Campus Voter Registration Organizer
Company: The Outreach Team
Location: Ann Arbor
Posted on: August 7, 2022
Job Description:
Job DescriptionGeneral OverviewWe're working to make sure young
people are engaged in elections this fall. We will educate young
voters on reproductive choice issues impacting people right now,
and help to register anyone to vote who wants to be heard. As a
Campus Organizer, you will be responsible for running a focused and
intense volunteer recruitment drive to recruit 50 volunteers to
register young voters on campus to make sure their voices are heard
in the 2022 midterm elections. Locations and TimelineWe are hiring
campus organizers for this position from August 15th through
November 8th 2022. Organizers will be working in one of the
following 7 college communities: Ann Arbor, Detroit, East Lansing,
Mount Pleasant, Ypsilanti, Allendale, and Kalamazoo.What You'll
DoRecruit and train dozens of volunteer activists
- Call volunteers on campus and recruit them to grassroots
actions
- Identify new volunteers by gathering petitions and making
announcements in public
- Run grassroots skills trainings to develop effective
campaigners among volunteers
- Keep meticulous track of a volunteer list so that no potential
activist falls through the cracksVolunteer leadership development
- Host and help to run weekly campaign meetings to develop a
community of leaders
- Pitch and train volunteers to take on leadership
responsibilities
- Run a paid fellowship program to train top leaders to lead
voter registration effortsRun a campus voter registration and Get
Out the Vote campaign
- Recruit and train dozens of volunteer canvassers for daily
shifts
- Manage 3-6 part-time paid fellows to hit campaign
deliverables
- Nail 100% of all administrative and legal requirements and
ensure that volunteers do the same
- Make thousands of Get Out The Vote contacts
- Organize and execute Vote Tripling trainings for volunteers and
supporters and schedule them into in-person Election Day shiftsWho
You Are & Keys to Success (the must-haves): To be successful in
this job, you will excel in these areas:
- Drive to Achieve Results: You have experience planning
backwards to accomplish ambitious goals and get results. When there
are unexpected changes, you bounce back and adjust quickly,
learning and improving from any mistakes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Commitment to Equity and Inclusion: You have a proven ability
to develop meaningful connections with diverse communities,
including a wide range of campus organizations, leaders, and
community members. You work with the community and within the
workplace to identify areas of improvement for a more equitable
environment. Skills and Experiences we Expect of all The Outreach
Team employees:
- Commitment to equity and justice, with an agreement to our
North Star (below)
- 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:
- Experience working for nonprofits, electoral campaigns, and/or
other 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:
Action Network, ThruText, MailChimp, eCRMs like EveryAction,
VoteBuilder(VAN) or social media tools (Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram).
- Event or Project Planning & Management, Implementation or
Evaluation
- Knowledge on reproductive and sexual health issues and prior
campaign experience are both plusses, but are not requirements for
this role. If you were here right now, you would be:
- Recruiting, training and developing volunteers to register
voters in Michigan through events, pledge to vote card collection,
canvassing, and relational organizing
- Engaging and expanding a volunteer support network through
public visibility actions, voter outreach, and relationship
building
- Planning and executing Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts to
turnout Salary, Benefits and PerksThe salary for this position is
$50,000-65,000 depending on experience. Salary within this range is
determined through an equity calculator. As part of The Outreach
Team's commitment to compensation equity and transparency, we have
a no negotiation policy. Salary negotiations can introduce bias and
perpetuate wage inequality. At the end of the campaign, there may
be opportunities for advancement. We offer a generous benefits
package, including:
- Unlimited paid vacation and sick leave
- Generous health, dental and vision benefits
- A monthly cell phone stipend. Equity If you are interested in
this position but don't think you qualify for everything, please
don't let that stop you from applying! At The Outreach Team, we
prioritize equity and inclusion and believe our work is better when
it benefits from the knowledge, experience, and wisdom of people
who have faced systemic barriers. 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.Who We Are The Outreach Team is
the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the
progressive movement. With an on-the-ground presence in communities
all across the country, our world-class team runs successful civic
engagement campaigns on behalf of progressive organizations and
campaigns—to build a future that's fairer, greener, safer and more
peaceful for everyone.Our client list includes organizations like
Democratic National Committee, Black Progressive Action Coalition,
Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Climate Action Campaign,
Planned Parenthood, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, For our
Future, Solar Rights Alliance, The United Food and Commercial
Workers International Union, and more.Please note: We want to hire
people of all gender identities. This hiring platform (JazzHR) does
not allow us to add in specific options for gender identities
outside of the binary, but we are currently working with them to
find a solution.Powered by JazzHR3bkq7RLXC8
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