James Willard
Texas Gun Owners for Safety Consultant
Summary:
Giffords understands the need to amplify the voices of gun owners and to include them as leaders in gun violence prevention efforts across the country. In order to accomplish this, we are expanding our current gun owner coalitions to encompass the entire nation and amplifying our emphasis on building Gun Owners for Safety (GOS), in Texas. This contractor will work in Texas using best practices to recruit, educate and activate gun owners in the fight against gun violence.
Location: Texas (preferably San Antonio or Dallas).
Goals:
· Engage gun owners in the fight to prevent gun violence.
· Identify, recruit, educate and activate gun owners to promote policy change.
· Increase Giffords’ impact and footprint throughout Texas.
Duties + Responsibilities:
The Texas Consultant will:
· Build a base of gun owners and identify media surrogates in TX.
· Recruit volunteer state leads in TX.
· Coordinate state activities including but not limited to: building out state partnerships and relationships, attending and participating in state coalition meetings, planning recruitment events/initiatives, coordinating meetings and goal setting with the TX GOS steering committee, attending and participating in potential partner meetings/events/initiatives, coordinating a cross coalition gun owners for safety convening (w/ Consultants in MN and CO), planning and executing a state-wide Giffords education tour, coordinating educational issue polling, coordinating trainings and etc.
· Organize and execute state-wide events which could include: roundtables, press conferences, community meetings, rallies, etc.
· Act as a liaison between the Giffords Engagement team, TX GOS steering committee, TX gun owners and local/state organizations.
· Work with the Giffords’ Engagement team to utilize gun owners nationwide to participate in the national launch of GOS in the summer of 2020.
· Engage in other organizing and/or political campaigns and activities on an ad hoc basis.
Essential Skills + Experience:
· 3-5 years’ experience in organizing, campaigns, coalition-building or related fields; prior campaign experience with gun violence prevention and gun owners preferred.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to recruit and retain volunteers and members.
· Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to build and execute a campaign plan from the early stages.
· Excellent time management skills and the ability to multitask.
· Strong interpersonal skills, sense of humor and the ability to work well on a team with remote supervision.
· Commitment to Giffords’ mission and goals.
Duration:
March 16th, 2020 - August 31, 2020.
Amount:
Giffords will grant the Consultant $5,000 per month to complete the above deliverables.
Application Details:
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to jwil...@giffords.org. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.