[GAINPOWER.org: Jobs That Are Left] UTST/CO AFL-CIO/CO WFP - Hiring FULL TIME CO Campaign Organizer - $3k to $3,500k for FIVE MONTH CONTRACT

November 9, 2020

[GAINPOWER.org: Jobs That Are Left] UTST/CO AFL-CIO/CO WFP - Hiring FULL TIME CO Campaign Organizer - $3k to $3,500k for FIVE MONTH CONTRACT

United Today, Stronger Tomorrow - CO AFL-CIO/CO WFP

Communities Respond to COVID

Colorado Campaign Organizer  

Overview of Position and Project: United Today, Stronger Tomorrow Colorado, a project co-led by the CO Working Families Party and the CO AFL-CIO, in partnership with United Today, Stronger Tomorrow - Communities Respond to COVID, is seeking to hire a full time campaign organizer for five months to test the potential to build and run a new organizing project to address COVID-related issues impacting Coloradans. The project's goals are to: 1) identify the top COVID-related issues impacting communities, workers, and people in the state, 2) lead a process to build a base of impacted people, and 3) initiate a campaign development process that leads to a winnable campaign.

Job Responsibilities: The CO Campaign Organizer will build and manage a member-run organizing committee(s) and work with it to conduct an issue identification and campaign development process with the goal of building a campaign to address COVID-related issues impacting Coloradans. In addition to base building, the organizer will develop and train organizing committee members, build out a campaign plan, and manage the campaign in collaboration with the project partners. The issues, demands, targets, and strategies will be developed by the organizing committee. 

The CO Campaign Organizer will:

  • Organize and staff on-ramps for people such as community meetings, legal rights clinics, popular/political education workshops, and house meetings. 

  • Conduct quick, one-on-one follow-up with pledge signers via text, phone, email, and other appropriate tools, to build the organizing committee. 

  • Identify organizations and institutions that engage with large numbers of people impacted by COVID - such as food pantries, emergency services,  job training programs, faith institutions, and legal service organizations -  to recruit people into the organizing committee.

  • Identify other stakeholders impacted by COVID.

  • Moderate Facebook groups and other social channels specific to this project.

  • Identify leaders through one-on-ones with organizing committee members.

  • Identify leadership roles and support leaders doing community organizing work, such as training, check-ins, and management.

  • Organize and work with leaders to lead and/or facilitate meetings.

  • Convene issue committees to be co-facilitated with organizing committee member leaders.

  • Lead a campaign development process in collaboration with CO WFP, CO-AFL-CIO, and UTST.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate is someone who has strong experience in base-building and leadership development, especially with diverse communities, and has experience on an issue, policy, corporate, union, or administrative campaign. The candidate should have:

  • 2-3 years experience base-building and building community leaders.

  • Experience working on a campaign - preferably an issue, policy, corporate, union, or administrative campaign.

  • Experience managing projects, programs, or an organizing committee.

  • Experience working in coalitions and/or working with a set of organizations and partners.

  • An ability to build and manage relationships with a wide array of stakeholders.

  • Experience building diverse teams and staffing workgroups and/or committees.

  • A track record of recruiting, developing, and managing leaders and volunteers.

  • An ability to implement digital organizing tools, tactics, and strategies. 

Technical skills include working knowledge of ActionNetwork, EveryAction, or similar CRMs, and some Facebook advertising experience.

Women, people of color, native/indigenous people, and LGBTQ+ people are strongly encouraged to apply. Strong preference for Spanish speaking proficiency.

Compensation: The salary range for this position is $3,000 - $3,500 a month. This position will be housed at the CO WFP with support from national UTST staff. This is a temporary position and is not bargaining unit eligible. 

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs@unitedtoday.org that includes why you are interested in this position and how your experience can help build the project. 

United Today, Stronger Tomorrow is a national pilot project that identifies constituencies and institutions impacted by COVID and tests innovative organizing efforts to connect them to both short-term work developing and implementing equitable COVID response policies and longer-term advocacy work that will create a more democratic, equitable, racially just, healthy, and environmentally sustainable post-COVID world. We are currently developing projects in NY, IN, CO, and a regional project in the upper Midwest.


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