Stop The Data Centers Canvasser (PA)

Environmental Career Center; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Food & Water Watch in Allentown, PA is seeking a Stop Data Centers Canvasser to join our outreach team. The contractor position runs through November 3, 2026 and involves knocking on doors to engage voters on environmental issues and endorsed candidates.

The role reports to the Stop Data Centers Canvass Director. Schedule requires at least 2 days of canvassing per week, with potential transportation support for applicants in Allentown, PA.

Qualifications

• Passion for environmental issues with endorsed candidates.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Knock on dozens of doors every day.
• Talk with voters about environmental issues and endorsed candidates.
• Log data in the voter outreach tool.
• Collect petition signatures to advance key issues.

Skills

Passion for environmental issues

Great verbal communication skills

Job description

Stop Data Centers Canvasser (PA)

Food & Water Watch is working to stop data centers in the Lehigh Valley by electing leaders who will pass a statewide moratorium. We are building a team of door-to-door canvassers to knock on 10,000 doors, holding thousands of conversations with voters about electing candidates who are standing up to Big Tech!

This position reports to the Stop Data Centers Canvass Director. Canvassers must be able to commit to at least 2 days of canvassing per week. The position is temporary, starting ASAP and running through November 3. We may be able to provide daily transportation for applicants based in Allentown, PA. This position is temporary, part-time, up to 39 hours.

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 Canvasser will report to the Stop Data Centers Canvass Director to help our outreach team knock on 10,000 doors by election day. This is a contractor position running through November 3, 2026.

Salary: $25/hr, with mileage reimbursement of $0.76/mile

Location: Allentown, PA

Responsibilities:

1. Knock on dozens of doors every day
2. Talk with voters about our issues and our supported candidates
3. Log data in our voter outreach tool
4. Collect petition signatures to advance our key issues

Required Qualifications:

• Passion for environmental issues and our endorsed candidates
• Great verbal communication skills

Compensation: $25/hr, with mileage reimbursement of $0.76/mile

We will review your application and if we feel that your knowledge, skills and abilities are potentially a good match for our organization, we will be in contact with you.

Food & 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. Effective immediately, prospective new staff members are required to provide proof of vaccination or request a waiver as a condition of their offer of employment.

Pay Range:

$25 per hour