Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

*This is a Living document and subject to flow & transformation

KFTC is a grassroots organization with thousands of members and a dozen chapters across Kentucky organizing for racial, social, healing, and economic justice, a healthy environment, and an honest democracy. We believe in the power of community organizing - people working together to achieve common goals. KFTC members and staff use a range of organizing strategies to build grassroots power and make change, including leadership development, strategic communications, art and culture, integrated voter engagement, grassroots fundraising, alliance building, and we’re open to new, effective, and innovative ways centered in love, care, and collective growth & action as well.

KFTC’s leadership adopted the following vision and goal to guide our work through 2031:

KFTC is seeking to hire an experienced organizing fellow who is highly motivated, self-aware, creative, committed to lifelong learning, and transforming the future of Kentucky while seeking to achieve mutual liberation for all. Working under the supervision of an Organizing Co-Director, this organizer will also collaborate closely with KFTC’s Organizing Co-Director, who manages KFTC’s education justice work.

We are especially interested in hiring a fellow to:

• →Do strong, anti-racist, anti-colonial statewide organizing.
• →Bring skills and experience doing and leading organizing movements for mutual liberation, grassroots fundraising, campaigns, membership building, door-to-door canvassing, 1:1s, and more.

You will:

• →Recruit, support, and activate a growing, diverse, skilled, informed, and value-aligned set of grassroots leaders in Kentucky whose lived experiences and values motivate them to work for racial justice and honest, equitable, fully-funded public education.
• →Support KFTC’s Education Justice Team, members, and allies to advance a visionary, anti-racist, anti-colonial policy agenda related to honest, equitable, just, and fully-funded public education.
• →Support the implementation of organizing campaigns and strategies related to honest, equitable, just, and fully-funded public education, and education justice. Current priorities include strengthening and supporting Kentucky Public School Strong, along with policies that: increase funding of public education, increase mental health support in public education, ensure transparency of public decisions; oppose policies that: target educational equity, reduce public education funding, target diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, trauma-informed practices, promote school vouchers.
• →Create opportunities for thousands of Kentuckians to grow as KFTC and Kentucky Public School Strong education justice leaders, which can look like: designing and facilitating workshops; providing one-to-one and small group coaching; planning high-quality webinars, conferences, and community meetings; lifting and supporting the perspectives & experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of culture residing in KY; creating clear and compelling written materials; organizing door-to-door canvassing; creating opportunities for people to take collective action and demonstrate solidarity; supporting people to take on various leadership roles and more.
• →Represent KFTC within several key education justice alliances, and cultivate strong and healthy relationships that will lead to greater alignment, resources, and sharing strategies among allies at local, state, regional, and national levels.
• →Contribute to important organizational goals and priorities, including by centering anti-racist & anti-colonial principles and practices, participating as a strong and effective staff member, helping to raise resources through grassroots and foundation fundraising, and more.

1. This position will be open until filled; an ideal start date is in July 2026.
2. This position requires a full-time, flexible, 40-hour/week schedule with frequent in-state travel, some overnight travel, and some work on nights and weekends. A valid driver’s license and a vehicle that can be used for work are also required.
3. This is a one-year Education Fellow position. It could expand in the future.
4. KFTC has offices in Louisville, Lexington, Covington, Bowling Green, Prestonsburg, and London, KY. KFTC staff work either mostly from home or some hybrid between home and office, depending on their schedule and responsibilities.
5. All employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and comply with safety policies and procedures, like masking and social distancing. Employees in need of an exemption from this policy due to a medical reason or because of a sincerely held religious belief must submit a completed Request for Accommodation.
6. The one-year salary for the Education Justice Fellow is $60,000.
7. Generally, KFTC’s staff receive an annual cost-of-living pay adjustment plus an additional across-the-board yearly pay raise.
8. KFTC currently provides free full family, health, dental, and vision coverage. We have a compensation time policy, 15 paid vacation days, 9 paid sick days, 3 paid personal days, and 11 paid holidays, as well as 5 days of closure time at year’s end. We offer 40 days of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child, and 20 days of paid family care leave. All staff are eligible for a month's paid sabbatical after 5 years. KFTC contributes to a Simplified Employee Pension plan after 3 years of employment.
9. This position is in the bargaining unit of the staff union, which is represented by the Chicago-Midwest Regional Joint Board, Workers United, an affiliate of SEIU.
10. KFTC is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, religion, color, marital status, veteran status, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical size or weight, status as parent or caregiver, pregnancy status, ancestry, or physical or mental disability that can be reasonably accommodated without undue hardship.

Our equal employment opportunity philosophy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, training, promotion, transfer, job benefits, pay, and dismissal.

KFTC aims to be guided by people most impacted by the issues at the center of our work. People of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQIA2S+ people are encouraged to apply.

Please apply with a resume, cover letter, and contact information (name, title, organization, email, and phone number) for three professional references.

This position is open until filled. We’ll review applications starting in May 2026 and begin reaching out to schedule first-round interviews upon receipt of the application.