Kimberly Fountain called me yesterday to tell me that the company she works with is looking to hire people to work on campaigns! Here is an excerpt from the email she sent me following our conversation:
"(here are) the job descriptions for both Field Organizers (MoveOn.org) and Canvass Directors (Environmental Action). I have also included "A day in the life" for both jobs, so people know what the jobs truly entail. We are looking to hire over 300 people this spring in order to really Take Back Congress!"
What was attached to the email is now in the comments of this post. Good luck to all interested parties!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Progressive Jobs Available!
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A Day In The Life Of A Canvass Director/Assistant Director:
8:30am: Arrive in office. Meet with co-director to debrief on previous night’s canvassing. Analyze overall recruitment and canvassing results, assess performance versus weekly goals, and adjust your plan to make improvements.
9:00am: Quickly complete administrative tasks such as updating staff payroll, depositing fundraising proceeds, and running recruitment ads for the following week.
10:00am: Interview prospective candidates for your staff. Describe the current campaign: a nationwide grassroots effort to stop President Bush’s “Clear Skies” bill, which would undermine clean air protections and allow power plants to pollute more than under current law.
11:00am: Meet with leadership team (field managers). Get feedback on your plan for staff recruitment, discuss strategies for targeting neighborhoods and training specific canvassers on fundraising skills. Develop a plan to contact volunteers identified through canvassing for a letter-to-the-editor drive.
12:00pm: Run orientation with new canvassers, teaching them the basics of canvassing and practicing how to best talk about the campaign.
2:00pm: Staff announcements. Set team goal for the day, announce results from the evening before, read key updates from daily clippings and news stories.
2:15pm:Meet up with the other four other people in your canvassing crew and drive out to a nearby town.
4:00pm: Begin canvassing with a new trainee, with a goal of signing up 6 donors and two volunteers, and raising $200 for the campaign. Give tips and feedback to build new canvasser’s confidence.
9:00pm: At end of shift, meet up with rest of crew and head back to the office.
9:45pm: Arrive in office. Debrief your staff individually on their shifts, giving advice on how to improve results.
11:00pm: Leave office to go hang out with staff and grab a bite to eat.
Canvass Director and Assistant Director Job Descriptions
Background
Our core values and democracy are threatened every day by George W. Bush, Tom DeLay and the Republican leadership in Congress. We need to fight against the Bush agenda as well as prepare to take back the House and Senate in 2006 and the Presidency in 2008. In coordination with issue-based advocacy groups, candidate campaigns and state and local parties, Grassroots Campaigns, Inc will be running door-to-door fundraising campaigns to build the necessary support we need to win. By talking with one person at a time about the Bush Administration’s record we will stop the attacks on our civil liberties, environment and democracy.
Canvass Directors and Assistant Canvass Directors will manage one of up to 30 grassroots field offices, with bottom-line responsibility for all local operations. Most canvass offices will reach 50,000 households, identify 8,000 new donors and raise $250,000.
Job Responsibilities:
Recruitment: Build a team of 15-50 canvassers by recruiting from within the local community. Interview prospective staff and make hiring decisions.
Staff Management: Teach canvassing/fundraising skills. Work with your staff in individual and group settings, with a particular eye towards developing leaders. Cultivate a welcoming and motivating atmosphere.
Canvassing: Canvass door-to-door three days per week, to work with staff in the field and meet personal fundraising requirements.
Administration: Carefully track income and expenses. Manage the budget for your office. Process staff payroll. Maintain records for future organizing efforts.
Qualifications:
Strong communication and motivational skills, work ethic, and desire for political change are essential. Previous field or canvassing experience is a plus.
Expectations:
Campaign hours can run 80 -100 hours per week, including work on weekends. Good teamwork and a positive attitude are critical.
Salary/Benefits:
Target annual salary for Assistant Canvass Directors begins at $24,000. Annual salary for Canvass Directors ranges from $25,500 to $29,000 depending on experience. Staff may opt into our health care plan (PPO). Paid training, accrual of paid vacation, and paid sick days included.
Training:
Newly hired directors will typically spend three weeks working in an existing canvass office, followed a by week-long national classroom training. Additionally, directors receive back up and support from regional management staff throughout the campaign.
Timing and Location:
Many positions are open immediately. Possible states include: MA, NY, PA, DC, GA, MN, IL, WI, NM, CO, WA, OR, CA.
Grassroots Campaigns past and current clients include: MoveOn.org Political Action, Amnesty International, the Democratic National Committee, Human Rights Campaign, People for the American Way, Working America, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Action, and Environmental Action PAC.
