Context: Works with the Chapter Director, Volunteer Coordinator, and consultants to launch and support a volunteer canvassing, calling and texting program that can contact a strategically significant number of voters in local elections, as well as in any other targeted 2019 elections, with the goal of expanding to a 2020 statewide program.
Scope: The Political Organizer plans, organizes and implements the Chapter’s distributed political program. Conducts volunteer recruitment, volunteer training, canvassing and activist recruitment among Sierra Club members and supporters. Provides support for issue campaigns and political programs.
- Identify, recruit, and support volunteer leaders
- Recruit, train and develop teams of volunteers
- Motivate volunteers to meet voter contact goals
- Helps train volunteers on organizing skills, both in person and online.
- Build and conduct field canvasses.
- Gives public presentations on behalf of the Colorado Sierra Club.
- Help maintain in-house event creation and event management technology.
- Build volunteer teams while providing ongoing updates, frequent team calls, reporting results and recognizing super volunteers.
- Provide support for our political programs including event planning, data entry, and mailings.
- Provide reporting on events including tracking attendance and voter contact results.
- Provide support for legislative programs.
- Supports implementation of the Chapter’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
- Other miscellaneous duties as assigned
- Some experience in grassroots organizing, training, motivating volunteers, and political campaigns.
- Demonstrated written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated public speaking ability.
- Demonstrated ability and effectiveness working with volunteers.
- Comfort working in fast-paced environments, and ability to navigate complex and nuanced situations.
- Flexibility; every phase of this campaign will be different, and your responsibilities may shift over time.
- Self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to work independently towards goals.
- Valid driver’s license, satisfactory driving record, and proof of auto insurance required.
- Experience with Microsoft Office applications, Google drive, email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, websites.
- Experience with Slack, Google Drive, Zoom (or equivalent), and constituent database management applications such as the Voter Activation Network (VAN) and Salesforce is preferred.
Sierra Club is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. Sierra Club employees are not eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program. Sierra Club does not sponsor H1B visas.