Campaigns Manager

Campaign Leadership (55%)

• Successfully project manage WAISN’s annual Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Day in Olympia throughout the year a with the support of WAISN staff.
• Advise Policy Director on coalition building, strategy, and opportunities for all WAISN’s primary political campaigns, currently: 1) health equity policies, and 2) an unemployment insurance expansion program.
• Support state and local budget advocacy efforts that raises awareness and advocates for statewide deportation defense programs and other immigrant justice movement infrastructure, including the WAISN Deportation Defense Hotline and efforts to protect and strengthen the Keep Washington Working and Courts Open to All state laws.
• Convene advocacy partners, network members, the steering committee, and policymakers to facilitate strategy conversations and create tactics to advance our political campaigns through coalition spaces, organizing tables and other spaces as needed.

• Strategize and lead in all advocacy efforts to build the people power for campaigns, creating an annual organizing and grassroots base-building strategy that includes both in-person and digital actions such as rallies, phonebanks, petitions, email campaigns, community leadership nights, among other possible actions, with the aim of building community-led and community-accountable power throughout the state.
• Recruit, organize and host annual multi-lingual, multi-ethnic, multi-generational listening sessions (at least three) with geographic diversity representing regions around the state, in order to understand the needs of our diverse immigrant communities here in WA. These listening sessions comprise a core piece of the process of building our biannual legislative platform that allows for WAISN’s Policy & Advocacy team to fulfill its mission of community-led and community-centered policy agenda. This requires significant coordination and collaboration with partner organizations.
• Collaborate with the communications team and other WAISN departments to build campaign momentum, address rapid response issues as they relate to a mass deportation agenda and workplace raids as they arise, and seize or create opportunities to advance WAISN’s overall goals and mission through values-driven and feminist and decolonial analytics that promote collective wellbeing, revalorize care labor, salvage migrant’s agency, and support democratic consensus.
• Manage weekly, monthly or quarterly community and partner-facing meetings to advance organizational policy and advocacy priorities, and in particular, specific campaign goals, such as the biweekly Steering Committee meetings of our two main campaigns: biweekly field subcommittee meetings of our two primary campaigns, and monthly General Meetings for one primary campaigns, among others.
• Work with WAISN’s members and coalition partners to organize quarterly advocacy trainings and issue forums as well as community advocacy events such as ‘artivism’ nights or campaign presentations that occur at least weekly September-February.
• Implement a ladder of escalation with identified strategies and tactics to mount support for our advocacy agenda while pressuring opposition to our efforts with clearly identified targets while mobilizing WAISN’s base and generating momentum for our political campaigns throughout the year.

Organizing and Partnership Development (35%)

• Represent WAISN in key tables, coalitions, and meetings with allies and partners such as the various primary campaign steering and subcommittee meetings; community-led actions and activities; and relationship-building meetings with new and existing partnerships.
• Spearhead the cultivation of new and existing relationships with partners in support of our main campaigns through but not limited 1:1s, participation of events, presenting at conferences and panels.
• Build an outreach and relationship building plan and attend key in-person events across the state, particularly with labor unions and representatives. This means creating an outreach and ladder of engagement plan specifically for labor unions and participating in various retreats and gatherings when possible, such as the Labor and Immigration Table, the annual Washington State Labor Council summer policy platform gathering and other labor-oriented spaces.
• Recruit, manage and organize an Advisory Council made up of impacted community members that is multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-generational, multi-faith and is representative of all corners of WA to consult on policy matters and decisions, adding an additional dimension to community-led policy work.
• Organize the materials and logistics for the annual Steering Committee Convening as related to the primary campaigns that includes completing the listening sessions, analyzing and providing recommendations on the primary campaigns and working as co-facilitator and project manager of the Convening with the Policy Manager.
• Meet with key partners and cultivate strong relationships that lead to them joining WAISN’s membership.

Leadership Development (10%)

• Develop and implement a ladder of engagement that attracts, develops, and supports individuals from directly impacted communities to participate, lead and be centered in the advocacy campaigns that advance the rights and dignity of all immigrants.
• Develop political feminist consciousness curriculum, and movement-building activities that integrate strategic communications, digital engagement, grassroots community organizing, and the strategic priorities from our diverse policy partner.