Field Organizer - Tallahassee - of Florida

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Florida seeks a Field Organizer to join our Field Department and help achieve the organization’s goal of protecting the liberties that define our democracy. This position is based in Tallahassee, Florida, with a primary focus on the Leon County region.

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida (ACLU of Florida or ACLU-FL) is an affiliate of the national ACLU, a national public interest organization devoted to the defense of the Bill of Rights. For over 100 years, the ACLU has served as the nation’s primary protector of the liberties that define our democracy. The organization implements its vital civil liberties mission in all 50 states, in large part through affiliate entities such as the ACLU of Florida.

The ACLU of Florida, the state’s largest civil rights and civil liberties organization, employs litigation, public policy advocacy and organizing, and public education to protect and promote a broad range of constitutional values and individual rights, such as freedom of speech, racial justice, right to privacy, religious liberty, criminal justice reform, voting rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, and immigrants’ rights.

The ACLU of Florida litigates a broad range of complex constitutional cases in federal and state courts through direct representation, filing amicus briefs, and submitting administrative complaints to state and federal agencies.

This is a regular, bargaining-unit position represented by the National Organization of Legal Services Workers/United Auto Workers Local 2320 (NOLSW/UAW Local 2320), under the terms of the ACLU of Florida’s collective bargaining agreement.

OUR ORGANIZING APPROACH

The ACLU of Florida has adopted a “campaign” approach for its work. Work is focused on pursuing specific integrated advocacy issue‑area campaigns to achieve measurable goals that will expand civil liberties and civil rights, while building the long‑term power of the communities served by the affiliate and the civil liberties movement.

At the moment, the ACLU of Florida is focused on three strategic imperatives:
First Amendment Freedoms;
Equality, Justice & Dignity; and Democracy & Accountability. The priorities in which the organization engages are integrated advocacy, and include policy, communications, and litigation in addition to grassroots organizing.

As a result of this campaign approach, the ACLU of Florida’s organizing model focuses on developing volunteer leaders for the civil liberties movement, mobilizing grassroots support for campaign objectives, and educating Florida residents about campaign objectives through person‑to‑person field contact. Organizing at the ACLU of Florida centers the experiences and leadership of directly impacted people and engages directly impacted people in the work, while also ensuring that non‑impacted allies engage in effective and substantive action.

The Field team works with Florida residents to influence decision‑makers, and by holding events and actions. Organizing at the ACLU of Florida is oriented toward systemic change and policy action — moving people to take strategic actions that influence decision‑makers to advance specific campaign objectives across electoral, legislative, legal, and community education contexts. It is also designed to build long‑term political and community power for the civil liberties movement.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Reporting to the ACLU‑FL Program Manager and working in close collaboration with the ACLU‑FL Field team, the Field Organizer will mobilize ACLU of Florida supporters, volunteers, and voters to build power across the state. The goal is for Floridians to understand, be prepared to advocate and vote, and to expand state…