Browne for Denver: Community Organizer

LOCATION

Denver, CO

SALARY

$45 - $45 (Hourly)

COMPANY

Browne for Denver

DEPARTMENT

Organizing

EMPLOYMENT TYPE

Campaign

MINIMUM LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE

Entry Level

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Send a short note to jake@brownefordenver.com answering three questions. 1. Tell us about somebody you got to come back to something a second time. What did you do between their first time and their second? 2. Tell us about something you set up that kept going after you stepped away. What did you leave behind that let it run without you? 3. You read about Benefits Enrollment Days above. How would you fill twenty chairs with seniors from your part of Denver, and who would you call first? Write it in your own voice. No ChatGPT. This job is getting strangers to trust you, and that starts with the note. No resume theater required. The full posting is at https://brownefordenver.com/jobs/

APPLY BY

September 12, 2026

APPLICATION LINK

jake@brownefordenver.com

JOB DESCRIPTION

Browne for Denver is hiring its first and only staffer. One person, one job: get neighbors moving.

 

Jake Browne is running for Denver City Council. You would be the person who gets people to the same place at the same time, and then gets them to come back.

 

Eight weeks, September 14 through November 7.

 

The job

 

Get volunteers and keep them. One shift is a nice afternoon. Two shifts is a volunteer. We count the second one.

 

Run the Saturdays Jake isn't at. You own the location, the supplies, the sign-in sheet, and the text that goes out Thursday.

 

Put on the programs as the money lands. The first one is Benefits Enrollment Days, paid navigators helping seniors claim benefits they already earned, set up before Medicare open enrollment starts October 15. You book the room and the navigators. You fill the chairs.

 

Close every event like it happened. Photo, headcount, receipts to the treasurer the same week.

 

Train first-timers so nobody knocks a door guessing.

 

Answer fast. Someone who raises a hand hears back within a day.

 

In the last two weeks, everything narrows to getting every volunteer and every neighbor this campaign helped to the polls.

 

By November 7 the measure is what still runs without you.

 

Who we're looking for

 

You've organized people before. A union drive, a mutual aid group, a block party that actually happened. No campaign experience required. Jake has never run for anything either.

 

You plan for the half of the yeses who won't show, instead of being surprised by them.

 

You know Denver, or you learn a city fast and on foot.

 

You can run a spreadsheet, and strangers say yes to you.

 

You can work a room at a senior center and a group chat full of twenty-somethings without talking down to either.

 

Nights and weekends are when volunteering happens, so that's when you work. The schedule flexes. The events don't.

 

What it pays

 

Your pay is public. Your name, your rate, and every check we cut you go on the campaign's spend tracker within seven days, same as everything else this campaign buys. Payroll isn't the exception, and payroll clears before this campaign buys anything else.

 

$45.00 an hour, W-2. Twenty-eight hours a week through October 18, then thirty-five to the finish. About 245 hours and $11,025 in wages across the eight weeks, paid every two weeks on the same day every time.

 

Other compensation: $750 on November 7 when you finish the term and hand over the volunteer list, the captain roster, and the filled templates.

 

Benefits: paid sick leave accrued under the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. Mileage and phone come back to you against receipts, up to $150 a month combined. The job shouldn't cost you money. This is an eight-week term, so there is no health, dental, vision, retirement, or paid vacation benefit.

 

You have to live in Denver. Every dollar we spend goes to a Denver payee, including you.

 

You report to Jake. There's no org chart. Building one is the job.

 

One big note

 

The money comes from the Fair Elections Fund. We applied August 28 and we are waiting on the Clerk. No offer goes out before it is confirmed, and we will tell you exactly where it stands when we talk.

 

Applications close September 12, 2026. The full posting is at brownefordenver.com/jobs