• Job status: Multiple roles available. Full-time or part-time by negotiation, fixed-term contract, with some evening and weekend work as required
• Classification: Assistant Staff level 2 - Professional Staff level 4, starting salary: $62,477-$73,353 pro rata for part time, plus 11.5% superannuation
• Hours; Options available 2-4 days per week where full-time is 32 hours per week as a “four day” work week
• Location: Australian Greens State Office, Melbourne CBD and Electorate Campaign Office (TBC)
• Position begins: December 2024 or January 2025
• Position ends: Two weeks after the next Federal Election

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Click 'Apply now' to submit a CV and Cover Letter addressing why you’d be a good fit for the role. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis so please apply ASAP. Please use the subject line: “Fraser Electorate Organiser Application”

Huong Truong is your Greens candidate for Fraser. She’s a local community activist and working class mumma who knows what years of Labor’s inaction has left us with - sky-high rents, grocery bills through the roof and a wholesale lack of public infrastructure to help.

Fraser deserves a representative who has and will fight for us. This Fraser Campaign will be won in the streets and on the doors. It will be a campaign powered by hundreds of community members, thousands of small donations from everyday people.

Unlike the major parties, the Greens don’t take donations from fossil fuel companies and big corporations trying to buy influence. So from the doors to the donors, we can only win this campaign if we organise thousands of people to take action with us and give what they can.

About this role

Are you passionate about community organising? We are looking for skilled and passionate Field Organisers to scale up our federal election campaign in Fraser.

As a field organiser, you’ll work closely with the Australian Greens Victoria campaign team and your local electorate campaign team to implement a field strategy within the Fraser electorate.

Our growing base of volunteers have been campaigning for over 10 months, and with our star candidate, Fraser is more winnable than ever. The next Federal Election could happen anytime between August 2024 and May 2025. This election presents a crucial opportunity to activate the working class, multifaith, multicultural communities of the west and put the Greens in the balance of power in the lower house.

You will build up our team of skilled volunteers to support our movement to have meaningful and persuasive conversations within your electorate. You will be implementing four key elements of our election campaign at a local level; (a) volunteer recruitment and activation, (b) voter contact coordination, (c) leadership development, and (d) training. As the campaign progresses, further staff may be hired depending on campaign needs and the success of our grassroots fundraising.

This isn’t your average job: you’ll often work weekends and evenings instead of weekdays, and you’ll need to be self-motivated and flexible. If you enjoy working with people from all walks of life and are passionate about organising the grassroots to make progressive change, you’ll love this job.

We strongly encourage people with diverse lived experience to apply, such as First Nations People, women of colour, LGBTQIA+ folks, disabled people and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, even if you feel your professional experience doesn’t match all of the selection criteria.

Applicants with direct and deep connections with the Fraser electorate will be considered favourably.

In this role you will:

• Develop and manage a volunteer leadership team: Build a team of local volunteer leaders, develop their skills and support them with training, team meetings and regular 1:1 meetings.
• Recruit and activate volunteers: Alongside your volunteer leadership team, execute a volunteer recruitment strategy that will allow us to grow our movement and maximise the number of volunteers directly speaking to voters at their doors, over the phone and at polling booths.
• Facilitate voter contact: Through the volunteer teams you have established, oversee the execution of our voter contact strategy, including supporting voter and volunteer calling parties, door knocking events and data management.
• Event management: Assist the other campaign staff with the organisation of large events like campaign launches, community forums and fundraising dinners.
• Manage and report on campaign data: Initially lead on ensuring campaign supporter and voter data is kept up to date and secure and provide weekly progress reports regarding key KPIs, and write an evaluation report in the weeks following the campaign.

Our intention is to have a team of at least two Field Organisers who bring different skills sets and strengths and who will work really well, together and with the broader Fraser Campaign team, to deliver unprecedented success and learning. Some of these responsibilities may be shared or divided between the Fraser Field Organiser/s depending on the requirements of our Fraser Field Strategy, plans and tactics.

Selection criteria

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t have all of the relevant skills. We’re looking for someone organised and thorough and with passion for our movement, which we prioritise over formal education or qualifications.

We’re committed to diversity and supporting the right person to thrive in this role. For a confidential conversation about this role or the recruitment process, please contact James Temple via [email protected] using the subject line: Fraser Electorate Organisers enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Key selection criteria

• Values alignment: Commitment to the Greens policies, charter and core values - ecological sustainability, grassroots participatory democracy, social justice and peace and non-violence - and a passion for our movement.
• Strong rapport-building and relationship skills: You can quickly build and maintain relationships of trust in a local group and broader Greens community.
• Strong leadership and persuasive communication skills: You’ll be able to inspire people to understand the possibilities of people-powered change and community organising.
• Experience managing volunteers: including the ability to build and supervise teams, develop volunteers skills and bring out the best in each individual team member. Experience delivering training would also be highly valued.
• Outstanding organisational skills: experience in managing people and logistics to tight deadlines, you thrive in a fast paced environment.
• Experience applying best practice field campaigning techniques: from campaigning infrastructure systems (such as CRM’s and rostering tools) to organising strategies, to electoral and demographic data analysis and data driven campaigning.

Bonus points for

• Lived experience or connections to First Nations justice, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ justice, disability justice or gendered justice movements.
• Working with volunteers: Experience in a volunteer-led or member-led organisation

Why work for the Victorian Greens?

We offer a friendly, flexible and supportive workplace. Some great reasons to join the Victorian Greens team include:

• Making a meaningful contribution to the political movement for people and the planet.
• Flexibility to negotiate working hours and some work from home .
• Four weeks of annual leave a year, bonus leave between Christmas and New Years Day, and flexible leave for cultural holidays.
• Above-average personal leave, including additional paid provisions for mental health and domestic and family violence leave.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing support.