Sunrise Movement - Field Director
Sunrise Movement - Field Director
Hours: Full Time
Location: Flexible, work from home (remote)
Start date: December 2025
Reports to: Political Director
Eligibility: 1 year contract
Compensation: $75,000-$95,000 depending on experience and whether the candidate lives in a high-cost metro area. More info about the special city allowance can be found here.
Benefits: Sunrise offers a benefits package with 100% paid premiums for health care, dental, and vision. We offer unlimited paid vacation days with minimum 20 days per year, parental leave, caregiver leave, unlimited sick time, and additional paid and unpaid time off. We also offer an annual professional development fund and tech office budget. Option to contribute to 401k.
Application instructions: Please upload a resume and respond to the questions on this page.
Application Timeline: Applications will be accepted for this position until November 24, 2025. NRG Consulting Group is supporting this search. Please reach out to [emailprotected] with any questions.
About Sunrise Movement
We are fighting for a government action that actually meets the scale, scope and urgency of the climate crisis. We believe that in order to win the world of our dreams, we must build a movement of thousands of young people across race and class to take to the streets and disrupt business as usual until we force the change we need. This is also how we defeat authoritarianism. In the next three years, we must build up the capacity for mass non-cooperation, and repolarize society so that we can defeat Trump, win structural reforms to democracy, and pass climate legislation beginning in 2029.
Position
The 2026 elections will be a defining moment for democracy and our generation. Sunrise is rising to meet that moment, and were looking for a Field Director ready to lead our work with rigor and vision.
The Field Director will work alongside senior Sunrise leadership to design and lead an ambitious, movement-powered electoral program that takes on the threat of authoritarianism, builds youth political power, and shapes the political landscape heading into 2028.
In the primaries, they will lead voter turnout work and direct action work that elects progressive champions to Congress and shapes the narrative coming out of the primary season.
In the general election, they will lead a youth vote program that shapes key elections and makes inroads with disaffected young people. They will manage distributed voter contact programs, build organizing infrastructure that lasts beyond November, and prepare Sunrise members to defend democracy and protect the integrity of the results when it matters most.
Responsibilities On the ground organizing
Plan, execute and manage voter turnout programs throughout the year, with an emphasis on a large campus field program ahead of the general election
Manage staff and high-capacity volunteers to conduct base building work and to use electoral work to grow their membership.
Travel on the ground to organize trainings and direct actions, and manage field work.
Distributed organizing
Plan and manage volunteers and staff to organize canvasses, phone banks, and text banks.
Program management
Work with the Political Director to set and hit weekly and monthly goals, and hold teams accountable to goals.
Work with Electoral Team to make endorsements and coordinate (when permitted) with campaigns and partner organizations
Manage and hire additional staff capacity as the program grows throughout the year
Strategy
Creatively use Sunrises electoral work to shape the Democratic Party and the story around young people in politics
Experiment with how to reach disaffected young people and organize with them around elections
Develop plans to protect the integrity of the 2026 election
Qualifications
Must Haves
Volunteer team management experience
Must be a results-oriented self-starter able to work under pressure on several projects at one time
Excited about building long-term political power to transform US politics
Experience running phonebanks, textbanks, canvasses
Proficiency with VAN or other voter file platforms
Ability to work irregular hours (evenings and weekends)
Willingness to travel for trainings and on-the-ground organizing
Nice to Haves
Campus electoral experience
Direct action and birddogging experience
Remote / distributed electoral work experience
Experienced at deploying on the ground for organizing projects or campaigns
Multiple cycles of electoral organizing experience
Sunrise and Sunrise Movement Education Fund are Equal Opportunity Employers. We will consider applicants for this position without regard to any category protected by applicable federal, state or local law, including but not limited to: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status or uniformed service member status. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, young people, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application instructions: Please upload a resume and respond to the questions on this page.
Application Timeline: Applications will be accepted for this position until November 24, 2025. NRG Consulting Group is supporting this search. Please reach out to [emailprotected] with any questions.
