Jobs & Internships

Below are the job & internship opportunities for which we are currently accepting applications. To apply, please send your resume to apply@reprorisingva.org.

• Campus Outreach and Programs Coordinator
• Paid Canvasser — Multiple Virginia Regions
• Policy Fellow

Role Summary

The Campus Outreach and Programs Coordinator supports REPRO Rising Virginia’s campus engagement, student leadership development, and organizing programs, with primary responsibility for coordinating the Rise Up for Repro Student Advocacy Fellowship. The Coordinator manages program logistics, participant communications, recruitment support, curriculum administration, campus relationships, tracking, and program evaluation in collaboration with the Director of Campaigns and Programs and other staff.

This is a coordinator-level position designed to build program coordination, campus engagement, and staff leadership experience. The role may grow over time to include expanded program ownership and formal management responsibilities based on organizational needs, demonstrated performance, and appropriate approval. The current position is nonexempt and does not independently establish organizational strategy, approve hiring decisions, set compensation, or exercise final disciplinary
authority.

This role is grant-funded through the 2026-2027 academic school year.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Student Advocacy Fellowship Coordination

• Coordinate the annual recruitment and onboarding process for the Student Advocacy Fellowship in partnership with the Director of Campaigns and Programs and Human Resources.
• Build and maintain relationships with university departments, faculty, student organizations, and other campus partners.
• Track applications, nominations, candidate materials, interview schedules, and selection documentation using approved organizational systems.
• Coordinate fellowship calendars, learning modules, program materials, webinars, guest speakers, check-ins, and participant communications.
• Maintain and update curriculum materials, learning resources, syllabi, check-in tools, and related program documents under the direction of the Director of Campaigns and Programs.
• Support approximately 12 to 14 undergraduate fellows annually by providing program guidance, mentorship, reminders, and assistance with educational milestones.
• Track participation, learning activities, capstone milestones, and other program requirements for reporting and program evaluation.
• Coordinate fellowship alumni engagement and maintain accurate alumni contact and participation records.
• Support annual program evaluation, grant reporting, and program data collection in collaboration with appropriate staff.
• Ensure fellowship records and participant information are maintained securely and in accordance with organizational privacy and records-management requirements.

Campus Outreach and Organizing Support

• Coordinate campus outreach activities, including relationship-building, informational events, tabling, volunteer engagement, and coalition-building with campus and community partners.
• Support voter engagement, public education, advocacy, and organizing activities as assigned and consistent with the organization’s program plans.
• Represent REPRO Rising Virginia at campus, community, coalition, and organizational events.
• Maintain accurate outreach records, contact lists, event information, and participation data.
• Collaborate with Organizing, Programs, Communications, Policy, Development, and Operations staff on approved projects involving students, youth, campuses, volunteers, or community engagement.
• Perform political or electoral activities only as assigned and ensure that related work is documented and allocated to the appropriate organizational entity, program, and funding source.

Organizational Events and Special Projects

• Support planning, coordination, logistics, implementation, and follow-up for organizational events and special projects, which may include Advocacy Day, organizing events, campus programs, trainings, conferences, volunteer activities, and the annual gala.
• Coordinate assigned timelines, materials, participant communications, volunteer support, event setup, and logistical needs.
• Participate in event implementation and post-event follow-up as reasonably required.
• Take on additional program responsibilities that are reasonably related to the position’s primary function and consistent with the employee’s training, workload, and applicable employment requirements.

Employee, Intern, and Volunteer Coordination

• Support recruitment and selection processes for approved intern, temporary, or part-time positions in coordination with the hiring manager and Human Resources.
• Participate in interviews, onboarding, scheduling, training, and day-to-day work coordination after appropriate approval.
• Provide task direction, guidance, feedback, and follow-up to assigned interns, temporary employees, volunteers, or student leaders.
• Review and approve time records only when formally authorized and trained to do so.
• Refer performance, conduct, attendance, accommodation, or employee-relations concerns to the appropriate manager and Human Resources.
• The Coordinator does not independently create positions, set compensation, extend employment offers, or make final disciplinary or termination decisions.

