Democracy Works is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the status quo. We’re building the tools needed to upgrade the infrastructure of our democracy and improve the voting experience for voters and election officials alike.
Democracy Works's main office is in the bustling Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of DUMBO—with stunning views and great neighbors. But with a remote-friendly approach, we work all over the US of A. We aim to find the best potential employees who share our organizational values, so in addition to adapting our application process, we are also remote work-friendly. This allows us to find and employ the best possible candidates and guarantees we don’t miss out on someone great simply because of location. To make sure our remote staff doesn’t feel isolated, we foster a culture that promotes inclusivity and is sensitive to the realities of working beyond Brooklyn.
<p id="docs-internal-guid-35b7458d-7fff-3831-f04f-1456142d1ac8" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Target Start/End Dates:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> August 11th, 2020 to November 10th, 2020 (this is a 13-week temporary position) </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schedule</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Full time; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EST, Monday through Friday</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Salary Range:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> $13,000 for 13 week fellowship (paid in semi-monthly installments) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Level:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Entry</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"> </p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizational overview: </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the voting process and ensures that no voter ever has to miss an election.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.democracy.works/turbovote"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TurboVote</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, and companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://turbo.vote"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dozens more</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We also help (basically) everyone find their polling place through the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://democracy.works/vip/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting Information Project</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://gettothepolls.com"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GetToThePolls.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://democracy.works/ballot-scout/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ballot Scout</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process, and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.nased.org"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Association of State Election Directors</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (NASED).</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Research team collects and standardizes information on how voting works—how to register, how to vote, and when and where elections are happening. Streamlining democracy in this way requires quite a bit of knowledge: what form you use to register to vote in Wyoming, to whom you mail your absentee ballot application in Maine, and whether there’s an election taking place in Oklahoma RIGHT NOW (there probably is!). This information is used by various consumers, both internal and external. The Voting Information Project (VIP) coordinates with state 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 and email reminders to TurboVote users. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a part of the team, you will work with the Data Project Manager and Director of Election Research to conduct research outreach for the Voting Information Project, contacting thousands of state and local election officials. Specifically:</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conduct phone and email outreach to local election administrators to get accurate, up-to-date information on elections</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compile the election information into a detailed spreadsheet</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perform quality assurance checks on the information to assure accuracy and completeness of the data</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research user-reported errors</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assist the election research team with other tasks, as they arise </span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extremely attentive to details</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Excellent at communicating, particularly by telephone</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skilled at managing multiple priorities</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowledgeable on a basic level of American politics, elections, and/or election administration, or interested in learning</span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have experience:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conducting concise, clear phone and email outreach with a specific ask</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicating across different areas of expertise and working in teams</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working on tight deadlines and quickly turning around deliverables</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working with spreadsheets (such as Google Sheets or Excel) </span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Physical demands:</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. For those working out of our Brooklyn office (upon its reopening, TBD), the F train stops closest to our office, but exiting the station requires the use of four flights of stairs. Our office has an elevator available at street level. Streets and buildings nearby are currently under construction, which can disrupt sidewalks and results in varying levels of construction noise audible from the office. Our offices share a set of gendered bathrooms with other offices on our floor, and there are no gender neutral bathrooms in the building at this time. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social expectations:</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this role, you will be required to have significant daily interaction via Slack, email, phone, and video call with colleagues and with many external stakeholders. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time and travel expectations:</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time. There are no travel expectations for this position. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Application Instructions</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To apply, please send a resume and respond to the following questions (instead of a cover letter) using the form below.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In your responses, please include only the following information:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How did you find this job listing?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works? </span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would you be available to start by August 11, 2020?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization?</span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feel free to contact </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #283593; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work@democracy.works</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.democracy.works/careers"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #283593; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">democracy.works/careers</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p>
Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US
Target Start/End Dates: August 11th, 2020 to November 10th, 2020 (this is a 13-week temporary position)
Schedule: Full time; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EST, Monday through Friday
Salary Range: $13,000 for 13 week fellowship (paid in semi-monthly installments)
Level: Entry
Organizational overview:
At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the voting process and ensures that no voter ever has to miss an election.
TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, and companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also help (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process, and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
The Research team collects and standardizes information on how voting works—how to register, how to vote, and when and where elections are happening. Streamlining democracy in this way requires quite a bit of knowledge: what form you use to register to vote in Wyoming, to whom you mail your absentee ballot application in Maine, and whether there’s an election taking place in Oklahoma RIGHT NOW (there probably is!). This information is used by various consumers, both internal and external. The Voting Information Project (VIP) coordinates with state 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 and email reminders to TurboVote users.
