Movement Labs Spring Fellowship 2025

At Movement Labs, our mission is to affordably and provably scale people power.

Join the Movement Labs Fellowship for an exciting opportunity to gain skills and knowledge across the progressive electoral and digital organizing space, while contributing directly to our mission of stopping the worst of the Trump agenda and helping Democrats get elected up and down the ballot. We serve as an incubator for missing pieces of political infrastructure, combining data, technology and experimental methods to build power. We use peer-to-peer texting to help grassroots organizing, recruit candidates to run for office, and help those candidates win. We look for opportunities to work in red and rural areas, and with communities that have too often been ignored.

As a Movement Labs Fellow, you’ll gain hands-on experience on the cutting edge of electoral organizing. If you are eager, smart, and driven, want a career in the progressive movement space, and are ready to join our fast-paced team, apply to join our Spring Fellowship cohort!

What You’ll Do:

The Fellowship Program is an exciting and supportive cohort-based professional development program, where you will be embedded into one of our departments, as well as provided with additional community, training, and mentorship. Whether you are at the beginning of your career or mid-career looking to transition into the space, we seek talented individuals with a passion for our work, who are looking to learn from an entry-level job as well as through weekly huddles and additional trainings.

The Spring 2025 Fellowship runs from March 3 to May 23, 30-40 hours a week. Fellows are expected to work full time and be available during core working hours 9amPT/12pmET-2pmPT/5pmET. It is not compatible with a full daytime classload.

Movement Labs is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic and social justice. We believe there are many paths to this work, and strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds and career trajectories, as many skills are transferrable. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply. If you require accommodations as part of the hiring process, please contact .

This is a fully remote position. Priority deadline for applications is February 10. Candidates must be legally able to work in the United States, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree OR four years of professional experience that demonstrates an ability to succeed in our hardworking and complex environment.
• Demonstrated interest in progressive politics, campaigns, or organizing, through professional experience, volunteering, or coursework.
• Commitment to fulltime work for duration of the Fellowship, including participation in all Fellowship meetings and trainings.
• Successful fellows are flexible, able to nimbly shift as priorities change, learn quickly, and are willing to do what needs to be done in our fast-paced, quickly evolving environment.

General skills:

• Passionate about progressive politics and leveraging data, technology, organizing and research to build political power
• Hungry and passionate about our mission, eager to learn and join the fight
• Demonstrated detail-orientation with excellent follow through
• Ability to work independently and manage workload in remote environment
• Excellent organizational skills
• Systematic in approach to projects
• Competence in Microsoft Office, Google Suite, and an ability to learn a variety of digital workspace tools quickly

Fellowship Pathways

Our work varies across teams. You will be embedded within a department for the duration of your Fellowship. Generally we are looking for three types of fellows:

• An organizer, outward-facing, communication-oriented person. This type of fellow likes to work with people, has a positive-attitude, and likes thinking about how people relate to each other and how they think. This person would have no problem picking up the phone and calling a partner or leading a meeting.
• A research, systems, and writing-oriented person. This type of fellow likes spreadsheets and CRMs, has strong attention to detail, and is inclined toward the analytical side of things. This person might have experience with digital organizing or email marketing platforms, and loves a good Asana automation.
• A data and tech-focused person. This type of fellow has some basic familiarity with or strong interest to learn about managing large data sets or working with code. This person loves to get lost by themselves in a technical problem and is excited to learn new skills in this arena.

Open Positions

• Data/Tech Team: Work with our Core Data Team on our federally-focused “Protect Democracy” program, and our Contest Every Race Data Team on projects that support the recruitment and election of down-ballot Democrats in red districts.
• Operations Team: Join the heart of our work by supporting high-volume text campaigns and work with volunteers to engage voters.
• Black-Led Organizing Team:  Create advocacy toolkits and experiment case studies, and gain proficiency in Airtable to manage critical data.
• People Team: Learn about how organizations run by supporting hiring, conducting security audits, and helping with database administration in EveryAction.
• Experiments: Learn how we rigorously study the impact of our programs by conducting research and managing data.
• Contest Every Race, Operations: Be the right hand of our Contest Every Race VP, where you’ll be in the mix on all aspects of this growing team, learning what it takes to lead a complex political organizing project.
• Contest Every Race, Political Organizing (2-4): Provide direct support to county Democratic party partners and create new communications materials to ensure down-ballot Democrats get elected in rural districts.
• Contest Every Race, Candidate Success: Develop and lead trainings to support our online community of Democratic candidates.
• Contest Every Race, Recruitment: Support the recruitment of down-ballot Democrats to run in rural districts through research and communication support.

• $23/hour, 30-40 hours a week (workload may vary some from week to week)
• This is a fulltime, temporary, hourly position, which includes sick time accrual, paid lunch break, and paid holidays.
• This short-term Fellowship is intended to train and develop leaders in the progressive political space through professional experience, skill building, and training. While we do not guarantee continuation at the organization, strong Fellows may be offered longer term roles.
• Priority deadline for applications is February 10.