at many levels. The team will hold
community and faith leader relationships while also building relationships with broad groups of New
Yorkers who are interested in volunteering with government.
- Working with the OME front office, the FDC and the co-governance team to build strategy around
how to open up government and mass campaign initiatives to thousands of NYers.
- Working with the FDC and the OME emergency team to make sure that organizing staff are available
in their regions for any emergencies where they can be connected to local community.
- Building out a long-term strategy to maintaining and grow a robust organizing structure in OME.
- Other duties as required.
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A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and three years fulltime satisfactory professional experience related to the projects and policies to be studied in the particular position including eighteen months of experience in a managerial, consultative, administrative or supervisory capacity.
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.