As a part of the team, you will work with the Data Project Manager and Director of Election Research to conduct research outreach for the Voting Information Project, contacting thousands of state and local election officials. Specifically:
You will:
Conduct phone and email outreach to local election administrators to get accurate, up-to-date information on elections
Compile the election information into a detailed spreadsheet
Perform quality assurance checks on the information to assure accuracy and completeness of the data
Research user-reported errors
Assist the election research team with other tasks, as they arise
You are:
Extremely attentive to details
Excellent at communicating, particularly by telephone
Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format
Skilled at managing multiple priorities
Knowledgeable on a basic level of American politics, elections, and/or election administration, or interested in learning
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 spreadsheets (such as Google Sheets or Excel)
Physical demands:
This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. For those working out of our Brooklyn office (upon its reopening, TBD), the F train stops closest to our office, but exiting the station requires the use of four flights of stairs. Our office has an elevator available at street level. Streets and buildings nearby are currently under construction, which can disrupt sidewalks and results in varying levels of construction noise audible from the office. Our offices share a set of gendered bathrooms with other offices on our floor, and there are no gender neutral bathrooms in the building at this time.
Social expectations:
In this role, you will be required to have significant daily interaction via Slack, email, phone, and video call with colleagues and with many external stakeholders.
Time and travel expectations:
Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time. There are no travel expectations for this position.
Application Instructions
To apply, please send a resume and respond to the following questions (instead of a cover letter) using the form below.
In your responses, please include only the following information:
How did you find this job listing?
In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works?
In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role?
Would you be available to start by August 11, 2020?
Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization?
As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works.
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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service.
Feel free to contact work@democracy.works if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at democracy.works/careers.
<p id="docs-internal-guid-3818fb0c-7fff-a1bb-715e-8fd2267b4565" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brooklyn, NY (upon office reopening) or remote within the US</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fellowship dates: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 21, 2020 - November 6, 2020</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stipend:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> $22,400 for 16 week fellowship (paid in semi-monthly installments) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Level:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Junior</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizational overview</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.democracy.works/turbovote"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TurboVote</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://turbo.vote"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dozens more</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://democracy.works/vip/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting Information Project</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://gettothepolls.com"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GetToThePolls.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://democracy.works/ballot-scout/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ballot Scout</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.nased.org"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Association of State Election Directors</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (NASED).</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://votinginfoproject.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Voting Information Project (VIP)</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> coordinates with state 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 and email reminders to TurboVote users. VIP’s dataset has served millions (and hundreds of millions) of voters since 2008. </span></p> <p> </p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will:</span></h3> </li> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Work with Democracy Works technical staff to write, run, and debug Python scripts to parse data</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assist with standardizing & sanitizing datasets</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perform quality assurance checks on the information to ensure accuracy and completeness of the data</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research and respond to user-reported errors</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write and update technical documentation so that other members of the team can recreate processes</span></p> </li> </ul> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are:</span></h3> </li> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extremely attentive to details</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comfortable writing scripts and wrangling data</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skilled at managing competing priorities</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy to pitch in wherever help is needed</span></p> </li> </ul> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have experience:</span></h3> </li> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creating, modifying, and running scripts in Python, R, SQL, SAS, or a similar language</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicating across different areas of expertise and working in teams</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working on tight deadlines and quickly turning around deliverables</span></p> </li> </ul> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Physical demands</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This po</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sition requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. Our Brooklyn office is currently closed, and all staff members are working remotely from their homes. For those working out of our Brooklyn office upon its reopening, the F train stops closest to our office, but exiting the station requires the use of four flights of stairs. Our office has an elevator available at street level. Streets and buildings nearby are currently under construction, which can disrupt sidewalks and results in varying levels of construction noise audible from the office. Our offices share a set of gendered bathrooms with other offices on our floor, and there are no gender neutral bathrooms in the building at this time. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social expectations</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This position requires regular check-ins with colleagues and occasional external-facing meetings.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time and travel expectations</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time. No travel is expected for this role. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Application Instructions</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To apply, please send a resume and respond to the following questions (instead of a cover letter) using the form below.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In your responses, please include only the following information:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How did you find this job listing?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works? </span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would you be available to start by July 28?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you have any planned travel or absences between July 28 and November 3?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you have experience working with Python, SQL, R, SAS, or a similar scripting language?</span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feel free to contact </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #283593; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work@democracy.works</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.democracy.works/careers"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #283593; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">democracy.works/careers</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <br /></span></p>
Location: Brooklyn, NY (upon office reopening) or remote within the US
Fellowship dates: July 21, 2020 - November 6, 2020
Stipend: $22,400 for 16 week fellowship (paid in semi-monthly installments)
Level: Junior
Organizational overview
At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election.
TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
The Voting Information Project (VIP) coordinates with state 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 and email reminders to TurboVote users. VIP’s dataset has served millions (and hundreds of millions) of voters since 2008.
Work with Democracy Works technical staff to write, run, and debug Python scripts to parse data
Assist with standardizing & sanitizing datasets
Perform quality assurance checks on the information to ensure accuracy and completeness of the data
Research and respond to user-reported errors
Write and update technical documentation so that other members of the team can recreate processes
Extremely attentive to details
Comfortable writing scripts and wrangling data
Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format
Skilled at managing competing priorities
Happy to pitch in wherever help is needed
Creating, modifying, and running scripts in Python, R, SQL, SAS, or a similar language
Communicating across different areas of expertise and working in teams
Working on tight deadlines and quickly turning around deliverables
Physical demands
This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. Our Brooklyn office is currently closed, and all staff members are working remotely from their homes. For those working out of our Brooklyn office upon its reopening, the F train stops closest to our office, but exiting the station requires the use of four flights of stairs. Our office has an elevator available at street level. Streets and buildings nearby are currently under construction, which can disrupt sidewalks and results in varying levels of construction noise audible from the office. Our offices share a set of gendered bathrooms with other offices on our floor, and there are no gender neutral bathrooms in the building at this time.
Social expectations
This position requires regular check-ins with colleagues and occasional external-facing meetings.
Time and travel expectations
Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time. No travel is expected for this role.
Application Instructions
To apply, please send a resume and respond to the following questions (instead of a cover letter) using the form below.
In your responses, please include only the following information:
How did you find this job listing?
In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works?
In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role?
Would you be available to start by July 28?
Do you have any planned travel or absences between July 28 and November 3?
Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization?
Do you have experience working with Python, SQL, R, SAS, or a similar scripting language?
As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works.
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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service.
Feel free to contact work@democracy.works if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at democracy.works/careers.
Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US Target Start Date: April 27th Salary Range: $105,000 - $125,000 (Offers will vary based on experience and location-based cost-of-living calculations) Benefits: Vision, dental, & medical insurance; 403(b) retirement savings plan; generous vacation policy; parental leave; long-term disability; employee assistance program Level: Mid to Senior Organizational overview At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election. TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. TurboVote signed up its six millionth voter in 2018 by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED). The Voter Engagement team works on TurboVote and the Democracy Works API. You'll join seven software developers and an engineering manager to collaborate with the product and partnership teams in building software that helps voters and future voters. The technology that underpins this work is mostly microservices written in Clojure running in Docker containers on Kubernetes hosted on AWS. These services communicate over RabbitMQ and store their data in Datomic. The web front-ends are written in ClojureScript backed by React. We pair program, collaborate with product managers, and make sure our efforts deliver value to voters and election administrators. We support junior team members by explicitly setting aside time for learning and providing training from a more senior developer. We collaborate across teams architecture and operations so that expertise and knowledge don’t stay siloed. You will be our first QA-specific hire, meaning that we are looking for someone who can help us build our approach to QA from the ground up with an eye toward providing guidance to our engineers in their work and potentially building out additional QA capacity over time. As a part of the team: You will: Stand up end-to-end testing on our large/complex microservices setup Structure our approach to QA from the ground up and potentially build a team of QA engineers over time Write automated testing for our user-facings tools Integrate into our dev process to confirm the quality of the code our developers are producing Do some amount of manual testing as needed Regularly collaborate with other members of the voter engagement team You are: Detail-oriented and thorough in your work Excited to learn about the voter engagement process and fixing our voting infrastructure You have experience: Working independently to build QA systems from scratch Working as a software developer for at least 3 years with the majority of that time doing QA work Physical demands This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. Social expectations You will have regular 1:1s with the Voter Engagement Engineering Manager and regular meetings with the Voter Engagement dev/product team. Time and travel expectations Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern time. Two times per year, all full-time staff members participate in a five day retreat in our Brooklyn offices. All staff is held each year in May and November. Application Instructions To apply, upload a resume and respond to the following questions (in lieu of a cover letter) using the form below. In your responses, please include only the following information: How did you find this job listing? In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works? In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role? Would you be available to start by April 27th, 2020? Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization? Do you have at least three years of experience as a software developer, most or all of which has been doing QA work? As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works. 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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service. Feel free to contact work@democracy.works if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at democracy.works/careers.
Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US
Target Start Date: April 27th
Salary Range: $105,000 - $125,000 (Offers will vary based on experience and location-based cost-of-living calculations)
Benefits: Vision, dental, & medical insurance; 403(b) retirement savings plan; generous vacation policy; parental leave; long-term disability; employee assistance program
Level: Mid to Senior
Organizational overview
At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election.
TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. TurboVote signed up its six millionth voter in 2018 by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
The Voter Engagement team works on TurboVote and the Democracy Works API. You'll join seven software developers and an engineering manager to collaborate with the product and partnership teams in building software that helps voters and future voters. The technology that underpins this work is mostly microservices written in Clojure running in Docker containers on Kubernetes hosted on AWS. These services communicate over RabbitMQ and store their data in Datomic. The web front-ends are written in ClojureScript backed by React.
We pair program, collaborate with product managers, and make sure our efforts deliver value to voters and election administrators. We support junior team members by explicitly setting aside time for learning and providing training from a more senior developer. We collaborate across teams architecture and operations so that expertise and knowledge don’t stay siloed. You will be our first QA-specific hire, meaning that we are looking for someone who can help us build our approach to QA from the ground up with an eye toward providing guidance to our engineers in their work and potentially building out additional QA capacity over time.
As a part of the team:
You will:
You are:
You have experience:
Physical demands
This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues.
Social expectations
You will have regular 1:1s with the Voter Engagement Engineering Manager and regular meetings with the Voter Engagement dev/product team.
Time and travel expectations
Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern time. Two times per year, all full-time staff members participate in a five day retreat in our Brooklyn offices. All staff is held each year in May and November.
Application Instructions
To apply, upload a resume and respond to the following questions (in lieu of a cover letter) using the form below.
In your responses, please include only the following information:
As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works.
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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service.
Feel free to contact work@democracy.works if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at democracy.works/careers.
Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US Target Start Date: March 31, 2020 Salary Range: Junior to mid: $90K - $110K annually (depending on location and experience) Mid to senior: $110K-$130K annually (depending on location and experience) Benefits: Vision, dental, & medical insurance; 403(b) retirement savings plan; generous vacation policy; long-term disability; employee assistance program Level: Multiple levels, junior through senior At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process, and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election. TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED). We are currently looking for developers for all our projects, at a variety of levels. Experience with the technologies listed below is helpful, but not necessary; we hope you'll bring excitement to learn what you haven't seen yet. We support junior team members by explicitly setting aside time for learning, and providing training from a more experienced developer. In addition to full-time hires, we’re also looking for two senior, temporary hires for the Voter Engagement team to work with us until the end of 2020 as we prepare for the November general election. Candidates joining our Voter Engagement team will work on TurboVote and the Democracy Works API. You'll join eight other software developers and an engineering manager to collaborate with the product and partnership teams in building software that helps voters and future voters. The technology that underpins this work is mostly microservices written in Clojure running in Docker containers on Kubernetes hosted on AWS. These services communicate over RabbitMQ and store their data in Datomic. The web front-ends are written in ClojureScript backed by React. Candidates joining the Election Administration team will be working on either the Voting Information Project (VIP), or Ballot Scout. For VIP, you'll join two other software developers to collaborate with the product and data collection teams in building software that helps collect, validate, QA, and publish data about elections, which in turn service millions of queries in major election years. For Ballot Scout, you’ll join a team of two that enables seamless tracking of ballots through the United States Postal Service and allows both voters and election administration officials to monitor progress of the ballots to and from election offices. The technologies that underlay these systems are written in Clojure, Clojurescript, Javascript, Python, and Go, with an emphasis in moving active development towards Clojure and Clojurescript. Infrastructure is hosted on AWS, and developers are beginning the process of migrating to a Kubernetes based deployment. You will: - Write code - Participate in processes to build our products - Report progress and roadblocks to the team - Help others - Work on professional development - Take the lead when a leader is needed - Communicate in documentation, PRs/tickets/stories, PR review, standups, and with non-technical stakeholders - Make compromises You are: - Detail-oriented and thorough in your work - Excited to learn about the voter engagement process and fixing our voting infrastructure - Empathetic - Curious You have experience - Writing and shipping code - Working within a team of developers - Making tradeoffs in your work Physical demands: this position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. Social expectations; you will have regular 1:1s with an Engineering Manager and regular meetings with the developers and product managers you work with. Time and travel expectations; Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern time. In May and November, all full-time staff members participate in a five day retreat in our Brooklyn offices. To apply, please complete the application form in the included link.
