Part Time Digital Organizer

Role: Part-Time Digital Organizer Location and Timeline: We are hiring a part-time Digital Organizer to begin by July 27th and continue through mid-November. This role is remote with some travel required. Who We Are: The Outreach Team is the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the progressive movement. With an on-the-ground presence in communities all across the country, our world-class team runs successful civic engagement campaigns to build a future that’s fairer, healthier, safer, and more peaceful for everyone. General Overview: The digital organizer will work to support existing student groups with clubs that promote climate action on campus. They will meet with student leaders and help plan events, drive goals around on campus petitioning and volunteer recruitment, and manage student leaders’ time. At the end of the campaign, Organizers will debrief with student leaders to share information for how to stay involved with climate action on their campuses and plan for the next semester. What You’ll Do:

• Support Schools with existing climate organizing infrastructure
• Meet routinely with leaders from universities with existing climate action clubs
• Drive student leaders to hit goals around petitioning, volunteer recruitment, and event attendance
• Travel 2-3 times in the semester for 2-3 days to key campuses to support students on the ground
• Organize High-Volume Visibility Events
• Help organize and execute exciting, high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for climate action at schools in their portfolio
• Nail 100% of all messaging and legal requirements and ensure that volunteers do the same.
• Manage Digital Campaign, Data Management, and Reporting Tools
• 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 environmental, jobs, health care issues and climate change.
• 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 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 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 and 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: VAN, 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.

Salary, Benefits and Perks: The salary for this position is $27/hour for 20 hours a week. 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. Apply Here: https://www.theoutreachteam.net/jobs 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. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job