Job Description
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 in 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 8 Months 2026 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 regular huddles and additional trainings.
The 8 Months 2026 Fellowship runs from March 30 to Nov 20, 30-40 hours a week. Fellows are expected to work full time and be available during core working hours 9am-6pm local time in a continental US timezone. It is not compatible with a full daytime classload.
Movement Labs is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic and social justice. 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 [email protected].
This is a fully remote position that requires regular and reliable access to a computer and wifi.
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:
- A creative, fast and rigorous, communication-oriented person. This type of fellow likes to work with people, has a positive-attitude, and likes creating content to generate impact. This person would have no problem making a cold call, rolling out a digital campaign, or creating smart content for funders.
- A research, systems, and data-oriented person. This type of fellow has spreadsheet fluency and an analytical mindset, curious, with strong attention to detail, and is inclined toward the analytical side of things, for data research, cleaning and quality. This person might have a background in data and quantitative work, pattern recognition, data validation techniques.
- A project management, internal facing person. This type of fellow will assist the team to manage daily operations and internal projects such as hirings, surveys, research and policy roll outs. This person is at ease working independently and completing projects in a fast-paced environment, with rigor and passion.
- See also: Tech Fellowship.
Open Positions
Experiments: Learn how we rigorously study the impact of our programs by conducting research and study large data sets for voter contact programs.
Program: Support our Program team to improve data quality, and achieve the best results in the elections and campaigns, through data collection, analysis, and validation.
Contest Every Race: Create content and communications for public-facing events and other materials to support staff, candidates, or grant teams. Work might include creating content for digital channels, social media, and video editing. Occasional in-person work in DC or Baltimore co-working space, if local.
People Team: Ever wondered how organizations actually run behind the scenes? Join the People Team to support hiring, assist with research, wrangle shared drives, and help roll out policies that impact all staff, plus collaborate on 1–2 cross-departmental projects. We value flexibility, resilience, fearlessness, and a commitment to fighting fascism! Bonus points if you’re a fun, collaborative, hardworking squish who adores cats and thrives on sarcasm.
See also: Tech Fellowship.
$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.
PTO and healthcare benefits available after 90 days.
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 20.
