Deputy Canvass Director

FULL-TIME, TEMPORARY, EXEMPT POSITION THROUGH ELECTION DAY

Deputy Canvass Director

Location: Pittsburgh, PA 

OVERVIEW

The climate emergency is here. The world as we know it is running out of time and the window for small, incremental action has closed. Instead, we need an emergency-level response to avert climate catastrophe—and leaders with the courage and mandate to take bold action. Our critical window of opportunity to sound the alarm is ever-narrowing and the time to act is now. 

ACE’s mission is to educate, inspire and support young people to lead the fight for their future. We achieve our mission by reaching tens of millions of young people with our programs each year, training a new generation of leaders, amplifying youth voices to shift the narrative, and increasing diverse youth participation in our democracy.  

Our staff and board members are dynamic, diverse and talented, and our team is currently growing to meet this critical moment of opportunity. 

ABOUT YOU

Great candidates will have some of the skills and experience listed below: 

• You LOVE talking to people: A massive portion of this job is focused on starting conversations about voter registration with people. You should genuinely enjoy listening to and talking with new people. 
• You enjoy being out and about: You like being active, outdoors, and you thrive in a large crowd.
• You enjoy working with a team to accomplish goals: You’ve managed canvassers or any campaign to achieve goals. You relish the opportunity to meet people, train people to do better, and optimize outcomes.

Position Summary

This is a full-time position based in our Allegheny County field office.  Key responsibilities include

• Support the Canvass Director in ensuring the canvas team achieves daily voter registration goals and monitors the voter registration card rate.
• Work with our Pennsylvania team to find and secure quality high-traffic site locations for voter registration including cultural events, local business partnerships, schools, and other related sites where BIPOC communities.
• Support partners and vendors in tracking progress to goals
• Recruit contracted field canvassers and provide an orientation of voter registration program.
• Bottomline Quality Control process to ensure high-quality voter registrations
• Pay: $4,600/month

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Management and Recruiting: Conduct work to increase the effectiveness of voter contact. This may include, but is not limited to:
• Assisting in trainings for canvassers
• Assisting in executing recruitment plan to hire canvassers
• Supporting canvassers to improve outcomes
• Coordinating and creating a schedule to collect voter registration at different locations.
• Additional tasks as needed to support the Canvass Director and Canvass Team in running a successful program and achieving team goals.

This description reflects ACE’s assignment of essential functions, it does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. ACE retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position at any time.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to keep a positive attitude when meeting new people
• Self-starter with strong organizational skills and creativity

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated competence in supervising a team and managing projects
• Ability to train and coach people 
• Experience in voter registration and/or leading civic engagement work  
• Experience in advocacy work or politics, preferably with a climate or other social justice focus

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.