The Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition’s (CSPC) mission is to build power and support a movement
in marginalized communities of families and childcare providers to change
systems, build leaders, and train families and providers to be the strongest
and best advocates for their children to succeed in school and beyond. CSPC is
searching for a temporary full time bilingual campaign organizer to support the
grassroots organizing efforts for the Protect Colorado’s Future Graduated
Income Tax ballot campaign.
This position is a temporary full-time exempt position. CSPC values our employees
and believes that a healthy balance of work and life is essential for a
successful employee. Therefore, this position will be evaluated on outcomes and
goals. If you are a self-driven and energetic individual with enormous amounts
of integrity, interested in working in one of Colorado’s leading education
organizations, then keep reading!
Key responsibilities:
Goals:
- 1. secure enough valid signatures to place initiative 195 on the ballot for November 2026.
- 2. Should 195 be certified the goal shifts to passing the ballot measure.
Objectives:
– Recruit, train, and support the management of
volunteers statewide for petition collection and validation
– Collect signatures at events, canvassing door to
door, campaign events.
– Attend the Grassroots Protect Colorado’s Future
(PCF) committee meetings
– Plan and execute events to recruit volunteers and
collect signatures across the state
– Work in coalition with the other grassroots
organizations in the PCF coalition to maximize effectiveness
– Once the ballot is certified for the ballot, must
have an ability to shift into campaign mode to educate voters to support the
graduated income tax.
Qualifications:
- – Bilingual English/Spanish
- – Experience working on ballot measure campaign
- – Must be available nights and weekends
- – Reliable transportation to travel the state
- – Experience in collecting signatures for a ballot or
candidate - – Skilled in using VAN, cutting turf, and identifying
key locations to canvass for signatures - – Detailed oriented
Ideal Characteristics
We value candidates whose skills and lived experience
have prepared them to understand and uphold our core values of collaboration,
creativity, humility, and accessibility. The ideal candidate is also:
·Curious and eager to learn
·Excited to collaborate with various CSPC team members,
across departments and across experience levels
·Proactive, able to spot problems early, and willing to
tackle a wide variety of projects
·Flexible and comfortable in a rapidly changing
environment
·Friendly, welcoming, patient, and service-oriented
·Passion for or expertise in an area related to our work
(e.g., early childhood, economic justice, food security, housing justice, and
all intersections of education justice etc.)
Values
CSPC believes strongly
in building a workplace that provides everyone the opportunity to reach their
full potential and thrive as both workers and people.
To help achieve that goal, the CSPC seeks to build a culture where:
· our team members have a sense of belonging by feeling physically, emotionally and psychologically safe and respected;
· the inherent dignity of each person is upheld and celebrated; and
· our policies are rooted in justice by being restorative in nature and practice, and centered in community; and
· where everyone can practice bravery in the face of fear, experiment, take risks, and learn from mistakes
Belonging, dignity, justice, and bravery also means centering
the voices and experiences of marginalized people and we encourage all
qualified candidates to apply, including: women; Black, Indigenous, and people
of color; immigrants and refugees; folks who are trans or nonbinary; people who
are queer, lesbian, gay, or bisexual; Autistic and neurodivergent people; folks
with visible or invisible disabilities; anyone from another historically
marginalized group or anyone at the intersection of these groups.
Location
This position is based
in Colorado. All employees must live in Colorado. All employees work remotely
and their home residence is considered their official place of employment.
Compensation
This is a full-time, exempt position with a salary range
of $60,000/year. This position ends on November 6th, 2026, unless
the ballot measure does not secure enough signatures, this position will
terminate in August of 2026.