Part-Time Campaign Organizer- Defeat Pete Ricketts-Flip the Senate

The Outreach Team•Grand Island, NE

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Outreach Team is seeking a full-time Campaign Organizer to immediately begin work through Election Day. This role is crucial for building a fairer, cleaner, safer, and more peaceful world by investing in people through industry-leading pay, benefits, rigorous training, and support with real paths to leadership. The Organizer will be responsible for talking to voters about an independent candidate's run for Senate in Nebraska's upcoming election. This position is ideal for someone who believes that real political power is built from the ground up through deep organizing and face-to-face conversations. Organizers will lead the charge in recruiting, training, and working with a team of volunteers in key counties across Nebraska, starting with building a supporter and volunteer base for canvassing and continuing to engage them through campaign events and actions.

Requirements

Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of local and statewide community members.
Be attentive and empathetic to the communities served, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or ability.
Build authentic relationships through authenticity and reliability.
Be comfortable and experienced in public speaking to a group.
Approach leadership with a "power with" mindset.
Be reliable and accountable, transparent about abilities, capacities, and expectations.
Honor the time and commitments of others while inspiring them to meet goals.
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.
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.
Commitment to equity and justice.
Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all interactions with colleagues and community members.
Passion for the role that 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 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 in or around Grand Island, North Platte, Scottsbluff, Hastings, Alliance, Chadron, and Norfolk Nebraska.
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 in roles that support constituents around affordability and action opportunities is a plus.

Responsibilities

Recruit and Train a Community of Volunteer Activists by calling and texting supporters, identifying new supporters through door knocking, gathering petitions, flyering, and conducting in-field recruitment efforts.
Run grassroots skills training to develop effective campaigners among volunteers.
Maintain a meticulous 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 in support of key campaign issues.
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 relationships and generate new supporters, volunteers, and event attendees.
Organize and execute high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for working families in Nebraska.
Educate community members about affordability and action opportunities and the urgency of continued actions.
Ensure 100% compliance with all messaging and legal requirements for self and volunteers.
Demonstrate public support by recruiting volunteers to post on their social media platforms.
Use peer-to-peer texting services and relational organizing tools to communicate with community members.
Write and send email campaigns to recruit activists to campaign activities.
Track all interactions with detailed notes for daily reporting and weekly reports on campaign results.