Community Advocacy Manager

Position Title: Community Advocacy Manager
Reports To: PPACE Director (Political, Policy, Advocacy, and Civic Engagement)
Employee Classification: Regular, exempt (salaried)
Hours: 1.0 Full-Time Equivalent, 32 hours per week
Compensation: $62,000-$68,000, DOE
Benefits: 90% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their children, 401K plan with employer contribution, subsidized transit pass, work from home stipend, professional development opportunities, paid time off & up to 14 paid holidays annually, and flexible family-friendly schedule.

The Community Advocacy Manager is APANO’s lead community organizer and a front-facing representative of APANO in coalition and partner spaces. This role develops and runs our civic engagement programming, grows and stewards our new membership program, builds out our Know Your Rights (KYR) and volunteer rapid response programs, and serves as our main organizer across nonpartisan and electoral civic engagement work — including ownership of our voter data systems (Every Action and VAN).

The Civic Engagement Manager should be organized, metrics-based, a willing teacher, energetic, capable of motivating and managing staff, volunteers, and data.

Typical work schedule is Monday through Thursday 9:00am to 5:00pm, with some weekend and evening events and occasional travel in Oregon and nationwide.

• Develop and run APANO’s civic engagement programming, including monthly webinars, in-person trainings, civic education, and voter engagement activities (voter registration, make-a-plan-to-vote, and trainings tied to the political and legislative landscape).
• Manage the VOTE Network program, budget, and partners through strategic planning, implementation, train the trainers, and sub-granting cycles to support PPACE Team’s Integrated Voter Engagement Cycle. Includes recruitment and retainment of future and current VOTE Network partners, benefits of being a member, and maintaining activation.
• Develop civic education opportunities for APANO staff, board, members, and the larger community. Plan and staff civic engagement events and activities in coordination with political and policy teams: voter registration, make a plan to vote, organizing, advocacy, legislative session, and other trainings specific to the political landscape at large.
• Support the development of APANO’s membership, engage broader membership in civic engagement, leadership development, and organizing opportunities to base-build and expand capacity in the larger movement.
• Manage PPACE volunteers and organize shifts for canvassing, phone and text banks, attending events, leadership development, based on volunteer’s sign up interests and availability.
• Assist with legislative advocacy campaigns, including drafting testimony, providing oral testimony, supporting the endorsement committee and the endorsement process for ballot measures, and representing APANO CUF at coalition tables.
• Actively maintain Voter Activation Network (VAN), Every Action database and the organization’s internal systems to update records, target lists for campaigns, and coordinate electoral organizing activities.
• Comfortable training volunteers and entry-level staff in field tactics (phone banking, texting, email, door canvassing, tabling).

• Build out a train-the-trainers Know Your Rights program, including curriculum and a bench of community trainers.
• Develop and lead APANO’s volunteer rapid response program, including work in coalition with Oregon for All.
• Recruit, train, and coordinate rapid response volunteers; manage activation, readiness, and shift scheduling.
• Represent APANO in rapid response, immigrant rights, and related coalition spaces.

• Grow APANO’s new membership program and serve as primary membership point person.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain members; clearly communicate member benefits and pathways into civic engagement, leadership development and organizing.
• Set and meet membership growth goals (eligible for performance-based bonuses tied to those goals).
• Represent APANO…