JOBS: Regional Ballot Initiative Organizers
Salary: $800/week, mileage reimbursed
Temporary, full-time November 2011 through 1st week of May 2012
The Position: Regional Ballot Initiative Organizer
Regional Ballot Initiative Organizers, will work closely with a statewide campaign director, local JwJ Organizing staff and Leadership Teams to recruit and deploy volunteer signature gatherers to qualify two pro-working families initiatives for the November 2012 ballot – Payday Lending Reform and Increasing the Minimum Wage. The work will include very significant evening and weekend hours attending membership meetings and deploying volunteer signature gatherers. We will be hiring the following two regional positions:
St Louis region
Kansas City region
Responsibilities:
Coordination with Member/Ally Organizations: Organizer will coordinate with member and ally organizations to line up engagements for speakers at membership meetings to recruit volunteer signature gatherers. This will include meetings almost every day of the month, and often multiple meetings in the same day.
Recruitment and Training of Volunteers: Organizer will train volunteers both at standing meetings and by setting up additional trainings outside of standing meetings.
Volunteer follow up: Organizer will do regular follow up calls to all volunteer signature gatherers to check in on their progress and arrange for times they can turn in their sheets to notaries ongoing.
Volunteer mobilization: Organizer will also arrange more formal mobilizations where volunteers gather in one place and are deployed to high traffic areas to canvass for signatures.
Tracking and reporting: Organizer will track and report several times a week on the running total of signatures turned in for their region.
Qualifications
Solid commitment to the principles of social and economic justice.
Own vehicle available for work (mileage is reimbursed).
Willingness to work long hours, including nights and weekends.
Ability to be a self-starter, and to work independently toward agreed upon goals.
A strong ability to motivate people, coordinate volunteer activity and delegate responsibility.
Should be willing and able to become a notary public to notarize completed petitions
Proficient in computer skills, including word processing and excel.
Ability to develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of organizations and people.
An understanding of the labor movement, religious organizations and other social movements.
Also Desired: Experience working on ballot initiative campaigns; Knowledge of and/or participation in Jobs with Justice in Missouri or elsewhere in the country.
The Organization
Missouri Jobs with Justice (JwJ) is a coalition of labor, religious, student and community activists and organizations committed to protecting the basic human rights of men and women. Jobs with Justice addresses the root causes of poverty while working for an economic base that benefits the entire community. We believe that the fate of labor unions and the communities in which their members live are tightly bound together. We work in partnership with central labor councils, local unions, civil rights organizations, students, community, and faith-based organizations in campaigns for social and economic justice, including the right to organize a union, rebuilding the social safety net, living wages, health care, and equal treatment for all. Missouri Jobs with Justice is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. We seek a diverse pool of volunteers and applicants for all opportunities and responsibilities within the organization – in particular with respect to women, people of color, the LGBT community, immigrants, and people of all ages.
Please send a resume and at least two references by 5 pm on Monday, November 14
To: Lara Granich, Director, Missouri Jobs with Justice
Via Fax: 314.647.9910
Via Email: lara [at] mojwj.org
Via USPS: 2725 Clifton, St. Louis, MO 63139
For more information on Missouri Jobs with Justice please visit the websites for Missouri JwJ at www.mojwj.org, Kansas City JwJ at www.kcjwj.org, or St Louis at www.stl-jwj.org or call the office at 314-644-0466.
