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Temporary Part-Time Canvasser

Employer
Make the Road New York
Location
Brentwood, New York
Closing date
Sep 25, 2019

Job Details

Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services. Make the Road New York operates community centers in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; Port Richmond, Staten Island; Brentwood, Long Island and White Plains, Westchester County. With a membership of 23,000, MRNY tackles the critical issues facing our communities, including workplace justice, tenants’ rights, immigrant rights and civil rights, TGNCIQ justice, public education, health care access, and immigration reform. (TGNCIQ = transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and queer)

MRNY is a multi-service organization.  Our member-led organizing committees -- which work on the issues named above -- implement strategies to combat shared problems, and develop leadership and the capacity for civic participation. We also provide an array of high-quality bilingual services: We offer English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Spanish-language literacy, computer literacy, citizenship preparation, and in-school and after-school youth programs. We have a robust legal program that offers direct representation across a spectrum of practice areas, including employment law, immigration law, housing and benefits, and TGNCIQ civil rights; we also take on impact litigation as a strategy for achieving broad change. Our health program offers facilitated enrollment into health insurance programs and SNAP benefits, a community health worker home visit program, nutrition education and emergency food pantries, health care navigation, and more."

Current Opening:

Join a dynamic team on Long Island to mobilize voters in our communities for the 2019 election season. During this critical election year, Make the Road New York will be leading an effort to engage low- and moderate-income people of color through our door-to-door Get Out The Vote (GOTV) canvassing efforts.

Canvassers will work as a team during a six-week period going door-to-door and making phone calls. Canvassing will begin in the first week of October and culminate on November 3rd, Election Day. 

Job Competencies:

  • Ability and comfort approaching in speaking to a wide variety of people
  • Commitment to social justice
  • Ability to work in a team and receive feedback
  • Openness to learn
  • Hustle
  • Must be willing to work most evenings and one weekend day per week
  • Spanish and English bilingual preferred
  • Preferred: Full time access to a car and able to drive
  • Preferred: Personal connection to, and knowledge of, Long Island

Salary:

The salary for canvassers is $15 per hour and canvassers should expect to work approximately 20-25 hours per week, with more in the final days before the election. 

How to Apply: 


Please write “Canvasser” in the subject of an e-mail, attach résumé and cover letter, and send to electoralorganizerjobs@maketheroadny.org. Please do not call our office with inquiries.

Make the Road New York is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and seeks to insure equal opportunity and equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to race, creed, religion, color, citizenship, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, genetic information and sexual orientation, in all employment decisions including but not limited to hiring, compensation, benefits, training, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.

Company

Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services. Make the Road New York operates community centers in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; Port Richmond, Staten Island; Brentwood, Long Island and White Plains, Westchester County. With a membership of 23,000, MRNY tackles the critical issues facing our communities, including workplace justice, tenants’ rights, immigrant rights and civil rights, TGNCIQ justice, public education, health care access, and immigration reform. (TGNCIQ = transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and queer)

MRNY is a multi-service organization.  Our member-led organizing committees -- which work on the issues named above -- implement strategies to combat shared problems, and develop leadership and the capacity for civic participation. We also provide an array of high-quality bilingual services: We offer English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Spanish-language literacy, computer literacy, citizenship preparation, and in-school and after-school youth programs. We have a robust legal program that offers direct representation across a spectrum of practice areas, including employment law, immigration law, housing and benefits, and TGNCIQ civil rights; we also take on impact litigation as a strategy for achieving broad change. Our health program offers facilitated enrollment into health insurance programs and SNAP benefits, a community health worker home visit program, nutrition education and emergency food pantries, health care navigation, and more.

Company info
Website
Telephone
718-418-7690
Location
301 Grove Street
Brooklyn
NY
11237
US

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