About Vets for the People
This position is part of Working Families Party's special political and electoral base building project, Vets for the People, under the direction of WFP's Director of Peace & Security. The project serves to build a political platform and home for multiracial progressive veterans and their leadership development. The project's core goal is help democratize progressive anti-racist, anti-militarist global and security policy. Vets for the People uplifts progressive vets as party leaders, candidates, and surrogates alongside nonveteran WFP champions. The project aims to base build through special political education and community events, digital organizing, and narrative and culture shifting.
About the Digital Organizer
The Vets for the People Digital Organizer role will support the Vets for the People team in digital strategy, organizing, content creation, and data maintenance. The role will help us successfully create a digital presence and platform that recruits left/progressive veterans and progressive peace and security organizations into the WFP. The Digital Organizer will work with the team to craft narrative strategy and content around divesting from war to invest in safety. Ideally, they will bring their proven record of work in organizing or campaigning to help successfully oversee and implement online email outreach and text broadcasts, social-media growth.
To apply, please visit our jobs website.
The successful Digital Organizer will:
- Be a strategic and creative thinker
- Be a skilled writer and content creator
- Have a strong commitment to and view work with through the lens of equity and justice
- Be an innovative, proactive problem solver
- Be a collaborative teammate
- Be passionate about using online tools and learning new technologies
- Be able to bring people together around shared visions, challenges and opportunities to take collective action
- Have a baseline understanding of war and militarism
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Produce content and manage communication calendar for emails and petitions using Action Network, social media, website, SMS and P2P text campaigns
- Monitor engagement and inboxes across channels in order to respond to supporters, capitalize on opportunities, and build resilient audiences
- Expand and grow the Vets for the People's follower base on digital platforms, e.g., email, sms, social media, Slack
- Collaborate with Director of Peace & Security and Vets for the People team to shape the organization's overall digital strategy and integrate it throughout our priorities and campaigns
- Collaborate with the Director of Peace & Security and Vets for the People team to craft narrative strategy and content around divesting from war to invest in safety
- Help craft narrative strategy and content around divesting from war to invest in safety
- Oversee and implement online email outreach and text broadcasts, social-media growth
Skills and Qualifications
- At least 1 cycle or year of experience organizing with volunteers, demonstrated development of volunteer leadership, and leading training.
- Strong technology skills including proficiency with Action Network, Slack, Text/SMS Broadcast, Social Media, and Data Entry
- A strong grasp of narrative strategy with race, gender and class and coachable on narrative aspects around veterans/military and war
- A strong track record of absorption through digital tactics and growing platforms
- Creativity with constituency building
- Familiarity with electoral and/or issue campaign tactics, messaging
- Demonstrated drive to be proactive, innovative and experimental in how you organize
- Ability to work varied hours including nights, weekends and occasional holidays
- Demonstrated ability to change gears quickly and nimbly in a campaign environment
- Belief in leadership development and that growth relies on an individual's ability to own important projects and achieve success for themselves
- Belief that organizing is about building connections and relationships, and that distributing knowledge and power is key
- Belief that technology should be in service of organizing, not the other way round
- Belief that people collectively planning and working together create better solutions than the individual
- Must have access to strong wifi and good phone reception
- Commitment to progressive politics
Preferred (but not required) Skills and Qualifications
- Veteran or military connected or experience with military/veteran communities OR someone with personal experience with war, occupation, militarism, or connections or background in foreign policy, national security, or anti-war organizing or policy
- Progressive movement relationships
- Familiarity working with VAN or other voter file data
- Experience and comfort using EveryAction for tracking volunteer activity
- Experience and knowledge of PostGres databases, SQL queries, and/or Python language
- Strong command of Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet software
What Else You Should Know
This position is remote and will work from home. The Digital Organizer does not need to be based in New York. The role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers and phones. Once the health crisis has abated, occasional travel to off-site locations to meetings and events is required. The position requires the ability to multitask frequently and to work sometimes irregular days and hours to fulfill the essential functions of the position.
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $50,000 and $65,000 and will be adjusted based on an internal equitable scale that takes into consideration years of experience, geographic location, and final job description. We also offer excellent benefits.
To apply, please visit our jobs website.
About Working Families Party
The Working Families Party is the progressive party for the multiracial working class, fighting for a nation that works for the many, not the few. Our People's Charter spells out our roadmap to a nation that cares for all of us. We recruit, train, and support transformational candidates up and down the ballot — and run them to win.
The WFP is made up of individual and organizational members who come together to build a new political movement to change America.
Working Families is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic and social justice. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply.
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