Queer Excellence Program - Community Organizing Fellow
About The Position
Equality Florida's Field Department aims to mobilize strong grassroots support to build local actions supporting pro-equality policies and opposing policy harming the pro-equality community. The Field Department is responsible for the statewide elections program, pride outreach, data analysis and input, and grassroots mobilization for statewide actions. Supporting the Field Department Field fellows will work with their respective field staff to engage in grassroots outreach with an emphasis on campaign-style election mobilization. This is a hybrid role where most of the work will be done virtually, but we will ask for assistance on in-person actions. Paid fellowships are a maximum of 10 hours per week commitment, and we expect Fellows to meet all 10 hours each week.
Requirements
- Have event planning and organizing skills
- Be organized and detail oriented
- Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
- Have a reliable smartphone and laptop for use
- Have occasional weekend and weeknight availability
- Be comfortable speaking to strangers and people with different world/political views
- Be incredibly passionate about advancing LGBTQ+ rights and/or helping LGBTQ+ Floridians
- Only applications that were approved by the Mukti Fund will be considered for this role.
Responsibilities
- Identify progressive/LGBTQ events in the area to increase visibility
- Train and recruit volunteers
- Collect stories and build relationships with the community
- Mobilize Equality Florida's membership to attend field events
- Participate in and manage field events with the Field Organizer
- Assist in the approval/passage of pro-equality policies
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