Distinction Between Fellowship and Employee Supervision

Student fellows participate in an educational and leadership-development program and are not supervised as employees unless they are separately employed by the organization. Fellowship oversight includes program guidance, mentorship, participant support, and tracking of educational milestones. Employment related supervision applies only to employees, interns, or temporary staff formally assigned to the Coordinator.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to protecting and advancing reproductive rights, reproductive freedom, and equitable health care access.
• Experience in program coordination, campus engagement, student leadership development, nonprofit advocacy, community organizing, campaigns, or a related field.
• Experience working with students, volunteers, activists, community members, or partner organizations.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to maintain accurate records.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and coordinate projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Ability to work independently while communicating progress, questions, and concerns appropriately.
• Ability to use sound judgment, follow established processes, and escalate matters requiring management or HR review.
• Cultural competency and demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse communities.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle participant, applicant, employee, and organizational information appropriately.
• Proficiency with common workplace technology, virtual meeting platforms, shared document systems, and data-tracking tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in advocacy, education, youth leadership development, or a related field is preferred.
• Familiarity with Virginia colleges, universities, student organizations, or campus networks.
• Experience with voter engagement or constituent-management platforms such as VAN, VoteBuilder, or Catalist.
• Experience working or volunteering in an issue-based advocacy, nonprofit, electoral, or organizing environment.
• Experience coordinating fellowship, internship, training, or youth leadership programs.
• Spanish-language proficiency.
• Experience providing day-to-day guidance to interns, temporary staff, volunteers, or student leaders.

Travel and Schedule Requirements

• Ability to travel regularly to campuses, organizational offices, events, community meetings, trainings, canvasses, hearings, and other locations throughout Virginia.
• In-office work two days per week in either the Alexandria or Richmond office, with the specific schedule established by the supervisor.
• Periodic evening and weekend work, particularly during fellowship events, legislative sessions, advocacy activities, election cycles, and major organizational events.
• Schedule adjustments will be communicated and managed in accordance with organizational policy and nonexempt timekeeping requirements.
• A valid driver’s license is preferred when driving is used to perform required travel; ownership of a personal vehicle is not required.
• Approved business travel expenses are reimbursed in accordance with organizational policy.

Work Environment

This is a hybrid position based in Virginia. The employee will work remotely and report to either the Alexandria or Richmond office two days per week, as assigned. The role requires regular interaction with staff, fellows, students, volunteers, community partners, coalition partners, activists, and external stakeholders. The employee must be able to work independently, collaborate across teams, manage competing priorities, and maintain appropriate confidentiality and professionalism.

Physical Requirements

• Use of a computer and phone for extended periods.
• Participation in virtual and in-person meetings.
• Regular travel to campuses, offices, events, community meetings, trainings, canvasses, hearings, and organizing activities.
• Occasional standing, walking, carrying program or event materials, tabling, canvassing, and event setup.
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits
REPRO Rising Virginia provides a competitive benefits package, including:

• Compensation: $27-$32 an hour.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability paid 100% by the organization.
• Retirement plan with 3% employer match.
• Paid time off in accordance with organizational policy.
• Five sick days per year.
• Restorative Fridays, outside of legislative session and post-Labor Day to Election Day, in accordance with organizational practice.
• Additional paid days off for most federal and religious holidays, in accordance with organizational policy.

Timekeeping and Nonexempt Status

This position is classified as nonexempt. The employee must accurately record all hours worked, including required meetings, trainings, travel time when compensable, evening work, and weekend work.

Overtime or additional hours must be approved in advance when practicable; however, all hours actually worked must be reported and will be paid in accordance with applicable law and organizational policy.

Other Duties

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications. The employee may be assigned other duties that are reasonably related to the position, consistent with the employee’s classification, training, workload, organizational policies, and applicable employment laws.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Accommodations

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Worker with Disabilities needing assistance applying please feel free to call the HR Office at (908) 873-8434.

To apply, please send your cover letter and resume to apply@reprorisingva.org.

About REPRO Rising Virginia (RRVA)

REPRO Rising Virginia is a strong and trusted leader in the fight to establish laws and policies that ensure real, reliable, affordable, and timely access to abortion, contraception, and other reproductive health services for every person in Virginia. We work with community and state-based partners to connect this work to broader reproductive health, rights, and freedom. In our efforts, we seek to center the needs and voices of those most affected by reproductive injustice and to deepen our understanding and practice of intersectionality and justice, in both our internal practice and external programs. Ultimately, we seek to ensure that every person in the Commonwealth of Virginia has access to comprehensive and high-quality reproductive health information and services free of stigma or coercion.

