2025 Statewide Community ORGANIZING FELLOWSHIP

• No prior experience necessary! We are looking for young people (or those young at heart) who want to make change in their community. Whether you’re in school, working, volunteering, or just looking for a new opportunity, this is for you!
• We’ll be hiring in Billings, Bozeman and Missoula, so you must be able to get to events, shifts and meetings in the community you are applying to.
• This fellowship  is for folks who are older than 18. If you are in high school, we recommend starting with our High School Fellowship Program

YES! Fellows will be paid $17/hr

Every fellow will support and engage in each of these areas throughout the fellowship under the supervision of their local Senior Organizing Manager

• Weekly Classes: Each week on Wednesdays from 5:30-7:30 pm there will be a required class. These sessions will cover a variety of aspects of organizing, and fellows will be able to engage with the presenters and apply their learning to their work in the fellowship. 
• Immersive DEIJ Sessions: Fellows will have an assigned DEIJ reading to complete each week, and then will connect with another fellow from around the state to discuss the readings. There are also three required DEIJ sessions that will be led by a Montana based consultant.
• Community Building: Each fellow will be responsible for engaging with current volunteers and bringing new volunteers into FMT’s work throughout the fellowship. This could look like helping out a new volunteer on their first voter registration shift, helping out a new volunteer on their first canvassing shift or meeting with a potential volunteer. 
• Event Support: Each community will hold several events throughout and fellows will support in the planning, recruitment, and running of these events.

Summer 2025 Fellowship

The Summer Fellowship has a stronger focus on voter registration! This means the fellows will spend more time at events registering voters across our communities and will help with other events related to issue advocacy and community building!

• Voter Registration: This is a large part of what fellows will be doing for the first half of the program! We will be out in our communities at events, farmer’s markets, concerts, and other places helping to make sure our communities are registered to vote.

Fall 2025 Fellowship

The Fall fellowship has a stronger focus on Get Out The Vote work. This fellowship will provide additional training, and field work in this area.

• Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Work: Fall fellows will be focusing on GOTV during Montana’s municipal elections! We will work to educate our community members about the upcoming election and remind them to show up to vote through door to door canvassing,  phone calls, candidate forums, letter writing parties and more!

Have a schedule capacity to consistently work a minimum of 10 hours a week on a mostly-flexible schedule through the entirety of the fellowship. 

• The Summer fellowship is 12 weeks long and runs from June 10th to August 29th.  And the fall fellowship is 11 weeks long, running from September 2nd to November 14th. Fellows must have access to reliable transportation in Billings, Bozeman, or Missoula and be able to attend events, voter registration shifts, and other required aspects of the fellowship
• This fellowship is a part-time, minimum 10 hours per week position with the possibility to work up to 20 hours per week. The exact number of hours will be determined during the interview process. 
• You must be available on Wednesday evenings from 5:30-730pm for a weekly class
• You must be comfortable working unconventional hours– including nights and weekends
• You’re comfortable conducting fieldwork for up to 6-8 hours at a time in all weather conditions
• This position includes both in-person and virtual components 
• You must be comfortable being managed and building relationships with our statewide team remotely

• The application is an online form that you’ll need to submit all at once. You will see a button to indicate whether you are applying for the summer or fall fellowship. If you don’t have regular access to the internet, please let us know and we can provide a paper application. 
• The Senior Organizing Manager in each region  will review applications and reach out for an informal interview via Zoom.

Reach out to your area’s Senior Organizing Manager:

• Billings- Pari Kemmick pari@forwardmontana.org
• Bozeman: Lyla Brown lyla@forwardmontana.org
• Missoula: Hannah Gale  hannah@forwardmontana.org

That’s OK! There are plenty of opportunities to get involved at Forward Montana. Check out our volunteer opportunities here!

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