Statewide Volunteer Leader Organizer

Job Post; Colorado; On-site; USD 24,000 - 34,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Cell phone stipend

Job summary

The Colorado Democratic Party is seeking a skilled and experienced Distributed Organizer to join our growing team. This role focuses on statewide campuses, community partnerships, and volunteer leadership development without a fixed turf.

You will recruit and train volunteers, connect them to our tools and data, and expand statewide voter contact efforts through relational organizing. This position reports to the Distributed Organizing Director and requires travel across Colorado.

Qualifications

• Commitment to Democratic values; professional Spanish proficiency (spoken/written)
• One cycle of campaign, community, labor, faith, or student organizing experience
• Proven track record recruiting, training, and retaining engaged volunteers
• Experience with VoteBuilder/VAN, Mobilize, peer-to-peer texting; REACH or similar relational tools preferred
• Strong virtual facilitation skills (Zoom trainings/phone banks)
• Self-directed; able to build relationships remotely
• Campus, community, faith, or labor organizing experience preferred
• Excellent communication, people skills, and patience
• Strong time management under competing deadlines
• Positive, versatile team player and self-starter
• Familiarity with Colorado's all-mail voting, ballot chase, and cure period
• Comfortable cold calling
• Must have a valid driver's license, reliable mode of transportation and ability to travel extensively at times throughout the state for more than a day at a time

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, and retain volunteer leaders in counties without field staff, and support their teams
• Hold ongoing one-on-one meetings with volunteers and prospective leaders, virtually and in person
• Build organizing programs at assigned campuses (student orgs, student government, administration) and run student registration/re-registration
• Build relationships with community, faith, cultural, business, and labor organizations, developing leaders from within them
• Conduct Spanish-language voter contact and recruitment; support bilingual materials and volunteer capacity
• Run statewide virtual phone/text banks open to volunteers in any county
• Drive relational organizing adoption, coaching volunteers through setup and first outreach
• Connect volunteers to shifts in targeted turf with Regional Organizing Directors/Field Organizers
• Deliver trainings on canvassing, phone banking, relational organizing, and leadership
• Maintain accurate data in VoteBuilder and Mobilize; report weekly on key metrics
• Travel statewide to launch programs, support leaders, and staff events
• Troubleshoot issues, coordinate across Coordinated Campaign departments, and stay current on Party activities and Democratic news
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Commitment to Democratic values

Spanish proficiency

Campaign organizing experience

Volunteer recruitment

Relational tools

Virtual facilitation

Remote relationship-building

Team collaboration

Time management

Colorado politics familiarity

Tools

VoteBuilder/VAN

Mobilize

REACH

Job description

The Colorado Democratic Party is seeking a skilled and experienced Distributed Organizer to join our growing team. This role focuses on statewide campuses, community partnerships, and volunteer leadership development without a fixed turf.

You will recruit and train volunteers, connect them to our tools and data, and expand statewide voter contact efforts through relational organizing. This position reports to the Distributed Organizing Director and requires travel across Colorado.