<p id="docs-internal-guid-35b7458d-7fff-3831-f04f-1456142d1ac8" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Target Start/End Dates:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> August 11th, 2020 to November 10th, 2020 (this is a 13-week temporary position) </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schedule</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Full time; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EST, Monday through Friday</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Salary Range:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> $13,000 for 13 week fellowship (paid in semi-monthly installments) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Level:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Entry</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"> </p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizational overview: </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the voting process and ensures that no voter ever has to miss an election.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.democracy.works/turbovote"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TurboVote</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, and companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://turbo.vote"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dozens more</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We also help (basically) everyone find their polling place through the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://democracy.works/vip/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting Information Project</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://gettothepolls.com"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GetToThePolls.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://democracy.works/ballot-scout/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ballot Scout</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process, and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.nased.org"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Association of State Election Directors</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (NASED).</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Research team collects and standardizes information on how voting works—how to register, how to vote, and when and where elections are happening. Streamlining democracy in this way requires quite a bit of knowledge: what form you use to register to vote in Wyoming, to whom you mail your absentee ballot application in Maine, and whether there’s an election taking place in Oklahoma RIGHT NOW (there probably is!). This information is used by various consumers, both internal and external. The Voting Information Project (VIP) coordinates with state 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 and email reminders to TurboVote users. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a part of the team, you will work with the Data Project Manager and Director of Election Research to conduct research outreach for the Voting Information Project, contacting thousands of state and local election officials. Specifically:</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conduct phone and email outreach to local election administrators to get accurate, up-to-date information on elections</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compile the election information into a detailed spreadsheet</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perform quality assurance checks on the information to assure accuracy and completeness of the data</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research user-reported errors</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assist the election research team with other tasks, as they arise </span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extremely attentive to details</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Excellent at communicating, particularly by telephone</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skilled at managing multiple priorities</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowledgeable on a basic level of American politics, elections, and/or election administration, or interested in learning</span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have experience:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conducting concise, clear phone and email outreach with a specific ask</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicating across different areas of expertise and working in teams</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working on tight deadlines and quickly turning around deliverables</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working with spreadsheets (such as Google Sheets or Excel) </span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Physical demands:</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. For those working out of our Brooklyn office (upon its reopening, TBD), the F train stops closest to our office, but exiting the station requires the use of four flights of stairs. Our office has an elevator available at street level. Streets and buildings nearby are currently under construction, which can disrupt sidewalks and results in varying levels of construction noise audible from the office. Our offices share a set of gendered bathrooms with other offices on our floor, and there are no gender neutral bathrooms in the building at this time. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social expectations:</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this role, you will be required to have significant daily interaction via Slack, email, phone, and video call with colleagues and with many external stakeholders. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time and travel expectations:</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time. There are no travel expectations for this position. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Application Instructions</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To apply, please send a resume and respond to the following questions (instead of a cover letter) using the form below.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In your responses, please include only the following information:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How did you find this job listing?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works? </span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would you be available to start by August 11, 2020?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization?</span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feel free to contact </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #283593; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work@democracy.works</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.democracy.works/careers"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #283593; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">democracy.works/careers</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p>
Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US
Target Start/End Dates: August 11th, 2020 to November 10th, 2020 (this is a 13-week temporary position)
Schedule: Full time; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EST, Monday through Friday
Salary Range: $13,000 for 13 week fellowship (paid in semi-monthly installments)
Level: Entry
Organizational overview:
At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the voting process and ensures that no voter ever has to miss an election.
TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, and companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also help (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process, and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
The Research team collects and standardizes information on how voting works—how to register, how to vote, and when and where elections are happening. Streamlining democracy in this way requires quite a bit of knowledge: what form you use to register to vote in Wyoming, to whom you mail your absentee ballot application in Maine, and whether there’s an election taking place in Oklahoma RIGHT NOW (there probably is!). This information is used by various consumers, both internal and external. The Voting Information Project (VIP) coordinates with state 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 and email reminders to TurboVote users.
As a part of the team, you will work with the Data Project Manager and Director of Election Research to conduct research outreach for the Voting Information Project, contacting thousands of state and local election officials. Specifically:
You will:
Conduct phone and email outreach to local election administrators to get accurate, up-to-date information on elections
Compile the election information into a detailed spreadsheet
Perform quality assurance checks on the information to assure accuracy and completeness of the data
Research user-reported errors
Assist the election research team with other tasks, as they arise
You are:
Extremely attentive to details
Excellent at communicating, particularly by telephone
Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format
Skilled at managing multiple priorities
Knowledgeable on a basic level of American politics, elections, and/or election administration, or interested in learning
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 spreadsheets (such as Google Sheets or Excel)
Physical demands:
This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. For those working out of our Brooklyn office (upon its reopening, TBD), the F train stops closest to our office, but exiting the station requires the use of four flights of stairs. Our office has an elevator available at street level. Streets and buildings nearby are currently under construction, which can disrupt sidewalks and results in varying levels of construction noise audible from the office. Our offices share a set of gendered bathrooms with other offices on our floor, and there are no gender neutral bathrooms in the building at this time.
