The Bus Is So Hiring.

Everyone’s wondering where the jobs are. We don’t have all of ‘em, but we do have a few open gigs.

The Bus has a huge year coming up in 2012. It’s going to require a serious dream team. Think Ocean’s 11 but…cooler. We need to grow our team in a big way, adding dynamic, energetic and hilarious people to our band of lovable misfits. We need people who are gonna grind out some big wins with us over the next 12 months. We need you.

Here’s the gigs we’re hiring for:

In addition to paid positions, we’re looking to bolster our team with a variety of formal internships, fellowships and volunteer opportunities.

  • PolitiCorps Summer Fellowship: Stipended 10 week bootcamp, 19-24 years old, June – August 2012.
  • Internships with Rebooting Democracy, Candidates Gone Wild, PolitiCorps, communications, operations, and the tech team. If you’re interested in an internship, email dani@busproject.org

All jobs are fast-paced, high-intensity, and a little ridiculous—sometimes absurd. We take our work very seriously and ourselves far less so. It’s hard, but man, it’s super fun.

PolitiCorps Program Coordinator

The Bus Project is currently seeking a motivated, charismatic, highly productive organizer with significant field experience to serve as the Program Coordinator for the PolitiCorps national leadership development program.

Position Overview:

PolitiCorps is our core leadership development and campaign training program. PolitiCorps Summer is a political boot camp consisting of hands-on skills training, innovative public policy intensives, and real-world applications of leadership skills and campaign savvy.

The Program Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and supporting the Fellows in their campaign field work. Fellows knock on tens of thousands of doors and register thousands of Oregonians to vote during the course of the summer. The Coordinator will spend their first month on the job working alongside Bus Project staff to organize large-scale door-to-door canvasses and learning how to organize Bus-style. Starting in June, the Coordinator will be dedicated full time to the PolitiCorps program.

Time commitment: Campaign hours, including evenings, weekends, and some overnight travel.

Compensation: Salary DOE. Position runs from May or June thru August 31st, with a possible extension thru November and potential for a permanent position.

 Duties and responsibilities:

  • Support PolitiCorps Fellows in running 8-week mini-campaigns, providing mentorship in field work, data management, event planning, and volunteer recruitment and retention
  • Assist the Fellows in creating a comprehensive field plan to guide their work, and monitor the Fellows’ progress towards their field goals
  • Coordinate with organizational partners working collaboratively with the Fellows; supervise communication between the Fellows and our partners
  • Conduct trainings on a wide variety of campaign topics, including voter registration, street canvassing, door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, and volunteer recruitment
  • Work alongside the PolitiCorps Director in facilitating conversations around leadership, collaborative problem solving and decision-making, and conflict resolution.

General Qualifications:

  • Whip-smart
  • Highly organized and productive (your friends have a hard time understanding how you get so much done in one day)
  • Frugal / efficient (i.e. making much happen with little)
  • Detail-oriented (you’ve gotta sweat the small stuff)
  • Top-notch writing skills
  • Proven ability to work unsupervised
  • Relentlessly positivity in the face of obstacles
  • Culturally competent (you’ve worked/volunteered/backpacked with at least one culture different than your own)
  • Ability to buckle down and wrap projects up
  • “Zoom factor” (the ability to see both the forest *and* the trees)
  • Committed to the idea and practice of leadership development

Additional Qualifications

  • Campaign field experience in local, state, or federal campaigns. This experience should demonstrate a commitment to face-to-face politics, and include both traditional grassroots organizing skills and cutting edge “new organizing” methods
  • Dynamic front-of-the-classroom teacher and trainer
  • Proven ability to supervise up to 30 people

Tech tools: You should be pretty darn good with computers. We currently utilize the below skill sets. You don’t need to know them yet, but you should be a quick study.

  • Databases: SalsaLabs, VAN
  • Collaboration tools: Wikis, Google Groups, Google Apps
  • Other: MS Office (particularly Excel), various custom and open source utilities

To Apply:

Send cover letter and resume (including two references) to Dani Bernstein at dani.bernstein@politicorps.org by May 11th, 2012.