Campaign Organizer

We are hiring a full-time Campaign Organizer to begin by the end of August and continue through Election Day. The locations are Scottsbluff, North Platte, Grand Island, Hastings, Alliance, Chadron, and Norfolk. This will expand over the program, so if you are a Nebraskan who lives further away or willing to relocate from another state, please apply! The Organizer will start by building and recruiting a team of supporters and volunteers around canvassing. From there, Organizers will continue to engage volunteers through a series of campaign events and actions.

What You Will 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 training to develop effective campaigners among volunteers, and keep meticulous track of a volunteer list so that no potential volunteer falls through the cracks.

Why It Might Be a Fit

To be successful in this job, you will excel in relationship building, inclusive and collaborative leadership, commitment to equity and inclusion, drive to achieve results, and skills and experiences we expect of all Outreach Team employees, including commitment to equity and justice, 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, transparency, task management, organized and efficient, acute attention to detail, effective communication skills, comfort in speaking about the campaign publicly, coach and learning mentality, understanding of how your words and actions affect others, and ability to work weekends and weekday evenings, occasional holidays.

Requirements

• Relationship building
• Inclusive and collaborative leadership
• Commitment to equity and inclusion
• Drive to achieve results
• Commitment to equity and justice
• 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
• Transparency
• Task management
• Organized and efficient
• Acute attention to detail
• Effective communication skills
• Comfort in speaking about the campaign publicly
• Coach and learning mentality
• Understanding of how your words and actions affect others
• Ability to work weekends and weekday evenings, occasional holidays

Benefits

• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Health insurance
• Hands-on training
• Opportunities for advancement and bonuses