The NewsGuild (TNG-CWA), which is a sector of the Communications Workers of America, is hiring a Campaign Lead to support organizing. The position is currently open and the application deadline is March 22, 2026.
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Level: Mid-level
Salary: USD $79,664.26 – $101,086.38 / year
More than 12,400 workers have unionized with The NewsGuild-CWA in the last 10 years from more than 280 workplaces. Workers are unionizing in media, tech, nonprofits, publishing and more. In the face of a consolidating media industry increasingly run by hedge funds and private equity firms, workers are demanding fair pay, job security and the preservation of quality journalism.
These workers are organizing with The NewsGuild, a sector of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a dynamic, member-led union that is building a movement for social and economic justice. TNG-CWA seeks a highly experienced and motivated campaign lead to serve as a lead organizer on campaigns at media companies around the U.S.
The position is initially slated to last a year but is subject to possible extension.
The ideal candidate will have experience running multiple organizing campaigns. They will have the organizational and strategic skills necessary to inspire and activate workers to take action.
The position will report to The NewsGuild-CWA Sector Organizing Coordinator, elected leadership, and the CWA Organizing Director. The position can be based anywhere in the United States. It is will involve some travel.
Job Qualifications:
- Willing and able to take regular direction and learn from experienced campaign staff
- Willing to commit, energy, heart and long, irregular hours
- Ability to learn and implement the campaign basics
- Be able to take notes, listen and get information/report back to campaign leadership to evaluate campaigns
- Ability to assess workers’ support of the campaign, identify potential committee members, move workers to make concrete commitments and take action, recruit people to a committee, facilitate committee meetings, work with groups.
- Understand and discuss issues in a way that contribute to the momentum of an organizing campaign.
- Have a fundamental commitment to building a diverse and democratic labor movement and ability to organize workers from diverse backgrounds and demographics.
- Willing to attend an Organizing Institute
- Basic communications skills, able to do basic flyers and other written material
- Strong social, written and verbal communication skills
- Motivated self-starter able to learn and troubleshoot without heavy supervision
- Driver’s license and reliable car, must be able to travel to work locations away from home/office location.
- 1-2 years (2 years preferable) of prior labor, political or community organizing experience
- Patient in pressure situations and savvy with conflict management
- Bilingual, a plus
Responsibilities when employed in an Organizing campaign:
- Ability to assess support of the union or campaign, identify potential committee members, move workers to make concrete commitments and take action, recruit people to a committee, facilitate committee meetings, work with groups
- Understand and discuss issues in a way that contribute to the momentum of a campaign
- Utilize numerous organizing tactics including home-visiting, cold phone
calling, hand billing, etc. - Have a fundamental commitment to building a diverse and democratic movement and ability to organize workers and citizens from diverse backgrounds and demographics
- Along with campaign leadership, be able to work effectively with committee members
- assist with moving campaigns to stage 3, i.e., an NLRB election or voluntary recognition campaign
- keep the organizing committee on track
- motivate them to move through roadblocks and be public when it is time
- give them a realistic assessment of progress and inoculate them
- Work with the local to help identify and encourage others in local to participate in organizing campaigns and build support for organizing
- Along with the District Organizing Coordinator, be able to help develop and implement a local organizing plan
- Submit reports as required, but at least monthly
- Must be able to work on projects to build the local, but also be able to assist in national and district organizing projects.
- Be heavily involved in major National and District Organizing Priority campaigns
- Capable of running campaigns with minimal assistance, motivate and dig out committee members, work in a team with other organizers involved in the campaign
- Be able to communicate effectively in writing, in speaking, and via electronic media. Be able to work with data bases, able to do basic flyers and other written material
- Able to function as a trainer at an Organizer Institute and train organizing committee members
- Work with locals on National and District priority campaigns and help local organizers
- Travel to work locations away from home and work location by car and plane to locations as needed
- Computer skills that allow at least intermediate-level data management and communication
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time, use hands to handle or feel objects, writing instruments or keyboard controls, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and stoop, kneel or crouch. Specific vision abilities required by this job include both close and distance vision.
CWA is an equal opportunity employer, and, as such, does not discriminate against an employee or applicant on the basis of race, creed, color, age, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, disability, or any other classification protected from discrimination under applicable law.
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