Campaign Organizer- Iowa

Vote Blue•, IA

10h•$55,000 - $67,000•Onsite

About The Position

Vote Blue is a field firm specializing in face-to-face canvassing operations. Our field campaigns have provided the margin of victory in close elections at the local, state, and national levels. Vote Blue’s sole focus is on mobilizing and engaging voters to participate in the elections this fall and fight back at the ballot box. Organizers will be responsible for driving a high-volume field program in key counties across Iowa, with a primary focus on petition collection and door-to-door canvassing to talk to voters. Organizers will engage Iowans around corporate polluter accountability, health care, big ag, affordability, and the 2026 election, including supporting specific candidates for U.S. Senate, Governor, and Congress. Organizers will spend the majority of their time collecting petitions, knocking doors, and building relationships with voters and community members. They will also recruit, train, and coordinate volunteers to support canvassing efforts, helping build a consistent team of volunteers who can join organizers in the field.

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

Gather over a thousand petitions from the community in support of key campaign issues
Knock over a thousand doors in support of Josh Turek for U.S. Senate, Rob Sand for Governor, and Christina Bohannan (IA-01), Lindsay James (IA-02), or Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-03) for Congress (depending on your district).
Recruit and train volunteers to generate more petitions and volunteer engagement at events.
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.
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.
Recruit, train and develop activist leaders in your 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, but not limited to: door knocking, phonebanking, petitioning, visibility events, educational events, and more.
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 our support network through public visibility actions, voter outreach, and relationship-building.