Overview:
- Lead a cutting-edge campaign while building a permanent political organization for animals in the Portland area
- Build an activist community locally by recruiting volunteers for leadership roles, mentoring them, and holding them accountable
- Get extensive support from a nationwide team of experienced campaigners
- Starting with this campaign, this permanent position will work to build a political base for animals in the DMV.
Applications are processed on a rolling basis, but the role must be filled by mid April. Generally speaking, no specific credentials or experience are required for roles at Pax Fauna & Pro-Animal Future.
This role is located in the Portland, OR metro area. Salary $57,137 per year (pegged to MIT living wage calculator) plus healthcare and retirement contributions worth >$6,000 per year.
Work at Pro-Animal Future is highly self-directed. Self-starters with a track record of initiating projects might succeed here.
Campaign Director role:
Purpose: Run an ever-growing volunteer organization in Portland passing pro-animal laws and changing public opinion.
Outcomes you’ll be assessed on:
- The campaign is constantly recruiting new volunteers, some of whom take on greater responsibility and become organizers.
- Collectively, enough volunteer hours are put into the campaign each week to qualify our measures for the ballot.
- Key functions of the campaign are fulfilled by volunteers who have all the support they need to succeed.
- Along with top volunteers, you are embedding yourself into influential local political networks (e.g. the local Democratic party)
Activities:
- Building individual relationships with a community of volunteers, recruiting volunteers into roles with significant responsibility for the campaign, and providing them with the mentorship, coordination, and accountability they need to succeed.
- Creating systems for volunteers to autonomously carry out the key functions of the campaign, then continuously improving those systems based on real-world performance.
- Keeping our community of volunteers informed and motivated.
- Facilitating organizer meetings and group activities.
- Developing and initiating creative new strategies to realize the goals for the campaign.
- Landing meetings with city council members, Democratic party leaders, and other political gatekeepers and getting their support for PAF's initiatives.
Key Skills
- Hold volunteer leaders accountable to goals and commitments they set.
- Comfortably manage digital systems (including spreadsheets) and quickly master new software to the point that you can train others.
- Comfortable speaking motivationally in front of groups and working 1:1 with individuals in a coaching capacity.
- Presenting yourself and PAF differently as the situation demands (e.g. knowing how to talk about our issues at a meeting with a city council member vs. at an activist social)
We strongly encourage applications from women and people of color if you aren’t quite sure whether you’d meet everything we’re looking for. The first step is easy, and applications are processed on a rolling basis, so apply now!
