Opportunities & Internships
Promote participation in democracy
Team Leader
HeadCount is adding Team Leaders all across the country. Team Leaders are the heart and soul of HeadCount and are the people most responsible for registering thousands of voters at concerts, festivals, and community events. They represent the organization any time a HeadCount-affiliated artist appears in the team’s metropolitan area. Within their metro, Team Leaders also work with venues, promoters, and community event organizers to identify the best local opportunities to register voters.
This means organizing and scheduling teams of volunteers (using HeadCount’s volunteer portal), training new volunteers and managing the process of setting up a voter registration table at an event. It also involves directly interfacing with staff at local concert venues and tour production crews from our affiliated bands.
Team Leaders also reach into their community to identify gaps in voter registration access and provide registration services. This could be at high schools, street fairs, or other relevant community events. The goal is for at least 25% of annual activations to come from community events.
Team Leaders must be reliable, professional, and good communicators. Most of all, they need to inspire volunteers to work together toward a common goal. If you love music and consider yourself a natural leader, this may be the position for you.
This is considered a volunteer position, but Team Leaders are eligible for a yearly performance-based stipend of up to $1,500.
Requirements
- Strong work ethic, maturity and sense of accountability
- Flexible schedule allowing you to be on site at concerts before doors open
- Natural leadership ability
- Commitment to following protocol
- Relevant leadership experience
Music and Politics Internship
Students with an interest in politics, music or grassroots organizing can channel their passions by interning with HeadCount. This is an opportunity to get invaluable hand-on experience and make an important contribution to a dynamic and growing organization. Our interns work side-by-side with seasoned staffers and play an important role from day one. Many of our interns have been offered and accepted full-time position with HeadCount and others have landed jobs within the music industry and at other non-profits.
Responsibilities
- Attending concerts and registering voters
- Content creation (blogging, drafting and proofreading documents, social media, creating excel data sheets, research, compiling music playlists)
- Grassroots and community outreach (volunteer program planning, conference calls)
- Artist relations (identifying potential artist partners, tracking concert schedules, coordinating events)
- Voter registration administration (researching election dates and deadlines, routing voter registration forms to election boards, communicating directly with voters)
- General non-profit management and administration.
Qualifications
- Student working towards a degree in related field
- Nonprofit or social activist experience a plus
- Proficiency required in MS Office programs
- Excellent attention to detail and proofreading skills required
Field Internship
HeadCount.org, a non-profit organization that stages large scale voter registration drives at concerts and other public gatherings, offers field internships to college students interested in political organizing. We provide a unique opportunity to learn leadership and organizing skills, while mobilizing fellow students and also experiencing great music!
Interns will set up voter registration tables at their campuses and educate their campus community about voting regulations that affect students, while also working directly with local concert venues and concert promoters to stage voter registration at live music events. You will be closely supervised via weekly check-in calls and a structured itinerary, but also have the freedom to manage your time independently and take a unique, original approach to leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead 12-15 voter registration drives at local concerts or campus events
- Learn local and national voter registration guidelines
- Participate in weekly conference calls
- Communicate directly with school officials to obtain authorization for all on-campus activity
- Recruit volunteers
- Be responsible for voter registration forms and their submission
- Create educational resources to inform campus on local elections and other voter information
- Participate in HeadCount’s digital media efforts
Qualifications
- Student working towards a degree in related field
- Minimum of 15 hours per week
- Strong work ethic, maturity and accountability
- Natural leadership ability
- Ability to organize peers
Touring Team Representative
HeadCount sends volunteers on tour with bands like Dave Matthews Band, Phish, and many others. These positions involve going to every show on a concert tour and registering voters while also training and organizing local volunteers. These are volunteer positions, but all your expenses are paid. It’s an amazing way to see America, experience a music tour and be a good citizen.
Volunteer position, with travel expenses and per diem provided by HeadCount.
Requirements
- Strong work ethic, maturity and sense of accountability
- Some experience volunteering for HeadCount or equivalent
- Natural leadership ability
- Commitment to following protocol
- Outgoing and comfortable approaching people
Marketing and Public Relations Intern
The Marketing and Public Relations Intern will work on daily tasks to help promote upcoming HeadCount events and election information.
Responsibilities:
- Content creation
- Blogs, social media copy, email copy
- Assist in responding to media requests from reporters
- Outbound pitching of stories to reporters
- Assist in posting on all of HeadCount’s social media
- Data tracking performance of HeadCount social media posts and emails
- Assisting with the development of proactive digital media strategy
- Help execute outbound text messages
- Excellent writing skills
- Student working towards a degree in related field
- Attention to detail and proofreading skills required
- Knowledgeable in social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
- Strong Organization skills
Regional Coordinator
Regional coordinators oversee 5 to 8 "Team Leaders." They organize, motivate, recruit, train, and manage individuals spread across a region of the U.S., and serve as the key liaison between HeadCount and our representatives in the field. This is primarily a phone and e-mail-oriented position, but we encourage Regional Coordinators to join us at festivals and occasionally travel to other cities to train new Team Leaders. This position requires people who are proactive, thorough and enjoy leading others.
This is considered a volunteer position, but Regional Coordinators are eligible for a yearly performance-based stipend of up to $1,000.
Requirements
- Excellent leadership and management skills
- Strong work ethic, maturity and sense of accountability
- About 4 to 8 hours per week of availability for phone and email communication
- Being self-motivated and thorough
- Passion for voter engagement and
- Relevant leadership experience
Diversity and Field Fellowship - Spring 2020
HeadCount is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the power of music and community to register voters and raise social awareness. We’re seeking two energized, creative, and dedicated team players to join our growing organization as our Diversity and Community Field Fellows.
