Voto Latino seeks to immediately hire several field organizers for its United We Win 2010 mid-term elections voter registration campaign. The organizer will be responsible for conducting non-partisan voter registration in Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Diego, Houston, Dallas, Rio Grande Valley, Denver, and southern Florida.

The ideal candidates will be experienced in handling a wide range of grassroots organizing tasks, will be detail oriented, and will be self-starters with the ability to work independently with little or no supervision. This person must be well-organized, and work well under pressure while remaining flexible, resourceful, and efficient.

This individuals will form part of Voto Latino’s national United We Win campaign team. Founded in 2004, Voto Latino is the first and leading national, nonprofit, civic engagement organization to mobilize the fastest growing group of Americans – Latino youth.

The Field Organizers will:

- Register American Latino voters between the ages of 18 and 34 at a wide variety of locales, including but not limited to community college campuses, festivals, concerts, places of worship, and places of commerce
- Distribute United We Win campaign collateral to individuals and community groups
- Build local partnerships to maximize impact
- Recruit at least 20 local youth volunteers to maximize impact
- Report to Voto Latino’s national, Washington, D.C. office on a daily basis

MUST HAVE:

-Excellent interpersonal skills
-Excellent time management skills
-Strong knowledge of local Latino demographics
-Strong verbal and written skills
-Strong knowledge of social media and digital technology
-Strong interest in Latino politics and civic life

STRONGLY PREFER:

-2+ years experience with grassroots organizing or political campaigns, or 3+ years in a communications field
-Contacts at universities, NGOs, and community groups in the region

Compensation is commensurate with experience. Candidates will need to have their own car, as this position will require significant travel across the area.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs@votolatino.org with “Field Organizer Position – (Preferred Location)” in the subject line.

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The Rodney Glassman campaign is building the grassroots power to elect a U.S. Senator who will put Arizona first. Arizona is a diverse and dynamic state, and we are building an empowered organization that is dedicated to creating game-changing results in 2010.

Three great reasons to work for Rodney Glassman in 2010:

• Help beat Senator John McCain, again.
• Lay the foundation for President Obama in 2012.
• Put Arizona back on track by impacting Democratic turn-out in down-ballot races.

Overview
A Field Organizer (FO) will be responsible for successfully executing the field program in their region. This includes recruiting and training volunteers, managing political relationships, holding organizational meetings, house parties, and soliciting donations when necessary.

Requirements:

• At least 1 cycle campaign experience or 2 years related experience (non-profit, government, or consulting firm).
• Reliable transportation.
• Voter Activation Network (VAN) experience preferred.

Successful applicants will:

• Respect, empower, and include everyone, and anyone, who wants to be involved in the Rodney Glassman campaign.
• Be self-motivated and willing to work long hours (including nights and weekends).
• Be able to motivate others.
• Have the desire and demonstrated ability to exceed expectations.
• Have the ability to communicate with diverse communities and leaders. Bilingual Spanish skills a plus.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, and manage a team of volunteer leaders to meet or exceed established field goals.
• Establish and maintain relationships with local Democratic and like-minded organizations and coalition groups.
• Represent the Glassman campaign with professionalism, & enthusiasm.
• Provide daily reports, including volunteer recruitment and voter contacts.
• Schedule, prepare, and execute outreach presentations at local schools, colleges, universities, Democratic clubs and other community meetings to recruit volunteers.
• Maintain lists of canvass staging locations, phone banks, and special event locations.
• Prepare call lists, including scripts, instructions and other important documents.

To Apply:
 Please send resume and cover letter to kristing@rodneyglassman.com. Selected applicants may be asked to participate in phone/in-person interviews.

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Rock the Vote is seeking State Coordinators to manage its aggressive voter registration, volunteer, high school civics, and get-out-the-vote programs in each of our targeted states. The State Coordinator will lead RTV’s statewide efforts and oversee on-the-ground activities and volunteers in five states: Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

Qualified candidates should have experience working on political or issue campaigns, training and working with young volunteers, and implementing volunteer management systems. Strong candidates will also display online organizing skills. S/he should have campaign-based management experience, superb written and inter-personal communication skills, and be passionate about using new technologies along with traditional techniques to organize and turn out young voters.

This position runs through the end of the 2010 campaign cycle and all candidates must be available to be in DC for a mandatory training the week of May 3rd.

