Temporary Volunteer Network Manager

MoveOn.org • Continental, NV

4d • $97,139 • Remote

About The Position

MoveOn is a people-powered force for progress. We wield independent political power by bringing millions together to take action to create a country with a place of honor and dignity for everyone—where all are welcome, we take care of one another, and where everyone is set up to thrive.
For more than a generation, MoveOn has been a bulwark against the radical right and has channeled millions of voices to end wars, protect democracy, and advance justice for all. We've built political power for progressive change through mobilizing the left to Democrats so that we can advance our vision of an America for all.
MoveOn is the largest multi-issue digital first political campaigning organization in the country. We drive rapid-response campaigns at scale on a multitude of key issues at high-impact moments while building sustainable campaigns that resonate and grow over time. Whether its democracy, health care, foreign policy, economic justice, immigration or otherwise, MoveOn provides our members with timely ways to take action for change.
The Temporary Volunteer Network Coordinator is responsible for nurturing a strong sense of belonging & community throughout Community Support Teams (CST) volunteers and the Mobilizer Community, while expanding the organization’s capacity to create meaningful change. This role leads the recruitment, training, retention, and developing volunteer leaders, ensuring programs are effective, well-supported, and aligned with our member-driven, progressive campaigns. The Coordinator will also partner with volunteers and staff to run an efficient, equitable & robust volunteer program.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in community organizing and leadership development
• Strong equity analysis and demonstrated understanding, commitment to, and prioritization of racial and social justice and experience working effectively with different constituencies
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills; must be able to engage effectively with MoveOn colleagues, volunteers, members, and external audiences, including via traditional and social media
• Experience driving volunteers up a ladder of engagement and building communities of support
• Self-directedness—MoveOn is a virtual office, and while you will interact with your colleagues constantly, you will be driving your own workflow and output. Excellent personal organization and time management skills are key
• Ability to learn MoveOn's suite of organizing technology (Social media groups, Zoom, Prompt.io, ActionNetwork, and Slack)

Responsibilities

• Increase the organization’s capacity through CST engagement
• Coordinate volunteer relationships and directly oversee 4 volunteer leads and their respective teams
• Maintain the daily operations of CST, including scheduling and creating trainings for volunteers and sourcing engagement opportunities for the community.
• Recruit and train new volunteers and mobilizers to maintain the health and growth of the community as needed.
• Recruit and train new volunteers and mobilizers to maintain the health and growth of Serve as the staff liaison between staff and volunteers, ensuring all parties have the relevant information, training, resources needed to complete their work appropriately responding to its membership.
• Coordination
• Serve as the staff liaison between staff and volunteers, and work to ensure all parties have the relevant information, training, resources needed to complete their work.
• Implement processes that promote volunteer leadership in alignment with MoveOn’s distributed organizing model and strategic vision.
• Nurture the Mobilizer community
• Manage the Mobilizer app by posting regular updates, creating content and programming, and conducting general housekeeping.
• Ensure all posts scheduled on the content calendar are shared in the Mobilizer Community.
• Collaborate with other teams to successfully absorb new volunteers into our community after campaign activations.
• Monitor, share, and propose interventions for issues that impact the overall health of the national Mobilizer community.

Benefits

• strong medical, dental, and vision benefits, which are free to employees and children of employees (spouses or domestic partners can be added at a subsidized rate)
• employer-paid premiums for life insurance
• four weeks accrued paid vacation time per year, prorated for the period that you work
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave (birth, adoption, foster care placement of a child)
• 10 days accrued paid sick time prorated for the period that you work
• paid family medical leave
• 8 staff holidays and 6 floating holidays
• We contribute 5% to your 401(k) after six months of employment
• We also offer a $1000 in professional development budget each year for each staff member.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed