Campaign Organizer- Cedar Rapids

The Outreach Team•Cedar Rapids, IA

7d•$55,000 - $67,000•Remote

About The Position

The Outreach Team is the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the progressive movement. With an on-the-ground presence in communities all across the country, our world-class team runs successful civic engagement campaigns to build a future that’s fairer, healthier, safer, and more peaceful for everyone. Organizers will be charged with recruiting, training, and working with a team of volunteers in key counties in Iowa to drive basebuilding in a massive push for corporate polluter accountability. Campaign Organizers will engage constituents around corporate accountability, health care, big ag, affordability, and action opportunities. The Organizer will start by building and recruiting a team of supporters and volunteers around canvassing and petitions. From there, Organizers will continue to engage volunteers through a series of campaign events and actions. In the fall, Organizers will help drive signees to electoral work and results. At the end of the campaign, Organizers will debrief with volunteers and community contacts to share information for how to stay involved with corporate accountability action in their communities.

Requirements

Commitment to equity and justice, with an agreement to our North Star (below).
Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all of your interactions with colleagues and community members.
Passion for the role that your work plays in creating change in the world.
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 the evolving needs of a project. 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 your words and actions affect others, including an awareness of power language and communication accessibility.
Ability to work weekends and weekday evenings, occasional holidays.

Nice To Haves

Organizing experience within or around Iowa.
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, but not required.

Responsibilities

Recruit and Train a Community of Volunteer Activists
Call and text supporters and 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 so that no potential volunteer falls through the cracks.
Represent the campaign through participation in community spaces and events, while engaging and uplifting coalition and partner organizations.
Gather over a thousand petitions from the community in support of key campaign issues
Generate hundreds of additional actions targeting key Members of Congress with a particular focus 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 meaningful relationships while generating new supporters, volunteers, and event attendees.
Register voters in key Iowa districts
Generate hundreds of new voter registrations in key Iowa counties
Maintain strong QC systems for ensuring compliance with VR laws and rules
Organize and execute exciting, high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for climate, jobs, and justice.
Educate community members about historical climate investments and the urgency of continued actions.
Nail 100% of all messaging and legal requirements and ensure that volunteers do the same.
Demonstrate public support by recruiting volunteers to post on their own social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and 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 in order to report numbers daily and write weekly reports on the results of the campaign.