We are an independent, state-based advocacy organization leading the charge for reproductive
rights and freedom across the Commonwealth. We are a team of progressive people deeply committed to reproductive rights and freedom, striving to support one another as we work to secure reproductive rights and equity for the people of Virginia. Our team is collaborative and supportive; we encourage asking for help when it is needed and often pitch in across teams when things get busy. We are diverse and visionary thinkers. We value diversity of lived experience, welcome bold and creative ideas, and ensure space to test those ideas. We own areas of work and decisions within a collaborative team. We believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us a more creative and resilient organization.

RRVA is made up of three entities: our main 501(c)(4) policy and political arm; the 501(c)(3) REPRO Rising Virginia Foundation, which oversees our issue advocacy, culture change, and education programming; and the REPRO Rising Virginia Political Action Committee, which works to elect pro-reproductive freedom candidates. Currently, our staff are located across our offices in Alexandria and Richmond.

Role Summary

REPRO Rising Virginia is seeking Paid Canvassers across multiple regions of Virginia to support our voter engagement and field organizing efforts during the 2026 election cycle.

We are currently recruiting Paid Canvassers for the following regions:

• Hampton Roads
• Richmond
• Prince William County (PWC)
• Northern Virginia
• Charlottesville
• Harrisonburg
• Blacksburg
• Roanoke

The primary responsibility of this position is conducting door-to-door canvassing and engaging voters and community members in meaningful conversations about reproductive freedom, civic engagement, and upcoming elections. Paid Canvassers will use organization-approved scripts and materials, accurately document voter interactions, and support broader voter-contact and field goals.

This is a temporary, part-time, nonexempt position anticipated to continue through the conclusion of the 2026 election-cycle field program. Paid Canvassers may work up to 25 hours per week, including some evenings and weekends. Weekly hours and schedules may vary based on program and operational needs and are not guaranteed.

The Paid Canvasser reports to the Field & Canvass Manager. An assigned Community Organizer may serve as the employee’s day-to-day field point of contact and provide operational guidance, assignments, and field support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Conduct door-to-door canvassing in assigned neighborhoods and communities within the employee’s designated region.
• Engage voters and community members in respectful and meaningful conversations using approved scripts, talking points, and materials.
• Accurately record voter-contact information and field activity using organization-approved tools and technology.
• Follow assigned turf, voter-contact procedures, data-quality requirements, and field protocols.
• Attend required trainings, meetings, briefings, and other scheduled field activities.
• Communicate regularly with the Field & Canvass Manager and assigned field point of contact regarding progress, scheduling, field conditions, questions, and concerns.
• Support voter outreach, community engagement, and other approved field activities as assigned.
• Represent REPRO Rising Virginia professionally and respectfully when interacting with voters, community members, coworkers, volunteers, and partners.
• Promptly communicate safety concerns, significant incidents, or other field-related concerns.
• Perform other reasonably related field duties as assigned based on program and election
  cycle needs.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable initiating face-to-face conversations with individuals you do not know.
• Ability to communicate respectfully with people from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.
• Ability to follow scripts, instructions, and established field procedures.
• Strong attention to accuracy when recording voter-contact and field information.
• Basic familiarity with smartphones, tablets, or similar technology used for voter-contact data entry.
• Ability to work independently while remaining connected to a collaborative field team.
• Ability to receive and apply coaching, feedback, and direction.
• Dependable, punctual, and able to maintain reliable attendance.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Previous canvassing, voter engagement, community outreach, organizing, advocacy, campaign, or similar experience is preferred but not required. Training will be provided.
• Must be available to work evenings and weekends as needed.
• Must be able to reliably travel to assigned turf and reporting locations within the region for which they are hired.
• Must be comfortable using a smartphone or similar mobile device for voter-contact and field-related activities. Employees may be asked to use their personal phone for certain work-related functions, where appropriate and consistent with organizational policy.
• Reliable transportation is required; however, ownership of a personal vehicle is not necessary.
• Commitment to reproductive rights, reproductive freedom, and civic engagement.

Working Conditions

• This is primarily a field-based position requiring regular outdoor work.
• Regular local travel throughout the employee’s assigned region is required.
• The position requires frequent walking and standing for extended periods.
• Work may take place outdoors in varying weather conditions.
• Paid Canvassers will regularly interact with members of the public.
• Some indoor work, including meetings, trainings, briefings, or basic data-entry activities, may occasionally be required.
• The position may require evening and weekend work to effectively reach voters and community members.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Compensation Package

• Hourly Rate: $22.00 per hour
• Schedule: Up to 25 hours per week, based on program needs.
• Employment Status: Temporary, part-time, nonexempt.
• Benefits: This is a temporary, non-benefited position.
• All required work time, including required trainings, meetings, briefings, and assigned field activities, must be accurately recorded and will be compensated.
• Hours and shifts may vary based on program needs and are not guaranteed.

