Campaign Organizer

Position Available - Primary Campaign Organizer

Hybrid Role; mostly work from home (in CA).

Organization Overview: Californians for Justice is a statewide, youth-powered organization fighting to improve the lives of people of color, immigrants, low-income families, LGBQiA2S+/TGNC youth and other marginalized communities. Through organizing in schools and in their neighborhoods, youth who join Californians for Justice become leaders in their own communities. They deepen their knowledge on issues like systemic racism, gender and sexuality, and education inequity, and organize and activate their peers to take action.

Californians for Justice has been successful because of our strong, dedicated staff team. CFJ staff are unwavering in their commitment to youth power and racial justice, to building connection and trust with their teams, and have a strong sense of purpose and dignity in their work.

Position: The Organizer will engage voters through phone banking efforts to create awareness around housing issues and tax equity and in the process recruit PowerCA Action’s members. The person in this role should be strongly self-motivated, highly skilled with conversing over the phone and in person to to mobilize BIPOC youth to get involved and take action.

Key Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Political Education: Through trainings provided, become familiar with housing and tax equity issues to train and mobilize young activists to get involved in organizing efforts.
• Phone Banking: Engage a specific subset of voters through phone banking efforts. Maintains professional and persuasive conversations with voters and peers. Phone banking 3 hours per day.
• Volunteer Recruitment: Recruit, train, and manage volunteers to assist with voter outreach.
• Texting: Engage voters through a texting system.
• Education: Ready to support with facilitating education presentations and trainings to increase community support.
• Spokesperson: Participate in training to learn how to tell your personal story on the phones, at the doors, and to the media to help build a narrative that centers the role of young people in our campaign.
• Content creation: Participate in training to brainstorm and develop digital content such as memes and TikToks that engage young people online and mobilizes them to take action.
• Other duties as needed.

Other Details:

• Compensation: $22 per hour for 17 hours per week, minimum.
• Contract period: 1/24/24 - 3/5/25. Some evenings and weekends. Weekly work schedule will be coordinated with the Statewide Campaign Manager
• Must be available for training: the week of 9/26-9/27.

What They Will Gain

• Mobilizing and building relationships with BIPOC people throughout the state of California.
• Developing individual phone banking skills.
• Be a part of a state-wide network of passionate and solution-driven BIPOC young people.
• Engage community members around housing and tax equity issues that impact them.
• Experience building statewide membership
• Volunteer recruitment and management
• Develop a better understanding of civic engagement work and relational organizing
• Support finding pragmatic solutions that come from the community.
• Media and narrative training
• Experience with systems such as Callevo, PDI, Slack, Mobilize

How to apply:

Follow this link to fill out an application on our Paylocity Website at caljustice.org/career

Application deadline is 1/2/24

After reviewing applications, applicants will be contacted to set up a job interview. If you have any questions, please contact the Statewide Campaigns Manager who is Arvin at arvin@californiansforjustice.org .

Preferred Skills and Expectations

• Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment.
• Willingness to connect with diverse community groups
• Interest in empowering community members and youth through civic engagement and community organizing .
• Interest in social justice and social equity.
• Strong communication skills, including over the phone communication and in person.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to connect with diverse people over the phone.
• Strong work ethic, punctuality and integrity.
• Ability to work well individually and in a team setting.
• Demonstrated experience working in high-paced, high pressure environments.
• Dependable, cooperative and takes initiative.
• Self-motivated, resourceful and creative.
• Previous phone banking & canvassing experience preferred but not required.
• Bilingual Spanish and other languages is a plus.