Field Manager

Field Manager

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McAllen, TX 78504

Overview

Salary Range $60,000.00 - $60,000.00 Salary/year Position Type Full Time

Position Summary

The Field Manager develops and oversees statewide or regional field strategies, voter-contact programs, and civic-engagement initiatives.

Reporting to the State Director, this position manages voter registration, voter education, canvassing, phone banking, text messaging, digital outreach, community events, and Get Out the Vote activities. The Field Manager establishes performance goals, supervises and trains field employees, monitors program data, and ensures effective and compliant implementation of approved campaigns.

The ideal candidate is an experienced, data-informed campaign manager with strong field-operations, employee-management, training, and strategic-planning skills. Regular travel throughout the assigned state or service area and frequent evening and weekend work are required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement statewide or regional field and direct voter-contact strategies.
• Create field plans, campaign timelines, staffing models, budgets, performance measures, and accountability systems.
• Coordinate voter registration, voter education, canvassing, phone banking, text messaging, digital outreach, community events, and GOTV activities.
• Establish and monitor goals for voter contacts, voter registrations, calls, texts, digital engagement, and other approved activities.
• Maintain a current understanding of the assigned state's political, electoral, demographic, and community landscape.
• Use data, research, community feedback, and field observations to guide targeting and resource allocation.
• Oversee daily field operations, schedules, workflows, scripts, reporting procedures, quality standards, and safety requirements.
• Ensure field teams have appropriate turf, data, technology, materials, transportation plans, training, and supervisory support.
• Conduct site visits and field observations to evaluate performance, outreach quality, data accuracy, safety, and compliance.
• Recruit, interview, onboard, schedule, supervise, coach, evaluate, and retain field and program employees.
• Establish clear performance expectations and provide regular feedback, recognition, training, and professional-development support.
• Address performance, attendance, conduct, scheduling, safety, and workplace concerns in coordination with the State Director and Human Resources.
• Train employees on voter registration, voter education, canvassing, phone banking, text messaging, data systems, quality control, field safety, de-escalation, and incident reporting.
• Collaborate with the national Data Department to establish metrics, dashboards, reports, targeting universes, and accountability systems.
• Review field data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, reliability, and timely entry.
• Use VAN, EveryAction, canvassing applications, dialers, texting platforms, spreadsheets, dashboards, and other approved systems.
• Report suspected data falsification, manipulation, loss, unauthorized access, or privacy concerns immediately.
• Ensure employees properly handle, track, secure, and submit voter-registration applications.
• Build relationships with community organizations, coalitions, educational institutions, service providers, and civic-engagement partners.
• Coordinate joint voter-registration, voter-education, outreach, and community-engagement activities.
• Represent MFV and MFA professionally at approved coalition meetings, community events, and partner discussions.
• Prepare reports and updates regarding staffing, schedules, goals, performance, data quality, incidents, risks, and resource needs.
• Implement field-safety, weather, transportation, emergency, and incident-response procedures.
• Respond promptly to missed check-ins, injuries, threats, harassment, vehicle incidents, law-enforcement interactions, and other emergencies.
• Stop or modify field activities when conditions present a potential safety risk.
• Maintain appropriate distinctions between MFA's nonpartisan activities and MFV's legally permissible advocacy or electoral activities.
• Work flexible mornings, evenings, weekends, and extended campaign-style hours.
• Travel regularly throughout the assigned state or service area, including on short notice.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• A specific degree is not required. Relevant education, training, campaign experience, community experience, and progressively responsible field leadership will be considered.
• Experience working during at least two field, electoral, voter-engagement, organizing, or outreach campaign cycles.
• Experience serving as a Field Manager, Regional Field Manager, Canvass Manager, Field Organizer, or comparable leader preferred.
• Experience developing and implementing direct voter-contact, voter-registration, or community-outreach programs.
• Experience managing, scheduling, training, coaching, and motivating field employees.
• Experience using electoral databases and training employees on voter-contact systems.
• Experience establishing performance goals, accountability systems, quality-control processes, and reporting procedures.
• Strong knowledge of field operations, canvassing, voter registration, voter education, phone banking, text messaging, and digital outreach.
• Understanding of the assigned state's political, electoral, demographic, and community landscape.
• Strong supervisory, coaching, delegation, team-building, and leadership skills.
• Strong data-management, analytical, quality-control, and reporting abilities.
• Strong strategic-planning, project-management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, training, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Strong cultural competence and experience working respectfully with Latino communities, communities of color, and diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple employees, field sites, programs, priorities, and deadlines.
• Ability to remain flexible and responsive in a fast-paced campaign environment.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriately handle sensitive information.
• Conversational proficiency in English and Spanish preferred.
• Ability to work flexible schedules and travel regularly throughout the assigned area.

Voter-Registration and Driving Requirements

The employee must meet all eligibility, appointment, training, and certification requirements applicable to individuals who oversee, collect, or submit voter-registration applications in the assigned jurisdiction. Depending on applicable law, this may include being registered or eligible to register to vote.

If driving is assigned, the employee must maintain a valid driver's license, legally required automobile insurance, an acceptable driving record, and access to a safe and reliable vehicle unless an organizational vehicle is provided.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

With or without reasonable accommodation, the employee must be able to:

• Work at a computer and operate standard office and field technology.
• Facilitate virtual and in-person meetings, trainings, presentations, and field briefings.
• Move throughout offices, event sites, field locations, partner locations, and community settings.
• Stand and walk for extended periods during field activities.
• Work outdoors in varying weather conditions.
• Lift or carry outreach, training, and event materials weighing up to 25 pounds occasionally.
• Travel throughout the assigned area by automobile or commercial transportation.

This position operates in office, field, vehicle, partner, remote, and community-based settings. Morning, evening, weekend, and extended hours are required during voter-registration deadlines, election cycles, GOTV periods, major campaigns, and other high-volume activities.

Compensation and Equal Employment Opportunity

Compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, qualifications, and internal equity.

MFPS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, business needs, and job requirements without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.