Distributed Organizing Fellow

Application Process

Please apply via the application link below, no later than Sunday, January 4, 2025, for consideration. You will be asked to upload your resume to the application.

https://forms.gle/b3W5H5YYp68VmaLz9

Job Title: Distributed Organizing Fellow

Reports to: Senior Digital Organizer, with additional supervision provided by Director of Integrated Campaigns

Location: Fully Remote; must reside in California

Status: Part-Time, Remote role, 5-10 hours/week

Start & End Date: February 2, 2026 to April 15, 2026

Company Overview

Golden State Opportunity (GSO) is a nonprofit dedicated to ending poverty by providing all Californians with the tools to build financial wellbeing and thrive. GSO is led by doers who educate, engage, and empower working families. Our groundbreaking, culturally relevant work in thirteen languages reaches millions of low-income Californians and connects them with the financial resources they need to survive and then thrive.

We get things done through grassroots advocacy and partnerships with community-based organizations, and what we learn from this on-the-ground work informs our policy advocacy. GSO began with a legislative victory led by and for low-income workers and families. Since then, we have fought to expand access to the CalEITC, federal EITC, higher wage jobs, and other anti-poverty solutions.

Job Summary

GSO’s Organizing Fellowship is an opportunity for aspiring leaders in nonprofit, anti-poverty, or advocacy work to gain critical organizing and leadership skills. The fellow will use our broadcast texting platform to engage with more than 2 million low-income Californians about federal, state, and local benefits that they may be eligible to receive.

The fellow will graduate not only with practical skills and knowledge, but as a part of a network of passionate leaders in the anti-poverty workspace. As part of the program, the fellow will regularly meet with GSO leadership to learn about nonprofit, anti-poverty, and advocacy careers.

Schedule & Seasonal Workflow

The Fellow role is part-time and tightly aligned with the 2026 CalEITC SMS campaign. We can work with fellows to craft a schedule between the hours of 9AM-8PM Monday-Friday, 5-10 hours a week for the duration of the fellowship.

• Feb 2–8: Onboarding & Launch Prep
• ~5 hours total over 2–3 days focused on orientation, tools and privacy training, learning tag taxonomy and tone, practicing with canned replies, and locking coverage time blocks for Outreach #1.
• Feb 9–Apr 15: Main Campaign (Reply Coverage)
• ~5–10 hours per week across 3–5 days, with time increasing around send days. The Fellow provides live reply coverage in English/Spanish, tags contacts (filer/supporter/language), surfaces common questions, and helps refine scripts between phases (Outreach #1, #2, #3, and the Final Push to Tax Day).
• Weekly Rhythm (Feb–Apr)
• Mon/Tue: support sends and early replies
• Wed: ongoing reply + tagging coverage
• Thu/Fri: 30 minute team check in, log results (clicks, replies, time on page) and flag changes for the next phase.
• Apr 15: Wrap-Up
• Close coverage hours, document insights, and update canned replies for future campaigns.

This role requires flexibility to meet program and community outreach needs.

Key Responsibilities

Texting Program

5-10 hours a week

• Engage with low-income Californians throughout the state, using a broadcast texting platform to promote the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), our Tacos & Taxes free filing events, as well as the Federal EITC, YCTC, FYTC, and other available public benefits.
• Using pre-written and original scripts, engage with individuals about claiming cash back on their taxes in English and Spanish.
• Provide feedback about messages and responses to leadership about opportunities to improve scripts and text-based conversations.
• Ensure that assigned texting goals are being met.
• Respond to messages in a timely manner, and ensure that individuals are receiving the best possible resources and support.
• All other program duties as assigned.

Professional Development

~ 1-2 hours a month

• Participate in bi-weekly discussions to learn about careers, anti-poverty work, and organizing skills.
• Develop professional tools such as resumes and/or portfolios with guidance and support from the GSO team.
• Contribute to a supportive and collaborative fellowship through 1:1 and small group meetings with other fellows.
• All other professional development duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Fluent in reading, writing and speaking in both English and Spanish
• Strong interest in anti-poverty work and commitment to helping low-income people access financial resources.
• Strong relationship-building and interpersonal skills, enthusiasm, and optimism.
• Strong time management skills with ability to work in a dynamic, flexible environment in a very planned, organized and strategic manner.
• Exceptional attention to detail, and an equal aptitude for information accuracy and integrity.
• Resourceful, diplomatic, team-oriented, accountable, and sensitive to the needs of those we serve, partners, and staff.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with staff.
• Strong proficiency with PC and Mac operating systems and G Suite and Google Workplace applications as well as Microsoft Office 360 applications.
• Essential functions and duties require being able to communicate, see, and follow reasonable ergonomic recommendations and/or assistive devices to communicate and/or computer for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Possesses reliable wifi in order to sufficiently handle all assigned work duties.
• Ability to work holidays, weekends, and evenings.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expertise and/or lived experience with low-income communities and their needs, earned income and young child tax credits and policy, and/or economic justice.
• Demonstrated interest in contributing to working to end the systems and conditions that create poverty in the U.S.
• Strong computer skills, familiarity with ScaleToWin and other texting/organizing softwares.

Compensation: $25/hr

Application Process

Please apply via the application link below, no later than Sunday, January 4, 2025, for consideration. You will be asked to upload your resume to the application.

https://forms.gle/b3W5H5YYp68VmaLz9

Golden State Opportunity advances equity and inclusion in the workplace by providing equal employment opportunity to all as part of a work environment free from discrimination. We encourage and welcome applicants who will work to further this commitment and add to the diversity of our organization on multiple dimensions including race, religion, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, exercising the right to family care and medical leave, genetic information, marital status, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, political affiliation, arrest/conviction record, reproductive health decision-making, status as a victim of domestic violence/sexual assault/stalking, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fluent in reading, writing and speaking in both English and Spanish