The Position:
CBE is hiring Voter Outreach Organizers that will ideally be based in Richmond, California for in-person work or remotely in one of the communities in California where CBE organizes; East Oakland, Wilmington, City of Los Angeles, or the Southeast Los Angeles Cities. The Organizers are part of an inspirational team that engages voters and community through phone banking, canvassing, text-banking, and in-person and virtual outreach on the issues of toxic oil and gas drilling and refining operations, corporate and polluter accountability, air quality and healthy neighborhoods, housing justice, deep democracy, and building a statewide membership base of progressive youth and communities of color. The person(s) in this role should be strongly self-motivated and believe in the power of people to make changes for the betterment of communities across California. This position requires conversing over the phone and in-person to mobilize Black, African-American, Indigenous, Latine, youth and voters of color to get involved in our movements, take action and turn out to vote. This position reports to the Senior Voter Outreach Team Lead and will work in collaboration with other Outreach Organizers, is a member of CBE’s Civic Engagement Department, and attends trainings and meetings with external alliance organizations.
Key Responsibilities and Requirements:
Political Education: Through provided trainings become familiar with environmental justice, climate justice, housing justice, corporate accountability and deep democracy to effectively communicate campaign information and disseminate information to voters and community. Commitment to engage in additional reading material and self-education as needed.
Direct Voter Contact: Engage a specific subset of voters through phone banking, text-banking, and canvassing efforts. Maintain professional and persuasive conversations with voters and peers. Voter outreach strategies on average 4 hours per day during voter contact campaigns.?Accurately mark voter responses and input voter contact data. Immediately notify Leads of technology issues with mobile canvassing, text-banking,and phone banking equipment and tools. Immediately communicate health and safety concerns while engaged in voter contact efforts.
Volunteer Recruitment: Help recruit volunteers through direct voter contact, personal networks, amongst organizational membership and through outreach efforts.
Voter and Community Outreach: Attend in-person and virtual outreach opportunities, efforts, and coalition activities to represent organization, disseminate information, and build membership. Maintain and develop relationships with allied organizations, community groups, agencies, and individuals to support outreach efforts. Assist in the collection of supporter, volunteer, and membership contact information. Support with co-facilitation of educational presentations and trainings to increase community?support during public outreach events.
Spokespersonship: Participate in training/meetings to learn how to tell your personal story on the phones, at the doors, in community and to the media to help build a narrative that centers the role of young people and communities of color in fighting for environmental justice and corporate accountability.
Content creation: Participate in trainings/meetings to help brainstorm and support the development of digital content, such as memes and TikTok videos, that engages young people online and mobilizes them to take action.
Other duties as needed.
Qualifications and Expectations:
Interest in empowering community members and voters through community and electoral organizing
Interest in environmental justice, climate justice and commitment to long-term social change through outreach and organizing
Experience using canvassing, phonebanking and outreach tools (Mobile PDI, CallEvo, CallHub, ThruText)
Ability to work in high-paced, goal-oriented, and high-pressure environments
Willingness to engage people from different age groups, social, cultural, and professional backgrounds.
Strong interpersonal skills; strong verbal and written communication.
Strong work ethic, self-motivated, punctual, with high integrity.
Ability to work well individually and in a team setting.
Previous phone banking and canvassing experience preferred, but not required.
Bilingual in English/Spanish and other languages is a plus.
Compensation and Timeframe:
This is a temporary, part-time (22 hours a week) position, with an hourly rate of $22.00. This position has an expected start date of September, 15th 2025. Afternoons, evenings and weekends expected. Weekly work schedule will be coordinated with your supervisor.
Due to the temporary part-time nature of this work, we are unable to offer most benefits; however, the position does include a therapy/mental wellness benefit as well as a limited amount of paid sick leave.
To Apply:
You will be asked to upload your resume and provide responses to screening questions. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis and we will begin applicant interviews as early as August 11, 2025. After we review applications, qualified applicants will be contacted to set up a job interview.
