Campaign Organizer- Norfolk, NE

Location and Timeline:
We are hiring full-time Campaign Organizers in Grand Island, Norfolk, North Platte, and Scottsbluff Nebraska. This will expand over the program, so if you are an Nebraskan who lives further away, please still apply. You will organize community members around cost-of-living, affordability, and electoral issues through direct outreach and grassroots engagement.

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:
Organizers will be charged with recruiting, training, and working with a team of volunteers in key counties in Nebraska to drive base building in a massive push for affordability and candidates who support working Nebraskans. Campaign Organizers will engage constituents around affordability and action opportunities. The Organizer will start by building and recruiting a team of supporters and volunteers around canvassing and petitions.

From there, Organizers will continue to engage volunteers through a series of campaign events and actions. In the fall, Organizers will help drive signees to electoral work and results. At the end of the campaign, Organizers will debrief with volunteers and community contacts to share information for how to stay involved within their communities.

What You’ll Do:

• 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 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.
• Organize High-Volume Visibility Events
  • Organize and execute exciting, high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for affordability candidate(s).
  • 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.

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:
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