Virginia Regional Field Director at For Our Future & For Our Future Action Fund

[For Our Future]

Virginia Regional Field Director

at For Our Future & For Our Future Action Fund 

Virginia

For Our Future and For Our Future Action Fund are seeking a Regional Field Director to help lead an aggressive organizing, communications, and paid canvassing program.  For Our Future aims to win elections and gain political power by engaging and mobilizing people and community-based organizations on progressive issues. Building off of our 2016 campaign in five battleground states, FOF will continue its unique and now-proven model to build infrastructure and power for progressive issues and candidates in Virginia in 2017 and beyond. The model is to work with and through community-based organizations and local activist networks, with a focus on direct voter contact and earned media. Our goal is to turn communicators into connectors, engage communities in policy discussions, and turn out voters for progressive issues and Election Day victories.

The Regional Field Director will be responsible for helping to execute the statewide field plan, political organizing, regional communications, and supervision of paid canvasser operation(s) within his/her assigned region. Regional Directors will report directly to the Virginia Organizing Director.  

For Our Future is a project of For Our Future Action Fund (“FOFAF”), a non-profit “social welfare” organization, & For Our Future (“FOF”), a federally registered “independent expenditure” political action committee that incorporates both issue advocacy and electoral programming, respectively.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with state leadership to help implement new communications and digital strategies in your region.
• Build crucial relationships with leaders of the progressive community.
• The regional director must have a passion for community organizing and movement building, as well as a track record of managing programs that develop capacity to meet metrics-based goals on data-driven campaigns.
• Manage organizers and canvassers.
• Cutting turf and assigning work through voter databases.
• Ensure that all staff are properly trained and consistently productive throughout the day.
• Ensure that daily, weekly, and monthly goals are met and exceeded.  
• Conduct extensive coaching and development with staff on best practices for organizing, paid canvass recruitment and retention.  
• Ensure that all required reporting is accurate and timely and that all regional data is entered on time.  
• Monitor metrics within each assigned region including knocks per shifts, flake rate, completion rate, confirmation rate; implementing rigorous systems to meet assigned goals associated with metrics.  
• Represent the campaign at public events and community meetings.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of experience managing a team.
• Outreach and partnership-building with other progressive organizations.
• Media and communications campaign experience.
• Staff training & management skills.
• Strong knowledge of Votebuilder/VAN.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel, database skills, and access to a reliable portable computer.
• Ability to work long hours (especially nights and weekends) in a fast paced, metrics driven work environment.
• Must have reliable access to a vehicle with a valid driver's license.
• Ability to meet deadlines under pressure while handling multiple projects.
• Ability to work independently and in team settings.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. FOFAF offers a competitive salary and benefits package consistent with experience, skills and demonstrated abilities.

How to Apply:

Please submit a resume, cover letter, and three references to:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/forourfuture/jobs/803040