SURJ Sports Investment

People Operations

• Organize issue campaigns in eastern Kentucky (40%)
• Recruit people to join issue campaigns.
• Develop the leadership of people who become actively involved in issue campaigns.
• Train and coach members on key issue campaign skills and concepts, including power analysis, power mapping, escalation, direct action, meetings with decision-makers, and coalition building.
• Facilitate members to develop strategy for issue campaigns.
• Coach members to execute issue campaign strategies.
• Consistently communicate a clear plan to win issue campaigns to members.
• Offer members clear ways to take action on issue campaigns.
• Ensure that members take on large roles in issue campaigns and take primary ownership and leadership of the campaign.
• Identify, recruit, and train member leaders (30%)
• Train and coach members on key organizing skills and concepts Topics to include power, self interest, one-on-one organizing conversations, outreach, recruitment, building a team, leading a team, goal setting, holding each other accountable, and meeting facilitation.
• Provide training and coach both through facilitating trainings and 1-on-1 coaching.
• Assign members tasks and roles designed to increase their leadership abilities and responsibilities.
• Provide ongoing, clear feedback that helps members grow their capacity to carry out tasks and step into leadership.
• Recruit new leaders through one-on-one organizing conversations, canvassing, door knocking, and attending community events.
• Complete one-on-one organizing conversations (30%)
• Schedule regular one-on-one conversations with active campaign members to build stronger relationships, understand their motivations and self-interests, and support their growth through coaching, agitation, and development.
• Develop a reliable base of people you can mobilize into action through ongoing, face-to-face one-on-one conversations that build new organizing relationships.
• Identify new individuals for one-on-one organizing conversations, including potential members, community leaders, allies, and others who can support relationship-building and strengthen your power analysis.
• Reflect on what you learn in one-on-ones and integrate it into campaign strategy and organizational planning.

Union Organizer