Greenpeace/Washington DC, DC ((NYC, DC, Chicago after 1 yr))
POSITION: Field Organizing Manager
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATION: February 5, 2010
HOW TO APPLY: Send resume/cover letter to
resumes@wdc.greenpeace.org
SUPERVISOR: Field Organizing Director
DEPARTMENT: Grassroots
LOCATION: Washington, DC (San Francisco, Chicago, DC, or New York City after 1 year)
Summary Description
Over the past 4 years, Greenpeace has created an ambitious field program to build organizational power, secure relationships with influential allies, generate media coverage, and mobilize grassroots support from every corner of the nation. The Field Team provides support for Greenpeace’s climate, oceans, toxics, forests, and nuclear campaigns.
Our Field Organizers build power in four areas – grassroots volunteers, media coverage and relationships, coalition support, and access to decision-makers. Each organizer is responsible for running Greenpeace campaigns in a region, balancing priorities among multiple targets, media markets, and issue areas.
In 2009, Greenpeace’s Field Team pressured dozens of members of Congress to improve their position on global warming, played an active role in defending over $80 billion of clean energy and public transportation funding in President Obama’s budget, and mobilized grassroots pressure pushing the Timberland shoe company to no longer source leather from newly deforested areas in the Amazon, where rain forests are being burned down to raise cattle. The team has garnered hundreds of local, national, and international media hits, recruited and trained thousands of volunteers, and built partnerships with unlikely allies such as farmers, union leaders, and the business community to further Greenpeace’s campaign goals.
The best candidate for this position will be an experienced organizer, a great listener, a strategic campaign planner, and someone willing to get his or her hands dirty to help with the day-to-day needs of the program. This person will have some management experience be ready to start building their management skills. This person needs to be adept at working and coordinating with a variety of departments and disciplines, especially with members of our Campaigns, Actions, and Communications departments. The best candidate will be able to manage, mentor, motivate, and train both new and experience organizers.
While there is no typical day for an Organizing Manager, an afternoon on the job could include a phone call with an organizer in the field to coach them through changes to a regional strategy, representing the grassroots department on a project team planning a high-profile direct action, developing a training for new staff, editing an op-ed for a major U.S. paper, or hopping a plane to a battleground state to work side by side with an organizer to pull off a major event.
Responsibilities
The Field Organizing Manager is part of the Field Team and plays a pivotal role in the development and continued success of Greenpeace’s Field Team. Each Organizing Manager will train and supervise a team of 3-5 Field Organizers. They will oversee the planning and implementation of regional campaigns on every level, including overall strategy, grassroots tactics, media, coalition building, lobbying, and others. Organizing Managers will conduct site visits and regular planning meetings, and work intimately with other members of the Grassroots, Campaigns, Communications, and Actions departments.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Ensure Greenpeace’s organizing model builds lasting field power for the organization; adopt changes to the field model based on organizing innovations and evolving organizational and campaign needs
- Coordinate regional and national projects involving the Field Team
- Act as grassroots strategic advisor to other departments
- Campaign planning
- Act as a liaison between field staff and the Field Organizing Director
- Train and continuously work to develop the skills of field staff, and regularly assess their performance
- Coordinate and plan trainings for organizing staff
- Conduct site visits with staff to evaluate performance, and provide staff development
- Work closely with the Field Organizing Director to develop national and local strategies for various campaigns
- Serve as a liaison between the Field Team and other departments
- Other duties as assigned
Work with Field Team staff to fulfill the following responsibilities:
- Develop sophisticated, community-based campaigns on issues including climate, toxics, forests, oceans, and nuclear energy.
- Create widespread public support by recruiting and training campaign volunteers
- Develop knowledge on issues concerning climate, toxics, forests, oceans, and nuclear energy
- Collaborate with and mobilize constituent groups, both traditional and nontraditional
- Plan and execute events to educate the public about Greenpeace campaigns
- Generate significant media coverage on Greenpeace campaigns
- Build long-term relationships with the public, coalition partners, the media, and campaign targets
- Implement campaign tactics to win Greenpeace campaigns
Qualifications
Education
BA/BS Degree preferred or equivalent experience
Experience and Accomplishments
- Commitment to grassroots organizing as a means of effecting change
- Three years of field organizing or campaigning experience; demonstrated interest in gaining staff management experience and skills
- Experience planning strategic campaigns, working in coalition, generating media coverage, and recruiting and developing volunteers
- Canvassing and/or other fundraising experience preferred
- Project management and oversight from conception to completion
- Experience effectively working with diverse groups of people with different motivations and objectives
- Proven ability to work both independently and in close coordination with a team
- Experience working under tight deadlines
- Ability to travel regularly
- Non-violent direct action experience preferred
Skills and Attributes
- Patient, calm under pressure; able to thrive in a fast-paced campaign environment
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including editing; able to craft effective campaign messages for different audiences
- Honest communicator who can coach staff and deliver feedback; good listener who is willing to act on constructive feedback
- Project, and time management, and organizational skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities, develop effective systems to track progress and analyze results, and set ambitious goals and deliver
- Able to inspire and lead a team toward a shared vision; strong public speaking skills
- Able to get to the heart of a problem and address it appropriately; decisiveness and good judgment a must
- Commitment to Greenpeace’s principled and uncompromising stance to protect people and the environment
- Commitment to non-violent direct action and grassroots organizing as a means of affecting change
To apply, please send resume and cover letter to resumes@wdc.greenpeace.org
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