Youth Internship
Applications Due: Priority deadline is Monday, July 07, 2025, at 11:59 pm
Hours: 12-week internship, average 10 hours a week, including some nights and weekends.
Compensation: $19 an hour
Location: In-person in or near Wenatchee or Omak.
The Opportunity
Rural People’s Voice is hiring 5-6 youth organizing interns for a twelve-week internship. Interns can be located in or near Wenatchee and Omak. The position will begin in early August and end Saturday, the second week of November, 2025, average 10 hours of work each week, including some nights and weekends, and pay $19 an hour. Interns will focus their efforts on organizing & engaging voters, campaigning, creating online content, and build lasting connections (plus lots of learning about how to build political power for rural people).
The work of RPV interns will include knocking on doors, conducting "deep listening" conversations, identifying or planning and hosting community events, tracking data, and collecting learning to more effectively grow the base of people connected to RPV and move electoral outcomes in Wenatchee or Omak. The ultimate goal of their work will be to learn about issues that matter the most to working people in North Central Washington and the solutions they think their communities need, move people to greater alignment with each other and the RPV Platform, and engage rural folks in the work of winning elections and building long-term power for working people.
The ideal candidates are driven to connect with different kinds of people and are highly motivated to bring people together to work for a better future for all of us in North Central Washington. They have an organizer mindset (thinking long-term, building meaningful connections, engaging in collective strategy), a willingness to learn, strong interpersonal skills, are a team player, are able to work independently, and are mission-aligned.
This position reports to our Organizing Director.
Qualifications
Strong belief in the power of everyday people to build a better future for all of us in North Central Washington and a passion for bringing people together across divides
Passionate about community issues that affect working-class people across race and geography
Positive team-player w/ proactive communication skills
High level of follow-through on your work
Able to meet deadlines, come to work on time, and reliably show up to meetings
Position Requirements
Communicates regularly using multiple formats (email, text, phone, etc)
Familiarity with Zoom, Google Software (Docs, spreadsheets, etc)
Able to stand and walk for long periods of time
Able to talk to all kinds of people, including knocking on doors of people you do not know, speaking at events, and having respectful conversations with people with whom you disagree
Able to sit and perform work duties at a computer for long periods of time
Able to collect, input, and analyze basic to intermediate data in an online database
Able and willing to travel regularly for work
Additional Details
Our Organizing Director & Community Organizers will serve as mentors to all Youth Interns and will provide space for one-on-one guidance, professional development, skill assessment, and political mentorship.
How to Apply
Please fill out the form below by July 7th. Got questions? We'd love to talk! Get in touch with our Organizing Director: teresa@ruralpeoplesvoice.org
We strongly encourage applications from those who live, work, and contribute to rural North Central Washington. We invite people of color; immigrant, bilingual, and multicultural individuals; d/Deaf people and people with disabilities; members of LGBTQIA+ and gender non-conforming communities; and people with other diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply. Come join us at RPV!