Overview

The Campaigns Coordinator will support electoral work in the 2024 state legislative elections. This person will help recruit and develop state legislature candidates, support them in launching their campaigns, set up volunteer data and tools infrastructure on campaigns, train campaign staff, recruit and build relationships with volunteers, and develop the technical skills and leadership of our membership. This work takes place through the June 2024 primary election, and the position will end July 14, 2024.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Recruit and develop candidates for 2024 state legislative elections
  • Help launch campaigns with strong field, fundraising, and media infrastructure
  • Build volunteer infrastructure for state legislative electoral campaigns; set up data, voter contact and volunteer management tools, ensuring data and volunteers are integrated back into the Party
  • Recruit, train and develop volunteers into field leaders who can represent the Party and campaigns in canvasses, phone-banks and other volunteer events
  • Develop the technical campaign skills of our Party membership
  • Build deep relationships with our priority campaigns and candidates and serve as a day-to-day operations contact
  • Engage in political organizing to broaden coalition support for our candidates; help campaigns craft narratives for press

Skills and Qualifications

  • Strong field and volunteer coordination background; at least 2 campaign cycles is ideal
  • This person must be a data and people person — able to spend some days in spreadsheets and voter files and other days calling and meeting with volunteers  
  • Familiarity with VAN, Votivate, Scale to Win, EveryAction, Mobilize, Action Network, Reach, Spoke, and other popular field tools
  • Deeply relational and can build trust with people from different backgrounds and with different work styles
  • Able to deliver critical feedback to a candidate and campaign staff with grace
  • Experience fundraising small dollar donations is a plus
  • Values alignment on our theory of change, which is that we are electing progressive champions to form a governing bloc to deliver material results for our people
  • Operating effectively in a fast-paced environment with a lean team, able to collaborate, take direction and self-start, as needed
  • Demonstrated commitment to, and experience in, centering equity and inclusion in your work – removing barriers to participation and engaging people across lines of race, class, age, language and geography, especially when it’s not the path of least resistance