About the Role

Are you passionate about community organising? We are looking for an organiser and a trainer – someone who can support our state election candidates and supporters to have meaningful and persuasive conversations with Victorian voters throughout 2014. You’ll be responsible for rolling out an organising model across one electoral region or district in Victoria. Imagine travelling a local community, teaching organising skills, and then supporting them as they use the skills they’re learning to run local election campaigns. 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 to growing the political party that stands up for what matters. If you enjoy working with people and are passionate about building a progressive Australia, you’ll love this job.

About the Victorian Greens

The Greens provide a real alternative to the tired, cynical politics of Labor and the Liberal party. Unlike the two old parties, The Greens have a proud history of standing up for what is right, not just what is easy or what polls well. Over the course of the last four decades, the Greens have become the third force in Australian politics. Across Australia there are currently Greens representing you at every level of government.

The Greens are much more than an environmental party. While promoting meaningful and common-sense solutions to ensure future generations of Australians have clean air, clean water and clean soil, The Greens are also working in many other areas to champion integrity, decency and fairness. As well as representing constituents, The Greens speak on behalf of those who wouldn’t otherwise get much of a say inside parliament: children, refugees, students, individuals and families living in poverty and, of course, our natural environment.

The Victorian Greens support the federal, state and local election campaigns in the state of Victoria.

Core Responsibilities

1. You’ll co-develop a strategy to support your region/district’s Greens candidates, volunteers and supporters to have thousands of meaningful and persuasive conversations with Victorian voters throughout 2014.
2. You’ll oversee the execution of the organising strategy for your region/district. This will include managing door-knocking, phone-banking and community events.
3. You will provide weekly process reports regarding key organising KPIs.
4. You will maintain and develop a database of stakeholders and community contacts.
5. You’ll run trainings for candidates, campaign managers and Greens volunteers in campaigning and organising skills.
6. You’ll write an evaluation report in the weeks following the campaign.
7. Other duties as required.

Key Competencies Required

1. Commitment to the values of the Australian Greens
2. Strong rapport-building and relationship skills. You can effectively build and maintain relationships and be a trusted ally amongst Greens members and branches from all parts of Victoria.
3. Initiative and a can-do attitude. Sometimes you’ll have to do a lot with a little.
4. Strong leadership and persuasiveness skills. You’ll be able to inspire people to understand the possibilities of people-powered change and community organising.
5. The ability to build and manage teams, bringing out the best in them
6. Outstanding organisational skills.
7. Exceptional communication skills, able to craft compelling written materials.
8. Demonstrated strategic thinking and sound political judgment.
9. Outcomes-driven. We’re looking for someone with experience in getting results and meeting goals.

10.  Experience in managing volunteers.

11.  Experience developing and presenting training. You’ll need to be comfortable training groups of all sizes.

12.  Preferable but not essential: Comfort with best practice campaign organising techniques: from campaigning infrastructure systems, to electoral and demographic data analysis. (We will provide training in this as part of the role).

See position description attached for more information.