Iowa City Summer Intern

Food & Water Watch • Iowa City, IA

20h • $16

About The Position

Food & Water Watch is looking for an Iowa City Intern to join our Iowa organizing team and support our grassroots campaigns to protect our food, water, and climate. The Iowa City Intern will work closely with the volunteers, community partners, and other staff at Food & Water Watch. This position must be based in Iowa City, Iowa.

Food & Water Watch is working to create a healthy future for all people and generations to come - a world where everyone has food they can trust, clean drinking water and a livable climate. Making this happen requires involving people in the pressing issues of our time at the local, state, and federal level, building on one win after another, as we develop a larger movement that has the political power to make our democratic process work.

The Iowa City intern will report to the Rural Organizing Director and will work with other staff on the organizing, policy, digital and communications teams to support Food & Water Watch’s work. The intern will assist in volunteer activities, petitioning and table to help grow our list, and engage in overall campaign activities. The intern will primarily work on campaigns to address factory farms and drinking water issues in Iowa. The intern may also help educate or register voters on behalf of Food & Water Action. This is a 9 week, 29-hr per week internship, working from June 8th to August 7th.

Requirements

• Organizing or advocacy experience, either paid or volunteer. This could include campus organizing, volunteering with a political campaign, or an organizing or advocacy non-profit,
• Familiarity with Iowa politics and Iowa communities.
• Commitment to Food & Water Watch’s core values of justice, human dignity, fair treatment, and equity.
• Ability to work effectively with people of diverse racial, ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent time management & organizational skills and ability to balance multiple projects.
• Ability to work remotely using basic online programs, including email, Slack, and Google docs.

Responsibilities

• Recruit volunteers and allies. Build a strong base of volunteers and organizations in support of our local, state, and national campaigns.
• Develop campaign plans. Work with other staff to establish long and short term goals, strategies, and tactics to win our campaigns.
• Organize campaign tactics. Plan and execute strategic tactics to meet the needs of our campaigns, including educational events, base-building drives, and actions directed at elected officials.
• Build capacity. Develop the leadership of volunteers and grassroots organizations by offering training and organizing support.
• Represent Food & Water Watch. Attend and speak at public events on behalf of Food & Water Watch.
• Build Food & Water Watch for the long haul. Participate in member recruitment and fundraising activities for Food & Water Watch.
• Regularly report on work to your supervisor.
• Carry out other projects as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees