Campaign Organizer- Cedar Rapids and Iowa City

The Outreach Team•Cedar Rapids, IA

1d•$55,000 - $67,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Outreach Team is seeking a full-time Campaign Organizer for the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas, with the role running from the start of June through the end of the year. This position is part of The Outreach Team, which powers the progressive movement through national campaigning and organizing. Organizers will focus on recruiting, training, and managing volunteers to drive basebuilding for corporate polluter accountability. Key areas of engagement include corporate accountability, healthcare, big agriculture, affordability, and electoral work. The role involves building and recruiting a supporter and volunteer base, engaging them through campaign events and actions, and ultimately driving sign-ups for electoral work in the fall. The position concludes with debriefing volunteers and community contacts to ensure continued involvement in corporate accountability actions.

Requirements

Commitment to equity and justice.
Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all interactions.
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 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.

Responsibilities

Recruit, train, and develop activist leaders in the community to collect supporter petitions, educate others on key campaign issues, and recruit constituents to in-district events and actions.
Plan and execute events around corporate accountability, climate action, and health care, including door knocking, phone banking, petitioning, visibility events, and educational events.
Develop relationships with community and campus leaders on corporate accountability, health care, and justice for collaborative recruitment, event planning, and power building.
Engage and expand the support network through public visibility actions, voter outreach, and relationship-building.
Recruit and train a community of volunteer activists by calling and texting supporters, identifying new supporters through canvassing and in-field recruitment, and running grassroots skills trainings.
Keep meticulous track of a volunteer list.
Represent the campaign in community spaces and events, engaging and uplifting coalition and partner organizations.
Gather over a thousand petitions from the community.
Generate hundreds of additional actions targeting Members of Congress, 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.
Register voters in key Iowa districts, generating hundreds of new voter registrations.
Maintain strong QC systems for ensuring 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 self and volunteers.
Recruit volunteers to post on their own social media platforms.
Use peer-to-peer texting services and relational organizing tools to communicate with community members.
Send timely and compelling email campaigns to recruit activists.
Track every interaction with detailed notes to report numbers daily and write weekly reports.