Regional Organizing Director - Grand Rapids

Position: Regional Organizing Director – Grand RapidsJob Location: Grand Rapids, MIPosition Type: Full Time, Exempt Position Classification: Not Union EligibleCompensation: $54,000 - $60,000Position Travel/Driving Percentage: 75%Reports to: Organizing Director
About For Our FutureFounded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest, permanent progressive field program across battleground states. Our mission is to 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 what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, drive local progress, make a community’s collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people’s lives.
ClassificationFor 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 RoleFor Our Future Michigan seeks a Regional Organizing Director for an organizing and paid canvassing program in Grand Rapids. 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 Grand Rapids 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 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, 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 get-out-the-vote 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. On-turf 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 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.
• Must have access to reliable transportation, a valid driver's 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 knowl