Digital Organizing Internship (full time / part time)
Digital Organizing Internship (full time / part time)
Open Progress Text Troop is seeking interns to join our team for the 2020 campaign. These are
paid, remote positions that can be based anywhere in the continental U.S. Part-time and full-
time openings are currently available. This is a great opportunity to get involved early in the
election season!
About You:
● You are 18 or older and have a passion for listening and connecting with voters on
important issues and campaigns.
● You may or may not be in school, pursuing a degree, or have a degree. It’s not required.
● You have access to a reliable desktop or laptop computer. (Our system doesn’t work on
a smartphone!)
● You can commit no less than 40 hours per week to saving democracy for a full-time
internship, and no less than 20 hours per week for a part-time internship.
● You want to build connections with other like-minded progressives around the US.
● You adapt well to new technology and are a self-starter willing to teach yourself new
software platforms.
● You’re into the idea of working and communicating remotely with your teammates using
programs like Slack for chat and Asana for project management.
● You can work independently and are a natural problem solver but are also comfortable
asking questions when you get stuck.
● You are determined; you don’t stop until you get the information you need until your
voter’s questions are answered, or until your volunteers have what they need to do their
best work.
● You believe in the power of conversation and connection to change hearts and minds.
Responsibilities and Duties May Include Some or All of the
Following:
● Building texting campaigns inside TextOut
● Reviewing and approving texting assignments inside TextOut
● Providing quality, actionable feedback to our volunteer inside TextOut so that they can
up their texting game
● Making sure every client, volunteer, or voter’s experience is a successful one
● Moderating the Text Troop Slack team (it’s our virtual campaign office), which includes
helping our volunteer texters with questions and ensuring our texters are following our
protocols for responding to voter questions.
● Assisting on the writing of texting scripts, training materials and other volunteer learning
materials
● Texting our fellow citizens on behalf of progressive candidates running in statewide,
state legislative, and municipal and local elections.
● Texting in support of issue advocacy
Please submit your resume and any work samples you find relevant to:
chris@openprogress.com
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis
About Open Progress Text Troop
TextOut is Open Progress’ proprietary person-to-person texting software. Built in 2018 and spun
out in 2019 as its own firm, TextOut makes possible richly-scripted interactions which can be
easily overseen with high levels of quality control - and no loss of the key data you need
because it’s automatically captured. All profits from TextOut go back to fund non-profit
missions at Open Progress and its other non-profit partners, making it the only progressive
technology platform in the space that exists to not only drive change but to fund it, too.
At Open Progress Text Troop, diversity is an integral part of our culture and identity. Inclusion is
the only way to make this country and world a better place. We recruit, employ, train,
compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, national origin, documentation status,
disability, veteran status, marital status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis
prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Women, People of Color, LGBTQ+, Veterans, and
Individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.