Community Outreach Group Hiring Canvass Manager in Northern Virginia

[Amy Groya]

Organization: Community Outreach Group
Title: Canvass Manager
Position: Seasonal              
Location: Northern Virginia

Organization Overview

The Community Outreach Group is a part of Planned Parenthood, but a separate organization that supports Planned Parenthood and coalition partners with short-term staffing and large-scale advocacy campaigns.  Community Outreach Group is working to quickly register 10,000 voters in Northern Virginia. 

General Description

Community Outreach Group is seeking a Canvass Manager to start work in Northern Virginia on a paid field program working to register voters. As a Canvass Manager, you will hold responsibility for the day-to-day management of the canvass office, including taking primary responsibility for meeting goals, managing staff, payroll, recruitment, supporting team leaders, training, office culture and environment, turf, reporting, and quality control. Some of these duties will be delegated to supporting staff.

Responsibilities

This is a mid-level role. In this position, you will have the opportunity to:

·         Collaborate with field leadership to develop and implement all components of a strategic canvassing operation in a key metropolitan area

·         Create a canvassing plan to break down campaign-wide goals into daily and weekly benchmarks

·         Oversee a budget to support the payroll and operations of your office

·         Recruit, train, and supervise canvassers in each area

·         Analyze daily and weekly reports to track progress to goals and implement rigorous quality control measures.

·         Communicate and coordinate regularly with client and/or partners

 

Qualifications

Applicants for this position should bring the following knowledge, abilities, and attitude:

·         Knowledge of and commitment to progressive causes

·         Strong interpersonal skills, including comfort meeting and talking with new people

·         Effective communicator face-to-face and in writing

·         Familiarity with advocacy or electoral campaigns, and the use of data to set goals and measure progress

·         Flexible and self-motivated to identify priorities and complete work without being micro-managed

·         Prior staff or volunteer management experience

·         Experience in leading canvasses as a volunteer leader, organizer, or canvass management staff

·         A basic understanding of how to break large goals into smaller pieces of work

·         Has set goals and deadlines for other people, and helped them meet those goals or deadlines

·         Comfortable with technology, and can learn new tools quickly

·         Willing and able to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends

·         Ability to maintain confidentiality (in handling of HR documents)

·         Licensed driver with access to a vehicle

We especially encourage applications from people who bring some of these additional skills or experiences:

·         Experience with Voter Registration drives

·         Staff management experience

·         Has strong ties in the city in which you are applying to work

·         Brings some knowledge of or experience in reproductive health and voter registration

·         Has lead trainings or facilitated workshops

·         Has worked with or built coalitions

·         Knows how to use the VAN voter database software (strongly preferred)

·         Knows how to use Excel

·         Knows how to use Google email, documents, etc.

·         Budget management experience

·         Experience with hiring

·         Experience managing logistics or office operations

 

There is no formal education requirement for this position.

 

Compensation

This is a full-time, exempt, mid-level position with the Community Outreach Group, with an annual base salary between $47,000 - $60,000 depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.

Full-time exempt employees are also eligible for a cell phone reimbursement up to $75/month, and employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.

To Apply

To apply, please complete an application on our careers site. https://849.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/communityoutreach/Posting/View/80

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

This is a short-term position with an expected end date of October 24th, 2016.

The Community Outreach Group, LLC is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a non-discriminatory work environment and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.  Community Outreach Group, LLC is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.