Campus Campaign Organizer

The Outreach Team • Binghamton, NY

129d • $50,000 - $59,600

About The Position

The Campus Campaign Organizer will start by building and recruiting a team of volunteers, activists, and campus faculty around the commitment to cut climate pollution in half by 2030. At the end of the campaign, Organizers will debrief with volunteers, professorial and faculty contacts and share information for how to stay involved with the Climate Action Campaign.

Requirements

• Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of local and statewide community members.
• Comfortable and experienced in public speaking to a group about environmental, jobs, health care issues and climate change.
• Experience accomplishing ambitious goals and getting results, even when there are obstacles.
• Ability to plan backwards to meet multiple goals timely and effectively.
• Experience or demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or goals at once in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.
• Effective communication skills (written or spoken) that are clear, concise and honest.
• Ability to work weekends and weekday evenings, occasional holidays.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working for nonprofits and issue campaigns.
• Experience working with various data management systems and tools, mainly Google Suite.
• Experience with Relevant Campaign Tools and Technologies: 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.
• Candidates with campus organizing experience and/or recent graduates of the above institutions are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and Train a Community of Volunteer Activists
• Call and text supporters and recruit them into grassroots actions.
• Identify new volunteers by gathering petitions, non-partisan pledges to vote and on-campus recruitment efforts.
• 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 on campus targeting Congress, the EPA and other agencies.
• Recruit and train volunteers to generate more campaign actions and volunteer engagement at events.
• Recruit and engage with faculty and professors on campus to build meaningful relationships.
• Organize and execute in-person events demonstrating support for climate, jobs, and health care action and excitement around the upcoming election including educational events, trainings, rallies, and more.
• Educate students, faculty and others on campus about the historic climate investments in the Inflation Reduction Act and the urgency of continued actions to reduce emissions.
• 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.

Benefits

• Unlimited paid vacation (pending approval) and sick leave
• Generous health, dental and vision benefits
• A monthly cell phone stipend

What This Job Offers