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Youth Outreach Program Manager 🔥


Overview

The Youth Outreach Program Manager oversees Swing Left’s youth organizing work and integration of youth outreach programs into our overall organizing work with groups across the country. They will successfully manage the Youth Organizing Board and College Network programs, and will report to the Senior Program Director, Grassroots Organizing. This is an at-will position that we anticipate will end after the 2022 election cycle, with the possibility of extension into the 2024 election cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Swing Left youth and college organizing programs, including but not limited to: managing the College Network Program, the Youth Organizing Board (YOB) Program, and other programs as needed.
  • Track, evaluate and analyze progress, and optimize youth organizing programs, and identify new strategies to continuously improve programs
  • Work closely with the Senior Program Director, Grassroots Organizing to integrate youth engagement programming (including but not limited to YOB Member program) with groups across the country, and identify and help manage new youth/college volunteers and volunteer leaders in key states.
  • Identify opportunities for youth programming to integrate with distributed and Swing Left group volunteers/volunteer leaders
  • Manage YOB Members day-to-day responsibilities, and act as their direct supervisor, as well as help scale additional members throughout the 2021 cycle
  • In coordination with the Political Team, form and maintain relationships and visibility within the progressive youth and constituency organizing community.
  • Recruit, hire and oversee the work of additional college students in leadership positions like the YOB Members for the rest of the 2021 cycle.
  • Lead the planning process for the 2022 cycle, as it relates to youth and college outreach and capacity building, and work closely with the Digital Organizing, Senior Director of Community, Senior Program Director of Grassroots Organizing, as well as across departments to do so.
  • Work with the Community Team and across departments to support training efforts for new and existing volunteers including:
  • Develop and distribute tool guides and training materials for volunteers
  • Help identify and work with external partners that can help facilitate specific trainings

Successful Youth Outreach Program Manager candidates will have

  • Be an organizer at heart.
  • A minimum of 1-2 cycles of organizing experience with an emphasis on managing volunteers in volunteer-centric campaigns. Preference for candidates who have worked on campus and/or youth organizing environments, and have experience with organizing and facilitating trainings.
  • Ability to build relationships to move people to action.
  • Cultural competency: the ability to understand, communicate with and work effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.
  • High level of comfort using technology to support distributed organizing (Slack, email platforms, social media platforms, Zoom, etc). Experience with digital organizing is not required but is preferred.
  • Exceptional organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and strong attention to detail.

Working at Swing Left

We are an equal opportunity employer and seek applications from all qualified candidates who are eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas at this time.

We believe that the GOP's bad behavior disproportionately hurts the most marginalized people in society — including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, people with disabilities, women and LGBTQ people. As we seek to build both a political system and organization that represents and uplifts these voices, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities and members of other marginalized communities.

About Swing Left

Swing Left is a national grassroots organization working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot. We make it possible for anyone to make a big impact on the elections that determine the balance of power in our country, by volunteering and donating in key races. Since our founding in 2017, the Swing Left community has raised $38 million directly for Democratic candidates and civic organizations, and completed 35 million volunteer-driven voter contact actions, including door knocking, phone calls, and letter writing.

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