Overview
We’re recruiting a Manager to lead campaign strategy, day-to-day project management, and visioning for our Project on the Freedom of Information Act (Project FOIA) and other transparency-related initiatives.
Project FOIA emerged from our 2021 transparency campaign and aims to train student organizers on how to use freedom of information laws to strengthen transparency, hold power accountable, and protect their activism. Project FOIA organizes trainings and assembles resources for students to use so we can collectively fight for a more transparent democracy.
If you’re a strong candidate for this role, you’re self-driven, able to independently lead a small team, and dynamic enough to adapt to a rapidly-evolving political climate.
Responsibilities Include
- Researching, compiling, and synthesizing resources on Freedom of Information
- Organizing and recruiting for virtual FOIA trainings
- Coaching & managing any volunteer team members supporting transparency campaign activities
- Growing our network of students engaging with, and following, the campaign
- Attending transparency-related webinars, conferences, and other events on behalf of the Task Force & Project FOIA
- Outreach to partner organizations in transparency, anti-corruption, and pro-democracy spaces
- Promote resources to student activists in the Task Force’s and local youth partner networks
- Share campaign updates at weekly team meetings and regularly check-in with the Chief of Staff & organizational leadership about progress, barriers, and support needs
- Other campaign responsibilities as decided by leadership
Requirements Include
- Capacity to work 5-10 hours/week on the above
- Commitment to centering youth as we build a just & inclusive democracy
- Demonstrated leadership, ability to think strategically, and respond to a rapidly-evolving organizing landscape
- Strong research, outreach, and writing skills
- (Nice to have) Understanding of sunshine, transparency, and Freedom of Information laws
How to Apply
To apply, please enter your information and attack your resume & cover letter in the form below.
Academic credit can be arranged for eligible students.
With questions about this or other roles, the Task Force, or our campaigns, please email recruitment@taskforceusa.org.
About the Task Force for Democracy
We’re a 100% youth-led & volunteer team leading 6 campaigns organizing students to demand a more just democracy for our generation! We work alongside our youth & movement partners to center students in the fight against advancing autocracy.
We’re nonpartisan. We don’t do electoral politics. And we stay focused on ending the root causes of inequality in our democracy.
We know that true democracy cannot exist just at the ballot box, but must be present in the workplace, and in our education. Our campaigns aim to end structural inequality across different areas of our democracy, and include: fighting voter suppression & money in politics, organizing students under autocracy, stopping a dangerous constitutional convention, using transparency laws to hold power accountable, and more!
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