Job Description

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Job Title: Deep Canvasser

Job Term: Part-Time, Temporary, Contract role at $25 per hour, 15-20 hours per week

**This is a part-time position for a 4-month contract beginning in Mid March 2025. This position requires weekday evening and weekend work.

Job Supervisor: Field Director

Job Location: Springfield, MO and St. Louis County, MO 

This role is travel-based. Drivers license and access to reliable transportation is necessary.

Job Benefits: Benefits exempt, Includes 16 paid sick hours

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Deep Canvassers are responsible for the following:

• Door to Door canvassing, holding transformative conversations to help shift our neighbor’s viewpoint to a narrative rooted in solidarity and liberation for queer Missourians.

• Actively listen, without judgment helping our neighbors feel more comfortable sharing their views honestly.

• Sharing your own stories and stories provided by the TGNC (Trans and Gender Non-Conforming) Advisory Committee to help build connection.

• Connecting and empathizing with neighbors around shared values and experiences. 

• Accurately and mindfully track conversations using VAN or OpenField.

• Debriefing conversations daily with the Equality Organizer(s) and team.

Requirements

WHO YOU ARE & KEYS TO SUCCESS (the must-haves)

To be successful in this role, you will excel in four areas:

• Empathetic Listening and Learning: You will bring a genuine curiosity and compassion to conversations with people with whom you disagree. In this role you will hear hateful and violent rhetoric both firsthand and in debriefs with fellow canvassers. You will learn to build trust through empathetic listening, deep mutual respect, and connecting emotionally. You will need to be able to listen to those who oppose LGBTQ+ equality and seek to understand so that, collectively, we can learn from them, move them, and apply that learning to move other voters.

• Effective Communication to Create Meaningful Conversation: You are able to ask follow-up questions to drill down and help guide the conversation. This skill will encourage our neighbors/potential voters to share more details which in turn, helps create deeper, more meaningful conversation.

• Commitment to Collective and Individual Goals: You’re able to effectively prioritize your time to help the team meet their collective goals. While we will have qualitative goals in place, our main priority is to have quality transformative conversations. You will provide feedback on what is/isn’t working in the field to help strengthen our program and assist with reaching our goals. You will also utilize VAN or OpenField. It’s imperative that we track our results accurately and with detail to help collect data that will refine and align our efforts around shifting the narrative so that our policy, media, social media, and storytelling efforts are centered on what queer and trans Missourians need to thrive. 

• Commitment to Equity: You demonstrate a strong commitment to equity for all LGBTQ+ persons and recognize how your own identities show up in your work. You embrace racial equity and center TGNC liberation based on an intersectional understanding of the experiences of our diverse constituency. You recognize we are not a monolithic community and see the challenges each of those groups face as you share stories and connect with neighbors and potential voters.

Knowledge of LGBTQ+ policy issues and prior experience in an advocacy environment are both assets but are not requirements.

If you were here right now, you would be:

• Assisting with feedback on script
• Reviewing neighborhoods we will canvass and providing feedback
• Working with Digital Equality Organizer and Field Team to report out on canvassing in The DIVE, PROMO’s monthly regional Organizer Newsletter 
• Reviewing stories shared by TGNC Advisory Board to strengthen conversations
• Having multiple deep canvass conversations with neighbors per shift
• Debriefing difficult conversations and transformative conversations and providing best practices and feedback from your conversations to the team
• Engaging with community at upcoming Pride events across Missouri

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