Remote Senior Campaign Organizer

Summary

Join a team of passionate individuals at Sierra Club to work as a Senior Campaign Organizer. This role involves organizing campaigns that win real victories and build grassroots power. The successful candidate will have experience in community organizing, campaign implementation, volunteer development, and team building.

Requirements

• Experience as an organizer and/or leading community organizing campaigns prior experience and/or demonstrated ability in developing, training, and coaching volunteers
• Some knowledge and experience with the craft of grassroots organizing and power building
• Experience planning or implementing a state or state level campaign, including developing strategy and tactics, organizing, lobbying, media relations, and working with mid to senior level political, organizational and business leaders
• Track record of recruiting and developing volunteer leaders along a progression of leadership
• Skillful at building trusting, mutually accountable relationships with a diversity of volunteer leaders
• Skillful at placing volunteers with roles that match their expertise and passions
• Demonstrated leadership experience working within a team structure
• Ability to build vision, trust, and mutual accountability with team members
• Experience working closely with volunteers
• Highly developed communication skills, with a focus on communicating effectively across different groups of stakeholders, internally and externally
• Reliable communicator that regularly follows up with volunteer leaders
• Experience using quantitative data (for example, numbers of people engaged) and qualitative data (for instance, stories about people taking action) to inform and evaluate organizing work
• Working knowledge and experience with G-Suite, Zoom, Canva, Mobilize, and Hustle and the ability to learn new technology tools to support organizing and campaign goals
• Proven ability to train and coach volunteers on tools

Responsibilities

• Participates in the creation of a state strategy while leading a specific campaign, balancing national and local priorities
• Develops tactics and metrics, tracks policy and regulatory proceedings, identifies opportunities for engagement, mobilization, or intervention for one or more campaign outcomes
• Ensures that campaigns are rooted in equity and justice and inclusive of frontline and directly impacted communities
• Develops and carries out individual campaign organizing plans, including organizing tactics, conducting or overseeing research, developing engagement strategies, facilitating organizing meetings, volunteer integration, and developing and leveraging partnerships
• Evaluates progress and measures of effectiveness through data collection and key metrics
• Weaves individual campaigns with other key state strategic campaigns and desired outcomes to ensure unified organizing in the state
• Builds a healthy, mutually accountable relationship with Chapter staff and volunteers to carry out Sierra Club priorities
• Communicates clear expectations, capacity, and works in strategic alignment to accomplish Sierra Club’s priority goals
• Prioritizes relationships with volunteer leaders and coordinates with other Sierra Club stakeholders as needed
• Develop a comprehensive volunteer development strategy to support volunteers from onboarding to leadership through training, coaching, and mentorship
• Coordinate with state and Chapter staff to support volunteer leadership development and organizing metrics
• Identify and develop new and existing volunteers to support as they assume new leadership roles and build Sierra Club’s grassroots power and extend outreach into communities
• Supports and trains volunteers on organizing skills and developing issue expertise
• Support issue-focused volunteer teams to accomplish their goals, coach volunteers on skills, coordinate activities, and engage key stakeholders and coalitions, elected and appointed decision makers, and their influencers to assure advancement of Sierra Club’s priorities
• In coordination with state and Chapter staff and volunteers, develops strategic communication and grasstop engagement strategies and metrics
• Represents Sierra Club priorities to public officials, partner organizations, and to the media
• Maintains positive relationships with strategic partners, coalitions, members of the media, grassroots leaders, elected officials, and government officials when strategic and aligns with the strategic priorities in the state
• As needed, serves as Sierra Club spokesperson to media outlets and promotes volunteer and partner organization media exposure
• Build, maintain, and participate on teams to advance state level specific campaign work and Chapter organization building
• Train and develop volunteer leaders who are skillful at facilitating effective, healthy teams
• Actively participate and build the state campaign team

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement savings 401(k) plan