Field Organizer

Detroit Action, a project of Tides Advocacy•Detroit, MI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Detroit Action is seeking Field Organizers to support year-round campaigns, events outreach, and leadership development. Field Organizers are responsible for the rapid follow-up of contacts generated by outreach teams, a wide variety of membership engagement and recruitment tactics, leadership development, and other strategies aimed at building a strong base of member-leaders and allies. Successful applicants will have experience with the relational organizing model and a proven ability to build strong teams of members through leadership development.

Requirements

Experience and ability to work/organize across racial and cultural lines.
Experience doing community, labor, or political organizing.
Experience working in a grassroots membership organization or other type of social justice organization.
Knowledge of local community, history and issues affecting Detroiters.
Demonstrated commitment to taking action to improve your community or to address specific problems.
Ability to think strategically, make decisions, be an effective communicator, and be organized.
Proactive, self-motivated individual.
Keen analytical skills and technologically savvy.
Commitment to social justice, and a belief that those directly affected by issues in society must be at the forefront of changing them.
Dedication to all aspects of organizing – recruitment, leadership development, mobilization and reflection.

Nice To Haves

Experience with or understanding of issues faced by low income people is preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop an individual strategic plan to meet recruitment and outreach goals for the organization.
Timely and aggressive follow up with leads generated by field efforts including one on one meetings to build strong relationships and identify and develop leaders into clear membership roles.
Support the building of neighborhood chapters, issue committees and caucuses.
Attend actions, training and mobilization opportunities in order to activate members and activists.
Mobilize and track engagement of members and activists at various events and field opportunities in the database.
Develop the political consciousness of the affiliate organizations’ leaders through popular education, reflection, leadership development and developing appropriate educational materials.
Generate petition sign-ups that build towards the organization's mission and goals.
Engage potential new members through meetings and regular follow ups to move new recruits to become annual DA members.
Manage future canvassers (number to be decided based on finalization of electoral program) which includes, cutting turf for canvasser assignments, educating on best practices, and monitoring day-to-day activities.
Hiring, training, and overseeing canvassers, as well as planning a canvassing strategy.
Supervise canvassers who survey members of the public for data collection.