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Volunteer, Paid Positions We Need Your Help On this page you will find postings for volunteer and occassional paid positions that are available to be filled. If a position or need of ours doesn't match with what you've got to offer, just write and make your offer. We could probably use whatever skill, energy or time you have. We have an immediate need to identify Greens who can help us in the following capacities. If you're ready to get involved and help us build this party, please write us at ggp@greens.org or call 706-896-6941. Thanks,
Paid Positions We have no
paid positions open at this time. Even so, the Georgia Green
Party Quick Decision Council is expected to consider opening and advertising
three and as many as six contract positions for Petition Circulators.
The Council is expected to take up authorizing contracts for these positions
and possibly a Petition Drive Coordinator position as well, at its next
Council meeting expected in mid August. At that meeting, the
Party's Council is also expected to consider a proposal to create a Field
Organizing program, which as proposed would entail as many as five contractors
around Georgia working to help us build the 159-County Georgia Green Party.
Please check back with us in early and then in late August to learn more
about these contract positions, should they be opened and advertised.
Volunteer
Positions
For more details, please read our Local Affiliation Policy. It explains the role of our Affiliation Committee in preparing applications for the consideration of the state party council. This process governs how the Georgia Green Party delegates its powers over state party affairs to County and campus party organizations. The links below are to the application forms for these positions. Essestially, we ask that people serve as a Local Contact to serve as a public contact for the party and to help us build a database of Party supporters in a county or on a campus. We also urge folks who are ready to take on the responsibilities of organizing annual meetings, to consider serving as a Local Convenors. Once the local starts meeting, it can elect its own officers. Forms Relevant to Local Organizing: Now that we
are building a membership base, we will also need to develop a membership
services program. We already know that it will include a subscription
to a quarterly membership newsletter and our outreach newspaper (once it
exists), plus access to the member-only areas of our website. We're
seeking volunteers to help staff a Membership Development Committee to
help us plan, develop and implement membership enrollment, services and
renewal efforts. If you are interested, please write our Membership
Development Coordinator.
If you have
journalism or public relations skills, we want to hear from you.
We are building a Georgia wide Media Team with Press Secretaries for the
state Party, for each local Affiliate and for each Party candidate.
If you would like to get involved and help in this way, please
write and let us know.
Party Publications: Editorial Council An Editorial
Council is now forming to support the Party in its work of producing a
bi-annual public outreach newspaper and a quarterly membership newsletter.
We have an immediate need for:editors,
writers, graphic artists, layout crew, proof readers, cartoonists, and
an ad sales force. If you are interested in joining this team, please
contact our clerk.
A related function
is developing and maintaining our presence on the internet. If you
have experience with web site development, or would like to learn more
about the process, please join the Party's web team. In support of several
pressing projects, we have a particular need for programmers familair with
PHP, mySQL, cgi scripts and database driven web development.
Just write our
Web
Clerk.
A political party's primary activity is doing educational work in support of its activities, positions, candidates and other campaigns. This website will include a growing number of pdf files linked from appropriate places in the text. These files may be read by any computer with the free multi-platform Acrobat Reader. Download Acrobat Reader here. As a campaign
or event of the Party appeals to you, please also download, then print,
duplicate and distribute the literature we make available here and help
us build this Party in your community. For more ideas on how to become
an effective member of our Green Leaflet Brigade, read: Leafletting
is a Tactic.
As we build our publications, especially the as yet unnamed outreach newspaper,
you will be able to also obtain and distribute those, too. Let us
know you've joined the team by dropping our
Executive Director a line.
A related function is using the email, phone and fax networks to spread the word. Any Party press release posted here or on our news and action email listserves are copy-lefted, meaning you are encouraged to duplicate and distribute them in a way that respects the origional intention of the material. We also are building a statewide network of Party volunteers with fax machines and/or fax-modems who will help us deliver our Party's press releases to the local and regional media across the state. The long term goal is to cover the entire state without paying any long-distance. If you have a fax-modem you can let work all night while you sleep, or all day while you are at work, you would make a great candidate for the Green Fax Brigade. Let us know you want to join the team by dropping us a line. In the long
term, as this network of Party supporters grows, we will ask some fax team
members to also distribute relevant Party literature directly to members,
contributors, volunteers and other supporters.
