Regional Organizing Director - Saginaw/Flint

Saginaw, MI • Full Time, Exempt

About For Our Future

Founded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run a year-round progressive field program across battleground states, focused on engaging voters on economic issues facing working families. Our mission is to elevate and advance economic justice by organizing voters around a pro-union, economic agenda and to elect pro-worker candidates. Along with community partners and volunteers, we consistently engage with people in face-to-face conversations around socio-economic issues, encouraging them to take action on issues and in elections. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, pass progressive policies, drive local progress, make a community’s collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people’s lives.

About The Role

For Our Future Michigan seeks a Regional Organizing Director (ROD) for an organizing and paid canvassing program in Greater Saginaw/Flint. The ROD will recruit, train, and manage teams on local and national causes, candidates, and campaigns that matter to them. They will also be responsible for executing the statewide field plan, political organizing, and supervising the volunteer operations. This position requires frequent travel (75%) throughout the Greater Saginaw and Flint regions and runs through at least November 2026.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations, including maintaining office supplies and equipment, coordinating schedules and meetings, and ensuring a clean and organized workspace.
• Plan and execute a comprehensive organizing strategy within the region that includes public-facing events, communications, grassroots organization building, and grassroots community engagement.
• Lead a robust volunteer recruitment, training, and management campaign.
• Collaborate with in-state leadership to implement new communications and digital strategies within the region.
• Build crucial relationships with leaders of the progressive community and serve as the regional lead for our partnership program.
• Manage organizers and canvassers to educate constituents on progressive issues and with get-out-the-vote programs to boost progressives up and down the ballot.
• Represent the organization at community events and meetings when advised by the organization.
• Recruit, hire, train, and manage canvassers, volunteers, and/or organizers.
• Conduct extensive coaching and develop best practices for organizing, canvassing, recruitment, and retention, including on-turf coaching, support, and accountability.
• 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.

Requirements

• At least 1-2 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 relationship-based organizing and leadership development experience, including one-on-one meetings and team building.
• Access to reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license/insurance/registration, and a clean driving record for at least 1 year, per organization’s 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 metrics-based goals on data-driven campaigns.
• Experience in supporting media and communications programming (preferred).
• Ability to manage, coach, and train staff proficiently.
• Basic computer literacy; access to a reliable laptop is preferred.
• Ability to work long and irregular hours in a high-productivity, metrics-driven work environment.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of moving around for voter contact activity.
• This is a hybrid position and will require a physical presence in the local office.
• Prolonged periods of remaining in a stationary position at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to transport up to 15 pounds at times.
• Must be able to travel across the Greater Saginaw and Flint regions.

Benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage: 95% employer-paid and 5% employee-paid.
• 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.

Schedule

• 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 excepted).

Pay

$54,000 - $60,000

Work Environment

• Door-to-door canvassing and site-based events/training are essential functions of the work and are considered a high priority. Employees may be required to work in extreme weather conditions, including rain, heat, and cold.
• Overseeing canvassing is an essential function of this job.
• This position is expected to interact regularly face-to-face with voters, volunteers, or community partners.
• If state and government stay-at-home orders, phased reopening orders, or other factors related to COVID-19 (or any other reason) limit For Our Future’s ability to engage safely in in-person 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 COVID-19 vaccines and, once eligible, to get COVID-19 boosters; however, this is not a requirement for employment. All employees are required to adhere to health and safety policies and procedures when appropriate. Upon request, reasonable accommodations will be considered on a case-by-case basis for exemptions to this requirement in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.