Digital Campaign Fall Intern
Location: Remote
To Apply: Send a resume along with a note about your story and why you would be a good fit for this position
TextOut is seeking fall interns to join our team. These are remote positions that can be based anywhere in the continental U.S. Part-time and full-time openings are both available. Pay is dependent on experience. No benefits. You must be able to commit to this position through the November 2019 elections.
About You
You are 18 or older and have a passion for listening and connecting with voters across the political spectrum, even those who might not agree with you.
You may or may not be in school, pursuing a degree, or have a degree. It's not required.
You have access to a reliable desktop or laptop computer. (Our system doesn't work on a smartphone!)
You can commit no less than 40 hours per week to saving democracy for a full-time internship, and no less than 20 hours per week for a part-time internship.
You want to build connections with other like-minded progressives around the US.
You adapt well to new technology and are a self-starter willing to teach yourself new software platforms.
You're into the idea of working and communicating remotely with your teammates using programs like Slack for chat and Asana for project management.
You can work independently and are a natural problem solver but are also comfortable asking questions when you get stuck.
You are determined; you don't stop until you get the information you need until your voter's questions are answered, or until your volunteers have what they need to do their best work.
You believe in the power of conversation and connection to change hearts and minds.
Responsibilities and Duties May Include Some or All of the Following:
Building texting campaigns inside TextOut
Reviewing and approving texting assignments inside TextOut
Providing quality, actionable feedback to our texters inside TextOut so that they can up their texting game
Moderating the Text Troop Slack team (it's our virtual campaign office), which includes helping our volunteer texters with questions and ensuring our texters are following our protocols for responding to voter questions.
Assisting on the writing of texting scripts, training materials and other volunteer learning materials
Texting our fellow citizens on behalf of progressive candidates running in statewide, state legislative, and municipal and local elections.
Conducting desktop research on candidates, election processes and laws
Calling local board of elections offices to validate and verify polling locations as well as understanding of election processes and laws
About TextOut
TextOut is Open Progress' proprietary person-to-person texting software. Built in 2018 and spun out in 2019 as its own firm, TextOut makes possible richly-scripted interactions which can be easily overseen with high levels of quality control - and no loss of the key data you need because it's automatically captured. All profits from TextOut go back to fund non-profit missions at Open Progress and its other non-profit partners, making it the only progressive technology platform in the space that exists to not only drive change but to fund it, too.