Regional Organizing Director - Macomb
Regional Organizing Director - Macomb
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05-05-2025
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Monthly Salary
$ 54000 - 60000
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1 Vacancy
Posted on :
05-05-2025
Job Description
Position: Regional Organizing Director Macomb
Job Location:Macomb MI
Position Type: Full Time Exempt
Position Classification: Not Union Eligible
Compensation: $54000 $60000
Position Travel/Driving Percentage: 75%
Reports to: Organizing Director
About For Our Future
Founded in 2016 For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest permanent progressive field program across key states. Our vision is to expand the progressive infrastructure and advance economic prosperity for all strong community schools climate justice and racial and social justice. Along with community partners and volunteers we consistently engage with people in facetoface conversations around what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships we win elections drive local progress make a communitys collective voice heard and help build the transformative power needed to improve peoples lives.
Classification
For Our Future recognizes a staff bargaining unit affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 494 a labor union. This position is NOT included in the For Our Future bargaining unit.
About the Role
For Our Future Michigan seeks a Regional Organizing Director for an organizing and paid canvassing program in Macomb County. The Regional Director will recruit train and manage teams on local and national causes candidates and campaigns that matter to them. The Regional Organizing Director will also be responsible for executing the statewide field plan political organizing and supervising the volunteer operations. This position requires frequent travel throughout the Macomb County area.
This position runs through at least December 11 2025.
Essential Functions
- Oversee daily operations maintaining office supplies and equipment coordinating schedules and meetings and ensuring a clean and organized workspace to support productivity and efficiency.
- Plan and execute a comprehensive organizing strategy within the region that includes publicfacing events communications grassroots organization building and grassroots community engagement.
- Lead a robust volunteer recruitment training and management campaign.
- Collaborate with instate leadership to implement new communications and digital strategies within the region including generating written photo and video content for digital communications.
- Build crucial relationships with leaders of the progressive community and serve as the regional lead for our partnership program and develop and support collaborative organizing coalitions in the region.
- Manage organizers and canvassers to educate constituents on progressive issues and with getoutthevote programs to boost progressives up and down the ballot.
- Represent the organization at community events and meetings in collaboration with state and national organizational leadership.
- Recruit hire train and manage canvassers volunteers and/or organizers.
- Regional Organizing Directors will be responsible for building and implementing organizing programs including direct volunteer recruitment for state and federal legislative advocacy and accountability. This will include conducting phone calls for volunteer recruitment and engagement each week.
- Conduct extensive coaching and develop best practices for organizing canvassing recruitment and retention. Onturf coaching support and accountability is required.
- Conduct daily training including launching and debriefing at the beginning and end of daily shifts.
- Monitor metrics within each assigned region including but not limited to attempts per shifts flake rate conversation rate and action conversion rate. Implement rigorous systems to meet assigned goals associated with these metrics.
- Ensure that daily weekly and monthly goals are met and exceeded.
- Ensure that all required soft reporting is accurate and timely and that all regional data is entered on time.
- Other duties responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
Skills and Qualifications
- At least 12 cycles of competitive campaign or advocacy experience.
- At least 2 years of experience managing a team and hitting competitive field goals.
- At least 2 years of experience working with volunteers.
- At least 2 years of relationshipbased organizing and leadership development experience including oneonone meetings and team building.
- Must have access to reliable transportation a valid drivers license/insurance/registration and clean driving record for at least 1 year per organizations drivers policy.
- Experience implementing a statewide field plan tailored to an assigned region.
- Strong knowledge of Vote builder/VAN.
- Ability to make outreach to and build partnerships with other progressive organizations.
- Experience in managing programs that develop the capacity to meet metricsbased goals on datadriven campaigns.
- Experience in supporting media and communications programming preferred.
- Ability to manage coach and train staff proficiently.
- Must have basic computer literacy; and access to a reliable laptop is preferred.
- Ability to work long and irregular hours in a highproductivity metricsdriven work environment.
The compensation for this position may be based on experience and comes with a comprehensive benefits package.
- Health Insurance Coverage 95% Employer Paid and 5% Employee
- Paid parental leave
- Retirement Savings Plan with matching contributions up to the first 5%
- $150 Monthly Cell Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- 13 days paid time off every calendar year as well as other paid holidays.
Expected Hours of Work
- Employees may be required to work outside of normal business hours including weekends holidays and nights.
- Employees are required to abide by certain blackout dates during a campaign cycle or other key deadlines and generally not allowed to take off during blackout periods. Emergencies are not affected by this policy.
Work Environment
Doortodoor canvassing and sitebased events / training are an essential function of the work our organization does and are considered a high priority. Employees may be required to work in extreme weather conditions including rain heat and cold. Overseeing canvassing is considered an essential function of this job. This position is expected to interact regularly facetoface with voters volunteers or community partners. If state and government stayathome orders phased reopening orders or other factors related to the COVID19 virus (or any other reason) limit For Our Futures ability to engage safely in inperson work employees may be assigned other duties to be conducted from their homes.
Health and Safety
For Our Future Action Fund is fully committed to the health and safety of our colleagues candidates and the communities we serve. We encourage all employees to stay up to date with their COVID19 vaccines and once eligible to get COVID19 boosters; however this is not a requirement for employment at FOF.
All employees are required to adhere to the health and safety policies and procedures when appropriate as implemented by the organization. Upon request reasonable accommodations will be considered on a casebycase basis for exemptions to this requirement in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. Applicants may request a reasonable accommodation form by emailing Human Resources at
Be advised that health and safety policies and procedures around COVID19 may change in the future to stay in compliance with public health guidance and applicable laws.
EEO Statement
For Our Future Action Fund is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Opportunities are provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color age (40 and over) religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression (including transgender status) gender dysphoria marital or familial status partnership status caregiver status sexual and reproductive health decisions pregnancy (including childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) creed caste national origin citizenship and immigration status consumer credit history physical or mental disability personal/outward appearance (including but not limited to hairstyle) family responsibilities genetic information (including testing and characteristics) ancestry matriculation political affiliation matriculation status as a victim of domestic violence or sexual offenses or stalking arrest record conviction record military or uniformed service member status or veteran status or any other characteristic trait or status protected by applicable local state or federal laws or ordinances. Equal opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment including hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leave of absence compensation and training.
We are also committed to the full inclusion of every qualified individual. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please contact
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