Part-Time Campaign Organizer – Flip the Senate

The Outreach Team•Hastings, NE

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Outreach Team is seeking a Campaign Organizer to build a fairer, cleaner, safer, and more peaceful world. This role is crucial for building political power from the ground up through deep organizing and face-to-face conversations. The Organizer will be responsible for talking to voters about an independent candidate's run for Senate in Nebraska's upcoming election. The position involves recruiting, training, and working with a team of volunteers in key counties across Nebraska, starting with building a supporter and volunteer base for canvassing and continuing to engage them through campaign events and actions.

Requirements

Relationship Building: Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of local and statewide community members. Be attentive and empathetic to the communities served, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or ability, and can 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 constituents around affordability and action opportunities.
Inclusive and Collaborative Leadership: Approach leadership with a "power with" mindset that recognizes the impact power hierarchies have in different settings. Can learn from others, see and hear other perspectives, and step in or step back as necessary. Be reliable and accountable, always transparent about abilities, capacities, and expectations. Honor the time and commitments of others while inspiring them to meet goals.
Commitment to Equity and Inclusion: 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.
Drive to Achieve Results: Experience accomplishing ambitious goals and getting results, even when there are obstacles. Have the experience or ability to plan backwards to meet multiple goals timely and effectively. When there are unexpected changes, bounce back and adjust quickly, learning and improving from any mistakes.
Commitment to equity and justice.
Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all interactions with colleagues and community members.
Passion for the role that 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 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 in or around Grand Island, North Platte, Scottsbluff, Hastings, Alliance, Chadron, and Norfolk 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 in roles that support constituents around affordability and action opportunities is a plus.

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 training 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.
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.
Organize and execute exciting, high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for working families in Nebraska.
Educate community members about constituents around affordability and action opportunities 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.
Write and 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.