Montana Organizer - United Today, Stronger Tomorrow is Hiring!
Micayla
United Today, Stronger Tomorrow
Local Montana Campaign Organizer
Full Time Position
United Today, Stronger Tomorrow, a new national, state, and local organizing project is seeking to hire a LOCAL full-time Montana campaign organizer for 8 months with the potential for a longer term position. The organizer will test the potential to build and run a new organizing project to address issues affecting Montanans post-Covid and to ensure that federal recovery funds coming into Montana are directed towards community needs.
The project’s goals are: 1) identify the top issues impacting communities, workers, and people in the state and in a set of counties and how new federal funding coming into MT can address those issues 2) help lead a process to build a base of impacted people, and 3) initiate a campaign development process that leads to a winnable campaign at the county and potentially state level.
Job Description: The organizer will build and manage a member-run, local, organizing committee(s) and will work with its members to conduct campaigns on issues that are widely and deeply felt across a diverse MT constituency. In addition to base building, the organizer will develop relationships with existing organizations who are potential campaign coalition partners. The organizer will develop and train committee members, build a campaign plan, and manage the campaign in collaboration with the project partners. The issues, demands, targets, and strategies will be developed by the local organizing committee.
Job Responsibilities:
Build a base of people and organizations into local and state campaigns focused on delivering concrete benefits to Montanans.
Identify new pipelines of leaders and activists for campaigns.
Conduct one-on-ones with potential leaders and build leadership development programs.
Convene issue committees to be co-facilitated by member leaders.
Manage a texting program.
Moderate Facebook groups and other social channels specific to the project.
Identify leadership roles and support leaders in doing community organizing work (training, check-ins, and management, for example).
Organize and work with leaders to lead meetings and briefings.
Implement an earned media strategy to garner local press and media attention.
Organize research teams that can identify policy solutions and communicate them to a general audience.
Learn and teach local political dynamics to organizing committee leaders.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate is someone who has strong experience in base building and leadership development, especially with diverse communities; experience on an issue, policy, corporate, union, or administrative campaign; and interest in leading a campaign. We are open to considering people who do not have paid experience but a deep desire to learn community organizing and to improve their local community.
One to three years experience in base-building and building community leaders.
Experience working on a campaign - preferably an issue, administrative, corporate, or unionization campaign.
Experience managing projects, programs, or an organizing committee.
Experience working in coalitions and/or with a set of organizations and partners.
An ability to build and manage relationships with a wide array of stakeholders and to multitask different pieces of work.
Experience building diverse teams and staffing workgroups and/or committees.
A track record of recruiting, developing, and managing leaders and volunteers.
The ability to implement digital organizing tools, tactics, and strategies.
Strong writing skills.
Experience working with media (writing press releases, pitching, and organizing press events) is preferred, but not required.
Technical qualifications include working knowledge of Nationbuilder, Action Network, Spoke texting tool, New Mode, and some Facebook advertising experience.
Women, native/indigenous people, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people are strongly encouraged to apply.
Ability to drive long distances and attend national staff meetings is required. All work travel is reimbursed.
Salary range is $ 900 -1600 per week DOE.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to jo...@unitedtoday.org that includes why you are interested in this position and how your experience can help build the project. PLEASE PUT MT ORGANIZER IN THE SUBJECT LINE.