Association of State Green Parties These Committees of the Association of State Green Parties currently have vacancies and are seeking additional Greens to help accomplish their charges. Most of the ASGP committees are structured to permit as many as three members to be appointed by each state. Our state Council has authorized our Party's delegates to the Coordinating Committee of the ASGP to appoint members to these committees. Occassionally, elections are held to seat certain Committees. If you are interested in serving on one of these committees, please write our ASGP Delegates about your interest. Our Local Affiliation Policy requires that an organizing or renewing Local Affiliate name its local officers at an Annual Meeting. Our Nominating Convention Rules require that these Local Officers stand for election using Preference Voting and Instant Run-Off Voting for single member districts. As a minimum, each Local Affiliate must elect a Convener, a Clerk and their Delegates to the Annual Georgia Green Party (Nominating) Convention. A Local is permitted to name such additional officers as would best serve their local work and organization. Here is an outline of what these roles might entail. Organizational Conveners -- Before a County or Campus has a Local Affiliate, it has Local Conveners. Only instead of being elected by local Greens at a Local Annual Meeting, these Local Conveners are appointed by our Affiliation Committee which grants their Petition to Convene a Local Affiliate of the Georgia Green Party. These local servants work with our state Officers, Council and staff to broadly and effectively advertise an Annual Meeting of their organizing local affiliate, and to prepare for a successful organizational meeting of the newly forming Party local. Local Convenor -- The Local Convener frequently called the local Chair, is responsible for CONVENING meetings of the local, including its Annual Meeting (where it holds its elections) and such other meetings as mandated by the membership or which would best serve the development of the Party Affiliate, the support of its candidates and the activism of the local Greens. The Georgia Election Code outlines some additional minimal powers for local officers, including certifying (with the Local Secretary) 1) the authenticity of a County Affiliates' governing documents when they are filed with the County Superintendent of Elections, and 2) the appointment of poll watchers in the jurisdiction of the County Affiliate. In addition, our internal Party Rules require the signature of the County Chair, 1) on the local's Application for Affiliation (or renewal) with the Party, 2) on a Roster of Servants Elected by a Local, 3) on a List Distribution Request, appointing a local database coordinator to serve as the custodian of the Local's list of Greens and list of Registered Voters, and likely for other purposes as well. Many locals will name Co-Chairs, when sufficient good candidates offer themselves for service. Local Clerk -- The Local Clerk, frequently called the local Secretary, is responsible for recording the minutes of discussions, decisions and actions by the Local and its officers at meetings of the local, especially its Annual Meeting and such other meetings as mandated by the membership or which would best serve the development of the Party Affiliate, the support of its candidates and the activism of the local Greens. The Georgia Election Code outlines some additional minimal powers for local officers, including certifying (with the Local Chair) 1) the authenticity of a County Affiliates' governing documents when they are filed with the County Superintendent of Elections, and 2) the appointment of poll watchers in the jurisdiction of the County Affiliate. In addition, our internal Party Rules require the signature of the County Secretary, 1) on the local's Application for Affiliation (or renewal) with the Party, 2) on a Roster of Servants Elected by a Local, 3) on a List Distribution Request, appointing a local database coordinator to serve as the custodian of the Local's list of Greens and list of Registered Voters, and likely for other purposes as well. Convention Delegate (or Alternate) -- Local Delegates are responsible for attending the Annual (Nominating) Convention of the Georgia Green Party and for representing the perspectives and concerns of their Local and local Green constituency in the deliberations of the state Convention on nominations and endorsements of candidates for public office, consideration of proposed Platform amendments, the consideration of proposed by-laws amendments and the election of the state Party's internal leadership. Many Local Delegations will schedule one or two meetings immediately prior to the Georgia Party's Annual Meeting to review the proposed agenda for local input, as well as a meeting earlier in the process for the consideration of a Local's Green constituents on the state Party Platform. An Alternate will serve in th place of a Delegate, when a Delegate is unable -- for whatever reasons -- to perform their duties, either in preparation for or at the Annual Convention. Local Treasurer -- While our internal rules do not (yet) require that a local name a Treasurer, they do reward a Local Affiliate who does so by permitting them to participate in the Party's Dues Sharing program. In addition, state and federal campaign finance law requires that a Treasurer register a political committee with the Georgia Ethics Commission and the Federal Elections Commission, prior to soliciting or raising money to support electoral action. A Local Treasurer will want to familiarize themselves with the Georgia Ethics in Government Act (Official Code of Georgia, Annotated Title 21, Chapter 5), and the Federal Elections Campaign Act. Both the Georgia and the Federal statutes require that regular reports be made of income raised and disbursements made in support of the Local Party's activities. Your local membership is likely to also want to see regular reports of local account activity. A Treasurer often has a role in planning and executing local fundraiising activities. Many groups will want their Treasurer to prepare and submit budgets for their consideration and authorization, too. Press Secretary -- Again, the appointment of a Press Secretary is not required by our internal rules, only by practical experience. A Press Secretary develops, distributes and publishes Media Advisories, Press Releases and photos of local Green Party activism to the members of the local and state media, as well as on the local's or state party's website and to local Party supporters. This job requires great verbal and written communications skills, a comfort level with journalistic style, the time and energy to build working relationships with the local working media, a working relationship with local Party officers, candidates and other Green news makers and an ability to work on deadline. Local Liaison on State Party Affairs -- The Liaison serves as a Local's point of contact on all matters related to the Georgia Green Party's state and national business. They will subscribe to the Internal Discussion Bulletin, read and familiarize themselves with the business before the Georgia Party's Coordinating Council and before the national Party's governing board and inform local Green Party activists of state and national business, seeking and forwarding the input of local Greens on matters before the state and national boards to those bodies. When a Local has a report or proposal to put before the Georgia Coording Council of before the National Committee of the Green Party of the United States, the liaison is authorized to submit such proposals for publication on behalf of the local. Petition Drive Coordinator -- Each County and Campus Affilaite is urged to name a Local Petition Drive Coordinator to enroll, train, support and appreciate Greens who circulate nominating petitions to get our candidates on the ballot. The Coordinator is responsible for seeking pledges from local circulators, supporting the fulfillment of thos pledges and collecting completed, notarized petition pages for delivery to the Georgi Party's Petition Drive Coordinator by the last day pof each month. A Petition Drive Coordinator is a leader in the petition circulation efforts of their local. They will circulate the nominating petition themselves and support other petition volunteers in meeting both local and individual pledges for signature collection. They will work directly with their County or Campus leadership and with the Georgia Petition Drive Coordinator. Database Coordinator -- A Local's Database Coordinator is appointed by the local's officers and is responsible for seeing to the security and availablity for local Party purposes of the list of known Greens in the jurisdiction of the Local and of the registered voter list for the local, as well. They will be comfortable with computers and particularly with the development and maintainence of machine readable databases. They will prepare reports for local list needs, including phone banks, email lists, direct mailings, phone trees, volunteer rosters, literature drop walking routes, etc. They will also compile and report back to the state Party's Database Coordinator updates to the Local's list.
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