Stop Data Centers Organizing Fellow

Stop Data Centers Organizing Fellow

Food & Water Watch is looking for fall organizing fellows to join our team and help organize to stop data centers in the Central Valley. The fall organizing fellow will work closely with our on-the-ground organizers, volunteers, community partners, and other staff at Food & Water Watch. This position must be based in the Central Valley (Fresno, Kern, Kings, and/or Tulare counties).

About Food & Water Watch

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.

About the position

The Stop Data Centers Organizing Fellow will report to the Central California Organizing Manager and will work with other staff on the organizing, policy, digital and communications teams to support Food & Water Watch’s work. The fellows will conduct outreach through phonebanking and door-to-door canvassing, focusing on communities experience water scarcity. This position will run through November 3. Hours are flexible; fellows will work no more than 39 hours per week.

Salary: $25/hourly

Location: Fresno, Kern, Kings, and/or Tulare counties

Responsibilities

• Conduct outreach. Our goal is to find Central Valley residents who care about our issues and mobilize them to take action. We will primarily focus on door-to-door canvassing in communities, experiencing water quality issues or water scarcity, such as Porterville and Tulare. On days when the weather doesn’t allow for canvassing, we will phonebank instead.
• Collect stories. When we find residents with particularly compelling stories, we m