What Will You Do?

You will design merchandise (stickers, posters, and more) that will be seen across campus and help build on and expand The Wisco Project brand across campus. Fellows will work with the Creative Director to support Campus Organizers in their work to build a movement on campus to mobilize students for Wisconsin’s 2024 elections. This is an excellent opportunity to get an inside look at how campaigns work, while contributing to the turnout for critical elections in 2024. 

The Design Campus Organizing Fellow will start ASAP and work through November 10th.  

The Design Fellow will spend 15 hours a week mainly working with the Creative Director to brainstorm and create designs for us to use in our statewide campus voter mobilization efforts. An additional part of this role will include talking to students about the importance of the upcoming elections for issues like reproductive rights, climate change, democracy, and economic justice. Tactics include high traffic canvassing, tabling, door-to-door canvassing, class/student organization visits, and text/phone/DM banks. This is a paid fellowship.

Who Are You?

As a successful candidate for this job, you will: 

• Be proficient in Adobe Illustrator and experience creating designs.

• Ability to draw on inspiration and your own creativity to manage and/or execute clever and impactful content production such as sourcing imagery and creating graphics.

• Be in tune with the current trends and be able to draw on those trends to design on-trend work. 

• Have a passion for progressive politics and inspiring young people to get involved

• Be excited to think outside the box and to ideate and innovate to find the most exciting and effective way to bring young people into our organization with our creative brand

• Be scrappy and flexible; able to manage several tasks simultaneously

• Be a self-starter, exceptionally well-organized, and have strong time management skills

• Be enrolled at a Wisconsin college or university. Non-students can apply to be a full-time Campus Organizer.

Job Details: Campus Organizing Fellows are paid a monthly stipend of $1,000 and are expected to work 15 hours a week.

To Apply: Please send your resume and portfolio (not required, but highly recommended) to jobs@wiscoproject.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected category under local, state or federal law.

We see diversity of all kinds as essential to doing our work well. We strive to build a team that reflects the diverse composition of America itself. We strongly encourage applications from structurally marginalized and under-represented communities and experiences to apply.