Temporary Part-time Elections Coordinator

Elections Coordinator MN350 unites Minnesotans as part of a global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all. We do this through strategic, winnable campaigns using public education, grassroots organizing, public events, and civic engagement led by strong leadership from historically marginalized people, including Anishinaabe and other Native Americans, youth, people of color, and working-class people from across the state. We have a growing and engaged supporter base, deep campaign experience, and robust relationships with allied organizations, community leaders, and decision-makers.

Geographic focus

MN350 is a statewide organization based in the Twin Cities, with a staff presence in Bemidji.

Essential Goals And Strategies For The Year Ahead

Our state is an unlikely epicenter in the fight to protect our climate and build a just and equitable clean energy future. Minnesota is the country’s largest inland refiner of oil, with 30% of all inland oil flowing through our state. However, a recent Climate Nexus poll sponsored by MN350 found that two-thirds of Minnesotans believe moving to 100% clean energy should be the top goal of the state’s energy policy — a significant disconnect between what most Minnesotans want and what our state is doing.

TEMPORARY ELECTIONS COORDINATOR

The Elections Coordinator ensures that voter information pamphlets, election supplies, and equipment are accurately prepared within prescribed deadlines. Material preparation includes creating ballot designs and printing ballots; working with private mail service to assemble and mail ballot packets for each election; and supervising paid canvassers for door-knocking, phone, and text banks. The candidate coordinates precinct and jurisdiction boundary changes and registration system and mapping changes. Work requires extreme attention to detail, considerable accuracy, expertise in working in the VAN, and the ability to meet tight deadlines.

CLASSIFICATION DISTINCTIONS

This is a single temporary election coordinator position through November 8, 2024, reporting to the Political Manager and, in some cases, the Executive Director. The incumbent works independently under general direction and carefully coordinates the MN350 Action elections plan with canvassers and volunteers. The incumbent must be able to interpret and closely follow state, federal, and local laws relating to elections.

Key Or Typical Tasks And Responsibilities

• Prepares official endorsement and election materials, accessible voting equipment and tabulation programming using computerized software programs.
• Plan and execute education programs that engage and empower our community, especially young people, to understand election systems and climate issues in collaboration with MN350 Action’s mission and vision.
• Help track and report data to measure our progress related to election systems work.
• Ensure the program is executed with the highest quality control, professionalism, and appropriate long-range perspective.
• Participating in all MN350 Action political election work — doing the hard work of campaigning, which means door-to-door field canvassing, text and phone banking, and attending campaign events.
• Coordinates with the manager to review and alter elective district boundary information and address tables due to annexations, redistricting, district mergers, precinct size adjustments, and new elective districts.
• Coordinates with the manager to prepare and produce local voter pamphlets and supervises temporary staff assigned to this task.
• Maintains voting system hardware and creates database backups.
• Participates in final audit and reconciliation of election results before official certification of election results.
• Cuts lists and maintains the miniVAN where needed.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Two to four years of progressively responsible administrative and technical expertise, including experience coordinating detailed proscribed processes within restricted timeframes

Knowledge of principles, techniques, and laws governing election processes; formatting and presentation of written materials; general office procedures and practices and technical and specialized functions, policies, and procedures involved in elections; principles of supervision; spelling, grammar, and punctuation and general and technical formats used in the work; report writing, record keeping, and data compilation; complex personal computer applications.

Ability to perform a wide variety of challenging, complex and responsible work; independently set up and maintain records and complex files; develop new procedures, evaluate existing processes, implement systems; use complex computer applications, including personal computers and the voter tabulation system; perform a variety of tasks within rigid deadlines; train and guide the work of others; establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships and interact with the public with courtesy and tactfulness; communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

This is a 20-hour-per-week temporary position requiring most work in the community.

Essential tasks include using the telephone, working in the VAN and personal computer, writing, driving a personal vehicle, traveling to precincts, some in rural communities, and the manual dexterity necessary to repair election equipment.

Cultural Competence

• Demonstrated awareness of one’s own cultural identity, views about difference and the ability tolearn and build on varying cultural and community norms.
• Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture.
• Understanding of how environmental and voting rights issues intersect with racism, economic and social inequality in Minnesota. and a passion for working to dismantle these systems.
• Familiarity with the complexity of issues and obstacles facing communities’ of color participation in Minnesota democracy.
• A belief that who we elect matters and that the protection of Minnesota’s land, air and water should be a political priority.
• Knowledge of Minnesota’s political and voting rights landscape is a plus.

Compensation & BenefitsThe starting salary for this position ranges from $30.00 -$36.00 per hour depending on experience. This is a non-benefit position.