Campaign Organizer- West Des Moines

The Outreach Team•West Des Moines, IA

7d•$55,000 - $67,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Outreach Team is seeking a full-time Campaign Organizer to join their team in West Des Moines, Iowa, starting by June 30th and continuing through the end of the year. This role is crucial for powering the progressive movement by running successful civic engagement campaigns focused on corporate polluter accountability. Organizers will engage constituents on issues such as corporate accountability, healthcare, big ag, affordability, and action opportunities. The position involves building and recruiting a team of supporters and volunteers for canvassing and petitions, engaging them through campaign events and actions, driving sign-ups for electoral work in the fall, and debriefing with volunteers to ensure continued involvement in community action.

Requirements

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

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, phonebanking, 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 door knocking, petitions, and flyering, 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 key Members of Congress via social media, 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, 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 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.