Voter Outreach Team Lead - ORA

Voter Outreach Team Lead

About Oakland Rising Action

Oakland Rising Action (ORA), a fiscally sponsored project of the Center for Empowered Politics, is a community led political organization that has a long-term, shared vision for winning a community-based political infrastructure and governing majority in Oakland that centers racial, economic, and environmental justice. Over the past sixteen years, ORA's political operation has grown into one of the largest, longest-lasting, and most sophisticated programs in the area. We have built a voter base in Oakland's working-class, immigrant, and communities of color neighborhoods that make up more than 25% of the city's electorate. ORA has helped to craft and win ballot measures for racial, economic, and environmental justice while promoting a vision for transformational governance in Oakland and beyond. This position is shared with our sister entity Oakland Rising, a separate 501(c)3 organization. 

In order to advance the work of OR and ORA, we are looking for someone who will bring to the IVE Daily Team Lead role a personal connection to the communities in which we organize, as well as a commitment to the advancement of racial, economic, and environmental justice. The successful candidate will confidently support the cultivation and building of the relationships necessary to sustain and grow the OR and ORA projects and understand the importance of aligning and building the power of movement organizations.

Position Overview  

The Voter Outreach Team Lead will work closely with the Voter Outreach Manager to strengthen OR/A’s work as a progressive political home. The Voter Outreach Team Lead will lead efforts to activate residents and voters to take action to advance a political agenda in the interest of working-class, poor, and formerly-incarcerated Black, Indigenous, and people of color in flatland communities in Oakland and Alameda County. The Voter Outreach Team Lead will be responsible for managing a team of at least 8-16 outreach workers who will be contacting thousands of Oakland residents through daily phone-banking, text-banking and door-to-door canvassing. The Voter Outreach Team Lead reports directly to the Voter Outreach Manager.

Responsibilities

Outreach Team Coordination 

• Work with OR/A Director and Voter Outreach Manager to implement Outreach Team Hiring process

• Follow-up with hired outreach workers to confirm campaign training attendance, completion of proper hiring documentation and any other onboarding logistics as needed

• Supervise and coordinate outreach team of at least 10-15 people to complete door-to-door canvassing, text-banking and phone-banking daily, including:

  • Preparation of daily materials, supplies and logistics for conducting door-to-door canvassing, text-banking and phone-banking for the canvass team

  • Lead daily outreach team check-ins including ice breakers, training, charting daily numbers, performance goals and challenges, etc.

  • Lead door-to-door contact efforts during the “Get Out the Vote” (GOTV) phase.

  • Ensure accurate completion of daily report forms by outreach team

  • Maintain an accurate account of outreach team attendance timesheets.

  • Conduct quality control on the phones and doors, and offer coaching and training support to team members

• Manage team members’ performance and conflicts as determined by the Daily Team Operations Manual

• Fill all seats on the phones and doors each day, bringing in alternates as needed in a timely manner.

Data Coordination and Quality Management

• Track the daily progress of every outreach team member to sustain quality control of phoning, text and canvassing outcomes

• Review outreach team canvassing, phone and text data to determine training, coaching, and troubleshooting with team members to improve results 

• Enter debrief data into a computer on a nightly basis

• Work with voter Outreach Manager to produce daily reports to outreach team on progress

• Conduct phone banking, text banking and canvassing as needed to achieve field daily outcomes

• Share opt-In Info with Voter Outreach Manager weekly/end of the day.

Shared Team Responsibilities

• Hold shared ownership and accountability to voter outreach process and field work plan

• Hold shared coordination in program team, staff, and partners’ meetings and retreats 

• Report to Voter Outreach Manager during staff meetings and 1:1’s

Required Qualifications

• 2-3 years of relevant work experience

• excellent listening, verbal, and writing communication skills

• experience working effectively with working-class African-American, Latinx, Chinese, and Filipino immigrants

• knowledge of issues affecting working-class and working-class immigrants in Oakland and in Alameda County

Preferred Qualifications

• A critical understanding of racial, economic, and environmental justice, as well as a commitment to and practice of it.

• Excellent intellectual, analytical, and strategic thinking skills.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

This position will work out of our Oakland office and a satellite location in East Oakland for the purpose of conducting canvassing outreach. This position requires daily travel to and from the satellite and the location of the outreach team conducting neighborhood outreach throughout the flatlands of Oakland.

Physical Demands:

Able to walk for extended periods of time, including going up and down steps without reasonable accommodation; Able to stand for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation, including to conduct training; Able to work on a computer including sitting at a desk for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation; manual dexterity to operate a keyboard; able to see or read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; able to speak clearly and in audible tones on the phone and in-person and be understood by others; able to hear and understand speech, including on the phone; able to understand and follow oral and written instructions; able to occasionally lift objects weighing up to 10 pounds, etc. Must be able to stretch, bend, kneel, twist, squat, reach above or below the shoulder, push, grasp, and lift up to 20 pounds. able to walk, drive, write, stand, and sit. 

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Employment Terms

This is a temporary full time position. The position starts on September 14, 2026 and ends on November 4, 2026. This position works Monday- Friday September 14 to October 2, 2026. This position works Sunday through Thursday starting October 4, 2026 to November 4, 2026.

This position is 35 hours per week. This position has an hourly rate of $35.00 (equivalent to $63,700 annually). This position is non-exempt. 

How to Apply

Submit resume, cover letter, and references through this job portal. Applications will be reviewed as received.

Oakland Rising/ Action contracts with Resilient Strategies LLC for backend and operational support including hiring and employment. Resilient Strategies is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply. Pursuant of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.