A Day in the Life of a Grassroots Campaigns Field Organizer
Project: MoveOn.org Political Action’s “Operation Democracy”
9:00am Arrive in the office. Review your date book. Confirm tomorrow’s lunch meeting with local environmental activists. Check your emails. Agree to do a speaking engagement at the monthly meeting of the local AARP chapter.
10:00am Make calls to coalition groups to sign them up for SmithWatch, Operations Democracy’s campaign to highlight Representative Simmons’ voting record and tie him to the Radical Right in Congress.
11:30am Make calls to confirm that three of your volunteers will be coming to the office to phone bank with you tonight.
11:45am Have a check in call with Dan, your Lead Organizer. Analyze your phone calling for the week. Go over your Saturday event that you are setting up to collect 1,000 petitions with the help of 15 volunteers.
12:45pm Have lunch with the President of the local Sierra Club Chapter. Work to enlist her and the local Club’s support of SmithWatch. She agrees to work with you on the campaign and will provide a list of 100 potential volunteers for you.
1:45pm Get on a conference call with twenty five other field organizers and MoveOn.org’s Field Director for the Operation Democracy Campaign. On the call you review new developments in DC and go over the field product in the fifteen districts we are organizing across the country. Wrap up the call with a plan to focus in on generating more media coverage over the next week.
3:00pm Update your media list and begin to call through the daily papers in your region. Contact five editors and set up two editorial board meetings for next week.
4:00pm Prep for your day tomorrow. Check your email. Make copies of background info for two meetings tomorrow. Check your voice mail and receive eight messages from folks you called last night, calling back to volunteer! Put them back on phone bank list for tonight.
5:00pm Prep your calling list for the night. You want to turn out 100 people for the district kickoff meeting next week.
5:30pm Start Calling. Goal between you and you volunteers is to contact 35 volunteers and get commitments from 15 to show at the meeting.
6:00pm Welcome your volunteers and do a training for them. You do a couple of calls with them listening; they start calling and you do some initial monitoring and then get back on the phone.
9:00pm Finish calling. Tally and record all of yours and the volunteer’s calls and send the results to your supervisor.
While every day is different, this is a composite of a typical day on the campaign. A typical week would be 60 hours, including time at night and on the weekends for phone-banking, community meetings, events in the community, and activist training sessions.
Field Organizer Job Description
Background
George Bush, Tom Delay and the gang on the Far Right are leading our country down the wrong path. From the Iraq War and risky Social Security initiatives, to the President’s misguided energy policy and his push to stack the courts with conservative judges, the Far Right’s agenda will have serious impacts on the quality of life in America for generations to come.
Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. is hiring field organizers to work to pass progressive legislation and elect progressive candidates to Take Back Congress in 2006 and the Presidency in 2008. Field staff will work in off election years to recruit, train and mange volunteers to pressure Congress on key policy issues concerning foreign policy, the environment, federal court appointments and social security. Closer to Election Day, staff will focus efforts on electoral strategies including voter registration, education, identification and get out the vote strategies.
By building a synergistic program between issues and candidates, Grassroots Campaigns will create change from the grassroots by providing field operations for issue campaigns and create change from the top by electing progressive candidates.
Job Description
Field staff will implement grassroots campaigns combining issue organizing and electoral campaigning. Depending on the client or candidate, a field organizer could:
• Recruit, train, mobilize and manage volunteers.
• Develop and implement local media campaigns.
• Train volunteers to build accountable and cohesive electoral precinct teams.
• Build coalitions and networks in the district.
• Implement grassroots tactics to pressure targeted politicians.
Location
Grassroots Campaigns is immediately hiring field staff for key Congressional Districts across the country. Targets located in: CO, CT, FL, IA, Il, IN, MO, MN, NC, NH,NM, NV, NY, OR, PA, SD, UT, and TX.
Qualifications
We are looking for candidates who have the desire, skills and toughness to work on exciting and demanding campaigns. Candidates must be goal-oriented with leadership skills, organizing experience, and a strong commitment to changing business as usual in Washington DC. Candidates need to be strategic, team players, able to recruit, train and motivate a wide range of people, and be able to tell a compelling story. Positions are through the November 2006 election. Post-election, strong organizers will have the opportunity to apply for ongoing organizing positions.
Salary & Benefits
Salary for this position is commensurate with relevant professional experience and/or advanced degrees. Opportunities for advancement, travel, and additional training are available.
Grassroots Campaigns past and current clients include: MoveOn.org Political Action, Amnesty International, the Democratic National Committee, Human Rights Campaign, People for the American Way, Working America, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Action, and Environmental Action PAC.
Hello. This is Kimberly Fountain with Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. If you are interested in the positions available, please email me your resume to kimberlyfountain@hotmail.com. My office phone number is 904-598-1006 and my cell is 404-583-7773!
I am already setting up interviews for February 22nd (when I'll be in Tallahassee). -Kimberly
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