What are the responsibilities and job description for the New Mexico Campaign Coordinator position at Dream Corps?
Reports to: Senior Director of National Campaigns
Location: Remote but must live in New Mexico
Salary Range: $60k-70k
Agency Overview:
Dream.org closes prison doors and opens doors of opportunity. We bring people together across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom, dignity, and opportunity for all. We are working to build a future wherein "we the people" means all of us.
Purpose:
The New Mexico Campaign Coordinator is an integral part of the Dream.Org Justice team. Drug overdose deaths continue to rise in New Mexico and Dream.org seeks an individual to help spread awareness and to build a space for unlikely allies to work together to inspire change. The New Mexico Campaign Coordinator will work under the direction of the Dream.Org Justice Campaign Director to build and implement a New Mexico-specific plan to mobilize directly impacted communities, service providers, business leaders, and those affected by drug policy to advocate for state-wide change to the criminal legal system. Your role is to shift the way New Mexico political stakeholders understand the overdose crisis and to engage and galvanize communities to fight for policy change by means of: the execution of community events throughout the state, utilizing online organizing platforms, and providing educational training.
Note: This is a 1-Year grant-funded position with continued employment contingent on funding
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Execute on-the-ground campaign events, such as educational community convenings and training
- Hold select relationships with external partners, including faith leaders, business leaders, and direct service providers
- Collaborate with digital organizers to create engaging online campaign content and action opportunities
- Assist with advocacy skills training for directly impacted New Mexicans and other stakeholders
- Draft campaign materials, such as toolkits and one-pagers
- Build and lead a diverse coalition of New Mexicans who come together to advocate for drug policy change
Minimum Job Requirements:
- At least 1 year working on either drug policy, grassroots organizing, or social justice/political campaigns
- Sophistication around a variety of campaign tactics, including in-person actions and online actions that educate and advocate for change
- Comfort with online tools associated with campaigns, such as Asana, Salesforce, Slack
- A demonstrated commitment to criminal justice reform, we value the lived experience of applicants
- Must be willing and available to travel; specifically, throughout the state of New Mexico
- Track record of executing community events
- Familiarity with coalition leadership and recruitment
Preferred Education/Skills/Experience:
- Experience with project management
- Openness to trying new campaign tactics
- Openness to work with any stakeholder who shares our commitment to reform
- Team-oriented
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
Travel:
30% for community organizing, education and coalition building
Employee Benefits
All full-time employees receive Medical, Dental & Vision coverage. Dream.Org pays 100% of premiums for employee, spouse and dependents. Part-time employees receive 50% coverage. After a 6 month waiting period, employees can contribute to our retirement plan. Currently, Dream.Org offers up to a 5% match. We also offer a flexible spending, pre-tax program for medical expenses, dependent care expenses, transit expenses and parking expenses. All full-time Dream.Org employees accrue 4 weeks of vacation time off and 12 days of sick time off over the first year of employment. Part-time employees accrue time off on a prorated basis. In addition to 10 paid holidays, Dream.Org also provides paid time off from December 24th through January 1st each year.
Dream.Org is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages applications from all qualified applicants regardless of race, sex, gender identity, age, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or record of arrest or conviction. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and strive for a workforce that reflects the populations that we serve. Additionally, upon job offer, each candidate is required to provide evidence of your eligibility to work in the United States.
Salary : $60,000 - $70,000