How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit their resume by email and clearly indicate their region of interest in the email.

Please select from the following regions:

• Hampton Roads
• Richmond
• Prince William County (PWC)
• Northern Virginia
• Charlottesville
• Harrisonburg
• Blacksburg
• Roanoke

Applicants interested in more than one region may identify multiple regions of interest.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Equal Opportunity Statement

REPRO Rising Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, active-duty wartime or campaign badge veteran, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment. Workers with Disabilities needing assistance applying, please call the HR Office at (908) 873-8434.

To apply, please send your resume to apply@reprorisingva.org.

About REPRO Rising Virginia (RRVA)

REPRO Rising Virginia is an independent, state-based reproductive rights and freedom advocacy organization seeking to hire a part-time temporary Policy Fellow for the 2025 General Assembly session in Richmond.

Our Mission Statements

REPRO Rising Virginia Foundation supports and protects – as fundamental freedoms – every person’s bodily autonomy, reproductive decision-making, and access to the full continuum of sexual and reproductive health care without barriers. Centered in racial and gender justice, the Foundation supports education, leadership training and other programs to advance Reproductive Freedom, combat stigma, and promote sound public policy. RRVA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. REPRO Rising Virginia is a bold, effective, and trusted leader in the policy and political fight for Reproductive Freedom in Virginia. We advocate for laws and policies that guarantee the right to bodily autonomy, including access to abortion care without barriers. We elect pro-reproductive freedom candidates at the state and local levels, and we hold lawmakers accountable to the people of Virginia. Centered in racial and gender justice, we educate people in our communities, as well as policymakers, about the broad range of issues encompassing sexual and reproductive health and rights. RRVA is a 501(c)(4) organization.

The Opportunity

The Policy Fellow will report to and work closely with the organization to develop and advance REPRO Rising Virginia’s proactive and defensive policy priorities and related strategies to protect and expand access to abortion, contraception, and the full range of reproductive healthcare in the Commonwealth. The role is a hybrid position onsite presence requested for key committee hearings and events including a full day lobby day at the Capitol.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist in policy research, focused on monitoring primarily state policy trends as well as local and national policy trends. In addition will be responsible for policy and legal analysis including summary writing.
• Monitor and provide state budget analysis, including summary writing.
• Assist with various types of external and internal written policy content development, such as drafting memos, sign-on letters, legislative action alerts, statements of interest, blogs, factsheets, etc.
• Tracks key legislation and votes taken daily throughout Virginia’s 2027 legislative session and maintain Bill Track 50 platform to assist with development of RRVA’s 2027 Reproductive Freedom Legislative Scorecard.
• Under the direction of the Policy Director, schedule and conduct direct lobbying meetings with legislators, as well as their staff.
• Provide support to the Policy Director with coordinating engagement lobby day and Fellowship shadow day activities.
• Serve as an additional support to REPRO Rising Virginia’s Communications and Organizing departments with volunteer engagement and preparing information for RRVA social media accounts. Additional responsibilities as required by the role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent required.
• Recent law school graduate or master’s graduate in public policy, social work, political science, or equivalent; Or experienced 2L/3L law or current graduate student with 1-2 years direct experience working with legislative/policy research and analysis.
• Alignment with REPRO Rising Virginia’s mission.
• Demonstrated passion for and commitment to reproductive freedom, including a working level knowledge of the reproductive health, rights, and justice policy and legal landscape.
• Entry level understanding of Virginia’s legislative landscape.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and self-motivated to work independently, when necessary.
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to manage various tasks and in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to travel and attend key committee hearings and events including lobby days.
• Valid driver’s license

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

The position is temporary part-time position generally from January to March/April 2027 with a hybrid work option. In person/on–site presence requested for key committee hearings and events including lobby day(s), with additional availability for office days as needed by the Policy Director. A maximum 29 hours a week with a core work schedule of Monday-Friday (work schedule times to be determined by candidate and Policy Director and documented in offer letter).

Pay rate: $21.00-$25.00 per hour

Equal Opportunity Statement

REPRO Rising Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, active-duty wartime or campaign badge veteran, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment. Workers with Disabilities needing assistance applying, please call the HR Office at (908) 873-8434.

To apply, please send your resume to pmilewicz@reprorisingva.org.