Job Description
The Campaign Readiness Project is a train-to-hire bootcamp pipeline at the DNC with the goal of supporting states in their recruitment, training, and hiring of diverse, talented, and local staff for specific roles and skill sets on coordinated campaigns. Participation in these bootcamps will expand opportunities for consideration for campaign roles in targeted states with the aim of helping elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
Our first bootcamp series will center around Distributed Organizing and people who meet the outlined qualifications are encouraged to apply. The Distributed Organizer Bootcamp will be held virtually August 20-22. Participation in the bootcamps does not guarantee future employment.
Ideal participants for the Distributed Organizer Bootcamp for the Campaign Readiness Project are entry-level or have one cycle of experience as an organizer and are interested in learning the ropes behind what it means to be a part of a statewide distributed organizing program. Over the course of this bootcamp, participants will learn what it means to be responsible for leading teams of volunteers to recruit, organize, confirm, and support thousands of volunteers in call, text, and canvassing efforts.
All participants will get to practice utilizing online tools and distributed tactics to foster a community-based, volunteer-driven organization to support statewide Democratic outreach. Ideally, all participants will take what they learn from the bootcamp and then apply them directly to the coordinated campaign operation in their state for the 2022 cycle. We aim to hire directly from people who successfully complete this bootcamp and demonstrate the necessary skills for distributed organizers in targeted states.
What You Will Do:
Organize online events in your community;
Learn how to best cultivate relationships with volunteers and stakeholders;
Be a part of robust volunteer-powered phones and texts programs;
Learn more about digital tools and how we yield them for reaching our outreach goals;
Experience what it’s like to work in a campaign setting.
About You:
The ideal candidate has strong organizing skills, is tech-savvy, is knowledgeable with predictive dialer technology, such as ThruTalk/LiveVox and VPB Connect, texting tools, such as ThruText and Spoke, and has experience organizing and training large numbers of volunteers virtuallly.
The ability to be scrappy when it comes to solving problems and using the resources you have already available to you.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work with volunteers calmly and diplomatically. An excitement to meet people from your community and forge meaningful relationships with them.A passion to elect Democrats up and down the ballot. Ready to work in a fast-paced campaign setting and be able to commit to a virtual three-day training bootcamp.
You are either based in one of the following states, have past connections to them, or have at least one cycle of experience working there and would like to stay there for the 2022 election: Virginia, New Jersey, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.