Senior Gaming Organizer - Players Alliance

Addition (a project of Tides Center) is seeking a senior gaming organizer to work on their video gamer organizing campaign, the Players Alliance. We are looking for a candidate committed to organizing to build gamer power and win corporate campaigns to challenge the predatory practices within the industry. As a senior organizer, you will be responsible for organizing and developing a big tent of gamers, creators/streamers, and current/former gaming developers, conducting one-to-ones, building an active online community on discord, developing members leaders, and being a thought partner in experiments and strategies in building gamer power.

We are looking for someone who is excited about building power with people in new ways and in places and in non-traditional communities, who has a track record of successful organizing that creates changes people can see and feel in their daily lives, and who has the drive, self-direction and adaptability to expand our gamer organizing, and is committed to getting to figuring out getting to the scale needed to have impact

Working closely with the Organizing lead, you will help drive the gamer organizing strategy. This is a great opportunity for a skilled, dedicated, and creative leader to grow our current campaigns and launch new organizing in the gaming community

About the Players Alliance

The Players Alliance is an alliance of gamers, developers, and creators who believe that passion, not profits, should be at the heart of gaming. We’re fighting to reshape the industry, stand up against corporate greed, and end the predatory practices that are killing games.

By sticking up for what makes gaming special to us, everyday people can prove that gaming can thrive without exploitation. Better gaming is possible, and we all have a voice in shaping its future. We are organizing and building our power as a gaming community to do just that.

The Players Alliance is organizing to reclaim gaming from corporate greed and put power back into the hands of the people who make and play the games. Our approach is two-fold:

We support and uplift developers and studios that are creating fun, affordable, accessible games. Teams who prioritize players, treat workers with respect, and reject exploitative industry practices to build a better gaming world.

We stand up to the corporations that rely on predatory systems and exploitative designs, calling them out and applying pressure where it matters most: their bottom line.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with the lead Organizer to inform the overall vision and workplan for the organization.
• Experiment and create funnels for gamers to join the Players Alliance Discord and base
• Build out the online community on discord (and potentially other spaces) as a way to get members activated, engaged, and building relationships between each other.
• Identify issues that gamers are agitated to organize around and develop plans to take action
• Provide leadership by driving the campaign, bringing in new people and changing how gamers think about power, how change happens, and the impact of corporate consolidation on both gaming and in their every day lives
• Work to identify and develop new leaders and strategic constituencies. This includes training and coaching grassroots leaders in organizing fundamentals, such as running effective meetings, cutting issues, gaining media coverage and impactful communications.
• Be actively meeting and engaging with a broad range of gamers across the gaming community.
• Create and test experiments around messaging, digital and in-person organizing strategies including around digital ads, gaming conventions,

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain and track detailed organizing records and conduct ongoing follow-up.
• Help with moderation on Players Alliance Discord

Education and/or Experience

• Experience: 5 or more years of campaigning and community organizing experience preferred.
• Experience playing and participating in the video game community
• Campaigns and Organizing leadership: Ability to plan, execute, and adapt campaign strategies in changing contexts. This includes strong strategic thinking and decision-making skills.
• Training and Leadership Development: Experience training and developing community members in organizing, power building, community advocacy and/or influencing policy.
• Experience with digital organizing including developing and running discord communities, reddit communities, and other digital platforms
• Experience with working with and developing digital streamers and creators is a plus
• Systems-based approach: Familiarity and comfort with systems-based approaches to change.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, distilling complex ideas into clear, compelling messages. Good conversation and interpersonal communication skills.
• Interpersonal skills: Experience building relationships and engaging effectively with people from various generational, ethnic, racial, socio-economic, educational, and religious backgrounds, as well as people of various physical abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities
• Basic computing skills (Google Suite, Zoom, ability to learn and utilize organizational database functions for organizing). Experience using social media for organizing is a plus.
• Experience using and/or the capacity to learn to effectively use mass communications tools such as social media, texting platforms, predictive dialers, CRM systems, and direct mail.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Commitment to meeting people where they are.

Organizational Relationship

Addition is a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center. Addition serves as a home for incubating projects to engage the bigger “We” needed to preserve democracy and address the most pressing issues of our time by bringing together experienced, talented, and creative strategists and organizers to be in relationship with segments of the country that have been written off by much of today’s economy and civic institutions. This position will report to a Lead Organizer. Addition (a project of Tides Center) is a fully remote organization. Candidates will work from a home office. This is a full-time position.

Physical Demands

There are no significant physical requirements related to this position.

Work Environment

Will mostly be digital with some travel for gaming conventions, meetings, and actions

Equal Employment Opportunity and Reasonable Accommodation

Tides Center is an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. The organization encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, record of arrest or conviction and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We provide a generous benefits package that includes health and dental coverage for employees and their dependents, a 401(k) plan, a flexible spending plan, paid vacation, holidays, sick days, and support for remote work set-up. We offer ongoing training opportunities in a fast-paced, dynamic, supportive, and collaborative setting.