Coalition Manager

Summary

Join the Giffords team as their Coalition Manager for Gun Owners for Safety and lead efforts to expand and mobilize a national network of responsible gun owners who support common sense gun safety policies. This full-time position, based in the contiguous US with at least 30% travel, focuses on developing and executing strategies to increase volunteer recruitment, engagement, and management. You will collaborate with various teams, build events, and oversee volunteer training and communications. The ideal candidate possesses strong organizing and volunteer management experience, political acuity, data management skills, and a deep understanding of firearms. This role involves managing a part-time Regional Coordinator and serving as a spokesperson for Gun Owners for Safety. The position requires a commitment to ending gun violence through effective engagement of gun owners.

Requirements

• Minimum two to four years of relevant work experience in coalition building, community and field organizing, issue campaigns or grassroots legislative advocacy
• Proven experience managing volunteers and tracking metrics of engagement
• Deep knowledge of and experience with firearms
• A record of being a collaborative teammate, capable of building and managing relationships internally and externally
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively with allied organizations, build new relationships and create partnerships
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to convey complex issues in clear and simple terms
• Comfort and experience with gun owners and gun owner culture
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to be flexible
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills, sense of humor and ability to work well on a team
• Commitment to ending America’s gun violence epidemic through effective engagement of gun owners
• Comfort working in a moderate political environment with bi-partisan and centrist constituencies

Responsibilities

• Develops strategy to grow and strengthen the Gun Owners for Safety coalition nationwide, with a focus on recruiting and training volunteers in strategic states to further gun violence prevention efforts at the national, state and local levels
• Coordinates and manages the Senior Ambassador program (volunteer leaders) by conducting monthly calls, check-ins, field activity planning, stipend disbursements, and data tracking
• Manages and tracks volunteer recruitment, training, and engagement to ensure steady growth and retention measurable by established metrics
• Collaborates closely with teams across the organization – including Communications, Research, Government Affairs, State Affairs and Policy, and Litigation to build events such as lobby days, trainings, message guidance and talking points, testimony, and other coalition materials to be used by advocates in the field and while representing GIFFORDS and GOS publicly
• Oversees the development and leads volunteer training, peer-to-peer organizing, and storytelling efforts; supporting volunteers in sharing their personal stories to advocate for change in partnership with internal and external stakeholders
• Develops and organizes campaigns, expands programs and initiatives, coordinates events and meetings with the GOS coalition, grassroots and grass-tops partners to maintain and expand the GOS footprint
• Identifies opportunities and coordinates gun owners to speak to external audiences, including media, on behalf of Giffords; with support for preparation, messaging, and logistics
• Manages the database tools for volunteer activities, growth, events, actions, and progression along the ladder of engagement
• Oversees communications platform to external audiences
• Continues efforts to expand and broaden Giffords’ engagement to include a diverse and inclusive group of gun owners working on the issue
• Serves as a spokesperson for Gun Owners for Safety
• Supervises the part-time GOS Regional Coordinator
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 organizations
• Bilingual in Spanish and English

Benefits

• Employer-funded health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health, transit, and parking flexible spending accounts
• 401k plan with 4% employer match
• Reimbursement for cell phone and monthly wifi stipend
• 25 days of PTO annually plus paid week closure at the end of the calendar year
• Ten paid federal holidays