Jobs at Public Campaign

Want to go to work every day and make a difference? Join the team at Public Campaign. We are working hard to pass publicly financed elections at the national, state, and local levels. The air we breathe, the food we eat, and the bills we pay are all affected by the amount of special interest money in campaigns. Public financing, or Clean Elections, makes elections about voters, not about well heeled donors

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Field, Federal Campaign and Accountability Intern

TERM POSITION: Summer 2009

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When you stop to think about it everything from the food we buy to the air we breathe is influenced by our campaign finance system and the billions in campaign contributions flowing to candidates for state-level office, the U.S. Congress, and the Presidency. Public Campaign is the leading national group working to counter the influence of all this private money on our public policy by pushing for Clean Elections, or full public financing of elections. We’ve been successful in winning Clean Elections in several states and we’re focusing our efforts on winning more state systems, and taking Clean Elections to Congress.

Come join Public Campaign this summer and get hands on campaign experience working in support of Clean Elections public financing at the state level, and in Washington. We will also be placing substantial focus on issue based accountability work – where we match campaign donations to members of Congress with their voting records – on the key issues of the day. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside people who’ve been fighting for full public financing of elections for a decade or more, learn practical organizing skills, and assist in our efforts to raise the profile of the role that private money plays in policy-making. If you’re looking towards a career in non-profit advocacy and want to learn a bit more about how things get done in Washington, here’s your chance.

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Research and Communications Intern

TERM POSITION: Summer 2009

Job Description :
Nothing sends heads to the desk faster than chat about “campaign finance reform” but at Public Campaign, the leading national organization working to win full public financing of elections, we know that the ways campaigns for elected office are financed in this country affects the day to day lives of every American whether she’s taking out a student loan to pay for college, filling up her gas tank or going to the doctor. So we’ve learned to talk about the issue of money in politics in a way that keeps people awake, and gets them involved. Come join our communications team this summer and get hands-on education on how to drive the message behind important legislation at the state and federal level. Apply your writing, research, and project management skills to our work with various media: learn how to put together strong email campaigns to our activists, draft an op-ed, help build our web-based campaigns, try your hand at blogging, and call a reporter to two in between learning how to connect the money-in-politics dots between campaign contributions and special interests public policy in a year when election spending promises to break all records.

Term: June 10th – August 7th. This position is 40 hrs./week

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The ideal candidate for this position will have superior oral and written communications skills, good attention to detail, a strong interest in politics and/or social justice, and a sense of humor.