Position Responsibilities:

• Help develop a state-specific field plan
• Recruit, train, organize and support volunteer “Street Teams” in target areas
• Coordinate and manage voter registration events, including identifying local concerts and other youth-dense events for targeted activities
• Comply with reporting system and provide timely reports to the Field Director
• Identify opportunities, schedule and teach RTV’s high school civics program – Democracy Class
• Outreach to potential online voter registration partners
• Attend partner meetings and coordinate on voter registration (online and on-the-ground) and get-out-the-vote
• Place PSAs at local radio and TV stations and act as local media spokesperson
• Contribute regularly to the RTV blog
• Work with new, non-traditional partners to engage and empower specific demographics

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least one cycle of political or grassroots organizing experience.
• Experience working with people, managing and training volunteers, and developing creative organizing tactics.
• Knowledge of and/or experience working in political and/or advocacy organizations.
• Proven and highly effective organizational and written/oral communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and shift priorities; aptitude for working under tight deadlines
• Commitment to the organizational mission and ideology in order to effectively promote and advance the goals of Rock the Vote.
• Desire to reach out to and mobilize new and creative partners.
• Ability to work autonomously in your state while still collaborating with a national team and being held to metric-based goals.

Reports to:

National Field Director

To Apply:

Please send resume, cover letter, and three references to jobs@rockthevote.com. Please include “State Coordinator” in the subject line. Please indicate what state or states you are interested in working.

Rock the Vote is an equal opportunity employer. Women, people of color, LGBT people and others are strongly encouraged to apply.

Posting on RTV site

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Job postings for political jobs are notoriously bad. I specifically like checking out the postings for online organizing positions because they tend to be exceptionally bad (good luck finding someone with 15 years of online campaign experience). Here is a breakdown of a recent job posting with everything that makes no sense to me.

Online Organizer

Major Midwestern Democratic campaign seeks an Online Organizer beginning immediately. This is a full-time, paid position that runs until November 2, 2010.

The Online Organizer position incorporates elements of field, communications and new media. Successful applicants will use their organizing skills and new media savvy to achieve communications goals. An ideal candidate has relevant field organizing experience, superb writing skills and an understanding of new and social media.

Our Online Organizer will work with allied New Media, Field and Political departments to organize a grassroots team of online volunteers and provide them with the tools and training to be effective communicators online. The position will also be responsible for general new media duties including social network management, content production and some basic website maintenance through our content management system.

*Responsibilities:*

- Build, organize and train a team of grassroots volunteers and provide them with the tools to be successful online advocates

- Manage, update and expand social media accounts on several different platforms

- Assist in producing online content including blog posts and video

- Draft talking points, pull press clips and write issue summaries to keep grassroots volunteers informed and engaged

- Support the campaign’s growing new media operations as necessary

*Required qualifications:*

- At least one cycle of field organizing experience for an electoral or issue campaign

- Outstanding writing ability

- Experience and comfort with online communication platforms: social networking, blogging and e-mail

- A passion for politics and an understanding of what is politically possible

- Demonstrated ability to manage volunteers

- Basic to intermediate technical skills: Microsoft Office/Google Docs, simple HTML and familiarity with CMS (WordPress, Drupal, etc.) and CRM (MailChimp, Salsa, etc.) platforms

*The following additional qualifications will enhance an application, but are not required:*

- Prior experience in communications or new media for an electoral or issue campaign

- Prior experience with Blue State Digital and ExpressionEngine platforms

- Graphic design skills, with a focus on Web graphics

- Advanced technical skills: ability to hand-code HTML, CSS, JavaScript and/or PHP

- Experience with digital video and video editing software

*To apply, please send a 1) resume and 2) writing sample to campaign.post…@gmail.com with “Online Organizer” in the subject line.*

Salary is negotiable and commensurate with experience. Health insurance is provided for all campaign staff. Equal opportunity employer.

First off, can we all agree to stop with the “Major Midwestern Democratic campaign” stuff. What is it about campaigns that makes them so scared to identify themselves to possible employees? You want a staff that believes in the candidate, and to recruit that staff you need to make it clear who you are. Near-anonymous postings are only going to attract desperate political hacks.

