A Day in the Life of a Field Organizer

Project: MoveOn.org Political Action’s Election 2006

8:30am: Arrive in the office. Review your date book. Confirm tomorrow’s lunch meeting with local MoveOn volunteer team leader. Check your emails.

9:00am:  Call through MoveOn members to recruit them for tomorrow night’s phone bank.  Your goal is to contact 20 members and sign up 14.

11:00am: Send email reminders to volunteers who are signed up to make calls from home.  Make welcome/ orientation calls to 10 volunteers who’ve signed up online to do get-out-the-vote calling.

Noon: Make calls to confirm the 15 volunteers signed up for the phone bank tonight.

12:45pm: Grab lunch.

1:00pm: Have a check in call with Dan, your Lead Organizer. Analyze your phone calling and volunteer recruitment for the week. Go over your plans for your Saturday phone bank at which you are recruiting 100 volunteers to make 5,000 calls to voters in the hotly contested Congressional race in Connecticut (note –you’re based in Washington, DC).

2:00pm: Send emails to the top five phone volunteers from last night, asking them to host phone parties at their homes.  Take calls from volunteers who have technical assistance questions about the online phone calling tool.  Respond to email.

3:00pm: Get on a conference call with twenty-five other field organizers and MoveOn.org Political Action Field Director. On the call you review new developments in key races and go over the field product in the fifteen districts we are targetting across the country.

4:00pm: Prep your calling list for the night. You need to turn out 100 people for the phone bank this Saturday.  Check your voice mail and receive eight messages from folks you called last night, calling back to volunteer! Put them back on phone bank list for tonight.  Start calling.

5:30pm:  Grab a sandwich, and get ready for your evening phone bank volunteers to arrive.  Goal for your volunteers is to contact 35 voters each and get commitments from 15 to support the Democratic challenger in a competitive Connecticut congressional race.

6:00pm: Welcome your volunteers and do a brief training for them. You do a couple of calls with them listening; they start calling and you do some initial monitoring and then get back on the phone.

9:30pm: Finish calling. Tally and record all of yours and the volunteer’s calls and enter your results.  Prep for your day tomorrow. Check your email. Make copies of background info for two meetings tomorrow.

Apply online for this position here, or email your resume to James at: jobs@grassrootscampaigns.com