JOB: Campus Organizer with USPIRG

Every day, powerful people are making decisions that affect our health, our safety and our future. In Civics 101, we’re taught these decisions should be based on the public interest: that’s how a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is supposed to work. Yet in the real world, on issue after issue, we see powerful interests corrupting the democratic process, twisting public policy to serve their own ends, all too often at the public’s expense.

How do you counter those powerful interests? The Student PIRGs are mobilizing America’s college students to take action. Our Campus Organizers are headed to 40 college campuses across the country, where they will recruit, train and work alongside thousands of student activists. Together we’ll go beyond studying the issues; we’ll document the problems, find practical solutions, inform the public and make the case directly to decision-makers. And when powerful special interests stand in the way, we’ll mobilize the student body, the local citizens and as many people as it takes to make our voices heard in city halls, state capitols, Congress, the White House or wherever it will make a difference.

Responsibilities include:
•         Working on one of 40 college campuses, running 3-6 campaigns
•         Recruiting and training volunteers on grassroots tactics, media outreach and more
•         Teaching an internship class on activism skills
•         Building relationships with faculty and administrators
•         Holding events with decision-makers
•         Generating the grassroots support it takes to win campaigns
•         Fundraising and building the organization by canvassing for portions of the year, in addition to running a citizen outreach office in the summer months

LINK to application: http://jobs.uspirg.org/page/usr/entry-level-application
www.uspirg.org/jobs

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