Community Organizing Summer Intern (Berea Office)

Berea Office of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) Summer 2024 Intern

The role of the Berea Office of KFTC Summer Intern will be to work with the Madison County and Wilderness Trace Chapter Organizer to implement grassroots fundraising, membership recruitment and renewal, help plan and host community events and outreach, assist in data entry, and conduct deep canvassing within Madison County. They may also work occasionally with the Development Director on Membership and Fundraising or with the Canary Project Organizer that deals more directly with coal mining, water quality, pipeline use, and other extractive mining practices such as fracking and sand mining.

Introduction to KFTC

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a community of people taking action for justice. We work with people to organize in their home communities and across the state. We help everyday community members become extraordinary community leaders. We support community leaders as they build effective organizations. Together, we win important issue campaigns.

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is an organization whose structure, priorities, and approach to change are based upon a handful of core beliefs and values. We believe that social, economic, and political justice is possible and can be won in this country through non-violent means. We believe that many different yet complementary methods must be employed to achieve this change and that the most critical is the active and informed participation by average citizens in public decision-making, especially those people impacted and oppressed by powerful institutions and circumstances. We believe that individuals are important, but lasting change is created by stable, ambitious, and courageous organizations. We believe that credible organizations must win tangible victories that impact the daily lives of the communities and people they serve. We believe that only by overcoming discrimination through education and practice can we realize broad social change and that we can create change by learning, teaching, modeling, and finally demanding real democracy in form and spirit.

The Position:

Berea Office of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) Summer 2024 Intern

Role Description:

General

●     Work with the local Chapter Organizer to conduct deep canvassing within local communities and to collect/report data from those canvasses. Will also assist local Chapter Organizer with fundraising, membership drives, local information/education meetings, voter empowerment, and general data entry.

●     Work with the Development Director as needed to support our organizational fundraising and membership campaigns. 

●     Work with the Canary Project Organizer as needed to support his organizing across the state on issues involving natural resources and extractive process related to those resources. 

●     May occasionally be asked to support KFTC at the organizational level for statewide campaigns and initiatives. 

Preferred Qualifications and Experiences:

●     Experience working with databases

●     Basic computer and social media proficiency

●     Demonstrated commitment to the mission and values of KFTC

●     Demonstrated ability to deal with multiple goals and responsibilities, and to prioritize work effectively.

●     Demonstrated problem-solving abilities and abilities to think and work strategically

●     Evidence of a commitment to diversity and an understanding of how to work effectively in and with diverse communities, especially low-income communities and communities of color

●     Ability and willingness to accommodate a work schedule that will include evening and weekend commitments

●     Expressed or demonstrated comfortability communicating with strangers, in person, about complex issues. 

●     Ability to walk for several hours a day

Personal Attributes:

●     Self-directed, confident, capable

●     Empathetic and compassionate

●     Excellent communicator

●     Organized, strategic

●     Committed to high standards of quality

●     Able to cope with changing and uncertain circumstances

●     Able to build trusting, productive work relationships

●     Collaborative, patient, creative

KFTC Community Organizer for

Madison County and Wilderness Trace Chapters

859-358-9713

By mail: 

KFTC 

c/o Sasha Zaring

210 N. Broadway St., Suite 3

Berea, KY 40403

Or by email to Sasha@kftc.org

KFTC is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.