Youth Internship
Applications Due: Priority deadline is Monday, July 07, 2026, at 11:59 pm
Hours: 12-week internship, average 10-12 hours a week, including some nights and weekends.
Compensation: $19 an hour
Location: This internship is currently limited to youth based in the Wenatchee and Omak areas, or youth who can reliably travel to Wenatchee and/or Omak for regular in-person organizing activities.
The Opportunity
Rural People’s Voice (RPV) seeks youth organizing interns for a twelve-week internship that will play a pivotal role in building a base of connected rural voters and growing electoral programs in Wenatchee and Omak, Washington. Through both community organizing and participation in local and state elections, the interns will support RPV’s work to bring people together across divides and learn about the power of local politics.
Interns will knock on doors, conduct ‘deep listening’ conversations, identify or plan and host community events, track data, and collect learning to more effectively grow the base of people connected to RPV and move electoral outcomes in Wenatchee and Omak. The ultimate goal of their work will be to learn the issues that matter most to working people in North Central Washington and the solutions people think their communities need; move people to greater alignment with each other and the RPV Platform; and invite rural folks to act with their values by helping to win elections and build long-term wins for working families.
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, fun being on a team, the ability to work independently, and align with the RPV mission.
This position reports to our Community Organizer.
The Position
Rural People's Voice will hire paid youth interns in 2026 who will work with RPV from August to mid-November. Youth interns will focus their organizing efforts in their home communities and will…
Organize: have deep listening conversations with your neighbors to learn about and move people together on big issues; identify community leaders, volunteers, or future candidates; and bring people together across divides
Campaign: learn the ropes of being on a campaign team, canvassing/door-knocking, texting, registering new voters, and peer-to-peer engagement
Engage voters: mobilize and engage new voters (online and in-person)
Block + Ballot party: plan a fun fall event to bring people together, meet the candidates, vote, and organize future activities
Create online content: host a social media takeover and create compelling online content that moves peers and older voters to take action
Lasting connections: build relationships with future elected officials and other leaders in the community
Qualifications
High level of follow-through on your work
Positive team player with proactive communication skills
Able to meet deadlines, come to work on time, and reliably show up to meetings
Passionate about community issues that affect working-class people across race and geography
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
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 Community Organizer will serve as a mentor to all Youth Interns and will offer one-on-one guidance, professional development, skill building, and political mentorship.
We are looking for applicants ages 16-21 who live, work, and/or are enrolled in or near Wenatchee or Omak. This internship will be mostly in-person and have remote components.
Interns will be paid $19/hr and will work an average of 10-12 hours a week. Some nights and weekends may be required. The position will begin August 16th, 2026, and end November 4th, 2026.
How to Apply
Apply by July 7. If you have any questions during the application process, please reach out to our Community Organizer: kendra@ruralpeoplesvoice.org
We highly encourage young people who have experienced adversity to apply to the program, especially young people with barriers to accessing political power (people of color, young queer people, young working-class people, and any other young people who are underrepresented), but we encourage all youth to apply! We ask for your previous work and internship experience to help us get a picture of who you are -- it is not required to have previously been involved in this kind of work to apply. We are really looking for young people who are passionate about learning to bring people together and are ready to get hands-on experience in local politics!