Senior Campaign Organizer - Milwaukee

The Redress Movement (“Redress”) seeks an experienced organizer to join Redress’ remote team. This Senior Campaign Organizer role is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and will support Redress’ efforts across the country to remedy residential segregation.

About The Redress Movement

The Redress Movement is a national non-profit organization, formed in 2022, that partners with local communities to repair the harm caused by intentional policies that segregate communities. The Redress Movement’s work centers around educating, mobilizing, shifting the narrative, and winning redress victories. The Redress Movement’s starting point is housing justice, but we work in solidarity with others who are facing the facts of history, redressing harms of the past, and healing our communities by dismantling the barriers that divide us.

Qualifications:

Our ideal candidate will possess management, organizing, and campaign experience that will lend itself to leading local strategies to redress residential segregation. The right person for this position will have some familiarity with the ways in which discriminatory housing policies and practices have segregated communities across the country, a demonstrated interest in civil rights or housing justice issues, and deep connections to people and organizations across Milwaukee.

Additionally, the role requires substantial experience in campaign management, strategic planning, data entry, coalition building, and mobilizing large numbers of people. Please note that our focus will be on demonstrated experience and success, not just number of years.

The Senior Campaign Organizer will report to the National Organizing Director.

Required Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years experience in organizing, including substantial demonstrated experience leading campaigns at the local, state or national level;
• Availability to work evening or weekend hours as needed;
• Strong analytical ability and critical thinking skills, as well as attention to detail and strong written communication skills;
• An understanding and commitment to the nonpartisan mission and goals of the Redress Movement;
• Familiarity with digital organizing tools including e-mail, call and text tools;
• Familiarity with tech tools and suites designed to support organizers and campaigns;
• Availability and willingness to travel as necessary; and,
• Familiarity with Milwaukee’s communities.

Preferred Experience:

• Extensive experience working in directly impacted communities and a commitment to social and racial justice organizing, as well as fluency and understanding of the challenges facing Black and other communities of color, young people of color, immigrant communities, and low-and moderate income families;
• Experience working with organizational membership, volunteers and/or community organizers;
• Existing relationships with key external constituencies and/or policy makers from diverse backgrounds and ideological positions;
• Experience working with remote colleagues;
• Familiarity with media strategy, including social media;
• A collaborative disposition, patience, and flexibility;
• Ability to build relationships of trust and mutual respect with a broad range of people;
• Relevant understanding of the housing crisis and its impact on Black and brown communities; and,
• Experience driving and winning policy-focused campaigns.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

The Senior Campaign Organizer’s duties and responsibilities will include:

• Organizing communities, including volunteer management and collaborating with Redress’ Digital Organizer, while ensuring engagement with interested Milwaukee-based residents;
• Convening and facilitating regular meetings of Milwaukee’s Redress Roundtable, as well as leading recruitment efforts for new Roundtable members as needed;
• Working in collaboration with like-minded organizations and growing a redress-focused base in Milwaukee;
• Reviewing, recommending key legislative strategies;
• Providing direct campaign strategic planning, including research and campaign design, and support plan implementation;
• Designing and facilitating campaigns, and organizing trainings for Redress affiliates and their members;
• Collaborating with other Redress teams as needed;
• Producing fundamental organizing and campaign-building tools, including research and policy briefs and digital communications, to support Redress partners as needed;
• Establishing and maintaining partnerships with relevant organizations and coalitions to move relevant campaigns;
• Supporting program fundraising, as needed;
• Other duties as necessary