Opportunities

Please see the job descriptions below and, if you feel the qualifications are a good match for your experience, skills, and interest, please send a resume and a brief cover letter sharing your interest and alignment with PWN-USA’s mission to info(at)pwn-usa.org. 

Position Overview

The Campaign Coordinator is responsible for campaign strategy, management, and execution of Positive Women’s Network-USA’s voter engagement program. Since 2018, PWN-USA has been focused on mobilizing voters during legislative sessions in various states across the United States, as well as field campaigns: voter education, supporter issue ID, and voter turnout during the primary and general elections. The Voter Engagement Campaign Coordinator will work as part of the Organizing team, and will report to the Organizing Director. ($60K+ based on experience and skills; full-time, exempt).

About PWN-USA

Positive Women’s Network (PWN) is a national reproductive justice organization led by and for cis and transgender women, gender diverse and transgender folks living with HIV. We are building long-term relationships with a growing and engaged base on issues that matter most to our constituency: racial justice, trans justices, healthcare, HIV policy, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive justice, decarceration, and robust social services that promote dignity for all people. We are a fun, passionate, and collaborative, majority BIPOC team, committed to centering involvement by our membership body.

Core Responsibilities

• Works closely and well with all PWN members.
• Coordinate members on the ground.
• Manage partner relationships on the ground in states we organize in, including civic engagement partnerships
• Safety and security deescalation training especially in door to door canvassing
• Research and identify opportunities for chapters community involvement related to campaign issues
• Support in developing campaign strategy, management and execution
• Plan and execute paid and volunteer canvass, phone banks, relational organizing and base building events
• Identify opportunities for chapters community involvement related to campaign issues
• Lead Issue ID and GOTV campaign strategy, management and execution
• Manage VAN data
• Manage data and digital tools
• Plan and execute paid and volunteer canvass, phone banks, relational organizing and base building events
• Recruit, hire, onboard, train and manage campaign staff and volunteers
• Support in writing scripts including canvass and predictive dialer and text bank scripts to sync with VAN
• Develop and deliver relevant trainings and skills-building opportunities
• Collaborate with policy team and other staff to support ongoing issue-based organizing and legislative advocacy
• Monitor, document, evaluate and report on activities
• Develop materials and collaterals to support activities as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications  

Constituency, Values and Issue

• Demonstrable experience working or volunteering to build power with Black communities, communities of color, and/or low-income communities
• Commitment to reproductive justice, healthcare access, LGBTQ+ rights
• Ability to break down complex concepts and communicate clearly with people with varying levels of formal education

Campaign Planning, Strategy and Execution

• Ability to create, monitor progress on, and update a campaign plan
• Excited about co-creating an innovative voter engagement plan that cultivates leadership of a grassroots base
• Experience with volunteer and staff management
• Experience managing and leading phone banks
• Experience managing door to door canvasses and phone banks
• Experience with deescalation and safety

Technical Skills

• Proficiency with VAN: able to pull lists, cut turf, analyze data, run reports
• Experience utilizing CRMs to manage data and communicate with a base
• Experience developing phone scripts for a predictive dialer using logic in ThruTalk or similar tool
• Skilled in creating and utilizing spreadsheets and PowerPoints

Other

• Access to stable internet access (stipend provided)
• Ability to work long and irregular hours, including nights and weekends during campaigns and campaign prep
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-directed, highly motivated
• Detail oriented
• Strong coaching skills and organizational skills
• Comfortable with a primarily remote working environment
• Strong people skills and high emotional intelligence

Preferred Qualification

• Relational organizing experience
• Experience with legislative advocacy and/or lobbying
• Knowledge of VAN, ability to use Canva

People Encouraged to Apply Include:

• People living with HIV
• People living in Philadelphia, PA
• People of color
• LGBTQ+ people

Supervisory Responsibility

Supervises campaign staff and field staff.

Expected Hours of Work

This work is on a campaign schedule and requires flexible hours, with availability in evenings and on weekends as needed, especially during GOTV and during high levels of legislative session activity. Hours will be determined in consultation with the supervisor based on need

Travel

This role requires some travel—approximately 5-10% domestically and ~30-50% locally. Travel includes attendance at national conferences, in person staff retreats, community and partner meetings. Travel schedules are communicated in advance wherever possible.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Position Type and Compensation

• 1 FTE, exempt position, starting at $60,000+ based on experience and skills
• MSC’s generous 100% FTE benefits package includes:
  ○ 20 days vacation leave per year;
  ○ 12 standard holidays and 2 personal days per year;
  ○ 12 sick days per year;
  ○ 1 week paid MSC family and medical leave after one year of service; an additional week of paid leave for each additional year of service, up to 4 weeks;
  ○ Medical, vision, dental for employees and dependents (requires 30 day waiting period and a per paycheck employee contribution);
  ○ 100% employer sponsored basic life, short-term and long-term disability insurance coverage;
  ○ Access to a 403b retirement plan.
  ○ Access to FSA and Commuter Benefits.
  ○ No phone calls or emails please.