Accountability Organizer - Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania

Overview: The Pennsylvania Accountability Organizers will work to hold elected officials accountable for the passage of SB106. The organizer will collect supporter petition signatures, organize visibility events and rallies and raise awareness about the “No Right to Abortion” constitutional amendment in Pennsylvania. After spending several weeks narrowly focused on SB106 accountability work, the organizer's role will shift to being embedded alongside The Outreach Team canvass office and operation. The organizer will engage and follow up with supporters who are identified via the canvasses to amplify and increase impact with further accountability actions and vote tripling efforts throughout the fall. This organizer will be partnered with The Outreach Team canvassing office and will work in direct partnership with The Outreach Team Field directors on voter and supporter information to feed into the organizer's accountability volunteer team.

Location and Timeline: We are hiring organizers for this position beginning September 8th and continuing through the November Election, with the possibility of extension. Organizers will be based in several areas of Pennsylvania, including in or near Bucks, Delaware, and Montgomery counties (Philadelphia collar-counties, and Allegheny County, in the Pittsburgh area. 

What You’ll Do:

• Recruit and Train Accountability Volunteers
• Call and text supporters and recruit them into grassroots actions. 
• Run grassroots skills trainings to develop effective campaigners among volunteers
• Keep meticulous track of an accountability volunteer list so that no potential volunteer falls through the cracks
• Organize Accountability Actions and Events
• Nail 100% of all messaging and legal requirements and ensure that volunteers do the same
• Organize and execute in-person or virtual events including educational events, trainings, rallies, and more around SB106
• Engage volunteers identified by the The Outreach Team canvass operations to participate in events and take additional action
• Manage and Coordinate Data Management, and Reporting Tools
• Send timely and compelling communications to recruit activists to accountability campaign activities
• Track every interaction with detailed notes in order to report numbers daily and write weekly reports on the results of the campaign
• Collaborate with The Outreach Team canvass directors and other The Outreach Team staff on canvass reporting and data management

Who You Are & Keys to Success (the must-haves):

To be successful in this job, you will excel in these areas:

• Relationship Building: You develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of community members and volunteers. You are attentive and empathetic to the communities we serve, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or ability, and can identify shared values across communities for collective growth. You can build authentic relationships through authenticity and reliability, continuously uplifting others and their goals. You are comfortable and experienced in public speaking to a group.
• Inclusive and Collaborative Leadership: You approach leadership with a “power with” mindset that recognizes the impact power hierarchies have in different settings. You can learn from others, see and hear other perspectives, and step in or step back as necessary. You are reliable and accountable, always transparent about your abilities, capacities, and expectations. You honor the time and commitments of others while inspiring them to meet goals.
• Commitment to Equity and Inclusion: You have a proven ability to develop meaningful connections with diverse communities, including a wide range of community organizations, community leaders, and community members. You work with the community and within the workplace to identify areas of improvement for a more equitable environment. You take continued action and efforts to improve your REI knowledge, skills, and tools.
• Drive to Achieve Results: You have experience accomplishing ambitious goals and getting results, even when there are obstacles. You have the experience or ability to plan backwards to meet multiple goals timely and effectively. When there are unexpected changes, you bounce back and adjust quickly, learning and improving from any mistakes.

Skills and Experiences we Expect of all Outreach Team employees:

• Commitment to equity and justice
• Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all of your interactions with colleagues and community members.
• Passion for the role that your work plays in creating change in the world.
• Kindness and consideration for others. 
• Drive to work collaboratively: learning from others; stepping-in or stepping-back when needed.
• Transparency: comfort admitting what you do and don’t know, your capacity, and abilities. 
• Task management: Able to adapt to the evolving needs of a project. Able to tackle big-picture projects and break them down into smaller pieces
• Organized and efficient: Experience or demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or goals at once in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.
• Acute attention to detail: Track interactions and tasks with detailed notes. Plans ahead for roadblocks and bounces back quickly when problems arise. 
• Effective communication skills (written or spoken) that are clear, concise and honest. 
• Comfortable and excited to speak about the campaign publicly,
• Coach and learning mentality: successful experience or willingness to learn new things and pick up new skills on the job. Able to learn from mistakes and try again. 
• Understanding of how your words and actions affect others, including an awareness of power language and communication accessibility. 
• Ability to work weekends and weekday evenings, occasional holidays. 

Nice-to-Haves, but Not Required:

• Experience working for nonprofits, electoral campaigns, and/or other issue campaigns
• Data Management and Evaluation Experience: Experience working with various data management systems and tools, mainly Google Suite. 
• Experience with Relevant Campaign Tools and Technologies: Action Network, ThruText, MailChimp, eCRMs like EveryAction, or social media tools (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
• Event or Project Planning & Management, Implementation or Evaluation
• Knowledge or previous experience working on this issue is a plus, but not required

If you were here right now, you would be:

• Engaging and expanding awareness of SB106 and engaging with Pennsylvanians through public visibility actions, voter outreach, and relationship building
• Planning and coordinating with The Outreach Team canvass staffers and offices around voter identification and follow up with supporters
• Recruiting, training and developing volunteers to participate in accountability actions including petitioning, rallies, and lobbying efforts.

Salary, Benefits and Perks:

The salary for this position is $47,000-$54,000. Salary within this range is determined through an equity calculator. As part of The Outreach Team’s commitment to compensation equity and transparency, we have a no negotiation policy. Salary negotiations can introduce bias and perpetuate wage inequality. At the end of the campaign, there may be opportunities for advancement. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• Unlimited paid vacation and sick leave
• Generous health, dental and vision benefits
• A monthly cell phone stipend. 

Who We Are: The Outreach Team is the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the progressive movement. With an on-the-ground presence in communities all across the country, our world-class team runs successful civic engagement campaigns on behalf of progressive organizations and campaigns—to build a future that’s fairer, greener, safer and more peaceful for everyone. We are excited to be working with Planned Parenthood on a campaign to help fight back and protect access to reproductive care in Pennsylvania. 

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.

Our client list includes organizations like Democratic National Committee, Black Progressive Action Coalition, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Climate Action Campaign, Planned Parenthood, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, For our Future, Solar Rights Alliance, The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and more.

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.