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Campaign Manager

People’s Tech Project seeks an experienced campaign manager to lead a fight to stop a data center tentatively proposed in a low-income Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhood in South Philadelphia, while building the ability of communities to grow, fight and unite.

Salary: $82,774 – $89,142

Benefits: include 4 day/32 hour flexible work week, PTO of 20 vacation, 15 sick, and 7 floating holidays, plus organizational holidays, paid short and long term disability, 90% employer coverage of healthcare plans for staff, opportunities to enroll in dental and 401k plans

Timing: 12 months with possibility of extending full time position

Hours: Flexible 32 hour work week with expectations of more hours in pivotal campaign moments. Must be able to work during core hours of 11am-4pm EST Monday – Thursday.

Location: Prioritize candidates who live in Philly

Position type: FTE, Temporary (with possibility of full position)

Application Deadline: Rolling, with preference to those submitted by January 9, 2026. Final deadline: January 31, 2026

Target Start Date: February 16 – March 2, 2026, with some flexibility

Experience level: at least 3-5 years experience of community/labor/issue campaigning, experience in campaign leadership or the equivalent preferred

People’s Tech Project: Who we are and what we do

People’s Tech Project supports community groups fighting at the intersection of power, race, inequality, and technology to win a future where technology helps build dignity, justice, and liberation, rather than exacerbating oppression and harm in the hands of big corporations and the state.

People’s Tech Project is fiscally sponsored by Movement Alliance Project, a 501(c)3 organization. We are based in Philadelphia, but have remote staff in other states as well.

People’s Tech staff members have led many successful community-based and power-building local campaigns around expanding internet access and limiting telecom and tech corporate power, predictive analytics in courts and sentencing, and policing technology. Our leadership has also played a central role in organizing the national movement sector focusing on tech justice, and we have led coalitions and built key tools and resources for this sector, particularly on issues of racist predictive analytics in the criminal legal system.

People’s Tech was launched in June 2022 to address key challenges in both the local Philly movement ecosystem and the national movement for tech justice. Community movement groups directly experience how technology impacts their daily lives, but need support to develop strategies that incorporate how tech shapes the systemic oppression they are fighting. The national sector for tech justice has won important victories, but it is small, fighting on too many fronts, and largely too disconnected from these movements for human liberation and the priorities of those most impacted.

Our aim is to ensure that we are making our movements stronger and better positioned to fight for their own visions of liberation. For basebuilding organizations, we envision a strong and coherent social movement ecosystem armed with the analysis to understand how technology oppresses people, and to incorporate that analysis into their fights to win human liberation. Nationally, we envision a technology justice sector grounded in the material needs and leadership of impacted communities and their organizations, that works in step with social movements to successfully win power away from the tech sector as one crucial part of their collective work.

At People’s Tech, we are developing our organizational structure, culture, and policies, and are experimenting with and evaluating practices to see what fits us best. Our staff describes People’s Tech as inclusive, adventurous, caring, and enthusiastic, and we value clarity, transparency, support and accountability, being grounded in community and hope, growing everyone’s leadership, and supporting each other. We are excited to welcome candidates who are eager to join our growing team and work with us to develop our direction and impact.

About the Campaign Manager:

The purpose of this role is to lead a campaign to stop a data center tentatively proposed in a low-income Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhood in South Philadelphia, while building the ability of communities that represent that neighborhood, and neighborhoods across Philadelphia, to grow, fight and unite.

People’s Tech coordinates a Tech Justice Collective of community and basebuilding groups focused on how tech issues aggravate conditions of oppression and inequality, and works to aim for a vision of how tech can hold up dignity, justice, and liberation. A Working Group of the Collective is coming together to engage around potential data center builds in Philadelphia.

This role is for an exceptional, experienced campaigner, who knows that having a total focus on what communities gain when they fight to win, both in terms of material benefits for their people AND in terms of their ability to build more power longterm, is the primary responsibility and a requirement of this position.

You should be a highly organized individual with demonstrably strong project management skills and communications skills. You are a planner who is always looking ahead, anticipating shifts and roadblocks and able to offer solutions to keep projects on schedule and ensure deadlines are met. You should be a team-builder who can foster trust and alignment among groups of people coming from different backgrounds and work well under pressure, transmitting hope, possibility, and vision. You should have direct experience moving community organizations to be clear about their strategy and division of labor, and be able to help them stay accountable to what they committed. You should be able to prioritize based on internal and external shifts in the campaign and help others to do so as well, and be comfortable with generative conflict for the sake of good strategy. You should be detail-oriented as well as able to look beyond the hill in front of us to the next part of the journey.

