Regional Lead Organizer Boulder

Regional Lead Organizer Boulder Job Description

New Era’s Regional Lead Organizers will lead New Era’s organizing campaigns and local partnerships in key regions across the state.

To apply: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. If the job is still posted, we encourage you to apply! Priority Deadline is April 19th. Ideal start date of May 19th!

About New Era Colorado:

New Era aims to build a youth movement that fights for a common vision of the world: one that centers equality, prosperity, love, and joy. A vision where everyone is treated fairly, has their basic needs met, and can thrive. Young people are the most impacted by the challenges and issues we face today and have the capacity to dream bigger, designing the solutions towards this future. And yet, young people are often shut out from the halls of power and ignored by elected officials. That’s why at New Era, we organize young people to participate in the political process, develop as leaders, and find a political home. Since our founding in 2006, we’ve registered more than 250,000 young people to vote and consistently turn out those registrants at one of the highest rates in the country. We’ve won critical protections for student loan borrowers, played a key role in ballot measure campaigns to protect abortion rights and climate, enacted voter preregistration for 16- and 17-year-olds, advocated for key improvements to our voting systems, and more. Get to know us: Website | Facebook | Instagram

Job responsibilities:

The Regional Lead Organizers report to the Senior Organizing Manager and are responsible for:

• Organizing, mobilizing, and growing New Era’s base | Integrate into the regional political landscape to develop strategies for engaging young people; directly organize, recruit and mobilize young people.
  
  • As an RLO, become intimately familiar with the regional political landscape and develop direct strategies for organizing folks, prioritizing young folks of color, in your region
  • RLOs will work in their assigned region to sustain and grow a diverse base of progressive young people to take action on New Era’s evolving issue and electoral priorities, with particular attention to local issue campaigns.
  • Overarching RLO organizing goals will span electoral campaigns (statewide and local elections), local issue campaigns/ activations, and legislative session campaigns.
  • RLOs will execute a range of evolving on-the-ground organizing tactics, ranging from (but not limited to) campus and community tabling, phonebanking, canvassing, volunteer engagement, relational organizing, hosting trainings and events, etc.

• Regional hub management and coalition building | Grow, build, and sustain a strong youth-driven coalition of young people, stakeholders, and partners
  • RLOs will build partnerships with local organizations, student organizations/ governments and other community stakeholders, in order to identify, plan and execute collaborative organizing and campaign initiatives, for instance our Brazen Project and abortion rights work.
  • RLOs will identify opportunities to meet young people where they’re at, in the community and on campus, and will cultivate partnerships with businesses, festivals, campus departments, and others to secure effective sites; RLOs will prioritize sites and partnerships that enable us to reach young people most impacted by our issues, prioritizing young people of color.
  • RLOs will cultivate and sustain centralized hubs (consisting of engaged students, organizations, and community partners) in their assigned region, which serve as New Era’s centralized political home base from which new campaigns and initiatives are identified, tested, and launched.
  • RLOs will work alongside the Leadership Development Coordinator to continually recruit and support volunteers in their assigned region, and where applicable, will use New Era student groups to identify and develop student leadership in New Era’s organizing work.
  • RLOs will work alongside the Political department to identify the local campaign landscape in priority regions.
  • RLOs will serve as a liaison between their regional hub and other programmatic initiatives (e.g., comms, fundraising, etc.) and lend their regional expertise to our programmatic strategy.
  • RLOs will build community partnerships and foster relationships with local businesses, elected officials, and organizations in collaboration with Development and Political departments.

• Managing campus relationships and access | Sustaining New Era’s access to critical campuses in the assigned region:
  • Maintain strong relationships with campus admin and stakeholders in the assigned region. Attend campus engagement/ stakeholder meetings to represent New Era, and hold frequent check-in meetings with campus partners to continue uplifting New Era’s impact and importance on campus.
  • Develop and execute strategies for maintaining reliable access to campus tabling and events, creating student groups where necessary and ensuring their continued success.
  • Supporting campus partners in the assigned region to submit ALL IN Challenge Action Plans and fulfill their commitments laid out in their Action Plans, with New Era’s campus work deeply embedded throughout. Uplift and celebrate campus civic engagement efforts + ALL IN Challenge wins, especially student voter turnout.

Position Details, Compensation and Benefits

This position is based out of New Era’s Boulder offices with an expectation of traveling across the state as needed. This is a full-time, position.

Benefits include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision; employer pays 85% of the premium), minimum $250 annual professional development funds, SIMPLE IRA with 3% employer match, $840 annual tech stipend, and generous holiday and time off.

This role will include in-person work. New Era Colorado is committed to the safety of our employees and requires proof of full vaccination status for all employees unless a religious or medical accommodation is granted. If you have any questions about our safety protocols please contact us at info@neweracolorado.org.

New Era Colorado Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all, and strongly encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees and members of the LGBTQ community to apply. We do not require formal education. We encourage you to submit your application if this job excites you!