Georgia WAND is Now Hiring! Program Manager, Outreach and Organizing
Program Manager, Outreach and Organizing
Job Description
About Georgia WAND: A statewide, women-led, grassroots organization, Georgia WAND builds women’s political power to reduce militarism and violence, and redirect excessive military spending toward unmet human and environmental needs. We work toward systemic change and increasing the civic engagement, political leadership, and community participation of women, including those who are a part of the Rising American Electorate.[1]
Our approach is to continue to build our constituency by meeting people where they are and making space for them to plug into engagement within the organization. We support our constituents as they transform their activism by providing education and training on key issues and political intervention points; providing opportunities for engagement and community organizing (such as GOTV and targeted issue campaign efforts); offering leadership development training; and building coalitions across divides and markers of difference.
Key issues Georgia WAND organizes around include the following:
- Holding the nuclear industry accountable for environmental contamination, cleaning up legacy waste from warheads and new waste from nuclear energy, stopping production and modernization of nuclear warheads, and the expansion of nuclear energy;
- Redirecting egregiously high levels of Pentagon budget allocations toward human and environmental needs;
- Advancing clean energy technologies and moving the southeast away from an unsafe, hazardous, and climate-change susceptible nuclear-dependent energy future;
- Addressing systemic violence domestically and internationally; and
- Seeking to establish unity, reconciliation, and alternatives to violent conflict.
We take leadership from and co-design strategies with people whose communities are directly affected by our focus issues. For example, we work with residents living downwind and downstream from the toxic emissions of nuclear energy and weapons complexes in the southeast. Our constituency spans race, age, geography, class, and gender, and we are working to be inclusive of all women of color, transgender women, women throughout the state, working women, and young women. As an organization of action, we raise our voices to speak out against injustice, take our passion, knowledge, and experiences to the streets, the classrooms, the boardroom, the steps in the state capitol, the halls of Congress, and beyond.
The Program Manager for Outreach and Organizing is primarily responsible for developing, training, supporting, and activating Georgia WAND’s constituency. The Program Manager for Outreach and Organizing is a full time exempt position and reports to the Executive Director.
Principal Responsibilities for the Program Manager for Outreach and Organizing include, but are not limited to, the following:
Overall
- Design and implement long- and short- term programmatic strategies to meet organizational goals and objectives, as set forth in the strategic plan, and create a work plan
- Develop curriculum and other educational and training modules
- Recruit, engage, retain, support, and appreciate volunteers, activists, and members of Georgia WAND; identify leaders; and create and implement a stair-step activist engagement system
- Plan, organize, and evaluate events—educational, advocacy, leadership development, coalition, etc
- Develop and oversee internship program and recruit interns from colleges in targeted areas
- Represent Georgia WAND in coalitions; maintain ongoing relationships with partner organizations, and develop new partnerships
- Work with Executive Director to design, plan, implement, and oversee grassroots organizing and membership campaigns
- Support Georgia WAND fundraising and communication efforts, including developing grant proposals and using social media
- Participate in weekly staff meetings
Field Work
- Support the Georgia WAND Field Coordinator, who is based in Burke County, GA, and engage in and oversee implementation of statewide field work strategies across issue areas
- Attend community organizing meetings in targeted areas, such as Burke County
- Help build processes and systems for managing programming across multi-geographic offices
- Cultivate and support base of volunteers for voter registration, voter education, and Get Out The Vote work for 2015 municipal 2016 presidential election cycles; the base of volunteers should reflect all aspects of the RAE, including students
- Build statewide activist, civic engagement, and Rapid Response teams, and support the development of the “Women’s Mobilization Network”
Qualifications Successful candidates display the following professional qualifications and personal attributes:
- A strong commitment to social justice, civic engagement, building community power, and working across differences
- The ability to meet people where they are
- Experience in grassroots organizing, curriculum development, voter engagement, volunteer management, and constituent lobbying
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with an emphasis on public speaking and writing
- Experience leading, conducting, and facilitating meetings and trainings
- Capable of crafting communications, such as policy and position statements and press releases
- Familiarity with database work, accounting software, such as QuickBooks, and Microsoft Office suite. Desktop publishing abilities a plus!
- Interest in and ability to communicate out the work Georgia WAND via social media
- Diplomatic, professional, and peace-based approach to problem solving, while working independently or on a team
- Ability to manage several tasks/projects concurrently and prioritize work effectively
- Ability to set goals, meet deadlines, and operate with personal accountability
- Must be able to take initiative; “self-starter”
- Willing to work evenings and weekends (when necessary)
Location: The primary location of the Program Manager, Outreach and Organizing position will be Atlanta, GA, at the Georgia WAND office at 250 Georgia Ave, Suite 202, Atlanta, GA 30312. Must be willing to travel.
Compensation: Compensation is competitive and negotiable depending on background and experience; benefits included.
To Apply: Send a resume, cover letter, writing sample, names and contact information of three professional references, and salary requirements to Becky Rafter, Executive Director, at becky@georgiawand.org. Please don’t hesitate to contact with questions: 404-524-5999. Applications accepted until Friday, April 3, 2015.
Women of color are encouraged to apply. Equal employment opportunity and having a staff reflective of the communities we serve are fundamental principles at Georgia WAND, where employment and promotional opportunities are based upon individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as established under law.
[1] Rising American Electorate (and other communities integral to Georgia WAND’s mission): women of color, single women, young people (ages 18-34), LGBTQ-identified people, people with lower incomes, elders, and people living or working in rural areas