Campus Organizing Internship

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action is in search of 2 undergraduate Campus Organizing interns to join Young People Organizing for the 2025-26 academic year. This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience working for a dynamic organization that is mobilizing the American Jewish community to confront the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action.

The Campus Organizing Interns will focus on cultivating and growing Dayenu’s on-campus organizing efforts, including supporting existing Circles (chapters), recruiting new students to participate in Dayenu activities such as trainings and actions, bolstering student leaders, and encouraging new Circles. Interns will have the opportunity to connect with fellow college students all over the country.

Location: Remote, NY or CA preferred

Position Type: Internship

Reporting Structure: Interns report to the Campus Organizer, who will provide mentoring and training.

To apply, go to: http://d.aye.nu/app

Application deadline: Priority deadline is Mon 9/1, final deadline is Mon 9/15. Please reach out to Rocky Stern at rocky@dayenu.org if you need extra time.

Position Dates: September 21, 2025 - May 2025 (exact date TBD)

Responsibilities:

• Build relationships with fellow college students through small group meetings, one-on-one relationship building, group onboarding sessions, email, phone, text/Discord, and Zoom.
• Coach campus leaders in their personal organizing journeys, and help to train them on effective ways to create change as students. Support Dayenu student leaders in planning and executing direct actions, teach-ins, lobby visits, climate Shabbat events, etc.
• Facilitate the Dayenu College Discord and assist in campus-oriented social media. Make creative content for Dayenu’s media strategy, including short-form video, flyers, and written work for publication.
• Work with the Dayenu staff and interns to develop and execute new ideas to engage/create a sustaining community for student leaders. Assist the Campus Organizer in identifying and contacting potential campuses for Dayenu’s work.
• Build a community oriented towards Jewish climate justice on your own campus, and engage your peers and classmates directly in at least 2 Dayenu events during the year.
• Assist Dayenu staff in running calls and doing outreach for general programming, bring students into intergenerational Dayenu spaces.
• Work towards yearly and monthly goals as determined by your supervisor. Attend professional development opportunities, and build out your toolbox for professional organizing opportunities.

Qualifications:

• Strong listening and interpersonal communication skills, including in person and over phone, video, email, and text communication.
• Experience organizing (informal or formal) and/or experience with campus Jewish life. Knowledge of campus culture and mechanisms preferred.
• Creative thinker who is constantly coming up with ways to engage their peers.
• Willingness to do hard and new things
• Ability to connect Judaism to climate justice and vice versa. Base knowledge of Jewish practices, principles, holidays, and traditions. Strong understanding of climate justice as an intersectional and intergenerational issue. Domestic climate policy knowledge preferred.
• A demonstrated ability to work effectively with people across lines of difference and a strong commitment to anti-racist practice.
• Current enrollment at an accredited college or university, NY or CA preferred.

About Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action

Dayenu is building a movement of American Jews confronting the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action. We mobilize Jewish support for climate solutions, build our collective power, and raise up a spiritual, religious, and moral voice in the national and global movements confronting the climate crisis. We care deeply about equity and justice in our world and about the future we create for our children and future generations. We believe that together, drawing from our Jewish tradition, experience, and faith, we have the power to create real and lasting change.

We focus on three main areas of work: Bold action to advance comprehensive climate policy and ensure a just transition away from fossil fuels; spiritual adaptation that helps people confront the reality of the climate crisis and grapple with the deep spiritual and existential questions it raises; and movement-building.

Through a growing network of Dayenu Circles across the country and partnerships with Jewish communal institutions and multifaith and secular organizations, we're gathering, training, and taking collective action to advance systemic solutions to the climate crisis, at the scale that science and justice demand.

Dayenu is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to racial equity and accessibility. Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA people are strongly encouraged to apply. We know historically that women and people of color don't apply to jobs unless they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you think you might be a good fit even if you don't meet 100% of the listed requirements.

Dayenu does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, sex, age, gender identity or expression, or other status protected by applicable law.