Stop Data Centers Organizing Fellow

Food & Water Watch; Bakersfield (CA); On-site; USD 29,000 - 40,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage reimbursement

Meals reimbursed

Supplies reimbursed

Job summary

Food & Water Watch is seeking fall organizing fellows based in the Central Valley (Fresno, Kern, Kings, or Tulare counties) to mobilize communities around stopping data centers. Fellows will canvas, phonebank, and engage local residents, with flexible hours up to 39 per week through November 3.

The position is a temporary, part-time internship with mileage reimbursement and no additional benefits. Compensation is $25 per hour with reimbursement for travel at the Federal rate.

Qualifications

• Organizing or advocacy experience, paid or volunteer.
• Familiarity with California politics and communities.
• Commitment to Food & Water Watch’s values of justice, human dignity, fair treatment, and equity.
• Ability to work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to work remotely using basic online programs (email, Slack, Google docs).

Responsibilities

• Conduct outreach through door-to-door canvassing and phonebanking in Central Valley communities.
• Collect compelling resident stories when applicable.
• Travel to target communities; mileage reimbursed at the federal rate.
• Regularly report progress to your supervisor.
• Carry out other projects as assigned by the organizing team.

Skills

Organizing experience

CA politics familiarity

Diversity & equity commitment

Remote work proficiency

Phonebanking/ canvassing familiarity

Job description

Food & Water Watch is looking for fall organizing fellows to join our team and help organize to stop data centers in the Central Valley. The fall organizing fellow will work closely with our on-the-ground organizers, volunteers, community partners, and other staff at Food & Water Watch. This position must be based in the Central Valley (Fresno, Kern, Kings, and/or Tulare counties).

About Food & Water Watch

Food & Water Watch is working to create a healthy future for all people and generations to come—a world where everyone has food they can trust, clean drinking water and a livable climate. Making this happen requires involving people in the pressing issues of our time at the local, state, and federal level, building on one win after another, as we develop a larger movement that has the political power to make our democratic process work.

About the position

The Stop Data Centers Organizing Fellow will be overseen by the Central California Organizing Manager and will work with other staff on the organizing, policy, digital and communications teams to support Food & Water Watch’s work. The fellows will conduct outreach through phonebanking and door-to-door canvassing, focusing on communities experience water scarcity. This position will run through November 3. Hours are flexible; fellows will work no more than 39 hours per week.

Salary: $25/hourly

Location: Fresno, Kern, Kings, and/or Tulare counties

Responsibilities:

• Conduct outreach. Our goal is to find Central Valley residents who care about our issues and mobilize them to take action. We will primarily focus on door-to-door canvassing in communities, experiencing water quality issues or water scarcity, such as Porterville and Tulare. On days when the weather doesn’t allow for canvassing, we will phonebank instead.
• Collect stories. When we find residents with particularly compelling stories, we may ask them to allow us to record them sharing their story.
• Transport to target communities. Fellows will need to transport themselves to the communities where we’re conducting outreach. If other team members are located nearby, carpooling may be possible. This driving is reimbursed at the Federal reimbursement rate, $0.76 per mile.
• Regularly report on work to your supervisor.
• Carry out other projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Organizing or advocacy experience, either paid or volunteer. This could include campus organizing, volunteering with a political campaign, or an organizing or advocacy non-profit.
• Familiarity with CA politics and communities.
• Commitment to Food & Water Watch’s core values of justice, human dignity, fair treatment, and equity.
• Ability to work effectively with people of diverse racial, ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
• Ability to work remotely using basic online programs, including email, Slack, and Google docs.

Desired but not required skills and experience:

• Experience with digital outreach tools, including phone banking.
• Experience supporting event logistics.

Compensation: $25/Hour

This is a temporary, part-time internship and is not eligible for other benefits. Mileage, meals, and supplies will be reimbursed.

Food and Water Watch is an equal opportunity employer who encourages applications from women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, individuals with disabilities, and other members of underrepresented groups. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.

Food & Water Watch (FWW) is committed to the health and safety of its staff members. Moreover, FWW, as an organization, promotes science-based policy. Science clearly shows that unvaccinated populations drive the spread of the coronavirus and the emergence of new variants, and that unvaccinated people are more likely to contract COVID and experience severe symptoms. FWW requires new staff to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination, subject to availability, unless they receive an approved religious or medical accommodation and will be required to provide proof of vaccination.