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Campaign Coordinator: New Jersey for Health Care Campaign
New Jersey Citizen Action
Location: NJ, USA
Description
New Jersey Citizen Action seeks to hire a Campaign Coordinator for an historic new state-wide campaign to provide guaranteed affordable, quality health care for all New Jersey residents including the state's currently 1.3 million uninsured. New Jersey Citizen Action has recently been awarded a three year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of the foundation's national Consumer Voices for Coverage program that is designed to foster and support sustainable consumer health care advocacy systems throughout the country. Working with NJCA is a Leadership Team composed of NJ Appleseed, AARP-NJ, the NJ Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG), the NJ Catholic Conference, Camden Churches Organized for People (CCOP), the Women's Fund of NJ, the Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities (ABCD), the Hispanic Directors Association of NJ, the NJ State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Communications Workers of America, (CWA), Local 1037, the NJ Health Care Quality Institute and a number of additional health advocacy organizations.
Background: The stage is set for a monumental battle over the future of the health care system both on a state and national level. Nationally, we are beginning the most significant domestic political battle since the passage of Medicare - affecting one sixth of the U.S. gross domestic product. On the state level, political leaders are poised to move forward on broad-based health care reform to provide universal coverage for all. This campaign's mission is to insure that health care advocacy organizations come together to build a sustainable consumer health advocacy system and mobilize the financial and organizational resources to build the capacity we need to insure that reforms are developed and implemented that serve and protect the interests of health care consumers. Our task is to plan and implement a strategy, create the political environment, and assemble the political and organizational resources that will overcome the formidable array of forces that will oppose fundamental change.
The campaign's goal is to build and strengthen our state-wide capacity to create a movement to win the implementation of health care reform on the state and national level that conforms to our principles. The attached document describes our principles.
The Campaign Coordinator will be responsible for:
•Establishing and implementing the campaign's strategy, tactics and budget in conjunction with the Campaign's Leadership Team.
•On an as-needed basis, directing the campaign's staff .
•The Coordinator will be responsible for:
oBuilding a broad coalition of organizations who join the campaign and participate in campaign activities.
oRaising funds to carry out the campaign .
oImplementing a communications plan that includes paid, earned and new media.
oImplementing an aggressive field plan .
oPromoting the campaign's principles within the state legislature and Congress .
oAsserting the campaign's principles in the 2008 elections.
Candidates should have:
•An established record of directing major issue and/or electoral campaigns.
•Proven ability to build and move coalitions .
•Knowledge and experience in all aspects of the campaign including communications; field; legislative; and electoral.
•Experience working on health care reform is an asset although not a requirement.
Qualifications include:
•Minimum of two years' experience in community, student, labor, tenant, church, and/or political organizing.
•Excellent writing, computer, and telephone skills.
•Car, license and insurance required.
To Apply
Mail, Email or Fax Resume and Cover Letter to:
Ev Liebman, Director of Organizing & Advocacy
New Jersey Citizen Action
One Port Center
2 Riverside Dr., Suite 632
Camden, NJ 08103
Fax: 856.966.3099
Email:
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NJCA is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
Job posted on August 1, 2008
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