Rate: $20 an hour

Hours: Monday - Thursday, 4:30PM - 7:30PM

Dates: March 2025 through November 2025

Benefits: Paid Time Off, Simple IRA Retirement Plan and Annual end year bonuses

Location: Onsite

Reports to: Field Manager

Organization Summary FUTURE OF US is a bold and vibrant force for political and social transformation, empowering young Asian Americans in Minnesota to harness their collective power. We cultivate a space where individuals can explore their identities, build lasting political momentum and engagement, and take action to challenge systemic barriers. Our work is rooted in storytelling, advocacy, and community building, ensuring that young Asian Americans are seen, heard, and influential in leadership and decision-making spaces.

We believe in breaking through barriers within our communities and in how we engage the broader public. We are courageous, confident, and forward-thinking, balancing diplomacy with bold action. At our core, we are storytellers, movement builders, and advocates who ask hard questions and seek solutions that drive lasting impact.

Who are we looking for? Future Of Us is seeking to hire a team of canvassers to engage with our base of young Asian voters ages 18 - 35 constituents on various issues including but not limited to Reproductive Justice and Election. The canvassers will be a critical component of our community engagement work that directly impacts youth and young people. Our team of canvassers will lead our direct community engagement efforts on the phones. This is a seasonal temporary position from March through November.

Position Summary The Phone Canvasser is someone who understands the goals and metrics that have been set and is capable of meeting these goals and metrics. The Phone Canvasser is someone that’s able to step in and support other canvassers through shared best practices and identify key challenges that need to be uplifted for the Field Manager. As part of our organizational values of growth and constructive feedback, the Phone Canvasser is expected to share feedback and suggestions to further our approach to canvassing and engaging with our communities on important issues.

Hourly Pay and Benefits Future Of Us has a tiered pay scale ranging from hourly to salary positions that are based on Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) every other year, and pay equity and economic justice. Pay equity is the principle of providing equal compensation to employees who perform comparable work, regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, or other protected characteristics. It ensures that compensation is based on job responsibilities and performance, without bias or discrimination. Economic Justice creates opportunities for all to succeed regardless of sex, race, age, disability, color, creed, national origin, religion, or genetic information. This position is a 12 hours/week part-time, onsite, non-exempt position, including some evenings and weekends. Benefits include: annual accrual PTO hours and eligible Simple IRA Plan. The pay range for this position is $20 per hour, based on canvassing hours that are related to educational and advocacy on social issues through phone calls, and potential to grow.

The position starts as soon as possible until filled. You’ll be working in-person and in an office setting for the duration of this position. Please email resume with Phone Canvasser in subject line to jobs@futureofusmn.org

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Complete weekly phone canvassing shifts, and meeting weekly goals

• Engage in phone conversations with our base, and gauge level of awareness of issues and challenges that our community faces in regards to the specific issues

• Collect and record data from phone conversations in trackers

• Provide feedback, strategies, and troubleshooting efforts to achieve best approaches to community engagement, and achieving team goals

• Sustaining a positive teamwork, and peer to peer learning environment

• Occasional or as necessary, meetings with the Field Manager and Data to best understand needs, support and expectations.

Must haves for the position

• At least 1 year of experience in canvassing, community organizing, teamwork and /or customer service and data entry

• Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment, taking ownership, and initiative with minimal direction.

• Experience in meeting and interacting with new people, and people of all backgrounds and identities

• Strong organizational and communication skills (written and verbal) including ability to articulate progress, concerns, and recommendations in a concise and timely manner.

Nice haves for the position

• Fluent and able to have a conversation on the local election in the following Asian ethnic language: Karen, and Hmong

• Experience in utilizing Voter Action Network, GetThru (Thrutalk, Thrutext), and Google Suite/Doc

• Experience in navigating difficult conversations and accomplishing weekly team goals

• Excellent interpersonal, team building, and problem-solving skills.

Organizational Culture In a transformative and emerging organization, Future Of Us believes that the overall strategies should be owned by every single person at Future Of Us. As such, it is the responsibility of all staff to understand the overall mission, vision and direction the organization is moving towards. One must be accountable to their own work and responsibilities, while supporting and coaching each other to produce high impactful and innovative strategies for the overall success of the organization. This means taking ownership of the organization as a whole. Which means that 10% of your role may include stepping up, taking charge, rolling up your sleeves and supporting each other in functions and activities such as special events, special projects, program design and implementation, fundraising, grant writing, community support, board and funders meeting, office support, and other minor duties as assigned.

While it is the responsibility of each member to meet their work expectation, it is also critical to maintain a balanced work-life culture. Future Of Us believes that when we all work to support each other in the overall mission and vision of the organization, we all succeed. This will help Future Of Us create a work culture that is inclusive, mindful of biases, socially and culturally conscious and equitable.

Background Checks: As Future Of Us works closely with young people, we are committed to ensuring a safe and secure environment for all. Therefore, candidates who are offered a position will undergo a comprehensive background check. This process may include reviewing criminal history, verifying employment, and consulting relevant professional or personal references. The results of these checks will be thoughtfully evaluated to determine a candidate's suitability for working with our youth population. It is important to note that having a record does not automatically disqualify a candidate; each situation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Our priority is the safety and well-being of our community members, and we take all necessary precautions in our hiring process to uphold this commitment.

Future Of Us does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, status on public assistance, and marital status. We strongly encourage individuals who identify as or businesses led by Asian & Pacific Islanders, Black, indigenous, people of color, disabled, queer, trans and women to submit a proposal. Future Of Us is unable to provide VISA sponsorship at this time.