Position Title: Regional Field Director – Flint/Saginaw, MI
Job Location: Remote
Position Type: Full Time
Education Level: N/A
Salary Range: $54,000.00 Salary/year
Travel %: 25-50%
Job Shift: Any
Job Categories: Nonprofit - Social Services
Openings: 1
ABOUT FOR OUR FUTURE
Founded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest, permanent progressive field program across key states. Our vision is to expand the progressive infrastructure and advance economic prosperity for all, strong community schools, climate justice, and racial and social justice. Along with community partners and volunteers, we consistently engage with people in face-to-face conversations around what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, drive local progress, make a community's collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people's lives.
In 2018, we made over 10 million door knocks and held 1.5 million face-to-face conversations with voters in 7 states. Our turnout operation and innovative program helped restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians, expand Medicaid coverage to 400,000 in Virginia, and resulted in sizable electoral progress at the state and federal level, including the pickup of 3 Governor mansions, 1 Senate seat, 13 Congressional seats, and 22 state legislative seats.
For Our Future will continue to grow and win through 2020, building power across issue fights and elections. Headquartered in Washington, DC, our current state programs include Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
JOB SUMMARY
For Our Future Michigan seeks a full-time Regional Field Director for an aggressive organizing and paid canvassing program. The Regional Field Director will recruit, train, and manage teams of volunteers on local and national causes, candidates, and campaigns that matter to them. This Director will also be responsible for executing the statewide field plan, political organizing, and supervision of a volunteer operation in the Flint/Saginaw area.
For Our Future Michigan is a statewide coalition organization that builds progressive power through voter engagement and organizing within communities around key issues. We uplift the voices of the community to strengthen public education, advance social and racial justice, preserve our environment, and fight for working families.
Responsibilities may grow to include managing a regional team and a paid canvass operation. This position requires frequent travel between both regions in Michigan.
The Regional Field Director will report directly to the State Field Director. This is a full-time position through at least November 6, 2020.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
● Overseeing a robust volunteer recruitment, training, and management campaign.
● Working directly with state leadership to help implement new communications and digital strategies in your region.
● Building crucial relationships with leaders of the progressive community and serving as regional lead for our partnership program.
● Managing organizers and canvassers to educate constituents on progressive issues and get out the vote programs to boost progressive candidates and issues up and down the ballot.
● Representing the organization at community events and meetings when advised.
● Recruiting, hiring, training, and managing canvassers, volunteers, and/or organizers.
● Ensuring that daily, weekly, and monthly goals are met and exceeded.
● Conduct daily training, including launching and debriefing at the beginning and end of daily shifts.
● Conducting extensive coaching and development on best practices for organizing, canvassing, recruitment, and retention.
● Ensuring that all required soft reporting is accurate and timely, and that all regional data is entered on time.
● Monitoring metrics within the region, including, but not limited to, attempts per shifts, flake rate, conversation rate, and action conversion rate; and implementing rigorous systems to meet assigned goals associated with these metrics.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
● Manage one or more teams of volunteers, field managers, and/or canvassers.
● On-turf coaching, support, and accountability.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
● High school diploma or equivalent (GED).
● At least 1-2 cycles of competitive campaign or advocacy experience.
● 2-4 years of experience managing a team and hitting competitive field goals.
● 2-4 years of experience working with volunteers.
● 2-4 years of relationship-based organizing and leadership development experience, including one-on-one meetings and team building.
● Strong knowledge of Votebuilder/VAN.
● Strong ability to build relationships and partnerships with other progressive organizations.
● Experience in managing programs that develop capacity to meet metrics-based goals on data-driven campaigns.
● Experience in supporting media and communications programming, preferred.
● Ability to manage, coach, and train staff proficiently.
● Must have basic computer literacy; access to a reliable laptop is ideal.
● Ability to work long and irregular hours in a fast paced, metrics-driven work environment.
● Must have access to reliable transportation.
● Ability to meet deadlines under pressure while handling multiple projects.
● Ability to work independently and in team settings.
● The Regional Field Director is expected to make regular turf visits and shadow new canvassers/organizers, and thus, may be subject to extreme heat, rain, and freezing temperatures.
● Bilingual (Spanish) experience is a plus, but not required.
WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS
●Because of COVID-19, state and local government stay at home orders, phased reopening orders, and other factors limit For Our Future's canvassing program. When these limits apply, your work environment will likely be your domicile (teleworking) or a socially-distanced office. Overseeing door-to-door canvassing is considered an essential function of this job. When it is possible to safely and appropriately resume door-to-door canvassing, it will be a high priority for this role to stage, launch, and manage canvass programs. Employees may occasionally be required to work in extreme weather conditions, including rain, heat, and cold. This position is expected to interact regularly with community partners face-to-face or in a group setting, and may also be expected to interact face-to-face with volunteers or voters.
EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK
● Employees may be required to work outside of normal business hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
● Employees may be required to abide by certain blackout dates during a campaign cycle, and are generally not allowed to take more than 2-3 days off consecutively, unless it's an emergency.
For Our Future offers the following benefits to all full-time employees:
■ Health insurance coverage - 95% employer paid and 5% employee paid.
■ Paid parental leave.
■ Retirement savings plan with matching contributions up to the first 5%.
■ $100 monthly cell phone bill reimbursement.
■ 13 days paid time off every calendar year, as well as other paid holidays.
THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT DESIGNED TO COVER OR CONTAIN A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, OR ACTIVITIES THAT ARE REQUIRED OF THE EMPLOYEE. OTHER DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND ACTIVITIES MAY CHANGE OR BE ASSIGNED AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.
For Our Future Action Fund is an equal opportunity employer. This application will not be used for limiting or excluding any applicant from consideration for employment on a basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law, including race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, creed, national origin, disability, ancestry, military service, or veteran status. Should an applicant need reasonable accommodation in the application process, he or she should contact a company representative.
AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT
The relationship between you and the For Our Future Action Fund is referred to as "employment at will." This means that your employment can be terminated at any time for any reason, with or without cause, with or without notice, by you or the For Our Future Action Fund/For Our Future. No representative of For Our Future Action Fund has authority to enter into any employment agreement with you that is contrary to the foregoing "employment at will" relationship. By signing below, you hereby affirm your that your employment is "at will", and that you acknowledge that no oral or written statements or representations regarding your employment can alter your "at will" status, except for a written statement signed by you and our Chief Executive Officer or duly authorized representative, as determined by a resolution of the Board of Directors of For Our Future Action Fund.
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