Share your funding contacts, access to leadership, and connections to other organizations. If there s no career path within your organization, organizers will go elsewhere. Take a sabbatical for a few months. If the organization gets along well without you, you ve done well and are free to go. If things fall apart, you ll know you need to be a better mentor.
Some old organizers make lateral moves within their organizations rather than move on completely.
Break your job into three parts, then train and promote two people to share the work. For organizers who feel stuck For organizers who are rooted in places with no other organizations that meet their needs better than the ones they re in, the choice is hard. You re faced with taking or keeping a job you don t want in order to stay in one place, or moving because you can t find work that meets your needs where you are. Sometimes there is just no way around making a hard choice. But making a decision and acting on it, even if it s hard, is better than making no decision at all, and much better than blaming your organization for not being a good match for you.