genCLEO Youth Organizing Manager

The CLEO Institute Inc•Miami, FL

14d•Hybrid

About The Position

The CLEO Institute is seeking a full-time, exempt genCLEO Youth Organizing Manager to manage and scale-up its college chapter programs, genCLEO. This role requires clear communication, attention to detail in tracking data, and the ability to motivate and lead teams. The position reports directly to the genCLEO Co-Executive Leaders. Some nights and weekends may be required, along with occasional travel across Florida. The genCLEO program, Generation CLEO, is a youth-led initiative focused on equipping young people with the knowledge, leadership skills, and confidence to advance equitable climate solutions. It currently has over 9,000 student members across 13 college and university chapters and aims for significant expansion in the coming years.

Requirements

Clear communication up and down the org chart
Close attention to detail when tracking data
Ability to motivate and lead teams
Experience managing a team of 15 to 25 people
Experience holding teams accountable for goals
Experience launching new chapters
Experience with youth engagement around policy efforts
Experience with fundraising efforts
Experience with data management
Experience with coalition building
Experience with campus engagement
Experience with campaign planning
Experience with public communication
Experience developing and executing strategic campus plans
Experience mentoring chapter leaders
Experience building diverse, effective campus coalitions
Experience sustaining strong relationships with university staff and partners
Experience coordinating and supporting major programs and events
Experience with advocacy days
Experience with election-related education and outreach efforts
Experience with trainings
Experience with inputting contact data weekly into EveryAction via bulk uploads
Experience managing the transcription of petitions and paper-based data into a voter database
Experience recording campus/community tabling and engagement into Google Forms weekly
Experience training teams on using Mobilize to advertise and recruit for events
Experience creating scripts, forms, lists, and activist codes in EveryAction or Voter Action Network (VAN)
Experience tracking metrics and keeping organizers accountable to deliverables
Experience creating a digital strategy
Experience providing oversight for social media accounts and email newsletters

Nice To Haves

Experience with climate change education, engagement, and advocacy
Experience working with front-line communities and their leaders
Experience building climate literacy
Experience highlighting the urgency of climate action and impact policy
Experience championing solutions for a resilient future

Responsibilities

Directly managing a 15 to 25-person team of part-time student organizers and holding college chapter teams accountable for event and voter outreach goals.
Working alongside genCLEO’s Co-Executive Leaders to launch new college chapters across the Southeast.
Work with CLEO’s leadership team to ensure the genCLEO team is plugged into organizational priorities, such as offering youth engagement opportunities around policy efforts and fundraising efforts.
Lead the growth and expansion of genCLEO by both growing membership and strengthening engagement at existing college chapters, and launching new chapters across colleges and universities in the Southeast.
Directly manage and support the part-time youth-led genCLEO chapter organizers, including Lead Organizers and stipend-supported interns. Includes recruiting, hiring, training, and managing 15 to 25 part-time Lead Organizers, and ensuring chapters are fully staffed with organizers, interns, and volunteers.
Conduct regular one-on-one and regional meetings with Lead Organizers to support performance, accountability, and progress toward statewide and campus goals.
Develop and deliver trainings for organizers and interns on core skills, including data management, coalition building, campus engagement, campaign planning, and public communication.
Support Lead Organizers and interns in developing and executing strategic campus plans, including student recruitment, event planning, coalition-building, and volunteer engagement. Includes mentoring chapter leaders on building diverse, effective campus coalitions and sustaining strong relationships with university staff and partners.
Coordinate and support major programs and events, including advocacy days, election-related education and outreach efforts, trainings, and Earth Advocacy Day recruitment.
Travel to college campuses (typically at least once per semester) to support on-the-ground organizing, events, and chapter development.
Oversee campus operations, including maintaining Registered Student Organization (RSO) status and ensuring chapters have the tools and materials needed for outreach (e.g., tabling supplies and promotional materials).
Ensure that each genCLEO chapter inputs contact data weekly into EveryAction via bulk uploads. Includes managing the transcription of petitions and paper-based data into a voter database.
Ensure campus/community tabling and engagement is recorded by each genCLEO chapter into Google Forms weekly.
Ensure each genCLEO chapter team is properly trained and using Mobilize to advertise and recruit for their events.
Create various scripts, forms, lists, and activist codes in EveryAction or Voter Action Network (VAN) to accurately track each genCLEO chapter’s engagement and actions taken by CLEO supporters.
Keeping track of metrics and keeping organizers accountable to deliverables, such as attendance at monthly genCLEO meetings, completed volunteer shifts, and media mentions.
Work with the Digital Communications Associate Manager to create a digital strategy and provide oversight for social media accounts and email newsletters for all genCLEO chapters.