Assistant Field Manager

Assistant Field ManagerHot JobHouston, TX 77040Position SummaryThe Assistant Field Manager supports the planning and daily execution of voter-registration, voter-education, community-outreach, and voter-mobilization programs. This position helps supervise and train Canvass Leads and Canvassers who engage Latino communities through door-to-door canvassing, telephone calls, text messages, digital outreach, and community-based activities. Working under the Field Manager, Field Director, or State Director, the Assistant Field Manager monitors voter-contact and quality goals, supports data management, reviews field reports, and helps maintain a safe, professional, and accountable field operation.Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesThe employee will perform the essential duties described below in support of MFPS and its clients, including Mi Familia Vota and Mi Familia en Acción, as assigned by MFPS-authorized management.Field Strategy and Program ImplementationAssist the Field Manager and State Director in developing and implementing voter-outreach strategies.Translate approved field plans into daily and weekly staffing, turf, contact, and reporting assignments.Support door-to-door canvassing, voter registration, voter education, phone banking, text banking, digital outreach, and GOTV programs.Help establish and monitor daily, weekly, and campaign-wide performance goals.Track progress toward voter-contact, registration, recruitment, volunteer, and program goals.Identify operational barriers and recommend timely adjustments.Maintain current knowledge of the assigned community, political environment, election calendar, and relevant program deadlines.Ensure field activities use only approved plans, scripts, materials, technology, and voter universes.Conduct field outreach personally when needed.Staff Supervision and TrainingAssist with supervising, scheduling, training, coaching, and supporting Canvass Leads, Canvassers, temporary staff, and volunteers.Communicate daily goals, turf assignments, scripts, schedules, safety procedures, and reporting expectations.Conduct shift launch meetings, field observations, individual check-ins, and team debriefs.Model effective voter-contact, voter-registration, data-entry, and field-safety practices.Monitor employee attendance, productivity, data quality, and adherence to procedures.Provide timely, constructive feedback and additional training when needed.Recognize strong performance and help motivate staff to meet established goals.Promptly elevate performance, conduct, attendance, safety, or employee-relations concerns to authorized management and Human Resources.Participate in recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and onboarding field staff when assigned.Do not make unauthorized commitments concerning employment, compensation, scheduling guarantees, or continued assignments.Voter and Community EngagementEngage community members in English and Spanish using organization-approved scripts and materials.Provide accurate information regarding voter registration, voter education, vote-by-mail procedures, election participation, and other approved civic-engagement topics.Conduct voter identification, issue identification, persuasion, or mobilization conversations only when assigned to an authorized program.Build respectful relationships with community members and listen to issues important to Latino communities.Refer questions outside approved scripts or the employee's training to an authorized supervisor.Respect an individual's decision not to participate or continue a conversation.Represent MFV and MFA professionally at approved community events and activities.Voter-Registration OperationsServe as the main lead for in-office voter registration quality controlHelp coordinate voter-registration outreach, materials, tracking, quality control, and submission procedures.Ensure staff conducting voter-registration activity complete required training and authorization.Monitor the distribution, collection, safeguarding, and timely transfer of voter-registration applications.Ensure staff do not alter, discard, delay, prefill, or improperly handle voter-registration applications.Review applications only for completeness as permitted by applicable law and organizational procedures.Maintain chain-of-custody and reconciliation records for voter-registration materials.Immediately report lost, damaged, incomplete, late, or potentially mishandled applications.Coordinate timely submission to the appropriate election authority or authorized organizational representative.Data Management and ReportingHelp standardize and enforce approved data-management practices across canvassing, telephone, text-message, digital, and voter-registration programs.Use Blocks, VAN, EveryAction, canvassing applications, dialers, spreadsheets, or other designated systems.Review daily reports for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timely submission.Reconcile reported contacts, canvassing results, registrations, commitments, and staff activity with database records.Identify duplicate, missing, inconsistent, or potentially inaccurate information.Work with field staff to resolve data-quality concerns through approved procedures.Prepare and submit daily, weekly, and campaign reports to the assigned supervisor.Protect voter, supporter, employee, and organizational information from unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse.Immediately report suspected falsification, data loss, unauthorized access, or other information-security concerns.Timekeeping and SchedulingPrepare or assist with field schedules and shift assignments.Monitor timekeeping submissions and follow up regarding missing or apparently inaccurate records.Review or approve time records only within delegated authority.Ensure employees report all time worked, including required meetings, training, travel between assigned work locations, and post-shift reporting.Do not permit or encourage off-the-clock work.Obtain required authorization before scheduling overtime; however, ensure all time actually worked is reported.Promptly communicate staffing, attendance, scheduling, or payroll concerns to management and Human Resources.Safety and Incident ResponseImplement MFPS and client field-safety, security, transportation, emergency, weather, and incident-reporting procedures.Conduct required safety briefings and confirm that staff understands escalation protocols.Monitor field conditions involving heat, cold, severe weather, traffic, animals, hostile individuals, unsafe properties, and other hazards.Maintain required staff check-in, check-out, buddy-system, and emergency-contact procedures.Direct employees to leave unsafe locations or suspend activity when conditions warrant.Promptly report injuries, threats, harassment, accidents, vehicle incidents, missing staff, or other safety concerns.Follow established procedures for seeking emergency assistance.Participate in incident review and corrective-action processes as assigned.Never instruct staff to prioritize production goals over health or safety.Program and Legal ComplianceEnsure MFA programs remain strictly nonpartisan.Ensure candidate-related, partisan, persuasion, endorsement, or other political activity is conducted only through MFV when authorized and legally permissible.Ensure MFA time, funds, data, equipment, personnel, and other resources are not used for prohibited partisan political activity.Confirm staff uses the correct organization name, scripts, materials, voter universe, disclaimer, and reporting system for each assigned activity.Follow applicable voter-registration, election, campaign-finance, voter-contact, privacy, communications, and records requirements.Support accurate timekeeping and cost allocation for work performed on behalf of MFV and MFA.Promptly elevate potential legal, compliance, safety, financial, or reputational concerns.Perform other related duties as assigned.QualificationsEducationHigh school diploma or equivalent required.College coursework or a degree in political science, public policy, community development, nonprofit management, or a related