The Marijuana Policy Project, the nation's largest marijuana policy reform organization, is seeking a Southern Nevada Field Coordinator, based in Las Vegas, to manage the signature drive for a ballot initiative campaign.
Specifically, MPP is working to pass a statewide ballot initiative that would tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol in Nevada, thereby ending marijuana prohibition in the state. This position will play a key role in ensuring the signature drive to place the initiative on the ballot is successful.
This position is a six to ten month contract position.
Responsibilities
The Southern Nevada Field Coordinator will be responsible for:
* Coordinating the day-to-day operation of a large portion of a statewide signature drive to place an initiative on the ballot
* Recruiting, training, and managing petition circulators
* Ensuring a high overall validity rate of signatures collected
* Attending and running signature turn-in events, where circulators will return completed petitions
* Keeping track of all signatures submitted and overseeing payments to circulators
* Representing the campaign in a professional manner and ensuring circulators to do the same
The Southern Nevada Field Coordinator reports to MPP-NV's Campaign Manager.
Qualifications
Candidates should be highly organized, with meticulous attention to detail; get along well with a wide range of people; and be able to work weekends and occasional long hours.
Experience training others or working on a signature drive or political campaign is a plus, but not required.
Compensation
The position begins as a six-month contract, paying $20,000 for the six-month period, with the possibility of extending the contract for an additional four months.
With 38 employees, 29,000 dues-paying members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, MPP is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP works to minimize the harm associated with marijuana - both the consumption of marijuana and the laws that are intended to prohibit its use -- and believes that the greatest harm associated with marijuana is imprisonment.
