Fresno Canvasser - Spring 2025

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Summary:   

The Fresno Canvasser works under the supervision of the Power California Field Organizer to engage in neighborhood based canvassing, engage voters on campaign messaging, and carry out outreach activities by conducting tabling, conducting outreach at events, going door to door, making phone calls, and/or texting. The person in this role should be strongly motivated to do community organizing work, highly skilled in conversing in-person, over the phone and by text to contact and mobilize voters / potential voters. This individual must also be able to support their supervisor and provide leadership to other organizers. This position is central to our sibling 501(c)(4) nonprofit PowerCA Action’s Internal Program to mobilize young voters of color via volunteer recruitment, community organizing, and community voter events.

Community Outreach (30%)

• Coordinates and performs door-to-door canvassing, web-based phone, and text-banking to contact voters and/or potential voters/community residents
• Participates in weekly training sessions on community organizing skills in order to move the community to take action on local issues.   
• Coordinates and performs community outreach in neighborhoods and neighborhood events. 
• Works regular 4 to 6-hour sessions including 1 hour for extra setup and cleanup tasks, usually 4 days a week.
• Maintains professional and engaging conversations with voters and peers, and adheres to legally vetted script.
• Reports voter contact data on a daily basis to lead staff, entering voter contact data in spreadsheets.
• Attends and mobilizes community members to attend campaign events that can include City Council Meetings, Cultural Pop-ups, rallies, and others.

Campaign Coordination (30%)

• Copies and distributes campaign and logistical materials, as assigned .
• Coordinates the set-up and clean-up for outreach activities of volunteers. 
• Carries out assigned administrative work required to run canvassing sessions, phonebaking sessions and outreach activities. 
• Work closely with supervisor and staff to support the evaluation of canvassing and phonebanking sessions. 
• Work closely with staff to support weekly community meetings and one large-scale community event.

Volunteer Recruitment (20%)

• Helps recruit and train volunteers by conducting outreach activities at community events.
• Maintains relationships with volunteers throughout the campaign.
• Conducts volunteer recruitment through door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, texting, and/or as needed.
• Works with supervisor and staff to connect interested volunteers with PowerCA Action membership team.
• Carries out professional and engaging conversations with voters and peers.
• Supports administrative pieces of campaign work, such as making photocopies, organizing materials, etc. as assigned.

Youth Leadership Development (10%)

• Leads organizing orientations and training for young people.  
• Helps design and implement our leadership development program for youth leaders.

OTHER DUTIES (10%)

• Documents student-led activities and narratives for our social media channels, as directed by communications staff, as assigned.
• Participates in and provides feedback on content creation for social media channels through videos, storytelling, and pictures.
• Carries out administrative tasks, as assigned.
• Provides support at organizational events, as needed.
• Works in good faith to support the overall stability and effectiveness of the organization. 
• Submits any and all required paperwork in a timely and accurate manner.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

• One year of experience with voter engagement campaigns or customer service preferred
• Passion for and commitment to working with young people of color, low-income immigrants, and refugees, especially from an intersectional perspective, including LGBTQIA communities 
• Familiarity with grassroots organizing, advocacy and electoral engagement techniques a plus
• Able to communicate in an outgoing, enthusiastic, and persuasive manner 
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong time management skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Must be computer-literate, with basic skills in word processing, spreadsheets, web/email applications, and other work-related applications
• Flexible, team-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Bilingual or multilingual, with English-Spanish skills a plus
• Must be able to work flexible hours; evenings and weekends required 
• Must have a working cell phone with a data plan, as well as a and a working home internet connection with adequate speed
• If assigned to drive for business, must have unlimited access to a reliable automobile and have the ability to drive; valid California driver’s license and, if driving own car, proof of adequate insurance coverage required
• Based in or near Fresno City or Madera City (within 25 miles)
• Because of the job duties of this position, a criminal background check will be required as a condition of an employment offer

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Position is located at the Fresno Office
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee frequently travels by automobile or public transit, or works outside and is thus exposed to changing weather conditions
• When working inside an office, this position is not exposed to weather conditions
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

Physical Requirements and Environmental Conditions: (The conditions and requirements below are representative of those required for an employee to successfully meet the essential requirements of the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees to meet these requirements.)

• Walks outside 80% of the time, and sits at a desk 20% of the time, which includes typing on a computer and mouse 40% of that time and talking on the phone 40% of that time
• Works at a desk 2-3 days of the week, which includes using a computer and mouse to communicate with voters during phone banking sessions
• Works on the ground during weekends for canvassing or special events (i.e rally in front of City Hall)
• Regularly required by the duties of this job to move between areas; stay at one workstation; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell
• Carries 15 pounds of equipment or supplies about once a day over medium distances (20–30 feet)
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by incumbents assigned to this job.  This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the responsibilities, duties and skills required.  The incumbent may be expected to perform other duties as assigned. This job may be reviewed as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Nothing described within this job description changes the at-will nature of employment for this role.

Employee Acknowledgment: I have read and understand the above job description in its entirety. I understand that the requirements of this position may be changed at any time in order to meet organizational needs, and that this job description may not include all duties and responsibilities. I further acknowledge that reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position, and that it is the employee’s responsibility to inform human resources of the need for reasonable accommodation. 

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