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Part-Time Campaign Organizer – Flip the Senate 

e Ricketts- Flip the Senate  Location and Timeline: 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, please still apply!
Who We Are: The Outreach Team is the national engine of campaigners and organizers building a fairer, cleaner, safer, and more peaceful world. We invest in people at every level with industry-leading pay/benefits, rigorous training and support and real paths to leadership.

General Overview:

Neighbor, it’s your time to step up for Nebraska. We need your love for our state and its people, your skills earned from years of hard work, and your ability to connect with other Nebraskans. Frankly, it’s the only way we are going to pry back our government and economy from the billionaires who have taken over. The good news is that there are more of us than there are of them. We just need to harness our power… conversation by conversation, on every porch, corner, driveway, sidewalk, field, and farm in Nebraska. And we need you to lead the charge. Join us on behalf of the Working Class Majority Pac.

We are looking for Organizers to talk to voters about an independent candidates run for Senate in Nebraska’s upcoming election. If you believe that real political power is built from the ground up through deep organizing and face-to-face conversations, we want you on our team in Scottsbluff, North Platte, Grand Island, Hastings, Alliance, Chadron, and Norfolk.

Organizers will be charged with recruiting, training, and working with a team of volunteers in key counties in Nebraska. 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.

Requirements: 

• Valid driver's license and Insurance as well as a verifiable record of safe driving.
• Must be over 21 (in order to drive the rental car if needed)
• Must be available full-time.

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 training 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.
• 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 working families in Nebraska.
• Educate community members about constituents around affordability and action opportunities and the urgency of continued actions. 
• 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. 
• Write and 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 constituents around affordability and action opportunities.

Inclusive and Collaborative Leadership: You approach leadership with a "power with" mindset that recognizes the impact power hierarchies have in different settings. You can learn from others, see and hear other perspectives, and step in or step back as necessary. You are reliable and accountable, always transparent about your abilities, capacities, and expectations. You honor the time and commitments of others while inspiring them to meet goals.

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion: You have a proven ability to develop meaningful connections with diverse communities, including a wide range of community organizations, community leaders, and community members. You work with the community and within the workplace to identify areas of improvement for a more equitable environment. You take continued action and efforts to improve your REI knowledge, skills, and tools.

Drive to Achieve Results: You have experience accomplishing ambitious goals and getting results, even when there are obstacles. You have the experience or ability to plan backwards to meet multiple goals timely and effectively. When there are unexpected changes, you bounce back and adjust quickly, learning and improving from any mistakes.

Skills and Experiences we Expect of all Outreach Team employees:

• 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: learning from others; stepping-in or stepping-back when needed. 
• Transparency: comfort admitting what you do and don't know, your capacity, and abilities. 
• Task management: Able to adapt to the evolving needs of a project. Able to tackle big-picture projects and break them down into smaller pieces. 
• Organized and efficient: Experience or demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or goals at once in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. 
• Acute attention to detail: Track interactions and tasks with detailed notes. Plans ahead for roadblocks and bounces back quickly when problems arise. 
• Effective communication skills (written or spoken) that are clear, concise and honest. 
• Comfortable and excited to speak about the campaign publicly. 
• Coach and learning mentality: successful experience or willingness to learn new things and pick up new skills on the job. Able to learn from mistakes and try again. 
• Understanding of how your words and actions affect others, including an awareness of power language and communication accessibility. 
• Ability to work weekends and weekday evenings, occasional holidays.

Nice-to-Haves, but Not Required:

• Organizing experience in or around Grand Island, North Platte, Scottsbluff, Hastings, Alliance, Chadron, and Norfolk Nebraska. 
• Experience working for nonprofits and issue campaigns. 
• Data Management and Evaluation Experience: Experience working with various data management systems and tools, mainly Google Suite. 
• Experience with Relevant Campaign Tools and Technologies: VAN, Action Network, ThruText, MailChimp, eCRMs like EveryAction, or social media tools (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). 
• Event or Project Planning & Management, Implementation or Evaluation. 
• Knowledge or previous experience working in roles that support constituents around affordability and action opportunities is a plus

If you were here right now, you would be:

• Recruiting, training and developing activist leaders in your community to collect supporter petitions, educate others on key campaign issues, and recruit constituents to in-district events and actions. 
• Planning and executing events for constituents around affordability as well as action opportunities including, but not limited to: door knocking, phonebanking, petitioning, visibility events, educational events, and more. 
• Developing relationships with community leaders on corporate accountability, health care, and justice 
• Engaging and expanding our support network through public visibility actions, voter outreach, and relationship-building.

Salary, Benefits and Perks:

The pay for this position is $26.00 per hour.

We offer a generous benefits package, including paid vacation and sick leave, health insurance, and hands-on training. At the end of the campaign, there may be opportunities for advancement and bonuses.

At The Outreach Team, we prioritize equity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage Black, indigenous, people of color, women, people with previous felony convictions, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and others who identify with underrepresented groups to apply.

To Apply:

Visit: https://theoutreachteam.applytojob.com/apply

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