Invest in Our New York Campaign Organizer

at  Nexus Management

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

Citizen Action is a statewide grassroots movement organization that fights for political, social, racial, economic and environmental justice. We work at the grassroots to give people a sense of their own power. We collaborate with organizations and coalitions in communities throughout New York to address critical issues at the local, state and federal levels.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of directly relevant experience with grassroots organizing campaigns, preferably advocacy-based and/or political campaigns.
• Demonstrated experience with developing and advancing organizing programs and campaigns, or similar for 1-2 years.
• Exceptional communication skills, including an ability to engage a variety of stakeholders such as community organizations, grassroots member leaders, unions, issue coalitions, elected officials, and members of the press.
• Experience with working with coalitions or with managing volunteers.
• High-level of personal organization including the ability to manage deadlines for multiple projects.
• Familiarity and experience with the New York State political and social justice movement.
• Familiarity with or ability and willingness to fully adopt use of tech tools, including:
• CRM & digital campaigning: Action Network, EveryAction, VAN, Mobilize, Soapboxx, New/Mode, Spoke/Relay, Divi, Strive, Mailchimp
• Project management: Asana, Google Drive, Slack, Airtable, Zoom
• Ability for statewide travel and to work some evenings and weekends
• Bilingual Spanish speaker a plus

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Citizen Action of NY and The Public Policy and Education Fund are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. We are looking for the most passionate people who want to join our team. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
Applicants may be entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the ADA and state/local laws. Please let us know if you need assistance participating in the interview process

• Support the development and execution of the Invest in Our New York’s organizing strategy, with a particular focus on growing support and involvement from grassroots partners from around the state. This will include leveraging existing campaign resources (thousands of active members, support across labor unions and other stakeholders, social media, email lists, press relationships etc).
• Coordinate organizational partners in executing the strategy while ensuring that the coalition’s efforts center the needs and leadership of directly impacted people.
• Identify and recruit new coalition partners, particularly those representing critical geographies such as Buffalo, the Capitol Region, the Mid-Hudson Valley, etc.
• Plan and execute collective actions that advance our legislative priorities. Actions can include things like lobby days, phone banks, press conferences, canvassing, and more creative activities.
• Develop political education training materials aimed at members, leaders and staff of grassroots organizations.
• Lead trainings that will strengthen participants’ understanding of the NY budget process, and IONY’s economic vision and legislative priorities.
• Collaborate with IONY’s communications coordinator to develop campaign literature including palm cards and mailers.
• Any other duties as assigned by their supervisor.