Campaign Organizer- Burlington

About the role

The Outreach Team is the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the progressive movement. This role involves recruiting, training, and working with a team of volunteers in key counties in Iowa to drive basebuilding in a massive push for corporate polluter accountability.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and Train a Community of Volunteer Activists
• 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.
• Represent the campaign through participation in community spaces and events, while engaging and uplifting coalition and partner organizations.
• Generate Campaign Actions
• Gather over a thousand petitions from the community in support of key campaign issues.
• Generate hundreds of additional actions targeting key Members of Congress with a particular focus on social media posts, phone calls, postcards, and photo petitions.
• 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 meaningful relationships while generating new supporters, volunteers, and event attendees.
• Register voters in key Iowa districts
• Maintain strong QC systems for ensuring compliance with VR laws and rules.
• Organize High-Volume Visibility Events
• Organize and execute exciting, high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for climate, jobs, and justice.
• Educate community members about historical climate investments and the urgency of continued actions.
• Nail 100% of all messaging and legal requirements and ensure that volunteers do the same.
• Manage Digital Campaign, Data Management, and Reporting Tools
• 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.

Requirements

• Must be able to drive, have a valid drivers license, and meet our driver authorization standards.

Qualifications

• Commitment to equity and justice, with an agreement to our North Star (below).
• 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 necessary.
• 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.

Skills and Experiences we Expect of all Outreach Team employees

• Commitment to equity and justice, with an agreement to our North Star (below).
• 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 necessary.
• 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.

Benefits

The Outreach Team offers a monthly cell phone stipend of $50. There may be opportunities for advancement at the end of the campaign.

Pay

The Outreach Team offers a salary range of $55,000 to $67,000 for full-time at 50 hours per week. Pay within this range is determined through an equity calculator. As part of The Outreach Team’s commitment to compensation equity and transparency, we have a no-negotiation policy. Salary negotiations can introduce bias and perpetuate wage inequality.

Schedule

Full-time position starting by June 30th and continuing through the end of the year.

Location

The Outreach Team operates in locations across Iowa, including Waterloo, Mason City, Burlington, Dubuque, Oelwein, Maquoketa, Newton, Keokuk, Marshalltown, Muscatine, Ottumwa, Fort Dodge, and Sioux City.

Application

To apply, visit this link.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA community and people who identify with other underrepresented groups to apply.