Community Organiser

5 days ago

Tusmore, Australia Independent For Sturt Full time

**The Position**

**Key responsibilities**:
The appointed community organiser has a primary focus on recruiting, activating and up-skilling volunteers, which will include responsibilities such as:

- **Recruiting **_
- Develop relationship with key community groups on behalf of I4S
- Identify local community groups and cultural networks within the Sturt electorate and develop outreach plans to these groups.
- Meet with community leaders within the electorate to generate support and collaboration.
- Recruit volunteers and identify volunteer leaders - support development of self managed sub groups.
- **Activating **_
- Coordinate volunteers to do voter outreach such as door knocking, distributing flyers, phone-banking and street stalls enabling meaningful conversations with the Sturt communities.
- Mobilise volunteers to turn out to events and voter outreach activities.
- Assist with the management of the NationBuilder Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
- **Up-skilling**_
- Conduct training and workshops to build capacity and scalability of the volunteer base.
- Support volunteers and committee members to organise and deliver community events.
- Provide the Independent for Sturt committee with regular progress reports
- Meet with committees (Coms, Fundraising etc) to collaborate and support volunteer work.

**Performance goals**:

- 400 volunteers added to the Independent for Sturt Nationbuilder CRM
- 20 volunteer training workshops conducted to build capacity of the team
- 50 volunteers engaged in voter outreach on a weekly basis
- 5 meetings per week with community groups

**Selection criteria**
- _**Values Alignment**_
- Commitment to the guiding values of Independent for Sturt as per our website:

- _**Community Organising Experience**_
- Ability to organise people to build community impact and social change
- Ability to identifying and nurture leadership qualities within volunteers
- Already have existing networks in the seat of Sturt / database of contacts
- _**Goal Oriented**_
- Can solve problems and achieve results under time pressure
- Can delegate tasks and manage conflicting priorities
- Can work autonomously
- _**A People Person**_
- Passionate about empowering and motivating others
- Ability to work within diverse teams of people
- High level of accountability and communication
- Can manage conflict and difficult conversations
- Is patient and respectful of the varying abilities of volunteers

**Arrangements**

4 days a week on a casual basis - renumeration depending on experience

Up to 4 weeks in late November early December - reconvening in Mid Jan for 8-10 weeks.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term
Contract length: 4 months

Pay: $30.00 - $55.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20 - 30 per week

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

**Experience**:

- Volunteer Coordination: 1 year (required)
- Community Outreach: 1 year (preferred)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 15/11/2024
Expected Start Date: 18/11/2024

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