Shontel M. Lewis was born and raised in Denver's Five Points neighborhood. She’s spent her time on Denver City Council — and her entire career — fighting for the Denver we deserve and is now running for Mayor of Denver! Her priorities for a thriving city include restoring city services, building social housing, implementing a vacancy tax on intentionally unoccupied buildings, ending mass surveillance, protecting small business, and taxing the rich.
Our people-powered campaign launched in late July, just officially qualified for Denver's Fair Election Fund, and now we’re looking for the right person to take us from this post-launch period all the way to the mayor’s office. We’re bringing on talent who can take us to the next milestones: qualifying for the ballot in December, building a coalition all across Denver, and winning the election on April 6. Learn more about both future-Mayor Lewis and the campaign at shontelforthepeople.com.
Relationships and connections are everything to you! You know what you know and you know what you don’t (and you know who to tap in and when to tap them).
Based in Colorado and able to attend and organize campaign events on the ground Two cycles of work experience with political candidates, unions, and/or grassroots groups or as a community organizer, student organizing, and related knowledge Familiarity with voter databases (VAN), polling data, NGP, ActBlue and other campaign infrastructure software Comfort managing a broad coalition of consultants, volunteers, vendors, and others
Experience working on large city or statewide campaigns, preference to those who have worked on campaigns for candidates with local governance experience (mayor, city council, commissioner, governor, etc.) Experience managing large operations with moving parts and multiple staff and vendors Based in Denver
You’re organized and value project management. You have no issue managing existing budgets, setting priorities and strategy, and pivoting when either needs adjusting.
Buy in and manage the overall picture and the concentric circles of priorities within
Manage tight deadlines, understanding both what’s urgent but also what’s important and not yet urgent
Oversee and support endorsement processes Build and deploy field program
Manage the candidate's campaign schedule: Understand where and how her time needs to be spent, including protecting her time for high-priorities, fundraising calls, and events
Determine which public and media appearances, podcast and meeting requests, and the like are a genuine fit and also therefore good use of time
Prep future-Mayor Lewis for debates and media appearances, as-needed
Mid–November through April 30, 2027
Position could extend through June 30, 2027 in the event of a run-off — we aim to win outright!
Send the following items to ** shontelforthepeople@gmail.com**
A letter of interest telling us why you wanna join this team
Please include 2–3 adjectives those close to you would use to describe your soul and one thing that brings you joy that isn’t work-related
A resume showcasing your mad skills