New Voters Project Administrative Assistant (PIRG)

Public Interest Research Group; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

The Student PIRGs are hiring an Administrative Assistant to support the New Voters Project on college campuses nationwide. You will help manage behind-the-scenes operations to ensure voter registration drives run smoothly and efficiently, coordinating forms, data entry, and logistics for campaigns across multiple states.

The ideal candidate has strong attention to detail, solid computer skills, experience with databases, and an interest in grassroots organizing and youth voter mobilization.

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail.
• Solid computer skills.
• Experience working with information databases.
• Some experience with grassroots organizing.
• Interest in working on a large, non-partisan youth voter mobilization project.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and managing systems for tracking voter registration forms from on-campus drives across the country.
• Managing quality control for voter registration drives to ensure accuracy of our efforts.
• Training staff on compliance and administrative processes.
• Analyzing data to identify trends and improve on-ground voter registration and GOTV efforts.
• Helping to identify and hire organizers for our efforts across the country.

Skills

Attention to detail

Computer skills

Databases experience

Grassroots organizing

Youth voter mobilization

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Posted on June 11, 2020

In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we want to assure you that the Student PIRGs are actively hiring for this position, and we welcome your applications.

On Election Day, young people will be the largest and most diverse group of potential voters, with distinct values and ideas. That means, young people can make a huge impact on this Election if they all turn out and vote.

We have momentum. In 2018 we saw a record increase in youth voter turnout. We have also seen candidates running for office talking more about issues that young people care about. But to keep the issues that young people care about at the forefront of our society, we need to help register, educate, and mobilize them to participate in the upcoming Election.

That’s why the Student PIRGs is running the New Voters Project, our non-partisan voter registration and get-out-the-vote campaign on college campuses across the country in Fall 2020.

We’re hiring an Administrative Assistant to help manage the behind the scenes operations to make our voter registration drives successful.

As the Administrative Assistant with the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project, your responsibilities will include:

• Establishing and managing systems for tracking voter registration forms from on-campus voter registration drives across the country
• Managing quality control for voter registration drives to ensure accuracy of our voter registration efforts
• Training staff on compliance and administrative processes
• Analyzing data to identify trends improve on the ground voter registration and get out the vote efforts
• Helping to identify and hire organizers for our efforts across the country

The ideal candidate has a strong attention to detail, solid computer skills, experience working with information databases, and some experience with grassroots organizing and an interest in working on a large, non-partisan youth voter mobilization project.

Duration:

This position is a short term commitment and will begin in July or August 2020 and continue through December 2020. There may be an opportunity to continue as an administrative assistant into 2021 as well.

The target annual compensation for this position is between $28,000-$35,000 depending on location and relevant experience. The Student PIRgs offer a competitive benefits package. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.

Locations:

The ideal candidate can work in Boston, but other cities will also be considered.

For almost fifty years, we’ve built a legacy of recruiting, training, and inspiring young people to engage in democracy. We believe that for our democracy to work, young people need to be engaged. And the first step to engaging young people is exercising their voice at the polls. The New Voters Project is the largest non-partisan, on-the-ground young voter mobilization effort in the nation. Since 1984, we have helped to register more than 2 million young voters and made over one million personalized get-out-the-vote contacts.

The Student PIRGs work closely with The Public Interest Network, which operates and supports organizations committed to a shared vision of a better world and a strategic approach to getting things done.

Each of the groups that partner with the Student PIRGs is an equal opportunity employer.

For Los Angeles-based positions: the Student PIRGs will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.