Down Home North Carolina: Regional Field Director

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The Opportunity

Down Home North Carolina (DHNC) seeks multiple, temporary Regional Field Directors to manage and support Down Home’s 2026 field program. The 2026 elections will have definitive results for our government on the local, state, and national levels for working people. Down Home’s 2024 field program aims to transform elections from the grassroots by electing working-class champions to office. Down Home is working to engage voters in small towns and rural areas through base building, leadership development, and direct voter contact. We are committed to building a base of working-class power through community organizing and participating in elections at all levels of government.

The ideal candidate is a people-oriented individual who is highly motivated to build a powerful, multiracial base that wins changes for low-income and working-class people in rural North Carolina. They are an experienced organizer, a strong staff manager, an effective project manager, and are committed to building power for the working class.

About Down Home North Carolina

Down Home North Carolina is a growing statewide organization of rural and small-town communities that advocate for an economy and democracy that works for all of us, not just the wealthy few. We move North Carolina toward the values of dignity, safety, and justice through leadership development, strategic campaigning, multiracial movement building, and civic engagement that advance positive, life-changing reforms for rural communities.

Founded in 2017, Down Home has built a strong organizational track record, including:

• Establishing 13 member-led county-based chapters from the high country to Eastern North Carolina

• Winning campaigns and helping elect officials who represent and move our working-class agenda at every level of the ballot.

• Running and winning member-led, local issue campaigns, including new reconstructions of public parks, expanding opportunities for affordable housing, and fully funding local school systems.

• Led a years-long statewide campaign to expand Medicaid and anchored the statewide public school advocacy group, Public School Strong

Buckets of responsibility:

1. Directly manage, coach, and train a team of field organizers

• Coach, train, and mentor field organizers on effective campaign strategies, including but not limited to recruitment, door-to-door canvassing, and other necessary field tactics

• Support Field Organizers in all canvasser recruitment activities and ensure that recruitment goals are achieved throughout the duration of the program

• Organize at the “grasstops” level, building political leads early in their turf

• Oversight of the complete vetting, interviewing, and hiring of all successful applicants

• Ensuring the successful training and orientation of all Field Organizers and paid canvassers

2. Manage the Down Home field program in the assigned region

• Implement and execute a robust outreach plan, encompassing voter contact and volunteer recruitment

• Provide Field Organizers and canvass teams with the positive leadership culture, resources, guidance, and technical support required to succeed during each phase of the program

• Ensuring that all canvases are launched and completed in a timely, orderly fashion

• Promoting the continued development of canvass teams in their day-to-day duties and responsibilities over the course of the program

3. Provide accountability and support

• Communicating all important on-the-ground information and providing timely response to requests from Field Organizers, the Political Director, and Down Home leadership

• Ensuring that canvass teams maintain accurate and reliable data

• Providing the Political Leadership team with daily quantitative and qualitative reports as part of an ongoing evaluation of the program’s success

• Help create a professional staff culture that is upbeat and empowering, and a willingness to solve problems creatively

Required skills and experience:

• Experienced organizer: Has shown the ability to organize large groups of people for a cause or a campaign; has a true understanding of organizing skills, including having effective one-to-ones, making hard asks, base building, propositions, and building trust and credibility with communities in small amounts of time. Has experience working in elections, either through campaigns or other entities.

• Coach and learning mentality: Helps others grow and develop. Uses coaching, training, and feedback to develop others and support problem-solving. Sees mistakes as learning opportunities. Seeks and engages well with feedback.

• Strong sense of ownership and resilience: Plans ahead and finds alternative paths, when needed, to get to the finish line. Bounces back from setbacks and rejections. Holds a high bar even when things are hectic.

• Models and inspires accountability: Inspires and motivates others to take action and meet goals. Delegates skillfully. Holds the team accountable and acknowledges areas for growth (in self and others).

• Mission alignment: Committed to the vision of a powerful, inclusive, rural, multiracial, working-class movement-building as a path towards liberation for all people. Is aligned with the idea that building power takes both election programs and long-term base building and investment in communities.

Personal or professional experience living in rural communities, living in the South, rural organizing, and/or organizing in the South are a plus but not required.

Some irregular hours are required, including nights and weekends. Location is flexible within North Carolina. Applicants must be able and willing to travel regularly for work.

This position is not eligible for inclusion in Down Home’s bargaining unit.

Compensation

The candidate’s level of experience determines compensation for this full-time staff position and ranges between $90,000 and $105,000 annually, including best-in-class health coverage, retirement, sick, vacation, and other benefits.

How to Apply

Down Home NC is dedicated to fostering a dynamic and multicultural work environment. Down Home NC is an equal opportunity employer.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. If this job description is posted on Down Home’s website (www.downhomenc.org), we are still accepting applications.

Please send a resume and a short cover letter in a PDF format to: [email protected].