Field Coordinator

Field Coordinator

Are you passionate about fighting climate change and democratizing energy? Do you have experience with grassroots campaigns? Would you be excited to apply your advocacy and leadership skills to a grassroots movement in your own community?

If so, you may be a great fit for the new Field Coordinator position with Ann Arbor for Public Power. In this role, you’ll play a key role in WINNING the 2026 vote to establish a renewable and publicly owned electricity utility in Ann Arbor!

About Ann Arbor for Public Power

Ann Arbor for Public Power is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization advocating for a 100% renewable, publicly owned electricity utility for our city. Why public power? In brief, public power is more affordable, reliable, and accountable to its customers, and gives the people of Ann Arbor the power to transition off of fossil fuels. Learn more about A2P2’s mission here!

Position Details

• 20 hours per week until November 6th, 2026
• Paid in salary bi-weekly at an hourly rate of $30
• The Field Coordinator is a contractor position that does not receive benefits

What You’ll Do

• Serve as Co-Chair of the A2P2 Field Working Group
  • Organize and facilitate Field Working Group meetings
  • Set the Field Working Group’s quarterly goals and outcomes (OKRs) and track the organization’s progress towards those goals
  • Serve as an administrator on Field Working Group servers (Discord)
  • Attend meetings on Thursday evenings and deliver regular, detailed reports of weekly activities
• Organize and support A2P2 field efforts
  • Organize and run A2P2 door-to-door canvasses in a supervisory capacity (mostly evening and weekend canvasses)
  • Organize and run regular A2P2 phone-banking events
  • Coordinate multiple, sometimes simultaneous, A2P2 canvasses across the city by ward
  • Organize non-canvass public outreach and signature collection activities (e.g. Farmer’s Market)
  • Monitor key metrics for canvassing outcomes, such as doors knocked and signatures collected, using NGP VAN and NationBuilder
  • Track inventory, budgeting, and printing for physical materials such as educational literature and signature sheets
  • Develop training materials and facilitate trainings for new A2P2 canvassers
  • Table for A2P2 at events in a supervisory capacity
  • Help recruit and onboard new field volunteers to meet the needs of collecting enough signatures and promoting the ballot question campaign.
• Other duties
  • Support a positive and transparent organizational culture
  • Attend in-person A2P2 events (time permitting)

Required Qualifications

• Significant canvassing experience for political candidate(s) and/or campaign(s)
• Comfort with technology platforms for data tracking and reporting (particularly NGP VAN and NationBuilder)
• Willingness to work outside of traditional office hours (evenings, weekends, inconsistent scheduling week-by-week)
• Ability to work outside and walk long distances
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills, particularly scheduling multiple concurrent events
• Ability to manage diverse teams of people

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience managing canvasses for a political candidate and/or campaign in a supervisory capacity
• Experience with developing training materials and training others, particularly for canvassing efforts
• Experience with political advocacy specifically within the city of Ann Arbor

20 hours/week; estimated 34 weeks

Salary equivalent to $600 weekly

No other benefits

English proficiency required