Who we are:
United We Dream (UWD) is the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country. We create welcoming spaces for young people – regardless of immigration status – to support, engage, and empower them to make their voices heard and win! With an online reach of over 5 million every month, more than 1,000,000 members as well as 4 statewide branches and local groups across 28 states. UWD is made up of fearless young people fighting to improve the lives of our members and their families. Our vision is a society which celebrates our diversity and believes in a multi-ethnic, intersectional path to getting there. Over 60% of our members are womxn and 30% identify as LGBTQ. We are driven by the priorities and needs of our members; have trained thousands of individuals; and have supported countless local organizing groups. Our grassroots-driven approach has a proven record of success and we’re looking for talented folks to join our team! Learn more about United We Dream by visiting www.unitedwedream.org. Position Summary The Campaign and Training Coordinator will be instrumental in driving UWD’s mission by leading comprehensive issue-based campaigns and executing training programs. This role involves close collaboration to execute impactful issue based campaigns, while also carrying out training tactics that empower future leaders and strengthen our membership pipeline. The Campaign and Training Coordinator will cultivate strong relationships with key staff and partners to ensure effective implementation of our campaign and training efforts. You will work closely with the Campaigns and Training Manager and other teams to ensure our members have the tools, training, and support to lead campaigns, build community power, and take aligned, strategic action. You’ll also serve as a key convener, helping chapters and affiliates learn from one another and grow together.
Responsibilities
- Implementation of issue based campaigns: Lead the day to day implementation, internal coordination, and membership support for our organizational priority campaigns to ensure excellent member experience and successful accomplishment of our goals. Campaigns are subject to change based on the membership needs and the political climate.
- Powered by Students: lead the implementation, cross-department coordination, and development of a support system for member leaders who will be launching campaigns, create recruitment opportunities for new campaign leaders, and manage the campaign fellows and coaches.
- Home is Here: support with the infrastructure of the Home is Here campaign, oversee working groups, ensure their work aligns with the national strategy, and it supports directly impacted communities.
- Lead Rapid Response and Campaign Efforts: lead rapid response strategy and tactics alongside key staff members from the Membership and Campaigns Department, and the Narrative Department in situations pertaining to the advancement of our campaign priorities.
- Leverage new campaign opportunities: develop, along with the Campaign and Training manager, new issue based campaigns that meet the needs of our membership and the current moment to build long term political power.
- Strategic Training Programs: Support the campaigns and training manager with the execution of the yearly schedule and curriculum of membership experiences, which include, but are not limited to: New Dream Leadership Network and Student Power Trainings.
- Build Future Leaders: Actively scout, recruit, and mentor members through a leadership pipeline, specifically our fellows in order to grow campaign and training skills.
- Leadership development programs: work closely with the Campaigns and Training Manager and the organizing team to ensure the success of member-led training spaces, such as dream days and Student Power training, in order to develop the leadership skills of our membership.
- Create new training opportunities: create training spaces and curriculum outside of the new dream network and the Student Power training to ensure we are cultivating spaces for entry level members, popular education, and responding to cultural and political moments.
- Manage the training curriculum: manage new and existing organization wide curricula, ensure they are organized, consistently updated, and meet the needs of our membership.
- Cultivate Relationships with Key Partners: Build strategic local and national partner relationships and represent the organization during partner strategy meetings and related activities led by or in coalition with partner organizations.
- Provide analysis and recommendations about both the deepening and growth of strategic relationships with community leaders and organizations as it relates to our campaign goals.
- Political, narrative, cultural analysis: Analyze the changing landscape to make recommended strategic shifts in our campaigns, to update our training models, update the National Leadership Committee, and to help our members in their own campaigns.
- Ensure Capturing Team Data and Metrics: Ensure that training program and campaign metrics are regularly captured in partnership with our Data Team and support our Development Department to edit quantitative and qualitative information in reports.
Organizational Leadership
- Engage as a leader in the department: Advise on organizational strategy; participate in strategic and long-term planning processes for the organization, and co-create agendas, help to facilitate and ensure follow up materials and communication are successfully sent or completed.
- Strategic alignment: Build consensus within the membership to ensure UWD’s campaign and training strategy is aligned with the organizational vision and membership priorities.
- Build future leaders: Train and mentor youth in advocacy and campaign strategy in order to build a pipeline of young leaders of color in the immigrant rights movement.
- Demonstrate embodied leadership: Prioritize taking care of your physical and emotional health as a key component of thriving in your role. Practice self care behaviors in ways that work best for you and proactively encourage your staff to prioritize self care as well. Project trust & confidence in your abilities and skills and recognize the achievements and abilities of others.
