Campaign Organizer- North Platte, NE

The Outreach Team•North Platte, NE

3d•$55,000 - $64,000•Remote

About The Position

The Outreach Team is seeking full-time Campaign Organizers to expand its presence in Grand Island, Norfolk, North Platte, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska. This role involves organizing community members around cost-of-living, affordability, and electoral issues through direct outreach and grassroots engagement. The Outreach Team is dedicated to powering the progressive movement by running successful civic engagement campaigns to build a fairer, healthier, safer, and more peaceful future.

Requirements

Must be able to drive, have a valid driver's license, and meet driver authorization standards.
Commitment to equity and justice, with an agreement to the organization's North Star.
Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all interactions with colleagues and community members.
Passion for the role of work in creating change.
Kindness and consideration for others.
Drive to work collaboratively: learning from others; stepping-in or stepping-back when needed.
Transparency: comfort admitting what you do and don't know, your capacity, and abilities.
Task management: Able to adapt to evolving project needs. Able to tackle big-picture projects and break them down into smaller pieces.
Organized and efficient: Experience or demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or goals at once in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Acute attention to detail: Track interactions and tasks with detailed notes. Plans ahead for roadblocks and bounces back quickly when problems arise.
Effective communication skills (written or spoken) that are clear, concise and honest.
Comfortable and excited to speak about the campaign publicly.
Coach and learning mentality: successful experience or willingness to learn new things and pick up new skills on the job. Able to learn from mistakes and try again.
Understanding of how words and actions affect others, including awareness of power language and communication accessibility.
Ability to work weekends and weekday evenings, occasional holidays.
Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of local and statewide community members.
Attentive and empathetic to the communities served, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or ability.
Ability to identify shared values across communities for collective growth.
Build authentic relationships through authenticity and reliability, continuously uplifting others and their goals.
Comfortable and experienced in public speaking to a group about environmental, jobs, health care issues and climate change.
Approach leadership with a “power with” mindset.
Reliable and accountable, always transparent about abilities, capacities, and expectations.
Honor the time and commitments of others while inspiring them to meet goals.
Proven ability to develop meaningful connections with diverse communities, including a wide range of community organizations, community leaders, and community members.
Work with the community and within the workplace to identify areas of improvement for a more equitable environment.
Take continued action and efforts to improve REI knowledge, skills, and tools.
Experience accomplishing ambitious goals and getting results, even when there are obstacles.
Experience or ability to plan backwards to meet multiple goals timely and effectively.
Bounce back and adjust quickly to unexpected changes, learning and improving from mistakes.

Nice To Haves

Organizing experience within or around Nebraska.
Experience working for nonprofits and issue campaigns.
Data Management and Evaluation Experience: Experience working with various data management systems and tools, mainly Google Suite.
Experience with Relevant Campaign Tools and Technologies: VAN, Action Network, ThruText, MailChimp, eCRMs like EveryAction, or social media tools (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
Event or Project Planning & Management, Implementation or Evaluation.
Knowledge or previous experience working on this issue is a plus.

Responsibilities

Recruit, train, and work with a team of volunteers in key counties in Nebraska to drive basebuilding for affordability and candidates who support working Nebraskans.
Engage constituents around affordability and action opportunities.
Build and recruit a team of supporters and volunteers for canvassing and petitions.
Continue to engage volunteers through campaign events and actions.
Drive signees to electoral work and results in the fall.
Debrief with volunteers and community contacts at the end of the campaign to share information for staying involved in their communities.
Call and text supporters to recruit them into grassroots actions.
Identify new supporters and volunteers by knocking doors, gathering petitions, flyering, and conducting in-field recruitment efforts in the community and on local campuses.
Run grassroots skills trainings to develop effective campaigners among volunteers.
Keep meticulous track of a volunteer list.
Represent the campaign through participation in community spaces and events, and engage/uplift coalition and partner organizations.
Gather over a thousand petitions from the community in support of key campaign issues.
Generate hundreds of additional actions, focusing on social media posts, phone calls, postcards, and photo petitions.
Recruit and train volunteers to generate more petitions and volunteer engagement at events.
Recruit and engage with community leaders, organizational partners, and VIPs to build relationships and generate new supporters, volunteers, and event attendees.
Organize and execute high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for affordability candidate(s).
Ensure 100% compliance with all messaging and legal requirements for self and volunteers.
Recruit volunteers to post on their own social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
Use peer-to-peer texting services and relational organizing tools to communicate with community members.
Send timely and compelling email campaigns to recruit activists to campaign activities.
Track every interaction with detailed notes for daily reporting and weekly reports on campaign results.