[Hiring] National Senior Organizer @Food & Water Watch

Role Description

Food & Water Watch is looking for a remote Senior Organizer to join our Organizing team and help support our Food & Water Volunteer Network. The Senior Organizer will work closely with volunteers and other staff at Food & Water Watch on campaigns to protect our food, water, and climate. This position is primarily remote, but the employee may be required to occasionally report to the office for meetings, trainings, or other business needs at the employer’s discretion.

The National Senior Organizer will:

• Develop volunteer leaders and teams around priority campaigns, including stopping the buildout of AI data centers.
• Report to the Volunteer Network Director and work with national organizing staff, regional field staff, and policy/research staff.
• Plan and implement efforts to recruit and onboard new volunteers.
• Engage volunteers in national, state, and local campaigns.
• Support members of the organizing team in developing volunteer teams by creating resources and national volunteer opportunities.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of full-time organizing experience, or an equivalent combination of full-time and volunteer experience.
• Demonstrated ability to develop effective organizing strategies.
• Understanding of FWW’s Strategic Organizing model.
• Ability to balance multiple strategic campaigns and targets simultaneously.
• Commitment to Food & Water Watch’s core values of justice, human dignity, fair treatment, and equity.
• Ability to work effectively with people of diverse racial, ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent time management & organizational skills.
• Ability to work remotely using basic online programs, including email, Slack, and Google docs.

Requirements

• Build the Food & Water Volunteer Network by planning and executing public facing events.
• Train and support volunteers to hold decision makers accountable on critical issues.
• Assist in developing trainings for volunteers and staff.
• Coordinate with Communications staff to draft content for engaging supporters and recruiting volunteers.
• Coordinate with Policy staff on volunteer engagement on national priority campaigns.
• May speak at public events and serve as a representative of Food & Water Watch.
• Maintain familiarity with diverse issues and respond to information requests.
• Regularly report on work to supervisors and donors.
• May supervise part-time or temporary staff.
• Participate in non-partisan electoral strategies and tactics for Food and Water Action (c4).
• Participate in membership recruitment and fundraising for Food & Water Action/Watch.
• Support the culture of philanthropy by serving as an ambassador for FWW/FWA.
• Carry out other projects as assigned.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision plans for staff.
• 403b retirement plans with employer contribution once eligible.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave once eligible.
• 3 weeks vacation for new employees.
• 12 sick days and 5 personal days.
• Paid federal holidays and winter break (December 24 – January 1).

Company Description

Food & Water Watch is working to create a healthy future for all people and generations to come—a world where everyone has food they can trust, clean drinking water, and a livable climate. Making this happen requires involving people in the pressing issues of our time at the local, state, and federal level, building on one win after another, as we develop a larger movement that has the political power to make our democratic process work.