Description

Empower 2026 Community Organizers

Employment Type: Full Time
Minimum Experience: Mid Level

About Us
Empower Project is the national leader in both paid and volunteer relational organizing. 

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 2026 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 Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 

Job Description
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 spread the word about the upcoming election to their own friends and family.

Organizers will help paid Community Mobilizers conduct 4-6 relational calls to action and numerous social media calls to action before the general election in November. Organizers report to Regional Organizing Directors (RODs). 

Hired applicants will have strong time management skills to balance their time between onboarding, training and managing a large group of program participants (CMs). They will also conduct large-scale trainings and hold their CMs accountable for accurate and timely reporting. Finally, Organizers will also be expected to create a positive and safe work environment, be flexible as the campaign changes, and be creative in achieving the biggest possible scale of outreach. 

Core 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 our key states or are fluent in a second language, including Spanish. 

Compensation
This is a full-time, remote, salaried position available May 18th 2026 and lasting through November 10th, 2026.

The work schedule is five days per week, Monday through Thursday, from 12pm to 8:30pm ET or MT, and shortened hours on Fridays. After Labor Day, the work schedule will be six days per week, with shortened hours on Fridays and Saturdays off. We will also work the full week before the November election. 

The salary for this position is $4,750/month. Because this role has a fixed term, you will be classified as a limited term employee. For this role we offer health insurance and personal time, per our employee handbook.

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.

Requirements

Core 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 our key states or are fluent in a second language, including Spanish.