- Draft talking points, pull press clips and write issue summaries to keep grassroots volunteers informed and engaged

Let me translate this for you. “The online organizer will not be able to spend all that much time organizing online because half their job is serving as a communications department junior staffer or intern.”

Let’s look at required experience vs. enhanced experience. The campaign requires that the applicant have been a traditional field organizer, yet online organizing experience is something that would just be a nice touch. Seriously, I think you got the order messed up there. And don’t you want the person running your internet and technology program to have more than “Basic” technical skills? How is someone going to “Build, organize and train a team of grassroots volunteers and provide them with the tools to be successful online advocates” if they only have a basic understanding of the tools themselves? Especially since you know damn well you are going to be calling this person every 10 minutes when another staffer can’t figure out their Blackberry or how to do a mail merge in Excel.

And the whole “familiarity with CMS (WordPress, Drupal, etc.) and CRM (MailChimp, Salsa, etc.) platforms” thing. What is with all the et ceteras? How about you specifically list the CMS/CRM that the campaign uses? That will be a lot more helpful in finding someone with expertise that will most benefit the campaign. And if you are using all of them, you are doing it wrong.

- A passion for politics and an understanding of what is politically possible

Translation: Probably not a very progressive Democrat, but it’s only because being more progressive isn’t “politically possible” and we want you to be totally cool with that.

*To apply, please send a 1) resume and 2) writing sample to campaign.post…@gmail.com with “Online Organizer” in the subject line.

Once again with the anonymity thing. Do I really want to send my resume with my name, address, phone number, and life history to some shady gmail address? Not really.

So all of you out there doing hiring for campaigns: please stop this ridiculousness. Now I’m going to go fight the temptation to send an email to campaign.post…@gmail.com as “Major Democratic Online Youth Operative” with this post as my writing sample.

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Job: Field Organizer / Youth Organizer
Location: Varies – all over the commonwealth.
Compensation: $300 Weekly Stipend, Free Housing, Gas Reimbursement

When: Rolling start dates September 1st through 15th, end date November 7th

Why: Help the Democrats keep the governor’s mansion and take back the House of Delegates!

Benefits: Beef up your resume with only a ten-week commitment! Get paid for your activism.

The 2009-2010 year promises to be a critical one for the Democratic Party and the Virginia Young Democrats. We are prepared to meet that challenge and have a plan that will build volunteers for this and future elections. VAYD will be hiring 30 organizers to help our chapters and the campaigns turn out excited, young volunteers for the campaigns.

Play an important role in this year’s critical election. Submit your resume to vaydjobs@gmail.com.

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Voto Latino is the leading non-partisan Latino youth civic engagement organization, and is based in the DC area. Our college fellowship program is an exciting opportunity to learn first-hand about the inner workings of a nonprofit office and Latino youth political engagement. The fellow will be an integral part of Voto Latino’s team and responsible for a variety of projects. The fellow’s duties will include responding to inquiries; directing our volunteers from various states and helping to implement our Acceptance and Census initiatives; recruiting more volunteers; and assisting with coordination of our national media and PSA campaigns. The fellow will also perform a range of research administrative support duties, including data entry, as required.

Fellows must be highly organized, self-starter, possess integrity, and passionate about working to better Americans. The Fellowship is a three month program commencing the first week of June. Deadline to apply is April 24th,

Voto Latino college fellows will receive academic credit for their work. Please include “Summer Fellowship” in subject headline.

To apply, please email a brief introductory note and a resume to
fellowship@votolatino.org (no phone calls)

To learn more about Voto Latino, please visit www.VotoLatino.org

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The United States Student Association/Foundation is hiring positions for the upcoming year. They are currently hiring a National Field Director, National Field Associate, Training Director & Summer 2009 Interns.

TRAINING DIRECTOR & SUMMER 2009 INTERN applications are due FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009.

NATIONAL FIELD DIRECTOR & NATIONAL FIELD ASSOCIATE applications are due THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009.

Email subject shall state the position you are applying for. Those applying for Field Director are also encouraged to apply for Field Associate and vice versa. Please no phone calls, faxes or mail in applications.

USSA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. People of color, women, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and differently-abled people are strongly encouraged to apply.

