We’re Looking for a temporary Field Organizer based in California!
350.org is working with partners to mobilize people across the globe as part of Rise for Climate Action - where tens of thousands of people around the world we mobilize in their communities around the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) this September. This position is focused on the anchor mobilization in San Francisco Sept 8, 2018 (the Summit itself is Sept 12-14) - helping ensure a large-scale mobilizations with tens of thousands of people come together to ensure our movement’s demands of real climate leadership are clear.
The Field Organizer will work with 350.org staff, our local group affiliates across California, partner organizations, the Peoples’ Climate Movement, and volunteers to successfully mobilize and grow our base. The field organizer will also help 350 local affiliated groups - at various stages of growth and sophistication - to build their skills, leadership and profile through training, troubleshooting and coaching
- Provide regular communications to 350’s base and local affiliated groups via email and phone.
- Help local group leaders and organizers to develop goals and a strategic plan for the GCAS and to achieve diverse measurable targets such as maximizing turnout, coalition building, justice and equity, media and communications, fundraising, and promotion.
- Help organizers to troubleshoot problems, and resolve conflicts via phone calls and emails
- Develop and deliver trainings and frequent calls for action hosts
- Coordinate with 350 staff and partner organization staff around actions, communications, digital, and logistics.
- Coordinate and support follow-up plans
- Draft and send emails to event hosts via Action Network
- Track events, reconcile duplicate, coordinate between hosts to combine actions that are in the same city, maintain event report etc.
- Event/project management, including experience recruiting for and organizing large mobilizations; ability to provide support on goal setting, coalition building, outreach, promotion, logistics - including digital, comms, fundraising, arts, follow up, and more
- Team building, coaching, facilitation, training and volunteer coordination
- Understanding and passion for movement building and climate and social justice
- Working in networks of local groups to develop organizational leadership, structure, capacity, strategy and resources
- Ability to work with people of diverse ages and cross-culturally
- Ability to adapt quickly to new digital tools and systems
- Excellent written and verbal communications
- Experience with CRMs and digital advocacy tools including Action Network preferred
- Strong writing skills with experience writing email blasts, host toolkits, etc.