Overview
We’re looking for a Campus Organizer to support the Task Force’s mobilization and advocacy efforts in your state. As part of this role, you will be assigned to one of our national campaigns and will also have the opportunity to lead efforts on campus to protect critical funding & student rights.
The ideal campus organizer is self-driven, understands the intersection of the fight for our democracy with other issues & identities (climate justice, access to healthcare, education, etc), and knows the role students need to play in championing systems that represent us.
Responsibilities Include
- Outreaching to professors, campus groups, and local organizations to collaborate on campaign work.
- Supporting efforts on campus to protect student rights and funding for critical programs.
- Advocating for pro-democracy initiatives before state & local officials by scheduling meetings with them/their staff, drafting & delivering committee testimony, and organizing lobby days.
- Recruiting peers to join our network and receive updates from movement partners on internship/career opportunities to support electoral justice initiatives.
- Mobilizing students to join local events and trainings to protect democracy and stand up to attacks on our communities (especially young & historically marginalized communities).
- Helping increase visibility of campaign work to local news & on social media
- Attending weekly team calls and one-on-one check-ins.
Requirements Include
- Capacity to work 10 hours/week on the above
- Commitment to building a just & inclusive democracy while centering youth
- Willingness to learn & grow as an organizer
- Demonstrated initiative, ability to problem-solve, and respond to a rapidly-evolving organizing landscape
- Strong interpersonal, speaking, and writing skills are helpful, though not essential
How to Apply
To apply, please enter your information and attack your resume & cover letter in the form below.
As part of this role, you’ll receive coaching and first hand experience organizing alongside youth leaders in the democracy movement. 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 coordinating 6 campaigns to organize students to demand a more just democracy for our generation! We work alongside our youth & movement partners to center young people 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 that would roll back our rights, using transparency laws to hold power accountable, and more!
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