Summer Intern 2009
National Field Director 2009
National Field Associate 2009
Training Director 2009

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Campus Progress is currently looking for its first-ever writing fellow. The fellow will be responsible for writing/creating at least one piece a week, attending our weekly editorial meetings (in person or over the phone), and executing other various editorial and organizational tasks. The writing fellow will be asked to create written and multimedia pieces for our website. He or she will be required to work on at least two in-depth reported features during his/her time at Campus Progress.

After completing the program, fellows should have developed the clips, experience, and relationships to launch a career in journalism. The ideal candidate will be able to spend at least one day a week in our Washington, D.C. office (but this is not mandatory) and will have some experience working and/or interning at a college or professional publication. He or she should be self motivated, eager to report stories, and comfortable working at a rapidly changing new-media outlet. Because this position is new, the candidate should be flexible and open to direction and change.

The fellow will be asked to make a one-year commitment. He or she will receive a $6,000 stipend over the course of the year for his/her work. Because this is a part-time, contract position, hours will be very flexible.

To apply, please send resume and clips to Rob Anderson at randerson@americanprogress.org. Please also answer the following questions:

• What interests you about this opportunity? (500 words max)
• Why are you uniquely qualified for this position? (500 words max)
• Please provide three ideas for long-form reported pieces for our website. For each, please explain how your idea is new/important, who you would interview, and why you believe this would interest Campus Progress’ audience.
• Please provide two ideas for a non-traditional feature (i.e., not an article, but a slideshow, interactive graph/timeline, video, etc.) that you could create with the help of our multimedia team.

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National Youth Coordinator

Location: Washington, DC

Type: Full time

Last day to apply: May 8, 2009

Language(s): English, Spanish

Description:

Democracia U.S.A. (D-USA) is seeking a National Youth Coordinator to play a key role in the development and execution of our youth outreach and field plan.

The position will be based in Washington, D.C.

Democracia U.S.A is the premiere Latino voter registration, civic engagement, and leadership development organization in the country.

Currently, D-USA has seven field offices in five states (Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Arizona, Nevada, & Colorado). For more information please feel free to visit our site at http://democraciausa.org/en/about/.

Requisites: 2-4 years experience working with young voters and/or Latino voters. Fluency in Spanish strongly preferred.

Job Description:

The Democracia USA Youth Coordinator is responsible for the overall infrastructure, internal operations, coordination of youth vote programs and creating a youth vote strategy for 2009. Specific job duties include, but are not limited to:

• Organize events around young Hispanic voters.
• Represent Democracia USA at various youth events, including the Democracy Alliance Youth table.
• Work with the National Field Director to create a strong youth vote plan for 2009.
• Overseeing all research around young immigrant voters
• Work with state-coordinators to implement voter engagement activities aimed at young, Hispanic voters.
• Contribute “youth perspective” to Democracia USA blog.
• Assist with social networking on Facebook and other sites

How to Apply:

Marianne Peterson
mpeterson@democraciausa.org
Please write Youth Coordinator in the Subject line

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YDA is looking for a fun, creative, and hardworking development intern to work out of our national headquarters in Washington, DC. He/She will support our national programs, our groundbreaking Young Voter Revolution campaigns to get out the youth vote for Democrats, our chapter building projects, and various YDA events. The development intern will work with staff on all aspects of YDA’s fundraising operation and will learn from YDA’s Executive Director and Development Director.

In all positions, YDA looks for people with a proven track record of quality work and a commitment to the social action. NGP experience a plus but not a requirement. Start date would be effective immediately. Stipend provided. The Development Intern will report to the Development Director.

The development intern’s duties include, but are not limited to:

Researching prospective funders (individuals & corporations)
Supporting donor solicitation and cultivation
Assisting with major projects such as direct mail campaigns
Assembling fundraising packages
Receipt and acknowledgement of donations
Update and maintain prospects and fundraising databases
Assist with call time management

About YDA: The Young Democrats of America (YDA) is the largest youth-led, national, partisan political organization, with over 2,300 chapters in all 50 states. Our members include middle school, high school and college students as well as young workers, young professionals and young families. YDA’s Young Voter Revolution campaigns use a tested field model that identifies young voters, engages them in peer-to-peer communication and education, and then uses traditional and innovative methods to turn out the vote.

TO APPLY: Email resume and cover letter to bmercurio@yda.org. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please indicate that you are applying for the fundraising internship in the subject line of the email and the dates you are available in your cover letter.

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