Canvass Team Lead and Volunteer Coordinator

Position Overview

The Canvass Team Lead and Volunteer Coordinator is STV’s on the ground lead for our field work in states. Canvass Team Leads lead our volunteers and leaders in our grassroots voter engagement programs, manage our volunteer deployments in states, as well as support their own canvass teams. A Canvass Team Lead will be expected to be based in one state until election day.

These positions will run from late August to beyond election day in November, and will be on site. Lodging, flights, and on-site transportation expenses will be covered by the organization. We are expecting to make final decisions on canvass locations in June, but sites will include 5-7 fall battleground states, potentially including:
Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas. Canvass Team Leads will be expected to travel the week of August 22nd for a staff training and gathering and will then be deployed to their assigned state.

This list describes general responsibilities; it is not exhaustive.

• Coordinate, and implement STV’s plan for volunteers to integrate into and support partner organizations’ daily canvassing activities.
• Train volunteers via webinars and in‑person trainings.
• Provide support, guidance, motivation, and feedback to volunteer canvassers and volunteer leaders.
• Participate in the planning and managing logistics related to out‑of‑state volunteers. Lead all local troubleshooting.
• Track volunteer shift scheduling and participation in our databases.
• Invest in the development of volunteer leaders including one‑on‑ones, political development, skill building, and confidence building.
• Delegate appropriate tasks to volunteer leaders and/or captains.
• Communicate effectively with volunteers, “branch” and “pod” coordinators and other stakeholders about plans and processes. (Seed the Vote is using a distributed organizing method encouraging people to form pods with friends and family committed to taking action together to defeat right‑wing politics. Branches are larger networks of people organizing into the Seed the Vote program.)
• Adhere to operating procedures to uphold the organization’s values and volunteer safety.
• Ensure the organization’s purpose is conveyed to the public.

• Serve as an on‑ground liaison between Seed the Vote and partner organizations to troubleshoot and make timely adjustments and decisions to ensure effective and smooth operations.
• Coordinate with partners to collaborate on volunteer management (including training and other support) for greatest efficiency, impact, and experience of volunteers.
• Plan, implement, and lead real‑time volunteer troubleshooting.
• Support partner organizations, as needed.
• Activate volunteers to become involved in partner organizations’ activities, as appropriate.

• Train and support volunteer leaders to be effective team leads for groups of volunteer canvassers.
• Lead groups of 10–200 volunteers in daily door‑knocking and other outreach activities.
• Manage expected volunteers in CRM systems: confirm attendance, plan turf, track canvasser data.
• Shadow and observe volunteers on doors, modeling and encouraging effective organizing conversations.
• Support canvassers and respond to their ongoing needs.
• Organize and prepare materials for each canvass, including literature, technologies, and other essentials, as provided by the partner organization.
• Use quantitative and qualitative assessment of volunteers and support volunteers to improve.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Able to work on a computer, including sitting at a desk, for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Manual dexterity to operate a keyboard and other equipment.
• Able to see or read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
• Able to speak clearly and in audible…