Position Title: Get Out the Vote Ambassador
Reports to: Senior Public Policy Officer
Description: Temporary Part Time
Pay: $21.00 per hour
Hours: Up to 20 Hours per week
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Workplace Status: In-Person
Duration: August 27, 2026 – November 13, 2026
About KZCF:
Kalamazoo Community Foundation (KZCF), established in 1925, has the vision of Kalamazoo County being the most equitable place to live, with the mission to create a thriving community by mobilizing people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice in Kalamazoo County.
Core Values:
Center Anti-Racism
Nurture Healing and Love
Cultivate Transformative Relationships
Serve the Greater Good
Learn and Grow
Embrace Joy
Position Summary and Primary Objective:
The Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Ambassador will support the nonpartisan #PrepforthePolls campaign through immersive, one-on-one voter engagement tools and help eligible community members register to vote, understand their voting options, create a voting plan, and participate in the 2026 elections. This role is community-facing and requires clear communication, reliability, accurate information sharing, and a strong commitment to nonpartisan civic engagement.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
Community Outreach
- Utilize #PrepforthePolls messaging, materials, and information to communicate with students and community members.
- Connect with community members, organizational staff, WMU leadership and/or Campus Life staff, and others in planning and hosting #PrepforthePolls experiences.
- Conduct approved nonpartisan outreach, including digital and phone communications, hosting voter engagement experiences, attending community events, social media engagement, and one-on-one voter conversations.
- Set-up, take-down, transport, maintain, and store #PrepforthePolls materials and equipment.
- Provide accurate voting information, including registration options, early voting, mail-in voting, polling locations, voter ID information, and election deadlines.
- Track outreach activities and submit required reports by the deadlines.
- Attend all scheduled #PrepforthePolls engagement activities, management, and evaluation meetings with KZCF.
Other Duties
- Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Mission and Vision Alignment:
- Apply an equitable and anti-racist lens to all aspects of your work, advancing our mission to create a thriving community grounded in racial, social, and economic justice.
- Embrace and integrate Kalamazoo Community Foundation's commitment to anti-racism, inclusion, and healing, acknowledging and addressing all forms of bias with humility and accountability.
- Demonstrate the ability and willingness to examine personal and systemic bias, including around race, gender, age, ability, and identity, fostering a workplace rooted in love, learning, and growth.
- Engage with emotional intelligence and resilience in conversations about power, privilege, and oppression, cultivating transformative relationships that support healing and justice.
- Lead and collaborate with joy, authenticity, and a deep dedication to serving the greater good, contributing meaningfully to our vision of a more equitable Kalamazoo County.
Professionalism:
- Support the mission, vision, and strategic goals through excellent job performance to best serve the community.
- Follow and support KZCF policies and procedures.
- Regularly reflect on own performance and assume responsibility for professional development and learning.
- Maintain current knowledge of all changes affecting area of work. This may include maintaining process documentation for clarity and consistency.
- Conduct self in a professional manner and follows and supports the core values, commitments, and behaviors.
- Maintain appropriate professional appearance and confidentiality consistent with KZCF policies.
Engagement/Participation:
- As directed by your department Chief, regularly represent KZCF at community-based meetings and events including evening and weekend engagements throughout the year.
- As scheduled by KZCF Leadership, actively participate in meetings, committees, and volunteer opportunities within the organization.
- Consistently apply an anti-racism analysis and engage with others in support of learning ways to advance collective understanding and skills.
- Collaborate effectively as a team member and individual contributor to achieve KZCF Strategic Goals through consistent department updates and organizational strategic plan meetings.
- Provide proactive, creative cross-functional thinking and ideas to enhance services to the community through supervisor 1:1, department meetings, and organizational wide meetings.
- Ability to work both independently, as a team member, and with a broad range of constituencies. This includes a demonstrated ability to effectively interact, communicate, and collaborate with people from all cultural backgrounds.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Required Skills, Certifications, Training, Education, and Competencies:
- Strong commitment to civic engagement, voting rights, voting access, nonpartisan voter engagement, and community participation.
- Ability to work respectfully, effectively, and collaboratively with others and within high-energy or crowded environments.
- Ability to communicate clearly, respectfully, and accurately with diverse community members.
- Reliability, punctuality, and ability to complete assigned tasks by a deadline.
- Comfort with outreach activities such as tabling, events, phone calls, digital communications, and one-on-one conversations.
- Clear understanding of the importance of maintaining nonpartisan approach and Ability to must follow approved scripts, instructions, safety guidance, and reporting expectations.
- Ability to protect confidential information and use voter or participant information only for approved GOTV work.
- Access to reliable transportation or the ability to travel to approved outreach locations, events, and check-ins.
Preferred Skills, Certifications, Training, Education, and Competencies:
- Enrolled in an undergraduate degree program at a college or university, with at least sophomore standing preferred
Physical/Mental Requirements:
- While working virtually, the remote environment must have consistent access to high-speed internet, free from distractions, confidential space and workspace must be safe and free from hazards.
- Work in well-lit, pleasant, smoke-free office.
- Occasionally requires physical activity, including heavy lifting and other strenuous tasks, as required by KZCF operations.
- Must be able to sit for long periods of time, including one’s entire shift.
- Frequent requirement to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Frequently involves extended workdays and periodically involves irregular work hours.
- Regular group and public speaking.
- Occasional work at multiple sites, travel and/or overnight work schedules.
- Requires attention to detail and ability to concentrate on figures, paperwork, data, etc.
- Frequent pressures related to meeting deadlines and fulfilling scheduling requirements.
- Frequent distracting influences such as people, phone calls, noise and so forth.
- Frequent simultaneous handling of multiple tasks and intermittent or cyclical work pressures.
- Occasionally requires on-call availability to handle work problems, emergencies/crisis situations etc.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
- Regularly lift, transport, and position materials weighing up to 25 lbs.
- Regularly load and unload materials from lower shelves by bending, stooping, and crouching on a daily basis.
- Ability to be outdoors for extended periods of time.
- Frequently walks long distances in varying environmental settings
- Regularly traverses routes which may include exposure to wet, slippery, muddy, or rough walking surfaces
- Constantly works in outside weather conditions, including extreme heat, cold, rain, or wind.
- Routine exposure to sun, allergens, pollen, and natural elements
Residency
- KZCF staff are required to reside within KZCF’s service area within one (1) year from the day their employment begins. Residency is defined as the actual place where an employee lives and has their true, permanent home to which, whenever he or she is absent, they have an intention of returning. Service Area is defined as Kalamazoo County and no more than thirty (30) miles outside of the county limits.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Kalamazoo Community Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, familial status, sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation, military status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. These decisions include hiring and termination of staff, selecting volunteers, selecting vendors, and providing services.
