Campus Activist

Thousands of lives are on the line every day due to abortion. Are you ready to stand up and change hearts to stop it? We are defenders on a mission to recruit, equip, and deploy students around Michigan to become passionate and professional social reformers. We won’t stop until abortion is unthinkable. Since 2005, we have grown from a group of volunteers to a team of dozens of powerhouse activists.

Each team member is bright, strategic, and dedicated to protecting the unborn.

A Protect Life Michigan (PLM) Campus Activist (CA) carries out the mission of PLM by working directly with campus groups and pro-life students. The Campus Activist's purpose is to develop pro-life students into leaders in the pro-life movement and to change pro-choice minds on abortion by leading outreach efforts on college campuses. The Campus Activist will work with their fellow Campus Activists and their student-run boards at their assigned college, and execute any strategic adjustments made by managers and select team members.

Campus Activists report to a Campus Activist Supervisor or a Campus Activist Lead.

This position can be filled by a part-time or full-time candidate. If the CA is currently attending college, they typically work 11-15 hours per week.

This role is primarily in-person at the assigned college, with some work-from-home days, and requires the candidate to support raise their salary and ministry expenses; please read more details in the Salary & Benefits section below.

For your first semester on campus, you may be paired with an experienced Campus Activist to receive on-the-job training. Please note that your training location may be further away from the campus with which you are working.

Recruit:
The Campus Activist will encourage pro-life students to join the campus group.

Examples of this include:

• Plan and lead recruitment events like tabling, clip boarding, and socials
• Build trusting relationships with students
• Create a strong culture of pro-life community

Equip:
The Campus Activist will seek to equip pro-life students to better communicate the pro-life message in a loving and persuasive way.

Examples of this include:

• Plan and facilitate weekly club meetings, utilizing materials provided by PLM
• Foster student identities as social reformers
• Answer apologetics questions from students

Deploy:
The Campus Activist will motivate pro-life students to participate in outreach events and to take their next step as an activist.

Examples of this include:

• Plan and lead various outreach events on campus, including both immensely effective “high barrier” outreaches (conversational, utilizes abortion victim photography, etc.) and “low barrier” outreaches (chalking, stickering, etc.) which act as a stepping stone for more cautious students
• Meet with students one-on-one to convict them of the importance and effectiveness of our strategy
• Embolden students to participate in our summer internship program and to pursue long-term work in the pro-life movement

• Commitment to the pro-life movement and the mission of Protect Life Michigan.
• Ability to commit to joining the team for one school year
• Passionate and positive view of support raising and/or fundraising. Support raising is necessary for this role. A positive view of support raising is part of PLM’s culture.
• Ability to effectively communicate in person, and in writing, including public speaking.
• A positive attitude, attention to detail, and ability to organize effectively.
• Valid driver’s license and the ability to travel.
• Lives within 30 minutes of at least one of the universities in the region.
• Flexible work schedule, and the ability to work nights/weekends as necessary.
• Proficiency in…