• Location: Remote in the US
• Target Start Date: July 9, 2024
• End Date: November 15, 2024
• Level: Entry
• Supervisory role: No
• Classification: Non-exempt; full-time; temporary

Salary Range:

• Most regions in the United States: $22.50 per hour
• California-specific: $22.50- $25.00 per hour
• NYC-specific: $25.00 per hour

Offers will vary based on experience and location-based cost-of-living calculations.

About our organization:

Democracy Works is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that collaborates with election officials, leading tech platforms, and world-class partners to drive voter access and participation. We help Americans vote by providing reliable, useful voting guidance through the sites, apps and groups they trust. This includes TurboVote, Democracy Works Election Data, the Voting Information Project (VIP), and Ballot Scout. We also co-founded the Civic Alliance alongside the CAA Foundation. Democracy Works is committed to diversity and inclusion in everything we do and aspires to have a team that's representative of the voters we serve.

The impact you’ll make:

Our Data and Outreach team coordinates with state and local election offices to publish nationally-standardized information about where and how to vote—data that powers everything from Google’s polling place search to our text message and email reminders to TurboVote users. The Seasonal Data and Outreach Fellows will work with the Voting Information Project team for the 2024 election cycle, assisting with collecting, cleaning, and ensuring the accuracy of a nation’s worth of election data.

As a Data and Outreach Fellow, you will:

• Conduct online research, along with phone and email outreach to local election administrators, to get accurate, up-to-date information on elections
• Keep notes on your progress and regularly update project trackers
• Complete detailed data entry via custom forms and spreadsheets
• Perform quality assurance checks on the information to assure accuracy and completeness of the data
• Participate in team meetings, raise questions, and discuss nuances to ensure data is entered appropriately
• Investigate partner and user-reported errors
• Assist the team with other tasks, as they arise

You may also have the opportunity to:

• Work with Democracy Works technical staff to organize elections data submitted by state and local election office
• Assist in identifying and developing ways to improve project processes
• Monitor news for reports of late-breaking changes to polling places

You are:

• Extremely attentive to details
• Proficient at working with data
• Excellent at communicating, particularly by email and telephone
• Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format
• Knowledgeable on a basic level of American politics, elections, and/or election administration
• Skilled at managing competing priorities
• Happy to pitch in wherever help is needed

You have experience:

• Conducting concise, clear phone and email outreach with a specific ask
• Communicating across different areas of expertise and working in teams
• Working on tight deadlines and quickly turning around deliverables
• Working with Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Airtable, or other data management software
• Working remotely as part of a distributed team

How we work

Because elections take place everywhere, our employees work from all across the country. We embrace working remotely as the default. Our positions require regular, daily use of a computer (including the use of G-Suite and Slack) to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. We also have regular operating hours (10 am to 6 pm Eastern, Monday to Friday).

For those who prefer to work from an office, we are headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. We are happy to share more details about the office, including accessibility information, as on-site visits are planned.

To Apply

Please attach your resume and answers to the following questions:

• How did you find this job listing?
• Why are you interested in this role and working at Democracy Works?
• Briefly describe your experience handling data entry.
• Briefly describe your level of comfort working with Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets/Airtable
• This role will involve making unplanned phone calls to government officials. Is this something you’d be comfortable doing?
• Will you be available to work full-time from July through November 15, 2024?
• Are you authorized to work lawfully in the United States for Democracy Works?

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) in Hiring

Democracy Works is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race, religion, color, disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), age, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics.

As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) demographic information. Please note the categories used in this survey are set by the EEOC and may not reflect all existing categories.The data collected in this form is anonymized and is used in our EEOC reporting and in ongoing assessment of our recruitment practices.

Democracy Works follows the I-9 requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position, and you must possess your own work authorization in the U.S. now and in the future to continue working in this position.

Please reach out to hr@democracy.works if you have any questions about our process or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process.