Social expectations:
In this role, you will be required to have significant daily interaction via Slack, email, phone, and video call with colleagues and with many external stakeholders.
Time and travel expectations:
Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time. There are no travel expectations for this position.
Application Instructions
To apply, please send a resume and respond to the following questions (instead of a cover letter) using the form below.
In your responses, please include only the following information:
How did you find this job listing?
In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works?
In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role?
Would you be available to start by August 11, 2020?
Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization?
As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works.
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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service.
Feel free to contact work@democracy.works if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at democracy.works/careers.
<p id="docs-internal-guid-3818fb0c-7fff-a1bb-715e-8fd2267b4565" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brooklyn, NY (upon office reopening) or remote within the US</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fellowship dates: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 21, 2020 - November 6, 2020</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stipend:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> $22,400 for 16 week fellowship (paid in semi-monthly installments) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Level:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Junior</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizational overview</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.democracy.works/turbovote"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TurboVote</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://turbo.vote"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dozens more</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://democracy.works/vip/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting Information Project</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://gettothepolls.com"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GetToThePolls.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://democracy.works/ballot-scout/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ballot Scout</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.nased.org"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Association of State Election Directors</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (NASED).</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://votinginfoproject.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Voting Information Project (VIP)</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> coordinates with state 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 and email reminders to TurboVote users. VIP’s dataset has served millions (and hundreds of millions) of voters since 2008. </span></p> <p> </p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will:</span></h3> </li> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Work with Democracy Works technical staff to write, run, and debug Python scripts to parse data</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assist with standardizing & sanitizing datasets</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perform quality assurance checks on the information to ensure accuracy and completeness of the data</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research and respond to user-reported errors</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write and update technical documentation so that other members of the team can recreate processes</span></p> </li> </ul> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are:</span></h3> </li> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extremely attentive to details</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comfortable writing scripts and wrangling data</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skilled at managing competing priorities</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy to pitch in wherever help is needed</span></p> </li> </ul> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have experience:</span></h3> </li> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creating, modifying, and running scripts in Python, R, SQL, SAS, or a similar language</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicating across different areas of expertise and working in teams</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working on tight deadlines and quickly turning around deliverables</span></p> </li> </ul> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Physical demands</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This po</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sition requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. Our Brooklyn office is currently closed, and all staff members are working remotely from their homes. For those working out of our Brooklyn office upon its reopening, the F train stops closest to our office, but exiting the station requires the use of four flights of stairs. Our office has an elevator available at street level. Streets and buildings nearby are currently under construction, which can disrupt sidewalks and results in varying levels of construction noise audible from the office. Our offices share a set of gendered bathrooms with other offices on our floor, and there are no gender neutral bathrooms in the building at this time. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social expectations</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This position requires regular check-ins with colleagues and occasional external-facing meetings.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time and travel expectations</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time. No travel is expected for this role. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Application Instructions</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To apply, please send a resume and respond to the following questions (instead of a cover letter) using the form below.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In your responses, please include only the following information:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How did you find this job listing?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works? </span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would you be available to start by July 28?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you have any planned travel or absences between July 28 and November 3?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization?</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 36pt;"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you have experience working with Python, SQL, R, SAS, or a similar scripting language?</span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feel free to contact </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #283593; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work@democracy.works</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.democracy.works/careers"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #283593; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">democracy.works/careers</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #2b416c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <br /></span></p>
Location: Brooklyn, NY (upon office reopening) or remote within the US
Fellowship dates: July 21, 2020 - November 6, 2020
Stipend: $22,400 for 16 week fellowship (paid in semi-monthly installments)
Level: Junior
Organizational overview
At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election.
TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
The Voting Information Project (VIP) coordinates with state 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 and email reminders to TurboVote users. VIP’s dataset has served millions (and hundreds of millions) of voters since 2008.
Work with Democracy Works technical staff to write, run, and debug Python scripts to parse data
Assist with standardizing & sanitizing datasets
Perform quality assurance checks on the information to ensure accuracy and completeness of the data
Research and respond to user-reported errors
Write and update technical documentation so that other members of the team can recreate processes
Extremely attentive to details
Comfortable writing scripts and wrangling data
Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format
Skilled at managing competing priorities
Happy to pitch in wherever help is needed
Creating, modifying, and running scripts in Python, R, SQL, SAS, or a similar language
Communicating across different areas of expertise and working in teams
Working on tight deadlines and quickly turning around deliverables
Physical demands
This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. Our Brooklyn office is currently closed, and all staff members are working remotely from their homes. For those working out of our Brooklyn office upon its reopening, the F train stops closest to our office, but exiting the station requires the use of four flights of stairs. Our office has an elevator available at street level. Streets and buildings nearby are currently under construction, which can disrupt sidewalks and results in varying levels of construction noise audible from the office. Our offices share a set of gendered bathrooms with other offices on our floor, and there are no gender neutral bathrooms in the building at this time.
