Everytown for Gun Safety is the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country. The Political Team is seeking a Program Coordinator to help build the grassroots volunteer network and manage data and logistics for volunteer activities and events.
Responsibilities
- Support system for identifying and tracking volunteers who are running for office and volunteers who are eligible for endorsement and/or contributions
- Organize and track process for approving all volunteer endorsements and contributions
- Track Demand a Seat onboarding and training participation, the status of key races, including generation of regular reports on program participants and alumni
- Conduct timely research on Gun Sense Candidates, draft memos, and synthesize information in a concise manner to support decisionmaking
- Create processes for tracking and reporting key activities to highlight program accomplishments to help with press pitching and storytelling
- Draft emails, slack messages, phone banking/texting scripts to recruit Demand a Seat participants and to ensure ongoing engagement of participants and alumni
- Organize platforms (slack, training portals, or other types of tools) that house program resources and facilitate opportunities for connection among program participants
- Manage logistics for trainings and meetings, including planning of in-person events, organizing travel, identifying venues and working with OGC to negotiate contracts
- Track candidate campaign contribution process, including working with OGC and Operations to ensure compliance vetting and timely processing of payments
- Manage budget tracking and work with Operations to ensure contracts and campaign contributions for volunteer candidates/Demand a Seat participants are processed
- Draft and organize program resources, such as presentations, reports and tracking materials
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Outstanding attention to detail and ability to create efficient structures
- Outstanding writing, proofreading, and fact-checking abilities
- Experience working on a political campaign is a PLUS
- Passion for working to elect candidates who care about gun safety
- Passion for providing excellent customer service to internal and external constituents
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop strong relationships across multiple teams
- A proactive, creative, and dogged approach to anticipating and solving problems
- An ability to be flexible and thrive in a fast-paced organization with multiple projects and priorities
- An ability to learn new systems and processes quickly
- Ability to work independently, drive and manage workload and ability to adapt to changing priorities in fast pace dynamic environment
- Excellent project management skills and ability to carry out multiple projects concurrently and prioritize work effectively by making and meeting team goals
- Excellent communication and time management skills, with attention to detail
- Flexible work schedule when evening and weekend hours are required
- Ability to travel on behalf of the organization
- Willingness and ability to work in an open office and hybrid work environment
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
- Proficiency with Google Suite, Advanced level of proficiency with Excel or Google Spreadsheets
- Passion for and interest in the administrative work of supporting our political team
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision (covered by Everytown with a nominal contribution from the employee)
- PTO
- 401(k) match
- Education assistance
- And more.
Company Overview
Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.everytown.org/.
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