• Fed25 Wills Electorate Organisers
• Job status: Multiple roles available both full-time and part-time, fixed-term contract, with some evening and weekend work as required
• Classification: Assistant Staff level 2-3 - starting salary: $62,477 - $68,724 depending on experience
• 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
• Position begins: Mid August - September
• Position ends: Two weeks after the next Federal Election

The campaign to elect Samantha Ratnam to the federal seat of Wills is up and running and seriously winnable. If just one in ten people change their vote, we could turn this seat Green. We’ve already begun door knocking the electorate and building on Samantha’s deep roots in the community.

The community is telling us that they are sick of the Labor government letting them down on cost of living and housing by refusing to stand up to the big supermarkets and property investors. Many are outraged that Labor is approving new coal and gas and condoning genocide in Gaza.

But nothing changes if nothing changes. Our campaign is building real people power to put more Greens in parliament, to get real progress on the issues we care about.

Organising will be central to this campaign!

Unlike the major parties, The Greens don’t take donations from fossil fuel companies and big corporations trying to buy influence so we can only win this campaign if we organise thousands of people to have one to one vote shifting conversations. We need skilled organisers embedded in and leading this campaign.

About this role

Are you passionate about community organising? We are looking for a field organiser to support our federal election campaign in Wills.

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 a single electorate.

You will build a team 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 location.

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 – but you’ll meet amazing Greens members from all walks of life, and make a real difference growing the political party that stands up for what matters. If you enjoy working with people and are passionate about building a progressive future, you’ll love this job.

The next federal election could happen anytime from August 2024 until May 2025. This election presents a crucial opportunity to put the Greens in the balance of power in the lower house and re-elect Greens Senator Steph Hodgins-May.

You will be responsible for:

• 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.

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 Steph Zalakos via [email protected] or James Temple via [email protected] using the subject line: Wills 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- 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.

Apply

Click 'Apply Now' to submit your application to Steph Zalakos with 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.

A position description is attached.