Campaign Organizer- Marshalltown

About the role

The Outreach Team is the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the progressive movement. Based in Waterloo, Mason City, Burlington, Dubuque, Oelwein, Maquoketa, Newton, Keokuk, Marshalltown, Muscatine, Ottumwa, Fort Dodge, and Sioux City, Iowa, the Campaign Organizer will be responsible for driving 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.

Qualifications

• Relationship Building: Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of local and statewide community members. Attend public speaking engagements about environmental, jobs, health care issues and climate change.
• Inclusive and Collaborative Leadership: Approach leadership with a “power with” mindset that recognizes the impact power hierarchies have in different settings. Learn from others, see and hear other perspectives, and step in or step back as necessary. Be reliable and accountable, always transparent about your abilities, capacities, and expectations. Honor the time and commitments of others while inspiring them to meet goals.
• Commitment to Equity and Inclusion: Develop meaningful connections with diverse communities, including a wide range of community organizations, community leaders, and community members. Work with the community and within the workplace to identify areas of improvement for a more equitable environment. Take continued action and efforts to improve your REI knowledge, skills, and tools.
• Drive to Achieve Results: Accomplish ambitious goals and get results, even when there are obstacles. Plan backwards to meet multiple goals timely and effectively. Bounce back and adjust quickly, learning and improving from any mistakes.
• Must be able to drive, have a valid drivers license, and also you will need to meet our driver authorization standards.

Skills and Experiences

• 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 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.

Benefits

The Outreach Team offers a competitive 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. At the end of the campaign, there may be opportunities for advancement. We do offer a monthly cell phone stipend of $50.

Application

To apply, please visit here.

What Else You Should Know

Equity and Inclusion is our North Star: At The Outreach Team we believe deeply that equity and inclusion in our organization makes us better at our work and helps to build a stronger progressive movement. We are an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA community and people who identify with other underrepresented groups to apply.

Please note: We want to hire people of all gender identities. This hiring platform (JazzHR) does not allow us to add in specific options for gender identities outside of the binary, but we are currently working with them to find a solution.