Borough Strategies: Field Director

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Job Title: Field Director

Location: New York, NY

Reports to: Campaign Manager

Salary: $4,500 a month

Employment through November 3, 2025

Independent candidate for New York City Council. Join a people-powered campaign focused on quality-of-life issues—not party politics. Platform focused on community initiatives with a commitment to transparency, compassion, and results-driven leadership.

The Field Director is responsible for building and managing the campaign’s voter contact program. This role oversees volunteer recruitment, training, and retention; manages petitioning, canvassing, and phonebank operations; and ensures that all direct voter contact reflects the campaign’s values and strategic goals.

The Field Director will work closely with Campaign Leadership to draft and execute a comprehensive field plan, identify and develop volunteer leaders, and track measurable progress toward voter outreach and turnout goals.

Please note: this is a Full-time position, with additional hours expected as Election Day approaches; availability on some nights and weekends is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, and retain a large group of enthusiastic volunteers to communicate the campaign’s message to voters via door-knocking, phonebanking, and street canvassing.

• Identify and develop a team of volunteer leaders and building captains to assist in planning and execution.

• Draft and execute a strategic field plan to identify supporters, and turn those supporters out to vote.

• Support overall campaign visibility efforts, including coordinating multiple Days of Action, community events, and other public-facing activities.

• Oversee the candidate’s direct voter contact responsibilities, which can include cutting turf and knocking doors alongside.

• Hire, direct, and assess the performance of a team of paid canvassers.

• Track metrics and adjust strategy to keep the campaign on pace to meet its goals.

• Create all direct voter contact scripts, and set up campaign tools to track responses to direct voter contact conversations.

• Use data analysis to track progress toward voter contact and petition goals, making strategic adjustments as needed to ensure the campaign stays on pace.

• Maintain flexibility in planning and execution to respond quickly to changing campaign needs and conditions.

Qualifications

• Ability to establish a safe, respectful, and joyous campaign culture that appreciates the efforts of volunteers and campaign workers while holding all involved accountable to the campaign’s goals.

• Expertise in tools such as NGP VAN/Votebuilder. (Bonus if you’ve worked with Good Party’s tools before.)

• Commitment to strengthening the socialist movement by identifying, training, and developing new volunteer leaders and large volunteer teams.

• At least one cycle of NYC field experience, or 2-3 cycles elsewhere.

• Spanish proficiency is preferred, but not required.