Electoral Campaign Manager
Democracy for America is looking for an Electoral Campaign Manager to help its growing Electoral team recruit, support, and train candidates and thousands of volunteers all over the country. Over the past decade, DFA has helped elect more than 830 leaders to higher office, raised more than $36 million in small grassroots donations, and trained thousands of organizers across 50 states.
The person who fills this role will have a twofold mission: first, recruit and train a base of campaign staff and grassroots leaders in core campaign skills such as field organizing, media, fundraising, and campaign planning, both with large-scale virtual trainings and on the ground trainings; and second, spearhead efforts to flip state legislative chambers to Democratic control in priority target states with strong, progressive, people-powered candidates, so we can reverse the damage done by Republicans just after 2010 and build for more immediate wins in the fight against income inequality.
The ideal candidate is positively progressive, innovative, creative, driven by ambitious goals, fired up about the fight against income inequality and structural racism, solution-oriented in the face of uncertainty and few resources, and able to gracefully perform at a high level when the pressure is on.
Democracy for America is an equal opportunity employer that strongly values and looks to continue developing the diversity of our team. Women, persons of color, LGBT individuals, veterans, and members of other underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Salary and benefits are highly competitive and commensurate with experience.
Duties include:
- Recruiting candidates to earn DFA's endorsement; vetting, interviewing, and assessing applicants, proposing priority tiers to determine which races we focus on and why.
- Driving DFA's renowned training program forward, especially in state legislative races, both in person on the ground and via scaled virtual training - supporting teams of local and national trainers, crafting and refining curricula, partnering closely with allies and endorsed campaigns to train thousands of grassroots leaders and campaign staffers in core realms of electoral work, from field, to finance to media to strategy and operations.
- Recruiting, identifying, and developing grassroots leaders who will organize local activists to support candidates and make change on critical issues.
- Setting goals and seeing through deliverables for priority state legislative campaigns - fundraising, supporting targeting, VAN management, voter ID and persuasion goals, and volunteer recruitment.
- Manage select high-level relationships with key allies - labor, environmental, and community leaders - on the ground in top-tier races.
Qualifications:
- Progressive, optimistic, and strategic; obsessed with the art and science of finding and developing leaders while winning campaigns.
- Experience developing leadership skills in individuals and vast audiences alike.
- Has crafted and executed campaign plans with many moving pieces to reach ambitious goals, ideally to hit a win number on an electoral campaign.
- Aggressive problem-solver & information-seeker, positively flexible, errs on the side of over-communicating, thrives in the fast-paced, ever-shifting landscape of digital electoral campaigning.
- Previous data management and VAN experience ideal, but not required.
- Comfortable with and excited about telecommuting and a medium-to-busy travel schedule, depending on the election season.
To apply, please send resume and cover letter to careers@democracyforamerica.com. No phone calls, please.
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