Organizing Program Director

Wisconsin Conservation Voters is excited to add a passionate, energetic, and effective Organizing Program Director to our team. This person will lead our statewide team of community organizers who engage WCV members and Wisconsin voters to elect conservation and democracy champions to elected office and hold them accountable to protecting Wisconsin’s air, land, water, and democracy, and fighting for climate justice.

This is a full-time position and can be based anywhere in Wisconsin.

Our work has never been more urgent, with climate change impacting communities across the state, our democracy in peril, and thousands of Wisconsinites living without safe drinking water in their homes. To take on this challenge, we are looking for somebody who is motivated to lead a team to engage with voters, members, and partners to help build a movement to meet this moment.

In order to support our team to do their best work, we offer a strong benefits package that includes a 36 hour work week, generous paid time off, parental leave, paid sabbatical, quality health and dental, 401(k) match, and more - details below. We also utilize a transparent pay structure in order to ensure we are equitable and competitive in our salaries.

Wisconsin Conservation Voters is a network of Wisconsinites building political power for a clean environment, healthy communities, and a thriving democracy. We envision a world powered by clean energy, where our water is safe to drink, our air safe to breathe, our climate safe to live in, and all people thrive in a healthy, resilient community. Wisconsin Conservation Voters continues to grow a just, equitable, and people-powered movement, electing leaders who represent us and passing laws that protect people and the planet for a sustainable future.

Learn more about us at conservationvoters.org.

This position will lead our team of community-based organizers who work to build deep relationships and run campaigns to win protections for our water and air, fight climate change, and protect our democracy. This role includes working both on public policy campaigns and in elections. This position will lead the organizing program, which includes: managing organizing staff; developing and implementing winning campaigns in consultation with the Campaigns Director and other staff;

and community organizing.

At its core, this role has these areas of responsibility:

• Management and coaching of up to five organizers, including hiring, onboarding, training, and evaluation. Organizers live and work around the state, so this position requires remote management and regular site visits with regional organizers.
  • Management also includes assisting organizers in carrying out WCV’s paid internship program.
• Develop and implement winning field plans for legislative and election campaigns to mobilize volunteers and voters. This includes:
  • Working with the Campaigns Director and the organizing team to create and implement collaborative programs.
  • Ensuring WCV programmatic pillars are carried out (ex. listening sessions, Conservation Lobby Day, etc.).
  • Regularly communicating with the Campaigns Director and government affairs team to ensure a timely transfer of information back and forth between organizers and the Capitol in order to monitor the effectiveness of campaign tactics and to ensure that tactics change when appropriate.
  • Ensuring organizing staff have materials and media for campaigns by collaborating with the communications team.
  • Developing campaign metrics and ensuring organizers track and report metrics and campaign progress on a regular basis. Assess metrics for effectiveness to make strategic and tactical program shifts.
  • Using member and voter databases, as well…