- Strengthen the culture: Ensure a safe, welcoming, and inspiring organizational culture for staff to excel in. Role model and uphold UWD’s values of creating an inclusive and equitable working environment.
Skills and Qualifications
- 2 + years of experience in issue based campaigning, non-profit or movement space.
- Must demonstrate exceptional adaptability, as responsibilities within this role are subject to evolution and program objectives may shift. This requires a proactive approach to learning new skills and embracing unforeseen challenges to ensure continuous contribution and success.
- This role requires traveling up to or more than 30% per year.
- The ability to develop and execute a project plan involving many moving pieces and collaborators.
- You can communicate clearly, especially in writing, and understand your audience and their interests.
- The ability to build strong relationships internal to the organization and external for the organization.
- Experience with seeing the long vision of an organization while understanding the details lead to the end goal.
- Experience with being able to conceptualize and approach problems and solutions in a proactive, constructive, and innovative manner that will result in improved performance across the organization.
- Strong followthrough with principals and with organizers.
- A critical thinker and a capable, flexible, curious generalist.
- A passion for the mission: We believe that those closest to the pain are the closest to the solutions, therefore you must be committed to UWD being immigrant youth-led organization.
- This role requires attendance of some in-person events, for which you will be expected to perform membership related duties, logistical planning and execution. It may involve lifting up to 30lbs, and transporting materials and escorting/transporting members.
Interpersonal Skills
- An exceptional team player; exemplifies a work style that is flexible, respectful, collaborative and nimble.
- Can build trust, confidence, and followership of a diverse range of staff, fellow, partner organizations - across race, gender, and other identities.
- Demonstrated record of mentorship, leadership development, and successful issue based campaigns in previous positions.
Cultural Competency
- Strong understanding of the immigrant experience
- Understanding of race, gender, sexuality and other aspects of identity, and their intersections, and how that plays out in the work
- Demonstrates self-awareness of their own multiple group identities and their attendant dynamics, and can adapt the approach as needed
- Ability to build strong relationships and trust across race, gender, class, and other group identities, both internally and externally
- Experience working in communities of color and/or building multiracial organizing efforts
- Knowledge of immigrants rights’ policy and organizing landscape, preferably with lived experience as an immigrant or immigrant family.
Success
- Mission-committed: We encourage input from our diverse staff and members when making strategic decisions. Once a decision is made, you are willing to stand behind it even if it’s different from what you would have suggested.
- Relationship-oriented: You recognize the deep importance that relationships with colleagues and allies play in our work, and you build rapport and trust with others.
- 100% follow-through: No dropped balls policy! Stay on top of all specific tasks/follow-up items and general areas of work; consistently meet deadlines.
- Positive attitude and flexibility: Approach work with a spirit of “yes”; strike a positive tone; push work forward through obstacles and adapt quickly as things change.
- Responsiveness: You stay on top of communicating with members and partners, prioritizing inquiries and responding in a timely manner.
- Open-minded and flexible: Sometimes, you will need to change course, either because the landscape has unexpectedly changed, or because a new improved way of doing things has emerged. You welcome these changes and adapt with a positive attitude.
- Practice discretion and good judgment: Our movement is made up of people with varying viewpoints, some of which are in conflict with one another. You seek out opportunities to work with unlikely allies, and have good judgment about what conversations are best kept private.
- Organizational leadership: Lead by example by modeling a high bar for performance and being an exemplar of our values; operate with the best interests of the organization in mind, and not simply the best interests of your team.
- Coach mentality: You take the time to teach and offer useful and actionable feedback. You expect that people will make mistakes and see those as opportunities for learning.
- Take care of yourself and others. We do difficult work, and our movement is only sustainable if leaders take care of themselves and care about the well-being of peers and volunteers. You are honest with your manager about what you need in order to bring your whole, best self to the role.
Compensation
Salary Range: $55,080 - $81,600
Benefits
- Employees who have completed less than 1 year of service with United We Dream:
- 10 Vacation days per year
- Employees who have completed more than 1 year of service but less than 3 with United We Dream:
- 12 Vacation days per year
- Employees who have completed more than 3 years of service but less than 5 with United We Dream:
- 17 Vacation days per year
- Employees who have completed more than 5 years of service with United We Dream:
- 22 Vacation days per year
- Paid two weeks Off Holiday between December and January.
- 12 Paid holidays
- 4% 403(B) employer discretionary contribution
- 12 weeks of paid family leave (after 1 and 1 day of service)
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life coverage
- $120 Reimbursement included cell service/data and utilities monthly
- $500 Reimbursement for office supplies working from home annually
- $2000 Stipend towards professional development
### UWD is an equal opportunity employer; people of color and individuals from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. UWD does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnic background, citizenship status, religion, political orientation, genetic information, sexual orientation, age or disability.
