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Field playbook · structure/03-county-team.md

County team — responsibilities & cadence

Purpose

Translate statewide standards into weekly county motion: local events, local digital rhythm, local relational depth.

County triad lanes

Events coordinator

  • Build a county event lane that matches community patterns (weekday coffees vs weekend canvass-adjacent events, fairs, partner-hosted rooms).
  • Maintain a 4-week rolling plan so volunteers can schedule around life.
  • Recruit event hosts and site captains; never be the only person who knows the run-of-show.

Social coordinator

  • Run county accounts or sub-pages where relevant; otherwise coordinate trusted volunteers’ personal posting cadence.
  • Localize the social kit: names of places, local allies, local civic hooks — not generic national copy.
  • Track two numbers weekly: reach (rough) and inbound asks (“how do I volunteer?”).

Power of 5 / relational coordinator

  • Maintain a living list of relational nodes: clergy networks, union stewards, coaches, small business hubs, alumni circles.
  • Set a weekly relational goal that is achievable with one hour lanes (see Relational playbook).
  • Coach volunteers on scripts and boundaries; celebrate logged conversations, not just activity.

Weekly county checklist

  • Pick one anchor event in the next 14 days with a named owner.
  • Publish minimum social cadence agreed for the county (quality over spam).
  • Confirm relational circles are mapped for each captain — no orphan leads.

Launch checklist (first 14 days)

  • Name geographies (town clusters, precinct groupings) and assign parent captains.
  • Host a county onboarding huddle using the weekly agenda template.
  • Create a single source of truth for times/locations/links (one doc or one channel policy).

Common failure mode

County leads try to personally cover every town — fix by spinning city/precinct triads early.

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