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Sunrise Movement - Field Director
Sunrise Movement - Field Director
Hours: Full Time
Location: Flexible, work from home (remote)
Start date: December 2025
Reports to: Political Director
Eligibility: 1 year contract
Compensation: $75,000-$95,000 depending on experience and whether the candidate lives in a high-cost metro area. More info about the special city allowance can be found here.
Benefits: Sunrise offers a benefits package with 100% paid premiums for health care, dental, and vision. We offer unlimited paid vacation days with minimum 20 days per year, parental leave, caregiver leave, unlimited sick time, and additional paid and unpaid time off. We also offer an annual professional development fund and tech office budget. Option to contribute to 401k.
Application instructions: Please upload a resume and respond to the questions on this page.
Application Timeline: Applications will be accepted for this position until November 24, 2025. NRG Consulting Group is supporting this search. Please reach out to [emailprotected] with any questions.
About Sunrise Movement
We are fighting for a government action that actually meets the scale, scope and urgency of the climate crisis. We believe that in order to win the world of our dreams, we must build a movement of thousands of young people across race and class to take to the streets and disrupt business as usual until we force the change we need. This is also how we defeat authoritarianism. In the next three years, we must build up the capacity for mass non-cooperation, and repolarize society so that we can defeat Trump, win structural reforms to democracy, and pass climate legislation beginning in 2029.
Position
The 2026 elections will be a defining moment for democracy and our generation. Sunrise is rising to meet that moment, and were looking for a Field Director ready to lead our work with rigor and vision.
The Field Director will work alongside senior Sunrise leadership to design and lead an ambitious, movement-powered electoral program that takes on the threat of authoritarianism, builds youth political power, and shapes the political landscape heading into 2028.
In the primaries, they will lead voter turnout work and direct action work that elects progressive champions to Congress and shapes the narrative coming out of the primary season.
In the general election, they will lead a youth vote program that shapes key elections and makes inroads with disaffected young people. They will manage distributed voter contact programs, build organizing infrastructure that lasts beyond November, and prepare Sunrise members to defend democracy and protect the integrity of the results when it matters most.
Responsibilities On the ground organizing
Plan, execute and manage voter turnout programs throughout the year, with an emphasis on a large campus field program ahead of the general election
Manage staff and high-capacity volunteers to conduct base building work and to use electoral work to grow their membership.
Travel on the ground to organize trainings and direct actions, and manage field work.
Distributed organizing
Plan and manage volunteers and staff to organize canvasses, phone banks, and text banks.
Program management
Work with the Political Director to set and hit weekly and monthly goals, and hold teams accountable to goals.
Work with Electoral Team to make endorsements and coordinate (when permitted) with campaigns and partner organizations
Manage and hire additional staff capacity as the program grows throughout the year
Strategy
Creatively use Sunrises electoral work to shape the Democratic Party and the story around young people in politics
Experiment with how to reach disaffected young people and organize with them around elections
Develop plans to protect the integrity of the 2026 election
Qualifications
Must Haves
Volunteer team management experience
Must be a results-oriented self-starter able to work under pressure on several projects at one time
Excited about building long-term political power to transform US politics
Experience running phonebanks, textbanks, canvasses
Proficiency with VAN or other voter file platforms
Ability to work irregular hours (evenings and weekends)
Willingness to travel for trainings and on-the-ground organizing
Nice to Haves
Campus electoral experience
Direct action and birddogging experience
Remote / distributed electoral work experience
Experienced at deploying on the ground for organizing projects or campaigns
Multiple cycles of electoral organizing experience
Sunrise and Sunrise Movement Education Fund are Equal Opportunity Employers. We will consider applicants for this position without regard to any category protected by applicable federal, state or local law, including but not limited to: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status or uniformed service member status. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, young people, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application instructions: Please upload a resume and respond to the questions on this page.
Application Timeline: Applications will be accepted for this position until November 24, 2025. NRG Consulting Group is supporting this search. Please reach out to [emailprotected] with any questions.