The fellowship program provides an opportunity for young students of color to gain grassroots community organizing experience, and lead voter registration drives throughout New York City. Candidates must have a passion for music and civic engagement and will contribute to HeadCount’s national community initiative.
The fellow must be able to work 15-20 hours per week for 12-15 weeks in New York City, with 40% of the time spent in the office and 60% in the field. Fellows will be mentored throughout the fall term as they develop professional skills and receive a stipend of $2,500 distributed in 3 equal payments.
Responsibilities
- Research and compile a list of non-ticketed events, organizations, and student groups aimed at serving communities of color, underserved groups, and students in New York City
- Organize voter registration drives and joint events with community partners
- Lead volunteer recruitment and engagement at community events and shows
- Conceptualize and create information material and content to use at community events
- Submit weekly reflection deliverable with feedback on events and tasks
- A student attending a two or four-year college, university or technical school
- Must come from an underrepresented group*
- Demonstrate leadership potential and interested in civic engagement in under-served communities
- Experience with community organizing and canvassing a plus
Diversity and Community Specialist
HeadCount, the non-partisan organization that runs voter registration drives on concert tours by Beyonce, JAY-Z, Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish, is expanding its operations to put increased emphasis on community events and serving audiences who have been marginalized, disenfranchised and deterred from participating in democracy.
Join our rapidly expanding team and bring your community organizing experience to an organization that is already the unquestioned leader in event-based voter registration.
Responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing and implementing non-partisan voter registration and volunteer recruitment drives reaching underserved communities
- Serving as the key point person for relationships with select national and local organizations
- Managing a group of 2-3 part-time Field Fellows to help execute community voter registration programs in New York City and other select markets
- Tracking and supporting community voter registration activity around the U.S. staged by HeadCount’s network of volunteer “Team Leaders”
- Leading strategy and training as it relates to diversity and inclusion
- Recruiting volunteers and paid organizers, and fostering a team environment inclusive to all
- Playing a lead role in an initiative to hire full-time organizers in cities around the U.S. to expand the services we can offer in the communities most in need
- Creating field guides and documenting best practices for community-based voter registration activities
- Bringing an astute, culturally-aware voice to all decision-making and public communications.
- Working with HeadCount’s artist relations team to identify and partner with more artists who are passionate about democracy and want to help turn out voters in 2020
More About This Role:
If grassroots organizing is your passion, this job is for you.
You’ll be immersed knee-deep in the 2020 election and a massive, multi-pronged effort to promote democratic participation. Our nationwide network of organizers will be guided by you and your leadership when it comes to registering and turning out voters at community events. This job, based at our home office in New York City, will require you to be motivated and organized, but also creative. You’ll be expected to experiment and think outside the box while documenting successful practices so it can be shared with others.
It’s a full-time role for applicants with 2+ years of professional experience working on a campaign, community organizing, or registering voters. Bilingual candidates and candidates with strong ties to traditionally underserved communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
It will all build as we approach the 2020 election. By November, you will have helped register thousands of new voters and turned even more out to the polls.
HeadCount is an equal opportunity employer, and it is HeadCount’s policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, pregnancy, national origin, religion, sexual orientation/identity/expression, ethnic identity or physical disability, marital or military service status including membership in the National Guard, or any other legally protected status. Protected status may also include an individual's marriage to or association with someone with any status listed above. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
Field Organizer
HeadCount is looking for community organizing virtuosos who want to immerse themselves in the 2020 election through non-partisan voter registration.
We are hiring full-time organizers in cities around the U.S. to lead non-partisan voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities at concerts, cultural events, and public gatherings. These positions will be added on a rolling basis, from January 2020 through the Fall.
Hiring decisions and timing will be based on the quality of the candidates, opportunity for impact in each market, and availability of funding.
Possible locations will include: Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, Norfolk, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Richmond, Raleigh, and Tampa.
Candidates must be passionate about both music and democratic participation, have considerable local knowledge about their home market, have a strong track record in grassroots organizing, and also bring a creative outside-of-the-box approach to their work. Experience working with entertainment venues, voter registration, campaigns, volunteer management, special events is a plus.
ABOUT US
HeadCount is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. We stage voter registration and turnout drives at a diverse array of events and locations, through a network of over 40,000 volunteers. Our partners include Ariana Grande, Dead & Company, March for Our Lives, MTV, Black Futures Lab, Democracy Works, Ben & Jerry's, and American Eagle Outfitters.ABOUT THE ROLE
- HeadCount’s Field Organizer will work remotely from one of the target markets and will report to the Director of Voter Engagement. This is not your traditional 9 to 5 job and requires nontraditional hours and flexibility.
- The Organizer will be responsible for staging at least five voter registration drives per week, and working with local volunteers and HeadCount “Team Leaders” to expand the presence to as many as 10 events per week.
- The Organizer will be responsible for sourcing and maintaining relationships with music and entertainment venues, event promoters, other local businesses, community organizers, high schools, colleges, and service providers. Through this network, the organizer is expected to set up high impact and high volume voter registration drives. A large percentage of these drives should reach a diverse or underserved audience.
- The Organizer will be trained on legal compliance in voter registration for all states. They must have a strong eye for detail and be confident in high-quality voter registration without errors or omissions. They also must be comfortable being nonpartisan and providing voter registration services to all applicants regardless of political beliefs.
- Travel will be a requirement of the position as events and opportunities may present themselves state-wide.
- This is a contract position that will end on or before Election Day 2020. Compensation is commensurate with experience and competitive within the nonprofit sector.