Lead Organizer: Data Center Campaign

LEAD ORGANIZER:
Data Center Campaign

New Virginia Majority, Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working‑class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We seek conscious and skilled individuals with a deep commitment to racial and economic justice to join our team. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Full-time

Applicants can live in the Richmond or Northern Virginia area, but travel will be required between those areas for this campaign.

New Virginia Majority is developing organizing strategy and policy demands to address the environmental, energy, economic and political crisis resulting from the ongoing proliferation of data centers in Virginia. Virginia is at the center of global data center operations. These data center developments have huge impacts on the lives of Virginians and the world, including energy use and electricity pricing, water use and environmental degradation, and the concentration of political and economic power in a tiny tech oligarchy.

New Virginia Majority is hiring a full-time lead community organizer who will be responsible for helping to develop and execute overall organizing strategy and subsequent campaign focused on data centers. This person will recruit, engage, activate and retain community members, develop leaders, build community-based leadership teams, conduct political education training, and execute campaign strategy. We are looking for candidates with experience in leading and winning issue based campaigns at the local and state levels.

• Build strong relationships with community members
• Recruit community members to become paid members of NVM
• Train and develop NVM members into leaders within their community by offering various trainings and development opportunities
• Create meetings agendas, plan and execute various trainings, and plan and provide leadership development opportunities for NVM members
• Provide training and daily guidance to entry level organizers on door knocking fundamentals, basic organizing strategies and tactics, relationship development and campaign planning and execution
• Develop and maintain relationships with external organizations, elected officials and community members that will help advance overall organizing campaigns
• Timely and aggressive follow up with leads generated by field efforts including one-on-one meetings, house visits and other methods of grassroots outreach.
• Manage regular membership meetings with a standing agenda and supporting new leaders to facilitate meetings geared towards peer engagement and immediate activation. Create actions, training and mobilization opportunities in order to activate members and activists.
• Mobilize and track engagement of members and activists at various events and field opportunities in databases.
• Develop the political consciousness of the affiliate organizations’ leaders through popular education, reflection, leadership development and developing appropriate educational materials.
• Provide support to leaders
• Participate in campaign development, strategizing and implementation.
• Participate in building campaign coalitions and key relationships with campaign-related allies.
• Perform other duties as required.

• At least 3 years of experience as a grassroots organizer
• At least 1 year of experience of supervising organizers
• Demonstrated experience in leading an organizing campaign
• Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
• Ability to develop and maintain a variety of relationships on multiple levels.
• Demonstrated ability to meet multiple deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to develop and move projects forward with independence and autonomy.
• Demonstrated Experience organizing in marginalized communities
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with external, political, religious, and social leaders and organization to advance overall campaign goals
• Self‑motivated and works well both independently and on a team.
• Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, manage multiple projects.
• Ability to take direction and constructive feedback.
• Ability to plan and…