Pennsylvania Stands Up: Field Director

LOCATION

PA

$77,500 / Yearly

Pennsylvania Stands Up

Organizing

Non-Profit

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PA Stands Up is an independent, multiracial organization dedicated to winning a Pennsylvania that works for all of us. We are working people living across Pennsylvania’s small cities and towns and rural areas. Our 4 chapters spanning 6 counties work across race and place to build grassroots leadership, fight for policies that work for working people, and elect candidates who represent our values.

• Directly supervise paid field staff driving accountability, ongoing reflection, learning, innovation, and improvement through check-ins, goal setting, accountability, and one to one coaching.
• Metrics
• Develop standardized metrics for field staff to meet as a standard for PA Stands Up field organizing programs including but not limited to:
• Door knocks
• Phone calls
• Member recruitment/prospects
• Host spaces in the Field department for consistent outreach, engagement, and development for staff and member leaders
• Work with the Directors of Power Building and People + Culture to develop and implement a consistent training program for our field staff
• Develop and train on a standardized curriculum for new canvassers
• Daily political education for canvassers
• Develop and train on campaign specific training and skill-building in relation to chapter-specific and statewide issue campaigns
• Work with the Senior Leadership Team to develop and execute internal training programs for staff development

• Ensure all field programs and staff are in compliance with our internal processes.
• Work with the Director of Operations + Finance to ensure all work is done in accordance with legal requirements and all hours worked by the director and field staff are tracked properly
• Advise on and maintain any firewalls or other compliance measures taken by PA Stands Up over the course of election cycles

• Oversee an ambitious paid partisan and non-partisan canvass program in PA Stands Up’s priority municipalities
• Manage and oversee all paid and distributed field programs
• Set field targeting and direct voter contact goals to help win key races and build the power of our chapters
• Work with SLT and chapters’ member-leaders to establish long term strategies to flip our state legislature, congressional districts and senate seats while electing movement aligned champions
• Collaborate with the Organizing and Communications departments to build powerful local, state and national campaigns and achieve policy wins through sophisticated field programs
• In cooperation with the Director of Power Building, drive the local chapter power building support strategy, based upon local chapter power building plans for membership recruitment and leadership development
• Work in collaboration with the Senior Program Team on statewide days of action or mobilizations in relation to statewide issue campaigns, budget fights, and rapid response mobilizations

• Demonstrate visionary leadership to grow a mass movement of multi-racial and cross-class working people across Pennsylvania
• Build relationships with local members and leaders engaged in statewide campaigns through regular 1-1s across chapter membership.
• Represent the organization in local, state, and national coalitions as determined by Director of Power Building; work with coalition partners on aligned campaigns
• Exemplify and cultivate a work culture of support and accountability
• Work with Director of Narrative & Communications to integrate local chapter priorities into our electoral and issue campaign work plan
• Together with Director of Narrative & Communications, help shape public messaging and communications strategy to support electoral and legislative campaigns

• A demonstrated commitment to equity, justice and…