Responsibilities of an admin

Overview of your responsibilities as a VAN admin. For a video walkthrough click here.


Overview    1

Who is an admin    1

How do I switch the VAN admin?    1

What should the admin be doing?    1

Campaign    1

County party    2


Overview

  • A VAN admin has several different types of responsibilities: 

    • User creation 

    • Sharing best practices and strategy among the members
      Distributing phone banks, canvasses, and other voter contact activity

    • MiniVAN commits

    • Monitoring VAN usage

    • Enforcing security norms

  • Responsibilities differ depending on your committee type (e.g., campaign or county party)


Who is an admin

  • A singular admin that is chosen by the committee, varies

  • Campaign - candidate, the campaign manager or even the field director

  • County party - typically either the County Chair or somebody else that the County Chair has designated the VAN admin


How do I switch the VAN admin?

  • If you need your admin switched, we’re happy to do that

  • Submit a ticket to txdem.co/VAN-help


What should the admin be doing? 

Campaign

  • User creation - Creating all of the accounts for staffers, fellows, volunteers, and anybody else who needs that access

  • Sharing the best practices among the users - Making sure that everybody is clear on the campaign strategy and the current priorities depending on the time we are in the cycle

  • Overseeing the creation and targeting for phone banks and canvasses

  • MiniVAN commits - Committing canvass data back into VAN (details here)

  • API key requests and management

  • User support - Monitoring the usage, debugging, providing support to your users, monitoring exports, and making sure that everybody knows how to use VAN and is using VAN the way it should be used for your campaign



County party

  • User creation - Creating all of the accounts for precinct chairs, club leaders, and other activists

  • Sharing the best practices among the users - TDP targets and the county party goals for this cycle

  • Overseeing the creation and targeting for phone banks and canvasses

  • MiniVAN commits - Committing canvass data back into VAN (details here)

  • API key requests and management

  • User support - Monitoring the usage, debugging, providing support to your users, monitoring exports, and making sure that everybody knows how to use VAN and is using VAN the way it should be used for your campaign