You should be able to demonstrate that you already have or can readily develop an understanding of the social justice Philadelphia landscape and its key players. You should have demonstrated organizing experience and accountability to Black, brown, immigrant, poor and working class communities. You should have experience leading or playing a pivotal role in supporting a winning citywide campaign or something equivalent (such as a union campaign or corporate campaign) in the last 2 years.

Core responsibilities:

Build the organization and coordination of groups participating in the Philly Tech Justice Collective’s Data Center Campaign Working Group to develop and execute a campaign strategy to take on the proposed data center in South Philadelphia, as well various tech sector forces that seek to dominate and exploit local communities in Philadelphia.
Ensure that those groups successfully execute the strategy they develop.

Overseeing Strategy Development, Implementation and Evaluation

Convene the leaders within the Philly Tech Justice Collective and members of the Data Center Working Group, including local and national partners, to develop and execute organizing strategy for the data center campaign.
Coordinate with the Tech Justice Collective on other active campaigns towards People’s Tech’s/the Collective’s vision for tech justice and the Collective’s campaign objectives.
Support partners to organize against data centers in Philly by adding capacity and leadership to the campaign, including: helping to set up meetings with elected officials, organizing and sharing out emerging/vital information through campaign updates and individual meetings with partners, identifying opportunities for tactical maneuvers to bring to the group and move towards its purpose, tracking responses from our opposition, tracking media and news about these issues locally and nationally, and working with the core organizing groups to make decisions and moves.
Manage planning and logistical support for campaign events and base building activities.

Expectations for the Facilitation of the Working Group and Information Sharing

Lead campaign check in meetings, ensuring the space is accessible for the groups engaged in the campaign, which have varying levels of availability and organizational capacity.
Track tasks and to-dos across the campaign and support participants to be accountable to executing them
Craft timely agendas, follow up promptly with everyone regarding decisions, maintain clear record keeping, and hold 1:1s with groups and their leaders to ensure clarity and alignment
Facilitate the group through making decisions quickly and under pressure, by ensuring decision making processes and norms are respected and adhered to (no short cuts)
Communications support: interface with local and national partners, elected officials, journalists and reporters to execute the comms plan.
Represent the campaign when appropriate and necessary, in concert with our communications consultants, to support the community organizations engaging with the earned media and TV.

Reports to: Devren Washington, Organizing Director

Salary and Benefits:

Salary: The Campaign Manager compensation will fall between $82,774 – $89,142, depending on years of experience in a similar role.

Exempt, 32 hours per week

Movement Alliance Project and People’s Tech Project is an at-will employer.

People’s Tech utilizes a negotiation-free salary process, in order to combat pay disparities based on personality or social position and to ensure pay parity across our roles. Salaries for all staff exist in a framework based on the position’s level of responsibility within the organization and how it fits into our internal hierarchy, which determines level, and an individual’s years of experience, which determines tier.

The Campaign Manager is a Level Two Strategist position. Tier will be determined based on the years of experience a candidate has in a similar role. Upon receiving a job offer, candidates may negotiate the tier if they believe it is incorrect based on their experience, but not the associated salary.

Benefits: People’s Tech benefits include:

4 day/32 hour flexible work week, with an understanding that more time may be required in high stakes moments
Paid time off:
- 20 vacation days
- 12 sick days
- 7 floating holidays
- 10 organizational holidays and a winter break
Paid short-term and long term disability and life insurance
Additional types of leave
90% employer coverage of healthcare plans for staff members and opportunity to enroll in dental plan
2% employer match in 401k plan
Internet stipend for remote work
Investment in professional growth through training and coaching

Our Hiring Process and Timeline

To apply: Use our application form to apply. It includes some basic information about yourself, application questions, and a place to upload your resume.

Application deadline: We will accept applications until January 31, 2026, with priority given to applicants who apply by January 9th.

Target start date: We would like to have the selected candidate start between February 16th and March 2nd.

Accommodations

People’s Tech offers, upon request, accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the application, interview, and hiring process. If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact us.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, immigrants, women and femmes, LGBTQI+ individuals, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and formerly convicted, incarcerated, or systems-impacted people are highly encouraged to apply.

People’s Tech Project does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, political affiliation, exercising one’s right to family care and medical leave, medical condition, including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions, or any other category protected by local, state, or federal laws. We are not offering US visa sponsorship at this time.

People’s Tech is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a welcoming and inclusive culture and a staff that is representative of the communities impacted by the issues we fight. People’s Tech encourages all applicants who are aligned with our political vision and mission and have relevant experience to apply, even if they don’t fully meet every qualification or skill.

If you have questions about the application process, please reach out to us at contact@peoplestechproject.org. Please do not reach out with resumes or applications to this email; if you are interested in applying, use the application form below.

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