Position Summary

An emerging national, multi-city campaign to build power with app-based ride hail and delivery workers seeks a lead online to offline worker organizer to join our team. This position will be housed at PowerSwitch Action, an anchor organization in the national campaign.

About PowerSwitch Action

PowerSwitch Action is a national network organizing to realize multi-racial feminist democracies in our cities, towns and regions. Together with our 20 affiliates and one regional project we are driving an agenda to bring the billions of dollars in local public investments under the oversight of the communities most impacted, to expand decision making and power to more of the residents in our regions, to support the building and growth of member-based organizations, and to fight when necessary corporate actors who use their power to extract and cause harm to our communities.

Leaders of our network and national staff recently completed our long-term agenda on our path to collective liberation and towards a multiracial, feminist democracy that is powered by abundance, freedom and self-determination, radical inclusion, and meaningful work that is valued.

Key Responsibilities:

Identify, recruit, and develop worker leaders

Work closely with the field director, local campaign leads, and campaign team to develop online and offline strategies, plans and tactics that align with campaign priorities and goals.
Lead in the implementation and innovation of the online to offline organizing model.
Experiment with digital tools and tactics to identify, recruit, and develop workers online including through paid ad campaigns, social media research/engagement, peer to peer texting, etc.
Develop and implement strategies to move workers up a ladder of engagement and deepen their investment in the campaign.

Train and support organizers and worker leaders in online to offline organizing

Support organizers in using digital tools to engage workers, build connection and community online, and translate online engagement into offline action.
Develop organizing resources, toolkits, and trainings for organizers and train organizers and worker leaders in online and offline tools, tactics, and strategies.

Manage digital organizing data and tools

Design and implement systems to and track, manage, evaluate, and adapt digital organizing strategies and tactics.
Administer tools and platforms like CRMs (EveryAction), texting (ThruText), virtual phonebanks, FB Ads Manager, etc.

Qualifications

Experience and Skills

Experience organizing in a membership-based organization, including experience digital organizing
Track record of successfully using digital tools such as peer-to-peer texting platforms, Facebook messenger, and other digital communications platforms for organizing.
Comfort working with data and managing database and outreach tools like EveryAction, Nationbuilder or ActionNetwork.
Excellent writing and editing skills with the ability to synthesize complex topics into digestible and shareable online content.
Knowledgeable about social media performance metrics, Facebook Insights and Ads Manager, and making strategic use of this information and these tools.
Ability to experiment, problem-solve and analyze in order to sharpen efforts.

Preferred Experience and Skills

Fluency in a second language, ideally Spanish, is highly preferred.
Experience organizing workers around workplace issues in a union or worker center context.
Ability to create compelling social media photo/video content.

Mission Alignment

Committed to our vision outlined in our our long term agenda, including building a path to collective liberation and towards a multiracial, feminist democracy that is powered by abudance, freedom and self-determination, radical inclusion, and meaningful work that is valued.
Consistently brings a racial justice lens to work.

Travel and schedule

Once travel resumes, the Lead Online to Offline Organizer is expected to travel 1-2 times per month for in-person visits to local campaigns, coalition gatherings, team planning meetings, staff retreats, and so forth. Also expected to periodically work odd hours.

Compensation & Benefits

This is a full-time, exempt position and reports to the Field Director.

We offer a competitive starting salary between $71,000-$76,000 (based on experience) and generous benefits, including:

401(k) with 5% employer contribution.
100% of health, dental, and vision premiums for employees and their family members (spouse/domestic partner and children).
Life insurance for employees.
Flexible Spending Account: Employees may contribute up to $5,000 a year for childcare expenses and up to $2,500 a year for medical expenses (no employer contribution).
12 days of vacation, increasing with tenure up to 20 days.
12 days of sick leave per year.
6 week sabbatical for full time employees after five years of employment.

Please note that PowerSwitch Action requires that all employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless a medical or religious accommodation is needed.

To Apply

. Send a letter of interest, resume, and a list of 3-4 professional references including at least one recent supervisor to jobs@powerswitchaction.org, and include “Lead Online to Offline Organizer” in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with the first round of reviews beginning Dec 15, 2022. Position open until filled.

PowerSwitch Action is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We strongly encourage and seek applications from gender oppressed (women, transgender, and gender non-binary) people, people of color including bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and broader queer communities. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender/gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.