Campaign Organizer- Iowa City

The Outreach Team•Iowa City, IA

2d•$55,000 - $67,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Outreach Team is seeking a full-time Campaign Organizer for Iowa City, with the role beginning by June 30th and continuing through the end of the year. This position is part of a larger program expanding across Iowa, including locations like Davenport, Waukee, West Des Moines, Bettendorf, Clinton, and Cedar Rapids. The Outreach Team is described as the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the progressive movement, with a mission to run successful civic engagement campaigns to build a fairer, healthier, safer, and more peaceful future. Organizers will be responsible for recruiting, training, and managing volunteers in key Iowa counties to drive basebuilding for corporate polluter accountability. They will engage constituents on issues such as corporate accountability, healthcare, big agriculture, affordability, and opportunities for action. The role involves building and recruiting a supporter and volunteer team for canvassing and petitions, engaging volunteers through campaign events and actions, driving sign-ups for electoral work in the fall, and debriefing with volunteers to provide information on continued involvement in corporate accountability action.

Requirements

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 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 that recognizes the impact power hierarchies have in different settings.
Ability to 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.
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.
Ability to bounce back and adjust quickly to unexpected changes, learning and improving from mistakes.
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 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 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 by calling and texting supporters, identifying new supporters through door-knocking, petition gathering, flyering, and in-field recruitment on local campuses.
Run grassroots skills trainings to develop effective campaigners among volunteers.
Maintain meticulous records of volunteer lists.
Represent the campaign in community spaces and events, 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 through 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.
Register voters in key Iowa districts, generating hundreds of new voter registrations and maintaining strong quality control systems for compliance with VR laws and rules.
Organize and execute 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.
Ensure 100% compliance with all messaging and legal requirements for themselves 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 all interactions with detailed notes for daily reporting and weekly reports on campaign results.