Community Organizer

Extended application deadline is May 9th – submit application here!

Description: Support our local community organizing program, and gain essential organizing skills and experience. You’ll knock doors, phonebank, deepen your political knowledge, support with outreach, and build community. 

Time Commitment: 4-16 hrs/week (roles range)

*higher time commitment roles will have greater responsibility/greater variety of tasks

Location: Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Hudson

Responsibilities:

• Attending weekly team meetings
• Phonebanking, making calls to local community members and organizational contacts to discuss our campaigns and mobilize them to take action with us
• Canvassing, knocking on doors of local community members to discuss our campaigns and mobilize them to take action with us

• • Relational Recruitment, talking to your friends/family/peers about the campaigns and seeing if they would like to make a call to a legislator and/or join you for a volunteer shift
  • Political Education, doing readings on organizing theory, movement building, organizational culture

• If working 6+ hours/week, responsibilities may also include…

• • Shift Facilitation, facilitating outreach shifts (canvassing/phonebanking)

• • Intern/Volunteer Management, checking in with interns/volunteers each week to help them assess their work, gather feedback and prepare reports

• • • • Event Planning, planning and doing outreach for welcome events, political education sessions, etc. 

• • Meeting Facilitation, preparing for and leading meetings/trainings

• • • • Data Management, uploading and monitoring organizing data, managing wrong number and follow up data from phonebank

• • Admin Work, supporting with data entry, managing volunteer and donor databases, managing offices