Wisconsin Organizing Director - Unlimited Growth Potential

Full-time • Temporary • Competitive Pay & Benefits

Role: Organizing Director

Who We Are: 
The Outreach Team is a political consulting firm specializing in field organizing. We partner with good groups doing great things.

General Overview:
The Organizing Director will manage a team of Organizers charged with recruiting, training, and working with a team of volunteers to build support for reproductive rights. This work will lead to a series of summer summits to train local leaders who will fight for reproductive freedom in Wisconsin. In the fall, the Organizing Director will transition to overseeing GOTV efforts ahead of the November election. 

This is a full-time position for an experienced project and people manager who loves data and technology. The position is remote and can be performed from anywhere in the state of Wisconsin, some in-state travel will be required. 

Responsibilities
Client Management

• Interface regularly with clients who work on voter registration, voter contact, signature gathering, and face-to-face fundraising
• Write and edit regular project reports to clients
• Prepare and run calls including but not limited to: client onboarding calls, weekly check-in calls, debriefing calls
• Proactively identify problems in the program and propose solutions when appropriate
• Identify and recruit new clients

Staff Management

• Hire and manage a team of full-time staff, who will, in turn, supervise teams of other staff
• Drive goals on the team to ensure that all deliverables are met, including turnaround and accuracy
• Build and maintain a team culture that centers on equity and justice
• Treat staff with empathy and respect and ensure the managers you supervise do the same
• Maintain high-performance standards and provide ongoing feedback and evaluation 
• Hold staff accountable and have tough conversations when necessary; coach the managers you supervise to do the same with their staff
• Develop and facilitate training for your team

Tech Project Management

• Manage the development of improved systems for tracking work, which may include identifying and managing a vendor, testing new features, and providing feedback

Administration

• Manage and track a national budget and submit accurate budget updates
• Ensure payroll is accurate for your team by managing the hours reporting process and reviewing payroll
• Ensure your team adheres to HR requirements and recommendations as related to onboarding, offboarding, and disciplinary actions.

This job may be for you if you:

• Excel at running large scale, social change campaigns with urgent deadlines (in the past you may have run issue-based campaigns, voter registration drives, voter contact campaigns, signature drives, face-to-face fundraising drives, or some combination of those)
• Share The Outreach Team’s commitment to prioritizing equity and justice in our work and team culture
• Know how to be hands-on when necessary while still developing and empowering your staff
• Are obsessive about details and can train others to be as obsessive as you are
• Make thorough and detailed numbers-based plans that others can understand and buy into
• Have some healthy paranoia and always trust but verify
• Are able to work long hours occasionally, and travel frequently when it’s safe to do so

Qualifications

• At least five years of staff management experience, especially in campaigns, canvass operations, or field organizing
• Experience being bottom line on a large project with urgent deadlines 
• Experience centering equity and justice in your work
• Good planner
• Extremely detail-oriented: you catch small and large errors that most people miss
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Excel/Sheets

Compensation

This is a salaried position with a range of $72,000-$81,000 per year depending on experience. We offer benefits including fully paid health care, vacation and sick days.

At The Outreach Team, we prioritize equity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage Black, indigenous, people of color, women, people with previous felony convictions, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and others who identify with underrepresented groups to apply. 

Please note: We want to hire people of all gender identities. This hiring platform (JazzHR) does not allow us to add in specific options for gender identities outside of the binary, but we are currently working with them to find a solution.

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