Healthcare Action Coordinator

Overview

Citizen Action of Wisconsin seeks applicants hungry for the opportunity to lead power building campaigns to achieve the sweeping changes Wisconsin needs to become a just, equitable, and sustainable multiracial democracy. This position is best suited for creative and effective out-of-the-box thinkers deeply committed not only to being on the right side, but effectively building the grassroots power to make tangible progress on the big challenges  confronting the multiracial working class.

Description of Work:

The Health Action Coordinator is the point person for our nationally recognized campaign to make healthcare a fundamental human right. Our strategy is a deep investment in robust grassroots organizing that shifts power away from the profit-crazed medical industrial complex and to the public, and unwinds the structural racism at the core of the American health system. We also lean into the electoral power of health care to elect candidates who are progressive on all the major issues.

The Healthcare Action Coordinator plays a critical role in supporting our organizing and electoral work on health care issues, and our membership base building across the state to build a powerful multiracial working class movement for social change.

The Healthcare Action Coordinators works effectively on grant management with our current health care funders, and works with the Executive Director on unlocking new health care funding opportunities.

More on Citizen Action’s cutting edge progressive structural reform agenda, which is the basis for all our candidate endorsements, can be found here. For Citizen Action’s articles and resources on Citizen Action’s theory of change read here.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Lead Citizen Action’s national recognized health justice campaign for structural reform of the largest economic sector, the Medical Industrial Complex.
• Working with our movement politics team, play a leadership role in our electoral programs.
• Conduct power analysis and work with the Citizen Action team to develop cutting-edge issue campaign strategies.
• Develop issue training to develop the strategic capacity of Citizen Action organizers and members.
• Play a role in Citizen Action’s leadership development programs to develop the capacity of our organizers, member-leaders, and endorsed candidates for public office.
• Navigate public policy and effectively translate it into educational and motivating materials for elected officials, our members, and the general public.
• Serve as Citizen Action’s connect to the health care campaign of our national network, People’s Action.
• Serve as Citizen Action’s connect with national health care advocates, such as Community Catalyst, Healthcare for America Now, and Families USA.
• Represent Citizen Action at state and local health care coalition tables, when it advances our program and our power building.
• Support Citizen Action earned media efforts in our major issue and other communication strategies and mass engagement techniques, to augment the power and influence of our grassroots organizing.
• Maintain relationships with large donors to Citizen Action’s healthcare campaigns, prospect for new funders, develop funding proposals, and grant reporting to existing program funders.

Desired Experience:

• Experience in labor, community, political or faith-based organizing, experience with or a strong interest in learning relational organizing.
• Experience leading issue campaigns, corporate accountability campaigns, and election campaigns.
• Experience working with a broad array of organizations and coalitions.
• Deep commitment to working on racial justice issues, working with communities of color, and with a multicultural base of individuals.
• Experience with policy creation and grassroots lobbying.
• Experience with planning earned media events, direct action, marches, rallies, and other social movement tactics.
• Experience with large and/or small dollar fundraising, grant writing, and grant management.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to be a leader in further developing a positive and authentic multiracial staff culture which strives to meet rigorous standards of performance in achieving our campaign goals.
• Philosophical commitment to progressive values of economic, gender, racial, anti-oppressive, and environmental justice.
• Commitment to unwinding the structural racism and other structural equality built into local, state, and national policies and governance structures.
• Ability to understand public policy issues and translate them into organizing issues that motivate average people to act
• Strong creative and strategic thinking skills and willingness to innovate in fast moving issue campaigns and meet deadlines.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including ability to produce effective flyers, email alerts, coalition reports, blogs, effective social media posts, and campaign plans.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, and problem solving and organization skills, the ability to work under pressure, and the ability to build and maintain effective relationships.
• Intermediate computer skills including, composing and formatting documents, working with databases, and social networking (Familiarity with VAN/EveryAction, as well as managing social media accounts are a plus).
• Public speaking and networking skills
• Bilingual/multilingual a plus.

Organizational Background: Citizen Action of Wisconsin is an issue focused non-profit membership organization committed to achieving racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice. We bring together thousands of activists and allied groups across Wisconsin to deepen democratic participation that advances a strongly progressive public policy agenda. Citizen Action of Wisconsin is an affiliate and a major leader within People’s Action, a network of 39 independent social justice organizations in 26 states which is playing a growing role in national progressive politics.  We are also an affiliate of Power Shift Action, a network of 20 multiracial power building groups focused on economic and racial justice. More information on current Citizen Action of Wisconsin programs can be found at citizenactionwi.org.

Position Details: This is a full-time senior, union-represented, position which includes comprehensive gold-plan health care and dental with additional reimbursements for co-pays, 401K with direct employer contribution and a match, life insurance, disability insurance, mobile phone allowance, computer allowance, travel reimbursements, substantial paid time off, and other benefits. Some weekend and evening hours are required. This is a union position, represented by OPEIU Local 9, AFL-CIO. This position has a starting salary of $60,000, higher for exceptionally qualified candidates based on our union scale. Generous automatic cost of living and seniority increases annually. Eligibility for merit-based promotion based on demonstrated performance.

The Health Action Coordinator is a member of the Program Team and reports to the Executive Director. This position is ideally located in Milwaukee where Citizen Action’s office is located, but could be based anywhere in Wisconsin. Citizen Action also has staff who live in Eau Claire, La Crosse, Wausau, and Green Bay. The position includes frequent travel within Wisconsin, and occasional out-of-state travel.

Women, people of color, formerly incarcerated individuals, individuals from the LGBTQ+ community, and individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Application Process:  Email cover letter explaining your interest in the position and résumé to Robert Kraig (Executive Director) robert.kraig@citizenactionwi.org

Citizen Action of Wisconsin and Citizen Action of Wisconsin is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on age, gender, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or former incarceration status. Women, people of color, formerly incarcerated individuals, individuals from the LGBTQ+ community, and individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply.