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Corporate Immigration Legal Assistant

Southfield, MI · On-site

$65K - $85K/yr

Provide exceptional client service when interacting with clients, attorneys, vendors, and guests. * Assist with immigration petitions and applications, including gathering required documentation and ...

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Ingham County, MI

Juvenile Court Officer

Kalamazoo, MI · On-site

$61K - $90K/yr

Prepares a variety of petitions regarding assigned cases. Also serves legal papers such as court orders and summons. * Transportation duties include physically transporting clients and/or their ...

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As of Aug 15, 2026, the average hourly pay for petition in Michigan is $19.25, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $16.78 and $20.72 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a petition?

A Petition job typically involves gathering signatures to support a cause, initiative, or legal action. Petitioners engage with the public to explain the purpose of the petition and encourage participation. This role may be part of political campaigns, advocacy groups, or legal proceedings. Strong communication skills and knowledge of the issue being petitioned are essential for success.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the petition position?

Petition circulators and coordinators require strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and a solid understanding of regulations surrounding petitions. Familiarity with digital signature-gathering platforms, spreadsheets, and relevant documentation or compliance tools is beneficial. Excellent communication, persuasion, and interpersonal skills help effectively engage potential signatories and coordinate with team members. Mastery of these skills ensures petition efforts are legally compliant, efficient, and capable of achieving signature goals.

What are some common challenges faced by petition coordinators, and how can they be addressed?

Petition coordinators often encounter challenges such as managing strict deadlines, ensuring all signatures meet legal validity requirements, and motivating team members to reach target numbers. Adapting quickly to changing regulations and leveraging technology for more efficient data collection are crucial for staying compliant and effective. Building rapport with the public and fostering a positive, collaborative environment within the team also help overcome obstacles. Successful coordinators frequently communicate progress, provide training, and troubleshoot issues as they arise. By consistently addressing these challenges, they maintain momentum and achieve successful petition campaigns.

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Infographic showing various Petition job openings in Michigan as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 71% Full Time, 24% Part Time, 3% Temporary, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 93% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 5% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $40,046 per year, or $19.3 per hour.

Campaign Organizer-Macomb & Oakland , MI

The Outreach Team

Oakland, MI • On-site

Full-time

Medical, PTO

Posted 20 days ago

Job description

Hiring an Organizers in key Congressional Districts
Who We Are: The Outreach Team is the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the progressive movement. With an on-the-ground presence in communities all across the country, our world-class team runs successful civic engagement campaigns to build a future that's fairer, healthier, safer, and more peaceful for everyone.
We are seeking passionate organizers who believes in the power of grassroots organizing to create lasting change. This role is ideal for someone who is driven by expanding representation in government, supporting inclusive leadership, and advancing policies that strengthen reproductive freedom, economic opportunity, and equity. Experience working in roles that support gender equity and/or women's rights is a plus. If you are excited to empower communities, develop emerging leaders, and build a democracy where every voice has the opportunity to be heard, we encourage you to apply.
General Overview:
Organizers will be charged with recruiting, training, and working with a team of volunteers.The Organizer will start by building and recruiting a team of supporters and volunteers around canvassing and petitions. From there, Organizers will continue to engage volunteers through a series of campaign events and actions.
Locations: we are seeking local candidates from these congressional districts: PA-08, CA-48, NY-17, MI-07, MI-10, VA-01, VA-02, AZ-01, AZ-06
What You'll Do:
  • Recruit and Train a Community of Volunteer Activists
    • Call and text supporters and recruit them into grassroots actions.
    • Identify new supporters and volunteers by knocking doors, gathering petitions, flyering, and conducting in-field recruitment efforts in the community and on local campuses
    • Run grassroots skills training to develop effective campaigners among volunteers.
    • Keep meticulous track of a volunteer list so that no potential volunteer falls through the cracks.
    • Represent the campaign through participation in community spaces and events, while engaging and uplifting coalition and partner organizations.
  • Generate Campaign Actions
    • Gather over a thousand petitions from the community in support of key campaign issues
    • Generate hundreds of additional actions targeting key Members of Congress with a particular focus on social media posts, phone calls, postcards, and photo petitions.
    • Recruit and train volunteers to generate more petitions and volunteer engagement at events.
    • Recruit and engage with community leaders, organizational partners, and VIPs to build meaningful relationships while generating new supporters, volunteers, and event attendees.

Organize High-Volume Visibility Events
  • Organize and execute exciting, high-visibility in-person events demonstrating support for climate, jobs, and justice.
  • Educate community members about historical climate investments and the urgency of continued actions.
  • Nail 100% of all messaging and legal requirements and ensure that volunteers do the same.

Manage Digital Campaign, Data Management, and Reporting Tools
  • Demonstrate public support by recruiting volunteers to post on their own social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
  • Use peer-to-peer texting services and relational organizing tools to communicate with community members.
  • Send timely and compelling email campaigns to recruit activists to campaign activities.
  • Track every interaction with detailed notes in order to report numbers daily and write weekly reports on the results of the campaign.

Who You Are & Keys to Success (the must-haves):
To be successful in this job, you will excel in these areas:
  • Relationship Building: You develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse group of local and statewide community members. You are attentive and empathetic to the communities we serve, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or ability, and can identify shared values across communities for collective growth. You can build authentic relationships through authenticity and reliability, continuously uplifting others and their goals. You are comfortable and experienced in public speaking to a group about environmental, jobs, health care issues and climate change.
  • Inclusive and Collaborative Leadership: You approach leadership with a "power with" mindset that recognizes the impact power hierarchies have in different settings. You can learn from others, see and hear other perspectives, and step in or step back as necessary. You are reliable and accountable, always transparent about your abilities, capacities, and expectations. You honor the time and commitments of others while inspiring them to meet goals.
  • Commitment to Equity and Inclusion: You have a proven ability to develop meaningful connections with diverse communities, including a wide range of community organizations, community leaders, and community members. You work with the community and within the workplace to identify areas of improvement for a more equitable environment. You take continued action and efforts to improve your REI knowledge, skills, and tools.
  • Drive to Achieve Results: You have experience accomplishing ambitious goals and getting results, even when there are obstacles. You have the experience or ability to plan backwards to meet multiple goals timely and effectively. When there are unexpected changes, you bounce back and adjust quickly, learning and improving from any mistakes.
  • Must be able to drive, have a valid drivers license, and also you will need to meet our driver authorization standards

Skills and Experiences we Expect of all Outreach Team employees:
  • Commitment to equity and justice.
  • Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all of your interactions with colleagues and community members.
  • Passion for the role that your work plays in creating change in the world.
  • Kindness and consideration for others.
  • Drive to work collaboratively: learning from others; stepping-in or stepping-back when needed.
  • Transparency: comfort admitting what you do and don't know, your capacity, and abilities.
  • Task management: Able to adapt to the evolving needs of a project. Able to tackle big-picture projects and break them down into smaller pieces.
  • Organized and efficient: Experience or demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or goals at once in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  • Acute attention to detail: Track interactions and tasks with detailed notes. Plans ahead for roadblocks and bounces back quickly when problems arise.
  • Effective communication skills (written or spoken) that are clear, concise and honest.
  • Comfortable and excited to speak about the campaign publicly.
  • Coach and learning mentality: successful experience or willingness to learn new things and pick up new skills on the job. Able to learn from mistakes and try again.
  • Understanding of how your words and actions affect others, including an awareness of power language and communication accessibility.
  • Ability to work weekends and weekday evenings, occasional holidays.

Nice-to-Haves, but Not Required:
  • Organizing experience within or around Iowa.
  • Experience working for nonprofits and issue campaigns.
  • Data Management and Evaluation Experience: Experience working with various data management systems and tools, mainly Google Suite.
  • Experience with Relevant Campaign Tools and Technologies: VAN, Action Network, ThruText, MailChimp, eCRMs like EveryAction, or social media tools (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
  • Event or Project Planning & Management, Implementation or Evaluation.
  • Knowledge or previous experience working on this issue is a plus, but not required.

If you were here right now, you would be:
  • Recruiting, training and developing activist leaders in your community to collect supporter petitions, educate others on key campaign issues, and recruit constituents to in-district events and actions.
  • Planning and executing events around corporate accountability, climate action, and health care including, but not limited to: door knocking, phonebanking, petitioning, visibility events, educational events, and more.
  • Developing relationships with community and campus leaders on corporate accountability, health care, and justice for collaborative recruitment, event planning, and power building.
  • Engaging and expanding our support network through public visibility actions, voter outreach, and relationship-building.

Salary, Benefits and Perks:
The salary for this position is $55,000 to $67,000 for full-time at 50 hours per week.
We offer a generous benefits package, including paid vacation and sick leave, health insurance, and hands-on training. At the end of the campaign, there may be opportunities for advancement and bonuses.
At The Outreach Team, we prioritize equity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage Black, indigenous, people of color, women, people with previous felony convictions, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and others who identify with underrepresented groups to apply.
To Apply:
Visit: https://theoutreachteam.applytojob.com/ap

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