Transparency Campaign Organizer
Overview
Our Transparency Campaign is looking for a Student Organizer to coordinate its day-to-day activities, researching Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request strategies, coordinating with on-the-ground student organizers about using FOIA on campuses, and continuing to strengthen our student and partner networks.
Our Transparency Campaign aims to train student organizers on how to use freedom of information laws to hold power accountable and protect their activism. We do this by organizing trainings and assembling resources for students to use so we can collectively fight for a more transparent education & democracy.
The ideal campaign organizer is self-driven, works well in collaborative settings, understands the intersection of the fight for our democracy with other issues & identities (climate justice, access to healthcare, education, etc), and the role students need to play in championing a system that represent us.
Responsibilities Include
- Researching & building relationships with campus/state-based transparency & civil liberties groups to collaborate on shared campaign goals
- Growing our network of students following the campaign
- Recruiting & mobilizing students to join campaign actions, events, or trainings
- Help increase visibility of campaign work to local news & on social media
- Share campaign updates at weekly team meetings and regularly check-in with the Campaigns Director & organizational leadership about progress, barriers, and support needs
- Other campaign responsibilities as decided by leadership
Requirements Include
- Capacity to work 5-10 hours/week on the above
- Willingness to learn & grow as an organizer
- Commitment to centering youth as we build a just & inclusive democracy
- Demonstrated initiative, ability to problem-solve, and respond to a rapidly-evolving organizing landscape
- Strong interpersonal, speaking, and writing skills
- (Nice to have) Ability to point to a past issue-based campaign you were a part of & helped win
How to Apply
To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter over Handshake.
Academic credit can be arranged for eligible students.
With questions about this or other roles, the Task Force, or our campaigns, please email recruitment@taskforceusa.org.
About the Task Force for Democracy
We’re a youth & volunteer-led team organizing students across 6 campaigns to demand a democracy that works for our generation — not billionaires & corporations! We work alongside movement partners to center young people in the fight against advancing autocracy.
We’re nonpartisan. We don’t do electoral politics. And we stay focused on ending the root causes of inequality in our democracy.
We know that true democracy cannot only exist at the ballot box, but must be present in the workplace, and in our education. Our campaigns aim to end structural inequality across different areas of our democracy, and include: fighting voter suppression & money in politics, organizing students under autocracy, stopping a dangerous constitutional convention that would roll back our rights, using transparency laws to hold power accountable, and more!