Contract Statewide Rural
Location: Utah (Rural Utah preferred)
Pay Range: $1,000 - 1,400 week
Reports to: Utah Lead Organizer
United Today, Stronger Tomorrow, a national, state, and local organizing project, is seeking to hire a local full-time (contract) Utah base building organizer to run a new project addressing issues affecting Utahns as we emerge from the Covid pandemic, and to ensure that federal resources coming into Utah are directed towards community needs. The project’s goals are: 1) identify the top issues impacting communities, workers, and people in the state, 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.
Job Description: The organizer will work under the direction and with support from the Utah Lead Organizer and UTST senior staff to manage member-run, local organizing committee(s) in rural communities across the state. The staff person will work with members and local grass top leaders, including local elected officials, workers, and small business owners, to lead campaigns on issues that are widely and deeply felt across the diverse constituency. In addition to base building, the organizer will build relationships with existing organizations who are potential coalition partners in these campaigns. The issues, demands, targets, and strategies will be developed by the local organizing committee.
Job Responsibilities:
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Build a base of people and organizations to activate in local and state campaigns focused on delivering concrete benefits to Utahns.
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Identify new pipelines of leaders and activists for campaigns.
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Conduct one-on-ones with potential leaders and build leadership development programs.
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Convene issue committees to be co-facilitated by member leaders.
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Manage the texting program - use phone, text, one-on-ones, and more, to build the organizing committee.
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Moderate Facebook groups and other social channels specific to the project.
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Identify leadership roles and support leaders in doing community organizing work (training, check-ins, and management, for example).
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Organize and work with leaders to lead meetings and briefings, for example.
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Implement an earned media strategy to garner local press and media attention.
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Organize research teams that can identify policy solutions and communicate them to a general audience.
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Learn and teach local political dynamics to organizing committee leaders.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate is someone who is interested in building statewide campaign and has strong experience in base-building, leadership development and managing multiple organizing committees and local campaigns, especially with diverse communities and people across the political spectrum; experience on an issue, policy, corporate, union, or administrative campaign; and interest in leading a campaign. Prior experience in distributive on-line to off-line organizing is extremely helpful, but not required.
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One-two years experience base-building and building community leaders.
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Experience working on a campaign - preferably an issue, administrative, corporate, or unionization campaign.
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Experience managing projects, programs, or an organizing committee.
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Willing to travel around the state and spend multiple days in rural communities working on local campaigns and building local leaders.
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An ability to build and manage relationships with a wide array of stakeholders and to multitask different pieces of work.
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Experience building diverse teams and staffing workgroups and/or committees.
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A track record of recruiting, developing, and managing leaders and volunteers.
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The ability to implement digital organizing tools, tactics, and strategies.
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Strong writing skills.
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Experience working with media (writing press releases, pitching, and organizing press events) is preferred, but not required.
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Working knowledge of EveryAction, Spoke texting tool, New Mode, and digital advertising is a plus but not required.
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Having a car, working laptop and the ability to travel overnight to communities across Utah, as well as regional and team wide meetings is required.
Pay range is $1000 - $1400 per week to deliver on a clear work plan. Flexible hours. Travel expenses are covered.
UTST Organizer positions start as contracts but once completion of the probationary period, you will get offered a full time position based on your skill level, experience and performance.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to [email protected] that includes why you are interested in this position and how your experience can help build the project. PLEASE PUT UT ORGANIZER IN THE SUBJECT LINE.