Campaign Organizer- West Des Moines, Waukee, Iowa

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 West Des Moines and Waukee, Iowa, to work through the end of the year, starting by June 30th. This role is crucial for powering the progressive movement by running civic engagement campaigns focused on corporate polluter accountability. Organizers will build and lead volunteer teams to engage constituents on issues such as corporate accountability, healthcare, affordability, and action opportunities. The role involves recruiting and training volunteers, organizing campaign events, driving voter registration, and managing digital campaign tools. The goal is to build a strong base for corporate accountability action and contribute to a fairer, healthier, safer, and more peaceful future.

Requirements

Commitment to equity and justice.
Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to interactions with colleagues and community members.
Passion for 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.
Relationship Building: Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of local and statewide community members. Attentive and empathetic to 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.
Inclusive and Collaborative Leadership: Approach leadership with a “power with” mindset. Ability to learn from others, see and hear other perspectives, and step in or step back as necessary. 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. 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.

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 manage a team of volunteers in key counties in Iowa to drive basebuilding for corporate polluter accountability.
Engage constituents around corporate accountability, health care, big ag, affordability, and action opportunities.
Build and recruit a team of supporters and volunteers for canvassing and petitions.
Engage volunteers through campaign events and actions.
Drive signees to electoral work and results in the fall.
Debrief with volunteers and community contacts to share information for continued involvement in corporate accountability action.
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.
Run grassroots skills trainings for volunteers.
Maintain meticulous volunteer lists.
Represent the campaign in community spaces and events, engaging with coalition and partner organizations.
Gather over a thousand petitions from the community.
Generate hundreds of additional actions targeting Members of Congress (social media, phone calls, postcards, 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, maintaining strong QC systems for compliance with VR laws.
Organize and execute high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for climate, jobs, and justice.
Educate community members about 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.
Send timely and compelling email campaigns to recruit activists.
Track all interactions with detailed notes for daily reporting and weekly reports.