Community Organizer - Campaign to build black political power
The Outreach Team
- Hempstead, NY
- $50,000-60,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
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- Hempstead, NY
- Call thousands of local members to set up meetings and develop leaders
- Plan meet-ups and happy hours for activists
- Work with key organizational allies on the ground to plan events
- Recruit several members to meet with key coalition partners
- Work with volunteers to plan the logistics, make signage, and craft a run of show for each community event
- Debrief all volunteers and set up 1:1 meetings with event attendees to deepen investment
- Call and text supporters and recruit them into grassroots actions
- Run grassroots skills trainings to develop effective campaigners among volunteers
- Keep meticulous track of an accountability volunteer list so that no potential volunteer falls through the cracks
- Organize and execute in-person events for voter education, voter registration, and civic engagement
- Lean on bridge building relationships with community members to garner support and turn out
- Track every interaction with every community member
- Report vote plan and voter registration number and write detailed reports weekly on the results of the campaign
- Ensure that member data is kept secure and that data entry is done with all due care and attention
- Submit a nightly numbers report detailing progress to goal on key metrics
- Keep a pristine database of volunteers, updated daily
- Submit a weekly narrative report including photos of community events
- Send timely and compelling communications to recruit activists to accountability campaign activities
- Track every interaction with detailed notes in order to report numbers daily and write weekly reports on the results of the campaign
- 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
- Experience in field and volunteer organizing either on advocacy or electoral campaigns strongly recommended
- Demonstrated experience putting on big events
- Self-starter and excellent problem-solving skills
- Personally organized
- Willingness to work evenings and weekends
- Experience with data and volunteer management tools like VAN, Actionbuilder, and Thru Text is preferred
- Passion for social change
- Dedication to diversity, equity, & inclusion
- Good with people
- Present well over video
- Good with technology - digital organizing experience
- 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.
- Expect some evening and weekend work
- Flexible daily schedule aside from 2-3 hours of calls during peak hours of operation
- Flexible paid vacation and sick leave
- Generous health, dental and vision benefits
- A monthly cell phone stipend.