Job Description

Role: Campus Campaign Organizer

Location and Timeline: We are hiring organizers for this position beginning January 24th, 2022 and continuing through May 6th, 2022 . Organizers must be based in Flagstaff, Arizona on or near Northern Arizona University campus.

Who We Are: The Outreach Team (TOT) is a political consulting firm specializing in field organizing. We partner with good groups doing great things. Our goal is to consistently raise the overall level of organizing/canvass work across platforms by thinking holistically about our clients, the campaign we are trying to win, and the staff who work on the campaign. We are excited to be working with the Climate Action Campaign on a campaign to engage students and members of the campus community to act on climate including around the historic climate investments in Build Back Better and the urgency of continued actions to reduce emissions.

General Overview:

The Campus Campaign Organizers will engage and generate actions from students and members of the campus community around climate change and the Build Back Better Act. The organizer will plan and execute public education activities around the benefits of the climate provisions of the BBBA including events, earned media and social media. Organizers will engage with Members of Congress (MOC)s to thank them for acting on climate and urging them to keep fighting. This will include lobby visits, direct contacts from calls, emails, social media and petitions, and a large event on campus with the MOC focused on the climate benefits of the BBBA. The organizer will build a base of climate activists to plan, organize and assist in all aspects of the campaign.

What You’ll Do:

• Recruit and Train a Community of Volunteer Activists
  • Call and text supporters and recruit them into grassroots actions.
  • Identify new volunteers by gathering petitions
  • 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 Direct Touches to Member of Congress (MOC) Offices
  • Gather thousands of petition signatures on campus
  • Organize phonebanking events to generate hundreds of calls into MOC offices
  • Recruit and train volunteers to generate more petition signatures, calls and emails
  • Recruit and engage with faculty and professors on campus to contact and engage the MOC office
• Organize Climate Focused Events on Campus
  • Nail 100% of all messaging and legal requirements and ensure that volunteers do the same
  • Organize and execute in-person or virtual events demonstrating support for climate action and the Build Back Better Act, including educational events, trainings, rallies, and more. Averaging at least 1 event per month.
  • Educate students, faculty and others on campus about the historic climate investments in the Build Back Better Act (including local benefits) and the urgency of continued actions to reduce emissions.
• 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

Who You Are & Keys to Success (the must-haves):

To be successful in this job, you will excel in these areas:

• Relationship Building: You develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of local and statewide community members. You are attentive and empathetic to the communities we serve, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or ability, and can identify shared values across communities for collective growth. You can build authentic relationships through authenticity and reliability, continuously uplifting others and their goals. You are comfortable and experienced in public speaking to a group about sexual and reproductive health topics.
• Inclusive and Collaborative Leadership: You approach leadership with a “power with” mindset that recognizes the impact power hierarchies have in different settings. You can learn from others, see and hear other perspectives, and step in or step back as necessary. You are reliable and accountable, always transparent about your abilities, capacities, and expectations. You honor the time and commitments of others while inspiring them to meet goals.
• Commitment to Equity and Inclusion: You have a proven ability to develop meaningful connections with diverse communities, including a wide range of community organizations, community leaders, and community members. You work with the community and within the workplace to identify areas of improvement for a more equitable environment. You take continued action and efforts to improve your REI knowledge, skills, and tools.
• Drive to Achieve Results: You have experience accomplishing ambitious goals and getting results, even when there are obstacles. You have the experience or ability to plan backwards to meet multiple goals timely and effectively. When there are unexpected changes, you bounce back and adjust quickly, learning and improving from any mistakes.

Skills and Experiences we Expect of all TOT 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 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.

Nice-to-Haves, but Not Required:

• Experience working for nonprofits, electoral campaigns, and/or other issue campaigns
• Data Management and Evaluation Experience: Experience working with various data management systems and tools, mainly Google Suite.
• Experience with Relevant Campaign Tools and Technologies: Action Network, ThruText, MailChimp, eCRMs like EveryAction, or social media tools (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
• Event or Project Planning & Management, Implementation or Evaluation
• Knowledge or previous experience working on this issue is a plus, but not required

If you were here right now, you would be:

• Recruiting, training and developing activist leaders on your campus to expand and fight for historic climate investments in BBBA and highlighting the urgency around continued actions to reduce emissions.
• Engaging and expanding the Climate Action Campaign support network through public visibility actions, voter outreach, and relationship building
• Planning and executing events around climate action and BBBA including, but not limited to: phonebanking, petitioning, visibility events, educational events, and more.

Salary:

This position is part-time 15-17 hours a week with a pay rate of $20/hour. At the end of the campaign, there may be opportunities for advancement.

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.

Our organization is inclusive of POC, ethnic/culture minorities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, individuals with disabilities, who are neurodivergent, regardless of educational backgrounds, previous incarceration or convictions. Our leadership team reflects our inclusivity and is reflective of the progressive community we work in and serve.

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.

How to Apply

Job Types: Part-Time. Salaries: Less than 20,000.

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