Location: Corpus Christi, Texas

Are you passionate about protecting the environment? Are you looking to make a real impact and get paid? Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE), a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization, is seeking community-minded individuals to serve as paid canvassers gathering ballot initiative signatures. This is a fast-paced, team-oriented position focused on reaching voters in the community.

About the Fair Water Amendment Ballot initiative

Corpus Christi is in a long-term drought, but City Hall gives the biggest water users a pass on paying and doing their fair share. For nearly a decade, large industrial water users have been allowed to pay a modest "exemption fee" to avoid responsibility for much-larger drought surcharges and to forgo participating in some conservation efforts, even during severe drought stages.

That means residents, small businesses, schools, and hospitals must conserve water and may face fines or surcharges during drought conditions, while big industrial users — companies like ExxonMobil, Valero and Citgo - can opt out of their obligations.

It's time for voters to decide if that's fair.

That's why a coalition of Corpus Christi community groups are supporting the Fair Water Amendment (FWA), a proposed change to the Corpus Christi City Charter to help restore fairness and stability to our region's drought response.

If approved by voters this November, the FWA would:

• End exemption programs that allow large industrial water users to avoid drought surcharges and conservation requirements.

• Require all large industrial users to pay drought surcharges once exemption programs terminate.

• Set minimum drought surcharges for industry based on rates adopted by the City Council in 2025.

• Require large industrial users to follow all applicable drought conservation, allocation, and curtailment rules.

• Apply the same standards to the City's wholesale water customers, ensuring fairness across the entire system.

The Fair Water Amendment would not raise water rates for residents or small businesses, and does not mandate drought surcharges for anyone other than large industrial users!

Join us in getting this amendment on the ballot!

Responsibilities

• Go door to door in the community and talk to voters and collect signatures
• Engage voters at polling locations and busy community centers to collect signatures
• Motivate people to support pro-environment initiatives by voting, volunteering, providing good contact information, putting up yard signs etc.
• Other campaign-related tasks, as needed

Compensation and Position Details

Pay range: $20/hr - $22/hr, paid biweekly

Expected Time Commitment: 15-30 hours per week

This is a temporary work assignment that will end upon the collection of our signature quota. Because this position is considered temporary, 90 days or less in duration, it is ineligible to be included in the collective bargaining unit of the Texas Environmental Workers Union (TEWU).

Essential Job Functions

• Frequently move door-to-door in residential areas to engage voters
• Occasionally ascend/descend stairs
• Communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• Observe details at close range (within a few feet of the observer)
• Frequently work in outdoor weather conditions
• Operate a smartphone, computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a telephone, printer, copier, etc…
• Commute within the metro area of Corpus Christi, Texas

Qualifications

• Strong persuasive communication skills and the ability to work well with a team
• Positive attitude
• Must be 18 years of age
• Able to work weekends
• Detail-oriented and comfortable to work in a fast- paced environment
• Comfortable with smartphone applications
• Prior organizing experience preferred but not required (paid, volunteer, or internship)
• A background in MiniVan is preferred but not required
• Access to a reliable vehicle. (Preferred but not required)
• Bilingual English and Spanish a plus

Application Instructions

Submit your application through our online portal. Applicants are asked to fill out a pre-screening questionnaire to determine eligibility. We recognize that great candidates may not meet every qualification outlined in this job description and we welcome any applicants who believe they would excel in this role. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

About Texas Campaign for the Environment / TCE Fund

TCE's mission, and that of its affiliated 501(c)(3 organization), TCE Fund, is to engage people and communities through face-to-face public education, grassroots organizing, and action-oriented research for a cleaner and healthier Texas. Both organizations lead local, statewide and national issue campaigns to fight pollution, especially fossil fuel and petrochemical facilities that harm communities and worsen climate pollution. TCE promotes clean economy solutions such as Zero Waste and renewable energy.

TCE strives to live by the organizational values of intentionality, justice, respect, teamwork, and vision. All employees and the organization as a whole use these values to guide the work that we take on and how we go about doing that work. These values are core parts of our identity and are used in our organizational strategic planning and our individual performance evaluations.

TCE is more than an equal opportunity employer. We are actively seeking to build a diverse and inclusive team with a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills to support the incredible diversity of grassroots organizing across Texas. TCE encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, and record of arrest or conviction.