Peter Witzler

Background

About Peter Witzler

18 years experience managing progressive issue organizing and membership recruitment campaigns to build power for working families• 7 years staff management experience, including Senior Director of Field offices responsible for 20 Assistant Directors and 75 Field Organizers• Senior management experience in hiring talent and developing staff to assume leadership and responsibility in building the programs’ operational capacity to win campaigns• Skilled in consensus building, project implementation, evaluation, and handling complex projects with competing priorities• Led team to develop and implement strategic planning and grant process for $2 Million in funding of Back to School Recruitment Campaigns. Responsible for implementing multi-million-dollar membership budgets over 5 years, incorporating routine use of data to refine tactics and strategies and create learning culture of organizing. Results of work improved back to school recruitment by 50%(104,151 vs 156,378) • Extensive leadership development, capacity building and experience facilitating organizing trainings with racially and ethnically diverse participants• Skilled in applying interest-based negotiation principles to relationships with internal and external stakeholders to identify interests, opportunities for collaborations and implement programs to win• Developed field organizing strategy and tactics linked to organizational and leadership develop objectives to grow the size of the organization and maximize impact• Experience managing budgets of $7 million. Adept with budget, cost and performance analysis tools to develop, implement and manage programs and projects to improve results.