Campus Field Organizer

EARTHDAY.ORG is looking for a motivated, passionate student with a commitment to protecting the environment. EARTHDAY.ORG is spearheading a targeted, voter engagement program on four college campuses across North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The program, known as Vote Earth 2024, encourages students to register to vote as well as to pledge to vote in the 2024 election, with strong consideration for environmental issues.

Last Earth Day, the EARTHDAY.ORG Campus Coalition organized students on 40 campuses across the United States to call on the U.S. government to push for a strong global plastics treaty in the United Nations. This fall we plan to focus that same energy on voting in the 2024 election. Politicians and political parties often take the focus of elections away from issues and towards personalities, but we in the environmental movement have an opportunity to shine the spotlight on how federal elections impact environmental policy in the U.S. and across the world.

The perfect candidate for this role is a student who is hard working, mission oriented, and passionate about protecting the environment and human health. The role is a contracted position, paying $333.33 a week, starting on August 19th and going until November 8th.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct voter registration in person and in classrooms.
• Recruit and train volunteers to conduct voter registration.
• Conduct outreach to students and faculty to conduct voter registration.
• Lead phone banks to remind students when and how to vote.
• Use social media and one-on-one communication to inform students on how to register and vote as well as to provide information on the impact of federal elections on national and global environmental policy.
• Conduct your work in a completely non-partisan way.

Qualifications:

• At least one semester of volunteering, interning, or working as paid staff in political or community organizing.
• A strong interest in environmental issues or U.S. politics
• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or master’s degree program.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suites programs.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Experience with social media outreach.
• Experience working with student organizations, faculty, or administrators.

Professional Qualities:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Respectful, hardworking, results oriented individual 
• Enthusiastic, positive attitude that works well in a team but is also motivated, self-sufficient and can work well independently as needed 

About EDO: EARTHDAY.ORG’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, EDO is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with partners in over 192 countries to drive positive action for our planet.