Native Vote - Voter Contact Specialist

Wisconsin Conservation Voters

14d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Wisconsin Native Vote to make a difference in your community by helping to increase voter turnout and educate voters. Wisconsin Conservation Voices is looking for 2-3 energetic and outgoing voter contact specialists to join our Native Vote team. The voter contact specialists primarily focus on nonpartisan voter registration, education, and engagement. These are part-time, temporary positions through mid-November 2026 and will be based in or near the Menominee, Oneida, and/or Stockbridge reservations. Wisconsin Conservation Voices centers community voices to build a clean environment, healthy communities, and a thriving democracy. Wisconsin Native Vote is a nonpartisan program dedicated to improving voting access for Native people in Wisconsin. Based in the community, working with Native people and Tribal nations, we work to educate voters, register people to vote, and improve voting policies.

Requirements

Are a connector and a people person. You are genuinely interested in fostering relationships and understanding people's interests and stories.
Have excellent interpersonal skills and work well in a team.
Value learning, are curious, and like to seek out new ideas and opportunities for personal growth and improvement.
Are passionate about ensuring every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote in an easy, safe way.
Experience in customer service, community organizing, or related experience such as volunteerism, extra-curricular campus involvement, or community service activities is preferred.
Demonstrate experience and success with community engagement; ability to lead and engage a team of volunteers; understanding of, or ability to learn quickly about, voting procedures; comfortable with or able to learn databases and tracking systems.
Able to work evenings and weekends.
Able to do routine office duties such as typing and using a phone.
Able to table at events, go door to door canvassing (walk for extended periods, climb stairs, carry materials up to approximately 5 pounds), and have access to reliable transportation and a valid driver's license.
Demonstrated awareness of how one’s life experiences influence one’s biases and assumptions.
Demonstrated commitment to continual learning.
Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture.
Understands how environmental and voting rights issues intersect with racism, economic and social inequality in the U.S. and has a passion for working to dismantle these systems.

Responsibilities

Table at local gas stations, grocery stores, pow wows, farmers markets, and community events with an emphasis on registering and encouraging people to vote.
Identify and arrange to be at community events to provide voter education material, register individuals to vote, and encourage vote tripling.
Attend community events at local high schools (could include sporting events) to register new voters and encourage participation in the voting process.
Hold meaningful conversations with voters.
Register eligible voters when appropriate.
Complete assigned turf.
Recruit volunteers and lead canvasses.
Attend assigned trainings.
Represent the organization professionally.
Track data and report progress of goals in our database (EveryAction).
Engage in consistent communication with Native Vote supporters, volunteers, and partners.
Other duties as assigned.