Gwinnett Electoral Canvass Lead

MF Professional Services, Inc. (MFPS) is seeking a Canvass Lead to support voter registration, voter education, civic engagement, and voter outreach programs for our clients, including Mi Familia Vota (MFV) and Mi Familia en Accin (MFA).

The Canvass Lead provides day-to-day direction, training, coaching, and field support to a small team of canvassers while also participating directly in community outreach. This is a hands-on field position requiring strong communication, organization, leadership, and attention to quality and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the daily activities of approximately 4–5 canvassers.

- Conduct door-to-door canvassing, voter registration, voter education, GOTV, and other approved community outreach.

- Conduct pre-shift briefings and communicate daily goals, schedules, turf assignments, scripts, safety procedures, and reporting expectations.

- Prepare and distribute turf, voter-registration materials, literature, equipment, and other field resources.

- Train, coach, motivate, and provide field support to canvassers.

- Monitor field activity, employee check-ins, attendance, performance, safety, and compliance.

- Review canvassing and voter-registration information for accuracy and completeness.

- Enter and review data using VAN, MiniVAN, spreadsheets, and other designated systems.

- Complete required daily and weekly reports and track field results.

- Ensure voter-registration materials and confidential voter information are handled securely and according to established procedures.

- Promptly report performance, attendance, safety, data-quality, or compliance concerns to management.

Qualifications

- No specific degree required.

- Previous campaign, canvassing, voter-registration, community outreach, field organizing, or civic engagement experience required.

- Experience providing day-to-day direction, training, coaching, or support to a canvassing or outreach team preferred.

- Experience with VAN, MiniVAN, or similar voter-contact systems preferred.

- Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to engage respectfully and professionally with members of the community.

- Experience working with Latino or other diverse communities preferred.

- Professional proficiency in English and Spanish preferred.

- Ability to work mornings, evenings, weekends, and extended hours during campaign periods.

- Ability to travel throughout the assigned service area.

Work Environment

This is a field-based position requiring regular walking and standing in residential neighborhoods, community locations, public spaces, and events. Employees may work outdoors in heat, cold, rain, wind, and other changing conditions.

Morning, evening, weekend, and extended hours may be required during voter-registration drives, election cycles, GOTV periods, and other high-volume activities.