Positions with the Fund

Field Manager

In addition to canvassing every day, field managers work closely with the canvass director to meet the goals of the office, and have the chance to build even more skills.

Field managers oversee a team of staff and are responsible for recruiting, training and motivating their team to hit its goals. They also have additional responsibilities to map out canvassing territories, keep good financial records and help carry out other campaign work (such as working with the media, coalition building and petitioning). Field Managers are also eligible to work additional hours and may earn additional pay. For details about pay and benefits, see the bottom of this page.

Canvass Director

We’re hiring and training Canvass Directors to make an impact on some of the most important problems of our time — like working to save ancient forests and endangered wildlife from extinction, to stop the surge of plastic entering our environment and help ensure we have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.

We believe that having solutions to these problems isn’t enough to solve them. To get our decision makers to act, we need to educate, engage and mobilize people across the country. We’re hiring Canvass Office Directors to build the people power it will take to solve these problems. We have positions available in a dozen cities across the country, both for immediate start as well as positions starting throughout the year. For details about pay and benefits, click “view job openings” below.

What’s canvassing like?

Canvassing is challenging, but it’s something you get better at the more you do it. We’ve been running canvass offices for more than 40 years, so we’ll make sure you learn the skills you need to be successful. In addition, many of the issues that we work on are commonsense policies supported by a sizable majority of people. Canvassing is not a matter of changing someone’s views on an issue, but more trying to get the people that are with us to support our work and get more involved in the campaigns we’re working on.

How do we decide which groups, which campaigns?

We work on campaigns and issues that we think are the most pressing, and set up our ground operations where we think we can make the biggest difference. We work with groups like Environment America and PIRG to take on polluters, protect old growth forests, or get pesticides out of our food supply. These groups have counted on us for 40 years to generate the people power they need to take on the opposition and win.

Pay

Staff earn a base pay between $16 and $22, depending on location, plus staff can earn 20% of what they raise over our minimum standard, which means staff have the opportunity to earn over $20 per hour. Staff never earn less than minimum wage for the hours that they work. So, depending on performance and location, you could earn an average of between $16 to $30 per hour.

Benefits*:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance for employees and dependents

• Commuter benefit program

• 401(k) with employer match

• Paid time off. For holidays, full time canvassers are eligible for paid holidays after 80 shifts canvassed. For vacation, full time, year-round canvassers accrue 1 vacation day for every 372 hours worked (approximately 48 days), but they can't use that time until they complete 1,860 hours (approximately 240 days or 1 year).

• Short-term disability insurance

• Excellent training program

• Opportunities for advancement

• Paid sick leave (1 hour for every 30 hours worked, which they can use after 90 days of employment except in Colorado where canvassers can immediately draw upon accrued paid sick leave.)

*Eligibility for benefits depends on your position, location and other factors.

For summer-only positions, the Fund does not provide healthcare, other benefits or paid time off, but does provide paid sick leave.

COVID-19: We take COVID-19 safety very seriously. Employees must follow our COVID safety protocols and be fully vaccinated and boostered. Accommodations are provided to the extent required by law.

Fund for the Public Interest is an equal opportunity employer.

Fund for the Public Interest will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

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