Job Description
Job Description
Organization Overview
America Votes is the coordination hub of the progressive community, leading collaborative efforts among a diverse coalition of more than 400 state and national partner organizations to advance progressive policies, win elections, and protect every American's right to vote. America Votes works nationally and in more than 20 states to provide a range of services to partners, including strategic planning, advocacy and electoral campaign coordination, data tools and targeting services, and on-the-ground leadership in key states.
America Votes is committed to developing long-term roadmaps and setting critical goals for states. With an eye on redistricting and the consequences of extreme conservative gerrymanders and attacks upon voting rights, these efforts are essential to building progressive power in the states, session-by-session and election-by-election.
America Votes and its partner organizations are at the heart of the progressive movement's effort to win elections and create change. In 2020, the America Votes coalition deployed their largest-ever voter engagement and mobilization effort to reach millions of voters in states. For more information about America Votes, visit www.americavotes.org.
Racial Equity Statement
As a leader of collaborative efforts to mobilize voters, protect voting rights, and win elections, America Votes is committed to advancing racial equity within our organization and across our coalition. We acknowledge the systematic racism that permeates all facets of our society, beginning with the foundational right to vote. America Votes is also engaging with an understanding of the ways gender, sexuality and other forms of oppression intersect with race and how those relationships impact inequities faced by our staff, our partners, and the communities that we engage in our work. America Votes strives to model our commitment to racial equity through our internal and external operations, programs, and partnerships. We acknowledge the inequitable structures that continue to exist and are moving forward with a sustained commitment in time, resources and people to challenge structural racism and work towards creating a reflective organization and democracy.
Position Description
America Votes is seeking a well-organized campaign strategist and people manager for a full-time position as Voting Rights Campaign Director as a part of a team focused on elections, campaigns, and voting rights in New Hampshire. The position works directly with the America Votes team in New Hampshire and will support advancing team priorities and goals. The Voting Rights Campaign Director will lead a nonpartisan coalition, the NH Campaign for Voting Rights (NHCVR), and work with the America Votes coalition to organize around key voting rights issues in the state legislature, build relationships with stakeholders, and ensure voting access for all Granite Staters. The Voting Rights Campaign Director will bring key organizations and stakeholders together to execute the larger coalition strategy around this work that focuses on protecting access to the ballot, election administration support and modernization, and easing the administrative burden of election officials. The Voting Rights Campaign Director will supervise the staff focused on voting rights as well as provide strategic leadership for the coalition of organizations working to engage in elections in the state, protect democracy, and the fundamental right to vote. This position reports to the New Hampshire State Director.
Location
This position is based in Concord, NH.
Responsibilities
- Staff Management: Responsible for the direct supervision and management of the staff and lobby team focused on voting rights and election administration. Support the state director in implementing America Votes' organizational goals. Manage staff to goals for success in meeting organizational goals. Manage special projects to deliver on team goals. Ensure a safe, welcoming, cohesive, and inspiring team culture for staff to excel in. Role model and uphold the organization's values of creating an inclusive and equitable working environment for all members of the team.
- Campaign Planning and Leadership: Facilitate innovative and creative solutions to challenges related to electoral and issue campaigns, short- and long-term campaign planning for statewide and ballot level electoral and voter education plans. Create transparency to support evaluation, troubleshooting, effectiveness, and efficiency in progress towards goals. Facilitate ongoing conversations and collective actionable steps toward equity in the work of the NHCVR coalition and partner members. Build and manage relationships with key elections officials and current coalition members including managing the operations of the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights (NHCVR).
- Coalition Coordination: Facilitate weekly coalition calls with state voting coalition partners and national partners to report on progress. Set, manage, and build alignment around the short and long-term goals of the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights, including establishing legislative priorities, voter education campaigns, accountability campaigns, and the coalition strategy in a fast-paced and changing environment. Organize and facilitate coordinated and/or collaborative partner events, including engagements like meetings and training
- Project Management: Cultivate and manage a nonpartisan bank of messengers on voting issues and train spokespeople as needed to advance coalition messages and priorities with various stakeholders. Represent the work of the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights to stakeholder and funder audiences, including weekly progress reports, presentations and written reports, sometimes on short notice. Gather, organize, and communicate to local and national partners all necessary information about voting rights efforts, training plans, challenges, needs, opportunities, etc.
- Products and Deliverables: Develop and execute an earned media strategy and communications materials for various internal and external audiences. Provide support, leading and coordinating the coalition to advance legislative accountability programs with a clear focus on advocacy. Work with existing infrastructure to assist partner organizations in developing and coordinating earned media and social media opportunities with research-driven messages.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
REQUIRED
- A minimum of five years of organizing, nonprofit, project management, or government experience and a minimum three years of staff management experience. Standout candidates will have at least two cycles of work on electoral, voter education, or voter registration campaigns.
- Strong sense of ownership and resilience with respect to planning ahead, finding alternative paths when needed, and bouncing back from setbacks and rejections.
- Respect for local organizations and election officials.
- Experience working with underrepresented and/or historically marginalized communities, preferably in campaign settings.
- Demonstrated ability to move people to action and hold them accountable with and without formal authority
- Experience managing strong volunteer engagement programs.
- Experience in a coalition setting. Stand-out candidates will have coalition management experience, including building consensus and implementing a shared vision. Ability to build strong relationships quickly and cultivate those relationships over the long term.
- Excellent communication and time management skills, with attention to detail. Proficient in Google Suites or Microsoft Office with emphasis on using Excel, Powerpoint, Google Slides and Google Sheets. Comfort with designing presentations in Powerpoint, Google Slides, and Canva.
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills and sound judgment. Must be a self-starter willing to work irregular hours as needed and to travel as needed.
- Familiarity with voting rights policy, especially election administration laws, rules, and implementation systems. Familiarity with voter education campaigns.
- Demonstrated ability to build consensus, negotiate, and strategically disagree within a highly collaborative work environment; ability to be respected by progressive stakeholders, to be trusted to lead and to be able to practice confidentiality, discretion, and legal compliance.
- Candidates must have a willingness and aptitude to seek out and learn new skills and stay abreast of new developments.
- Experience managing contractors, lobbyists, and grasstops leaders.
- Positive attitude and a sense of humor.
PREFERRED
- Familiarity with New Hampshire election administration laws, rules, and implementation systems.
- Experience working with election administration officials.
- Knowledge of and experience with the New Hampshire political and community organization landscape.
- Experience with the legislative process including lobbying, public engagement in the legislative process, and preparing public testimony.
Compensation
The salary for this position will be between $75,000 and $90,000 and depend upon the applicant's experience. America Votes offers a competitive benefits package covering 100% of employee medical, dental, & vision insurance premiums, life insurance, long term disability coverage, monthly cell phone reimbursement, personal professional development funds, parental leave, and 401 (K) after four months of continuous service with the organization. America Votes provides a generous paid time off policy with paid vacation, unlimited sick and safe leave, paid personal days, at least 10 Federal paid holidays including Juneteenth, as well as paid organizational time off from at least December 23 to January 1.
To Apply
Please submit a copy of your resume, a cover letter and three references to the application form.
If you experience any technical difficulties with our application form, please email recruiting@americavotes.org. Please note that only applications received through the application form will be considered; please do not email us your application materials.
America Votes is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace. America Votes does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected category under local, state or federal law. People of color, LGBTQ candidates, individuals with disabilities, and neurodivergent individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.