Description

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) is hiring! We seek to hire numerous part-time Campus Democracy Contractors to work 12 hours/week to build our campaign to register, educate, and mobilize voters in Kentucky on the campus where you’re going to school.   To that end, they’ll staff community tabling events, register voters, collect petitions, and make phone calls to voters. 

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.  

Who We Are

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.
  
  

What You’ll Do

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.  

Specifically, you will:

• 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 issues like voting rights, data centers, immigrant rights, and more. 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 voter registration cards are protected and turned in safely and promptly, according to procedures.
• Call voters on the phone to mobilize them
• Comply with organizational rules and procedures, including legal guidelines.
• Contribute to a culture of mutual respect, support, accountability, appreciation, good working relationships, and constructive communication with your supervisor, co-workers, and volunteers.
• Recruit new KFTC members, asking them to donate, join, and get involved
• Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and willing to take other precautions (including masking indoors when at work) to keep our members, staff, and the public safe.
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

We’re looking for people who are:

• Enrolled students
• Committed to racial justice, anti-colonialism, equity, inclusion and democracy
• Able to work and connect well with diverse people, especially Black and Brown Kentuckians, low-income and working class folks, young people, LGBTQ+ folks, disabled Kentuckians, and others whose voices and votes are too often discounted.
• Committed to the mission and values of KFTC
• Excited about doing public outreach, deep listening, and connecting with voters at tables, events, and by phone.
• Self-motivated and independent, and also work effectively in teams
• Reliable, organized, and responsive. Able to ask for help when needed.
• Coachable, excited to learn, eager to teach others. 
• Able to follow procedures and instructions with a high degree of accuracy and minimal supervision. 
• Committed to safeguarding confidential or sensitive voter data and information.
• Self-directed, confident, capable
• Collaborative, patient, hopeful
• Able to de-escalate and stay calm in potentially contentious situations. 
• Introspective and committed to lifelong learning with a strong, ever-growing, and intricate knowledge of self.
• Able to prioritize self-care for the purpose of collective care, as it is intrinsically tied to the energy infused in the work.

What Else You Should Know

• You will be required to participate in a paid, in-person orientation August 24th on Zoom.
• This position offers $50 / month to compensate for a cell phone that you use for work, and provides reimbursement of $.46 / mile if you use your own vehicle for authorized work. 
• You will be supported by a KFTC staff leader, and may work independently or in collaboration with other KFTC organizers, volunteers, and paid canvassers depending on your geography.
• KFTC is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage BIPOC people, Kentuckians with felonies in their past, women, and LGBTQ individuals to apply for open positions.

How to apply

• Please complete this online application before the end of June 30.
• To ensure that all qualified applicants are fairly considered for these roles, KFTC is not requiring that applicants submit a cover letter or resume. Please take your time with the application and tell us about yourself and your interest in and qualifications for this role.  We want to learn what’s important for us to know about you.  
• We’ll be scheduling interviews starting in early July on zoom.
• If you have questions about this position please email [email protected] and put “Voter Empowerment Contractors" in the subject line.