Democracy Champion

Position Title

Hours
: part-time, 20 hours/week, flexible schedule with some scheduled events

Duration
:
August 10 – November 6, 2026 (13 weeks)

Pay
: $26 per hour

Locations
:
Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Covington and NKY area, Richmond/Berea, Frankfort, Shelbyville, Georgetown, Danville, Morehead, Prestonsburg / Pikeville, Hazard, Corbin / London, Hopkinsville, Madisonville

KFTC is a grassroots organization with thousands of members and a dozen chapters across Kentucky organizing for racial, social, healing, and economic justice, a healthy environment, and an honest democracy. We believe in the power of community organizing – people working together to achieve common goals. It’s a long‑term approach that focuses on building and exercising power, especially among people affected by injustice, to improve the quality of life for all.

KFTC has built up a powerful infrastructure to foster democratic values in our state - through tactics such as targeted voter registration, educating on candidate stances, voter mobilization, training candidates, endorsing candidates, and changing laws to make more space for democracy.

We engage in this work to create an authentic, participatory Democracy, which is needed to create the life Kentuckians deserve. We want to make elected officials more responsive to Kentuckians as a whole. We also seek to create an environment in which better candidates will run and get elected.

KFTC’s grassroots leadership has adopted the following description of what we are working to be and achieve together over the coming years:

• Vivid
  
  Description:
  
  Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a collective light, leading the way to a thriving, joyful, intergenerational, multi‑cultural society where people are free from oppression and where equity, health care, and racial, economic, and social justice exist for everyone. We are a beloved community, where all people are connected and affirmed through healthy relationships, and dedicated to achieving mutual liberation.
• Audacious Goal:
  Guided by Black, Indigenous, People of Color and impacted communities, we will recruit, equip, and activate a network of 100,000 members and partners across all 120 counties to dismantle racism and all systems of oppression, to develop a robust democracy and transform the future of Kentucky.

You’ll attend a virtual 2‑hour training each week with other Kentuckians with felonies in their past to learn more skills to help you build our campaign.
These 2‑hour trainings are every Tuesday from 11am to 1pm ET and are mandatory. You’ll need to connect with them from a computer, on camera in a quiet place where you’ll be able to focus and participate.

You’ll also attend a local coordination meeting in your communities with a local organizer from time to time.

You will be responsible for finding ways to get out in your community to register voters, get petitions signed and recruit new KFTC members. That might include setting up tables and circulating with clipboards at community festivals, in parks, in front of friendly businesses, going door‑to‑door, making calls, etc.

You’ll connect with people, listen to their stories and concerns, share information about this issue, and encourage them to get involved in democracy.

Outside of the 2 hours of scheduled, online training each week, you’ll have a lot of freedom to connect to people how you think is best, but you are responsible for making sure petitions and membership forms get turned into KFTC.

In the last 4 weeks leading to election day, our work will switch to voter mobilization, calling voters on the phone, circulating our print voter guide, and encouraging people to vote for candidates our New Power PAC has endorsed.

• Learn. You will participate in a paid orientation day plus a weekly virtual training. You will gain skills, confidence, and valuable experience on the job.
• Register Voters
• Invite people to sign petitions and take action on voting rights. You will staff tables and/or circulate with a clipboard at community events and venues to get petitions signed.
• Take pictures and collect quotes from people you meet at events.
• Ensure all…