Youth Vote Organizers - Ohio Coordinated Campaign

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Ohio Together, the Ohio Democratic Coordinated Campaign, is hiring top-quality Campus Organizers for the 2016 Youth Vote program. The Coordinated Campaign’s grassroots infrastructure spans all 88 counties and works to energize and empower local communities in support of Hillary Clinton in one of the country’s top Presidential battleground states. Organizers are the core of the Coordinated Campaign and will be responsible for delivering the margin of victory to Democrats up and down the ticket. Campus Organizers report to Campus Regional Organizing Directors and will be based at universities and colleges across the state. Position runs no later than mid-November 2016.

 

To apply, please send your resume to res...@ohvictory2016.org.

 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Recruiting, training, and managing student volunteers.
  
• Developing volunteer leaders to organize voter registration drives, phone banks, canvasses, and other events designed to mobilize young voters and engage volunteers.
  
• Developing creative tactics to help make organizing fun and meaningful for young voters.
  
• Promoting and helping manage celebrity surrogate events on campus or in the community.
  
• Meeting voter registration and volunteer recruitment goals.
  
• Conducting outreach to student groups, university and college administrators and professors, local businesses and allied organizations.
  
• Representing the campaign at campus community meetings and events.
  
• Implementing direct voter contact programs to motivate and mobilize young voters and equipping young voters with the information they need to cast a ballot.
  

Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:

 

• Strong commitment to Democratic politics and ideals and enthusiasm for electing Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Ticket in Ohio.
  
• Excitement about organizing young people.
  
• Energetic and willing to work nontraditional hours.
  
• Great time management and organization skills.
  
• Discipline and a solutions-oriented attitude toward tasks.
  
• Creative thinking and problem solving skills.
  
• Ability to train and instruct volunteers.
  
• Excellent listening skills and ability to speak and write effectively and professionally
  
• Strong organizational, management, and interpersonal skills.
  
• Flexible and able to make on-the-spot decisions.
  
• Ability to handle multiple priority projects and meet established timelines.
  
• Candidates with experience with campus or youth organizing, volunteer recruitment and management or building relationships with diverse groups of people are preferred.
  
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.
  

 

Salary is competitive and will include benefits. The Ohio Democratic Coordinated Campaign is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or physical disability, or any other legally protected basis.