Campaign Organizer- Bettendorf, IA

The Outreach Team•Bettendorf, IA

2d•$55,000 - $67,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Outreach Team is seeking a full-time Campaign Organizer to join their team. This role is crucial for powering the progressive movement by establishing an on-the-ground presence in communities to run civic engagement campaigns focused on building a fairer, healthier, safer, and more peaceful future. The Campaign Organizer will be responsible for recruiting, training, and managing volunteers in key Iowa counties to drive basebuilding efforts for corporate polluter accountability. The role involves engaging constituents on issues such as corporate accountability, healthcare, big agriculture, affordability, and identifying action opportunities. The organizer will build and recruit a supporter and volunteer team for canvassing and petitioning, engage volunteers through campaign events and actions, and drive sign-ups for electoral work in the fall. The position concludes with debriefing volunteers and community contacts to provide information on continued involvement in corporate accountability actions.

Requirements

Commitment to equity and justice, with an agreement to our North Star.
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.
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.