Remote Climate Justice Organizer - Texas Tool Belt

About us

Texas Tool Belt’s mission is to dramatically increase participation in voting and governance to support a thriving democracy that puts people first. Our team comprises highly experienced campaigners, strategists, data experts, recruiters, and community organizers.  With over 25 years of experience mobilizing Texans, Texas Tool Belt team members have helped generate millions of knocks, calls, texts, and newly registered voters- nationally & in Texas, resulting in millions of new participants.  

 At Texas Tool Belt, we‘re committed to cooking with the right ingredients: research-driven best practices, ongoing program evaluation systems, encouraging innovations, metrics-based analyses, and the utilization of up-to-date technologies and systems.

Our services include comprehensive campaign program planning, the most effective, highest-quality turn-key canvass programs, professional GOTV and community outreach training programs and modules, voter and specific audience targeting, goal setting, analytics, data management, recruiting, and training highly experienced talent to run large-scale GOTV and community outreach programs. We also offer direct support services for onboarding, payroll, and HR.

We’re excited to work with a climate justice organization that works on a wide range of environmental issues, including climate change, clean energy, conservation, and environmental justice. To advance these goals we engage in grassroots organizing, electoral engagement, and public education. We’re looking for organizers to recruit and mobilize volunteers for climate justice activities in Pennsylvania. This position involves a mix of remote and in-person work.

Remote Organizer Qualifications & Requirements

• Enthusiasm for mobilizing volunteers for progressive causes and candidates
• Ability to connect authentically with activists from across the country with various backgrounds and skill levels
• Ability to use or learn to use remote work tools (Slack, Google Apps, Zoom, etc.)
• Experience writing clear and concise instructional materials
• Familiarity in volunteering or working with progressive campaigns or candidates
• Willing to run multiple Zoom trainings per week
• Ready to work nights and weekends when volunteers are generally available
• Overtime work during the final month (up to 60 hours per week)
• Travel October-Election day to support on-the-ground efforts
• Cell phone with hotspot
• Laptop and internet access that can support online video and other web-based platforms

Remote Organizer Duties

• Train volunteers to write letters to voters in battleground states.
• Create well-organized trackers and staff workflows in Google Sheets
• Learn to do admin-side tasks in various texting and calling platforms
• Text and turnout volunteers for action activities
• During the final month of the election train volunteers to knock on doors in Pennsylvania 
• During the final month of the election complete regular canvassing shifts in Pennsylvania alongside volunteers
• Develop basic proficiency with Mobilize
• Write volunteer-facing guides, emails, and other instructional materials

Interview Process:

• Complete online application and submit resume and cover letter
• Video interview with the hiring team
• Reference checking
• Final video interview

Employee benefits 

• Weekly competitive pay commensurate with experience 
• Paid time off
• Access to affordable healthcare
• Technology reimbursements
• Per diem, mileage, and housing provided when traveling

We seek out and reward people for being straightforward, open, passionate, effective, and challenging the status quo. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.   This position reports to the Remote Organizer Manager.  

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