Campus Democracy Organizer

Position Title:

Campus Democracy jobs

Hours:

part-time, 12 hours / week, flexible schedule with some scheduled events.

Duration:
August 24-November 6, 2026 (11 weeks)

Pay: $26 / hour

Locations include, but are not limited to:
University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Northern Kentucky University, Simmons College, Kentucky State University, Western Kentucky University, Eastern Kentucky University, Jefferson Community and Technical College, Bluegrass Community and Technical College, Murray State University, Morehead State University, Somerset Community College, Hazard Community and Technical College, Spalding University, Berea College, Georgetown College, Centre College, and Transylvania University.

You must be a college or university student going to a school in Kentucky to apply.

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 training each week to learn more skills to help you build our campaign. These 90 minute trainings are every Wednesday from 4pm to 5:30pm 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 campus community to register voters, get petitions signed and recruit new KFTC members. That might include setting up tables and circulating with clipboards, going door‑to‑door, making calls, etc.

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

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…