Campus Organizer

Key Responsibilities

• Recruiting and inspiring hundreds of students to take action.
• Helping students run strategic campaigns. Campus organizers will recruit and train students to run campaigns such as eliminating single-use plastics, protecting wildlife and special places, making college more affordable, and more.
• Building a coalition. Campus organizers work with student volunteers and interns to build a diverse, invested coalition of organizations.
• Training students to be effective social change leaders, using skills such as generating grassroots support and coordinating lobby days and news conferences.
• Building a strong, sustainable, student-funded and student-run organization on campus by fundraising, building relationships with key players on campus, and building our organizational brand.
• Running a citizen outreach office during the summer, where you’ll recruit and lead a team of canvassers to fundraise for important issues and help build critical, timely grassroots support to win key campaigns. You may be assigned to a different office location for the summer and should be flexible to move.
• Build the movement by recruiting volunteers, interns, and more organizers to work with us.
• This position requires exercising discretion and independent judgment in making decisions in matters of significance. 

Qualifications

• Have a demonstrated commitment to environmental, public interest and/or student issues, and a track record of leadership. 
• Are goal-driven and results-oriented.
• Have excellent communication skills.
• Are driven, work well with all kinds of people, and aren’t afraid to get outside their comfort zones.
• Are passionate about making positive change. Change takes time, and is often incremental; we’re looking for people who are excited to work hard every day, even if it’s just for one small step in the right direction. 

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