Social expectations
This position requires regular check-ins with colleagues and occasional external-facing meetings.
Time and travel expectations
Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time. No travel is expected for this role.
Application Instructions
To apply, please send a resume and respond to the following questions (instead of a cover letter) using the form below.
In your responses, please include only the following information:
How did you find this job listing?
In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works?
In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role?
Would you be available to start by July 28?
Do you have any planned travel or absences between July 28 and November 3?
Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization?
Do you have experience working with Python, SQL, R, SAS, or a similar scripting language?
As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works.
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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service.
Feel free to contact work@democracy.works if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at democracy.works/careers.
Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US Target Start Date: April 27th Salary Range: $105,000 - $125,000 (Offers will vary based on experience and location-based cost-of-living calculations) Benefits: Vision, dental, & medical insurance; 403(b) retirement savings plan; generous vacation policy; parental leave; long-term disability; employee assistance program Level: Mid to Senior Organizational overview At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election. TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. TurboVote signed up its six millionth voter in 2018 by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED). The Voter Engagement team works on TurboVote and the Democracy Works API. You'll join seven software developers and an engineering manager to collaborate with the product and partnership teams in building software that helps voters and future voters. The technology that underpins this work is mostly microservices written in Clojure running in Docker containers on Kubernetes hosted on AWS. These services communicate over RabbitMQ and store their data in Datomic. The web front-ends are written in ClojureScript backed by React. We pair program, collaborate with product managers, and make sure our efforts deliver value to voters and election administrators. We support junior team members by explicitly setting aside time for learning and providing training from a more senior developer. We collaborate across teams architecture and operations so that expertise and knowledge don’t stay siloed. You will be our first QA-specific hire, meaning that we are looking for someone who can help us build our approach to QA from the ground up with an eye toward providing guidance to our engineers in their work and potentially building out additional QA capacity over time. As a part of the team: You will: Stand up end-to-end testing on our large/complex microservices setup Structure our approach to QA from the ground up and potentially build a team of QA engineers over time Write automated testing for our user-facings tools Integrate into our dev process to confirm the quality of the code our developers are producing Do some amount of manual testing as needed Regularly collaborate with other members of the voter engagement team You are: Detail-oriented and thorough in your work Excited to learn about the voter engagement process and fixing our voting infrastructure You have experience: Working independently to build QA systems from scratch Working as a software developer for at least 3 years with the majority of that time doing QA work Physical demands This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. Social expectations You will have regular 1:1s with the Voter Engagement Engineering Manager and regular meetings with the Voter Engagement dev/product team. Time and travel expectations Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern time. Two times per year, all full-time staff members participate in a five day retreat in our Brooklyn offices. All staff is held each year in May and November. Application Instructions To apply, upload a resume and respond to the following questions (in lieu of a cover letter) using the form below. In your responses, please include only the following information: How did you find this job listing? In one sentence, what makes you interested in Democracy Works? In one sentence, what makes you interested in this role? Would you be available to start by April 27th, 2020? Are you willing to work at a non-partisan organization? Do you have at least three years of experience as a software developer, most or all of which has been doing QA work? As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works. 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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service. Feel free to contact work@democracy.works if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at democracy.works/careers.
Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US
Target Start Date: April 27th
Salary Range: $105,000 - $125,000 (Offers will vary based on experience and location-based cost-of-living calculations)
Benefits: Vision, dental, & medical insurance; 403(b) retirement savings plan; generous vacation policy; parental leave; long-term disability; employee assistance program
Level: Mid to Senior
Organizational overview
At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election.
TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. TurboVote signed up its six millionth voter in 2018 by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
The Voter Engagement team works on TurboVote and the Democracy Works API. You'll join seven software developers and an engineering manager to collaborate with the product and partnership teams in building software that helps voters and future voters. The technology that underpins this work is mostly microservices written in Clojure running in Docker containers on Kubernetes hosted on AWS. These services communicate over RabbitMQ and store their data in Datomic. The web front-ends are written in ClojureScript backed by React.
We pair program, collaborate with product managers, and make sure our efforts deliver value to voters and election administrators. We support junior team members by explicitly setting aside time for learning and providing training from a more senior developer. We collaborate across teams architecture and operations so that expertise and knowledge don’t stay siloed. You will be our first QA-specific hire, meaning that we are looking for someone who can help us build our approach to QA from the ground up with an eye toward providing guidance to our engineers in their work and potentially building out additional QA capacity over time.
As a part of the team:
You will:
You are:
You have experience:
Physical demands
This position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues.
