What is a field organizer?

A field organizer arranges and oversees groups of volunteers on behalf of nonprofit organizations, political campaigns, local unions, and special-interest groups. As a field organizer, your job duties include developing strategies to recruit volunteers, managing the activities of the volunteers, determining a group’s goals, and meeting with officials. You may work on small, localized activities as well as statewide efforts, and you often oversee multiple locations with several groups of volunteers. When you work on political campaigns, you supervise groups of volunteers at candidate rallies and polling locations with the goal of garnering interest in the candidate or group you work with and increasing voter turnout.