Community Organizer
Employment Type: Full Time
Minimum Experience: Mid-Level
About Us
Empower Project is the national leader in both paid and volunteer relational organizing (RO).
Empower Project organizes to improve people’s lives using the power of relational organizing. Together with our partners, we’ve helped boost voter turnout, especially for BIPOC communities, through our approach of tapping into personal networks of friends and family. We provide the software and expertise to help communities, progressive organizations, and nonprofits leverage their personal relationships to build power and dramatically expand the electorate. Our cutting-edge technology, Empower, stands at the forefront of the industry and is trusted by over 1,500 organizations nationwide.
It’s effective. Empower has been studied in nine different independently-run, randomly controlled trials which all found that its usage led to large and statistically significant increases in voter turnout — far more effective than phone-banking, text-banking, or door-to-door canvassing.
It’s growing fast. The number of conversations Empower facilitated grew by over 10x between the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, grew by 10x again in the 2020 election cycle, and then grew by 30x for the 2024 election cycle. In order to keep up that pace going forward, we need to grow our team and keep adding features that help our organizations!
About the Program and Role
In 2025 we’ll be running paid relational organizing programs – programs where we recruit folks to talk to their family and friends about elections and issues and then pay them for their time and effort – in several states including Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jersey, starting in Pennsylvania.
Organizers will onboard, train and manage a large group of paid Community Mobilizers (CMs) for statewide paid relational organizing programs. The programs will ask the CMs to take actions that will hold elected officials accountable for their actions and later remind people about upcoming elections.
Organizers will coach paid Community Mobilizers through their calls to action. Organizers report to the Deputy Organizing Director.
Hired applicants will have strong time management skills because they will have to balance their time between onboarding, training and managing a large group of program participants (CMs). They will conduct large-scale trainings and ensure their Mobilizers build good habits.
Finally, Organizers will also be expected to contribute to a positive and safe work environment, be flexible as the campaign changes, and be creative in achieving the biggest possible scale of outreach.
This position is available starting June 23rd and is scheduled to end on November 10, 2025. Work hours will vary.
Job Responsibilities
Recruitment
Training
Accountability
Operations
Program Assessment
Additional consideration will be given to candidates who have existing relationships in one of the ten states or are fluent in a second language, including Spanish.
Who would be a good fit?
We're looking for enthusiastic individuals who:
Additional consideration will be given to candidates who have experience with relational organizing and who are fluent in a second language
Salary: $4,750 per month
This position will start at 5 days per week and will transition to 6 days per week in mid-September. Hours will vary but will generally be from 12pm - 8pm ET.
We provide full health care and 4 paid personal days.
Empower Project is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. Women, persons of color, and individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.
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