What are the responsibilities and job description for the Campaign Organizer position at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains?
Anticipated Closing Date 1/20/2025. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Position Salary Range $ $25.28 - $ 30.19
Starting Pay: Although our full pay range is included above, the budgeted hiring range for this position is $ 25.28 - $ 27.73 per hour.
Non-Exempt
Schedule: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm with occasional weekend and evening events
50% on-site, 50% Remote
Required Driver? Yes
The Objective: You will serve as a liaison between communities and the staff of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, working with activists and volunteers as an integral part of Planned Parenthood’s public outreach work. You will conduct civic engagement education in order to expand understanding of and access to PPRM’s services. You will grow participation in PPRM’s issue advocacy, activism programming, and electoral efforts throughout the state.
Success: You will know you are successful when you’re able to bring activists, community members, and community partners into the work of reducing abortion stigma, and when your efforts are impacting policy and/or public sentiment on reproductive health, rights, and justice issues.
Snapshot: Your days will be a mix of in-person and remote work. You will spend your time attending in-person community events, coalition-building, having one-on-one meetings with potential volunteer activists, planning virtual and in-person educational and engagement events, tracking your efforts in our database, and supporting our coalition partners in their community efforts. You will travel within your state and within our four-state affiliate region occasionally. You will manage your work hours to include some evenings and weekends.
Qualifications:
You have experience in recruiting, managing, and retaining activists. You have strong people skills and are able to build relationships with community partners and activists. You have an understanding of the importance of intersectionality in organizing and you approach your work through a racial equity and inclusion lens. You can use video conferencing software like Zoom, and Microsoft Office programs to communicate remotely with teams and track data and goals. You have a strong commitment to meeting deadlines and showing progress towards goals. Being bilingual in Spanish/English is preferred.
Key Approaches to the Work:
Relationship-builder
Highly organized
Communication
Inclusion and Equity Champion
Primary Areas of Responsibility/Essential Functions:
Key Contributor to the Public Affairs Team: You are a team player and will jump in quickly to add to the effectiveness of our advocacy work, strengthening the team and collaborating across levels, both internally and externally. To do this, you will:
- Serve as member of PPRM Public Affairs team; responsible for implementing a collaborative activist coordination program.
- Collaborate with Public Affairs staff to implement leadership development programming for PPRM activists.
- Coordinate with PPRM and PPFA to build a sustainable atmosphere for reproductive rights advocacy.
- Provide an additional line of communication with coalition partners on activist activity and new projects, as directed by your Public Affairs Manager.
Building Capacity and Agency in Others as an Organizer: You communicate with crowds and individuals with a style that easily builds rapport and calls others to action. You speak passionately and with an informed voice to encourage others to take up the mantle of the mission we serve and then coordinate their skills and abilities to the roles where we need them. To do this, you will:
- Recruit, train, and coordinate activists for issue advocacy programs.
- Develop relationships with and serve as a liaison between stakeholder constituencies and the Public Affairs department.
- Track qualitative and quantitative metrics measuring the impact of your work. Maintain an accurate record of your work in our internal database.
- Provide support to existing organizing programs in your area, such as Health Center Advocacy Program, campus and youth organizing, and Raiz work. This also includes all national Planned Parenthood organizing efforts, as directed by the Public Affairs Manager.
- Identify and recruit members, activists, and volunteers; manage phone banking, canvassing, and community events; educate and prepare activists for legislative and/or electoral activities; and other activities related to activist recruitment, development, and mobilization.
Abortion Care: We all work in abortion care, whether it is referrals, information, education, counseling, performing, scheduling, etc. In this role, you’ll be supporting freedoms to utilize abortion as a form of contraception and working towards legislation to make and keep this a legal freedom.
COVID-19 Protocol: Vaccination against COVID-19 will no longer be a condition of employment. However, all Health Center/Patient or Community Facing Employees, must have the COVID vaccine or wear a mask at all times beginning November 1st. Proof must be uploaded upon hire. You will upload a picture or pdf of your vaccination card(s) prior to your start date.
Flu Protocol: All employees working directly with patients, the community or working in a health center will be required to have the flu shot or wear a mask during patient/community contact or while in the health center from November 1 – April 30 each year (Flu Season). Proof must be uploaded upon hire. You will upload a picture or pdf of your vaccination card(s) prior to your start date.
Salary : $25 - $30