Social expectations
You will have regular 1:1s with the Voter Engagement Engineering Manager and regular meetings with the Voter Engagement dev/product team.
Time and travel expectations
Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern time. Two times per year, all full-time staff members participate in a five day retreat in our Brooklyn offices. All staff is held each year in May and November.
Application Instructions
To apply, upload a resume and respond to the following questions (in lieu of a cover letter) using the form below.
In your responses, please include only the following information:
As part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect EEOC demographic information. The data collected in this form is useful in our EEOC reporting and in our assessment of our recruitment practices. However, please keep in mind that the standardized EEOC language used in this form does not reflect the values of Democracy Works--for example, we don’t view gender as binary. We also encourage all applicants to state their pronouns when applying for any job opening at Democracy Works.
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. When hiring, we practice proactive outreach to top talent that’s underrepresented in our sector. We conduct an anonymized skills evaluation, to reduce implicit bias and resume-dependency in our process. We're a woman- and gay-founded nonprofit, and promote an inclusive culture that stands against racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism (to name a few). To be explicit, we strongly encourage applicants of all races, ethnicities, political party associations, religions (or lack thereof), national origins, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, ages, abilities, and branches of military service.
Feel free to contact work@democracy.works if you have any questions about our commitment to inclusion or about general hiring practices, or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. Democracy Works posts all current career opportunities at democracy.works/careers.
Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US Target Start Date: March 31, 2020 Salary Range: Junior to mid: $90K - $110K annually (depending on location and experience) Mid to senior: $110K-$130K annually (depending on location and experience) Benefits: Vision, dental, & medical insurance; 403(b) retirement savings plan; generous vacation policy; long-term disability; employee assistance program Level: Multiple levels, junior through senior At Democracy Works, we believe voting should fit the way we live. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that simplifies the process, and ensures that no voter should ever have to miss an election. TurboVote, our first service, helps voters register, stay registered, and cast a ballot in every election, from municipal to national. We’ve signed up more than seven million voters for by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits like Headcount, the Sierra Club, Climate Strikes, and the Hispanic Federation, companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, Snap, and dozens more. We also helped (basically) everyone find their polling place through the Voting Information Project. Its data had 123 million impressions in 2016, and over 11 million voters looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry. And in 2018, we became the organizational home of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED). We are currently looking for developers for all our projects, at a variety of levels. Experience with the technologies listed below is helpful, but not necessary; we hope you'll bring excitement to learn what you haven't seen yet. We support junior team members by explicitly setting aside time for learning, and providing training from a more experienced developer. In addition to full-time hires, we’re also looking for two senior, temporary hires for the Voter Engagement team to work with us until the end of 2020 as we prepare for the November general election. Candidates joining our Voter Engagement team will work on TurboVote and the Democracy Works API. You'll join eight other software developers and an engineering manager to collaborate with the product and partnership teams in building software that helps voters and future voters. The technology that underpins this work is mostly microservices written in Clojure running in Docker containers on Kubernetes hosted on AWS. These services communicate over RabbitMQ and store their data in Datomic. The web front-ends are written in ClojureScript backed by React. Candidates joining the Election Administration team will be working on either the Voting Information Project (VIP), or Ballot Scout. For VIP, you'll join two other software developers to collaborate with the product and data collection teams in building software that helps collect, validate, QA, and publish data about elections, which in turn service millions of queries in major election years. For Ballot Scout, you’ll join a team of two that enables seamless tracking of ballots through the United States Postal Service and allows both voters and election administration officials to monitor progress of the ballots to and from election offices. The technologies that underlay these systems are written in Clojure, Clojurescript, Javascript, Python, and Go, with an emphasis in moving active development towards Clojure and Clojurescript. Infrastructure is hosted on AWS, and developers are beginning the process of migrating to a Kubernetes based deployment. You will: - Write code - Participate in processes to build our products - Report progress and roadblocks to the team - Help others - Work on professional development - Take the lead when a leader is needed - Communicate in documentation, PRs/tickets/stories, PR review, standups, and with non-technical stakeholders - Make compromises You are: - Detail-oriented and thorough in your work - Excited to learn about the voter engagement process and fixing our voting infrastructure - Empathetic - Curious You have experience - Writing and shipping code - Working within a team of developers - Making tradeoffs in your work Physical demands: this position requires regular, daily use of a computer to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. Social expectations; you will have regular 1:1s with an Engineering Manager and regular meetings with the developers and product managers you work with. Time and travel expectations; Democracy Works’s regular operating hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern time. In May and November, all full-time staff members participate in a five day retreat in our Brooklyn offices. To apply, please complete the application form in the included link.
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