PL+US: Paid Leave for the United States is hiring a Membership Development Manager to join our fast-moving team fighting to win paid family and medical leave for everyone in the United States.
About us
In just five years, PL+US has won paid leave for nearly 8.5 million people. We’ve won change at some of the top employers in the country, including Walmart and Starbucks, and we’re taking that momentum into the fight to win national public policy. Paid leave is poised to take off as the next high-profile national issue.
Since our founding, the PL+US team has quadrupled in size and has cultivated a culture that is bold, curious, real, excellent, and compassionate. We are committed to centering equity in our work and on our team, and are working at all levels of the organization to better embody anti-racism internally and externally. We are agile, collaborative problem solvers who are passionate about winning paid leave and we mean it when we say that family comes first, for those we fight alongside and for our own team.
About this opportunity
As Membership Development Manager, you will play a critical role in winning paid family leave for everyone in the US, because our member’s voices and the experiences of impacted communities are at the center of all aspects of our work.
In this role, you will report to the Senior Director of Campaigns and Grassroots Advocacy. You will have the opportunity to scale our membership program and build the ground game that will be critical for achieving our legislative and political goals. You will develop new strategies and build on our current program to recruit, engage, and mobilize members to be passionate advocates and spokespeople for paid leave.
Reports to: Karin Roland, Sr. Director of Campaigns & Grassroots Advocacy
Supervises: n/a
In this role, you will develop and execute a plan to build a bench of advocate spokespeople whose experiences influence the public narrative and elected officials, and guide PL+US’s decision-making.
- Build a broad, diverse community of advocates in key communities geographic areas and who are trained and prepared to share their paid leave experience publicly.
- Recruit dozens advocates to share their stories with paid leave, caregiving, and/or the pandemic, with a particular focus on expanding our network BIPOC, low-wage and gig worker advocates.
- Train and develop PL+US advocates to become expert spokespeople who share their stories publicly and with elected officials and organize in their communities.
- Manage advocate relationships and develop our advocate network, including building and maintaining systems to track our advocates and keep them engaged with PL+US for the long-term.
- Develop and implement systems to track advocates over time and keep them engaged with PL+US in an ongoing and consistent manner.
- Create leadership opportunities to expand our advocates skills and engagement with paid leave advocacy and with PL+US.
- Communicate regularly with advocates to build ongoing relationships and continued engagement with PL+US.
- Develop and manage relationships with partner organizations to expand the coalition of groups who are elevating paid leave stories and storytellers.
- Work with partner organizations to expand PL+US pipeline of paid leave advocates.
- Support partner organizations in recruiting and training paid leave advocates from their audiences, and mobilizing for paid leave policy.
- Develop our advocate network to become an active, engaged, and powerful grassroots force for paid leave, and mobilize them to take action:
- Elevate prominent storytellers on the national stage (national media hits, public events, meetings with national political leaders, etc).
- Ensure advocates have frequent and regular opportunities to engage with PL+US and take action for paid leave, from LTEs to meeting with their elected officials.
- Work with PL+US legislative, political, and communications teams to mobilize advocates in key moments for our campaign.
About you
You are the ideal candidate for this role if you have deep experience in grassroots organizing, outreach, recruitment, and training. You love working with people, developing one-on-one relationships, practicing radical hospitality with advocates, and supporting people to grow into powerful spokespeople and agents of change. You pay close attention to detail and are technologically savvy when it comes to modern tools of grassroots engagement, from Zoom to mass text outreach to enthusiasm for good CRM hygiene!
To be successful in this role, you'll need
- Experience organizing in a political or issue advocacy context
- Experience working with people most impacted by, or living on the frontlines of, a social issue
- Experience designing and managing training or development programs for members, such as advocacy training or media spokesperson training
- Strong project management skills, ability to translate goals into a plan and execute effectively
- Ability to effectively set priorities and manage time, especially in a virtual work environment
- Attention to detail and comfort using digital tracking and communications tools
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to be compassionate, culturally sensitive, self-aware, and excited to continually learn
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a desire to engage in anti-racism practices
- Bonus if you have experience working effectively in coalition with partner organizations
- Bonus if you have experience using EveryAction / NGP VAN or a similar CRM
- Bonus if you are fluent or conversant in a language other than English
Job Requirements
This position requires the ability to:
- Conduct business in fluent English
- Operate a computer and work at a computer for sustained periods of time
- Participate in live virtual meetings over video conference and/or phone
Salary: $70,125-$82,500/annually, based on qualifications and experience
Some of the Benefits of Working for PL+US
- Awesome team of high impact, low ego people who live by our organizational values: be bold, curious, real, excellent, and compassionate.
- Flexible work schedule. If you need to leave early to pick up your kid from school or bring your mom to the doctor, that’s cool.
- Generous time off. Unlimited vacation, 12 paid holidays, and we all take the week between Christmas and New Years off.
- Up to 6 months of paid family leave, as well as health, dental, and vision insurance (up to $975/month when you enroll in our plans).
- Retirement accounts. We offer a 401(k) since we want you to retire one day.
- Commuter benefits program, medical and dependent care FSA program, and employer-paid life and disability insurance.
- Personal professional development budget ($1,000 in 2021) and a learning-oriented culture to support your growth.
- 100% remote team (before and after the pandemic) with stipends to offset the cost of your home office.
To Apply: Please submit your resume at Recruiterbox, and in lieu of a cover letter, please respond to the four application questions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and interviews will begin ASAP.
Application Questions:
- Why are you passionate about winning paid family and medical leave for everyone in the United States?
- Tell us about a time you were successful in supporting an advocate to tell their story. What worked well and what was the impact?
- What are some of the challenges you have faced in organizing people to take action on an important issue?
- What is your approach to engaging members and advocates in a remote/virtual environment, where in-person events are not possible?
Apply online here: https://paidleave.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0u2ej?cjb_hash=O_dClO79&apply_...
PL+US is deeply committed to diversity. We strongly encourage people of color, first-generation Americans, people with caregiving responsibilities, people with disabilities, and members of the queer community to apply.
PL+US is an equal opportunity employer. This means that we don't discriminate against people because of their race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, personal appearance, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, or political affiliation.