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Regional Organizing Director - Southeast Wisconsin
For Our Future Action FundSoutheast Wisconsin, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Jul 2024
💰 $60,000/yr($54,000/yr – $60,000/yr)
About the role
Position: Regional Organizing Director - Southeast WIJob Location: South East WisconsinPosition Type: Full Time, Exempt Position Classification: Not Union EligibleCompensation: $54,000 - $60,000 per yearPosition Travel/Driving Percentage: 50 % Reports to: Deputy Organizing Director
About For Our FutureFounded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest, permanent progressive field program across key states. Our vision is to expand the progressive infrastructure and advance economic prosperity for all, strong community schools, climate justice, and racial and social justice. Along with community partners and volunteers, we consistently engage with people in face-to-face conversations around what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, drive local progress, make a community’s collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people’s lives.
ClassificationFor Our Future recognizes a staff bargaining unit, affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 2304, a labor union. This position is NOT included in the For Our Future bargaining unit.
About the RoleFor Our Future Wisconsin seeks a full-time Regional Organizing Director to manage our organizing, political, and voter contact programs. They will be responsible for building a robust volunteer and grassroots organizing operation, engaging in coalition building activities, coordinating with key stakeholders, and managing paid outreach staff within your assigned region. Responsibilities may grow to include managing a regional team and a paid canvass operation. This position may require frequent travel throughout the assigned region, South East Wisconsin (Waukesha, Kenosha, and Racine counties).
This position runs through at least December 12, 2024.
About For Our FutureFounded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest, permanent progressive field program across key states. Our vision is to expand the progressive infrastructure and advance economic prosperity for all, strong community schools, climate justice, and racial and social justice. Along with community partners and volunteers, we consistently engage with people in face-to-face conversations around what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, drive local progress, make a community’s collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people’s lives.
ClassificationFor Our Future recognizes a staff bargaining unit, affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 2304, a labor union. This position is NOT included in the For Our Future bargaining unit.
About the RoleFor Our Future Wisconsin seeks a full-time Regional Organizing Director to manage our organizing, political, and voter contact programs. They will be responsible for building a robust volunteer and grassroots organizing operation, engaging in coalition building activities, coordinating with key stakeholders, and managing paid outreach staff within your assigned region. Responsibilities may grow to include managing a regional team and a paid canvass operation. This position may require frequent travel throughout the assigned region, South East Wisconsin (Waukesha, Kenosha, and Racine counties).
This position runs through at least December 12, 2024.
Essential Functions
- Engage in coalition building and coordinating with local and regional partners and volunteers to build stronger long-term progressive capacity in the region.
- Spearhead local grassroots in-person and virtual actions, organizing events, and phone banks around priority issues and upcoming elections.
- Collaborate with departmental leadership to implement the state plan in the assigned region.
- Conduct regular volunteer recruitment calls, volunteer management activities, and direct voter contact calls and door knocking.
- Implement and monitor systems to ensure regionally assigned metrics are met or exceeded and ensure all reporting is up-to-date.
- Coordinate with the digital and communications departments to build grassroots capacity in these areas.
- Positively represent the organization at virtual and in-person community events and meetings.
- Hire, train, and manage regional staff and volunteers to execute a comprehensive field and digital organizing program including potential paid canvass and caller operations.
- Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
Skills and Qualifications
- At least two (2) cycles of competitive campaign organizing experience.
- At least one (1) cycle of experience managing a team and hitting competitive field goals.
- Must have access to reliable transportation, a valid driver's license/insurance/registration, and clean driving record for at least 1 year, per organizations drivers policy.
- Experience with digital organizing, coalition building, or communications is a plus.
- At least two years of relationship-based organizing and leadership development experience, including one-on-one meetings and team building.
- Flexibility and readiness to adapt and change responsibilities and programming quickly as conditions change.
- Ability to outreach and build partnerships with other progressive organizations.
- Familiarity with the Wisconsin progressive landscape; localized knowledge preferred.
- Knowledge and understanding of scaling voter contact programs and best practices for high quality voter contact that meets metric-based goals.
- Demonstrated experience working on projects with high-productivity, juggling several priorities that may change quickly, and meeting tight deadlines.
- Must have computer literacy and access to a reliable laptop, is ideal.
- Ability to meet deadlines under pressure while handling multiple projects.
- Experience in supporting media and communications programming, preferred.
- Bilingual experience is a plus, but not required.
- Ability to maintain "Independent" firewall status, which may limit your ability to take outside emplo
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