Position Title: Field Organizer
Purpose: Field organizing is one of our most important areas to volunteer. The primary responsibility of an FO is to recruit, manage, and train volunteers to organize their communities and neighborhoods into teams that register, persuade, and motivate voters.
Volunteer Responsibilities: Their responsibilities include but are not limited to developing a plan to organize their turf based on its unique characteristics; identifying and cultivating volunteer team leaders; planning and executing events and trainings; building relationships with community leaders; and ensuring data integrity. FOs report directly to their Senior Field Organizer.
Qualifications & Requirements: Strong candidates will have confidence in their leadership, managerial and organizational skills, have strong written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal abilities and functional computer competencies
Time Commitment: varied
- Late May, June and July in preparation for the local and state elections for 2017 in the King County, Mt Vernon, Yakima, Vancouver and other areas.
Benefits:
- Learn about the various issues in meaningful and open ways
- Develop your skill set of talking to people with different and similar views as yours
- Be a civic-minded individual who is working to get an issue passed or become more visible in the public sphere
- Develop the network and skills to work on larger campaigns for state and federal elections.
Our Mission: OneAmerica advances the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state and national levels by building power within immigrant communities in collaboration with key allies.
