Remote Climate Justice Organizer Manager

About us

Texas Tool Belt’s mission is to dramatically increase participation in voting and governance to support a thriving democracy that puts people first. Our team comprises highly experienced campaigners, strategists, data experts, recruiters, and community organizers.  With over 20 years of experience mobilizing Texans, Texas Tool Belt team members have helped generate millions of knocks, calls, texts, and newly registered voters- nationally & in Texas, resulting in millions of new participants.  

 At Texas Tool Belt, we‘re committed to cooking with the right ingredients: research-driven best practices, ongoing program evaluation systems, encouraging innovations, metrics-based analyses, and the utilization of up-to-date technologies and systems.

Our services include comprehensive campaign program planning, the most effective, highest-quality turn-key canvass programs, professional GOTV and community outreach training programs and modules, voter and specific audience targeting, goal setting, analytics, data management, recruiting, and training highly experienced talent to run large-scale GOTV and community outreach programs. We also offer direct support services for onboarding, payroll, and HR.

We’re excited to work with a climate justice organization that works on a wide range of environmental issues, including climate change, clean energy, conservation, and environmental justice. To advance these goals we engage in grassroots organizing, electoral engagement, and public education. We are looking for a Remote Organizing Manager who will lead a team of organizers in recruiting and mobilizing volunteers for climate justice activities in Pennsylvania. This position involves a mix of remote and in-person work.

Remote Organizer Manager Qualifications/Requirements

• At least one cycle in a staff or volunteer management role
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly-directive, top-down management environment
• Passion for winning progressive policies and electing champion candidates. 
• Ability to use or learn to use remote work tools (Slack, Google Apps, Zoom, etc.)
• Experience writing clear and concise instructional materials
• Willing to run multiple Zoom trainings per week
• Ready to work nights and weekends when volunteers are generally available
• Overtime work during the final month (up to 60 hours per week)
• Travel October-Election day to support on-the-ground efforts
• Cell phone with hotspot
• Laptop and internet access that can support online video and other web-based platforms

Remote Organizer Manager Duties

• Manage the remote organizers
• Create detailed program timelines and manage to tight program deadlines
• Support national climate group political director by aggregating program data, regularly reporting on program milestones and producing background materials for senior staff
• Work with national climate group's data team to create reports and lists of volunteers and voters
• Work with national climate group's digital team to create an email calendar
• Train volunteers remotely to write letters to voters in battleground states
• Create well-organized trackers and staff workflows in Google Sheets
• Learn to do admin-side tasks in Scale to Win's texting and calling platforms
• Text volunteers
• During the final month of the election train volunteers to knock on doors in Pennsylvania or Michigan
• During the final month of the election complete regular canvassing shifts in Pennsylvania or Michigan alongside volunteers
• Develop basic proficiency with Mobilize
• Write volunteer-facing guides, emails, and other instructional materials

Interview Process:

• Online application
• Video call with the hiring team
• Reference checking
• Final video interview

Employee benefits:

• Weekly competitive pay
• Paid time off
• Access to affordable healthcare
• Technology reimbursements
• Per diem, mileage, and housing provided when traveling

We seek out and reward people who are straightforward, open, passionate, effective, and challenge the status quo. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate. This position reports to the Political Director.