Pennsylvania Community Organizer

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

• Maximize program referrals from the friends and family of the original participants to increase the number of applicants to the program
• Complete phone, text and other types of recruitment necessary to ensure daily trainings meet benchmark attendance

Training

• Conduct onboarding trainings for large audiences that address the app functionality, program objectives, and required minimum performance for payment, as well as opportunities for bonuses
• Host regular onboarding sessions at intervals that support the needs of program objectives
• Support the success of Community Mobilizers in the program through group and one on one trainings

Accountability

• Deliver the appropriate mix of automated, hand-generated and person-to-person communications within your work hours to increase the number of people who complete the program
• Hit daily phone bank benchmarks set by program leaders to follow-up with CMs who have attended training in order to ensure they complete all tasks by payment deadlines and are scheduled for future events
• Ensure all participant data is entered in a timely fashion, meeting campaign-wide standards
• If and when necessary, use incentives and other tools to achieve maximum data entry and program completion within campaign-directed limits
• Triage program participants for appropriate times to directly communicate with participants for accountability

Operations

• Verify that names submitted for compensation have met program requirements to receive base pay and listed bonuses within each week of the program
• Ensure that all program requirements are well-communicated by reviewing all published materials and making your manager aware of any errors

Program Assessment

• Collect critical feedback on training materials from participants and deliver that feedback to your manager in order to improve materials 
• Implement campaign-wide feedback mechanisms for participants to communicate their experience to campaign leadership
• Collect samples, anecdotes, video, photos and survey data at appropriate intervals to showcase program success for future recruitment and program reporting

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:

• Care deeply about the mission
• Are engaging, enthusiastic, and can show that in Zoom meetings and trainings
• Consider themselves a people-person
• Have a cycle or two of organizing experience and have familiarity with tools like Zoom, VAN, and Google Suite
• Is productive in a remote environment
• Communicate well, are open-minded, and are open to improvement and learning
• Take initiative
• Will contribute to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment free from discrimination or harassment 
• Have access to a reliable laptop and cell phone
• Have US work authorization

Additional consideration will be given to candidates who have experience with relational organizing and who are fluent in a second language

What's the compensation like?

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.