Campaign Organizer- Wapello

The Outreach Team•Wapello, IA

2d•$55,000 - $67,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Outreach Team is seeking a full-time Campaign Organizer to work immediately through the end of the year in various locations across Iowa, including Waterloo, Mason City, Burlington, Dubuque, Oelwein, Maquoketa, Newton, Keokuk, Marshalltown, Muscatine, Ottumwa, Fort Dodge, and Sioux City, Wapello. The role focuses on powering the progressive movement by running civic engagement campaigns. Organizers will be responsible for recruiting, training, and managing volunteers in key counties to drive basebuilding for corporate polluter accountability. This involves engaging constituents on issues such as corporate accountability, healthcare, big agriculture, affordability, and action opportunities. The role begins with building a supporter and volunteer team for canvassing and petitions, progressing to engaging volunteers 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 provide information on continued involvement in corporate accountability actions.

Requirements

Must be able to drive.
Must have a valid driver's license.
Must meet driver authorization standards.
Commitment to equity and justice.
Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all 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.

Responsibilities

Recruit, train, and manage a team of volunteers in key counties to drive basebuilding for corporate polluter accountability.
Engage constituents around corporate accountability, healthcare, big ag, affordability, and action opportunities.
Build and recruit a team of supporters and volunteers around canvassing and petitions.
Engage volunteers through a series of campaign events and actions.
Drive sign-ups for electoral work and results in the fall.
Debrief with volunteers and community contacts to share information for how to stay involved with corporate accountability action in their communities.
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 in the community and on local campuses.
Run grassroots skills trainings to develop effective campaigners among volunteers.
Keep meticulous track of a volunteer list.
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.
Register voters in key Iowa districts, generating 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.
Ensure 100% compliance with all messaging and legal requirements.
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 every interaction with detailed notes to report numbers daily and write weekly reports on campaign results.