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About The Democratic Party of Wisconsin

WisDems is nationally recognized as one of the country’s highest-performing and most pivotal political organizations. During the upcoming election cycle, WisDems will drive massive programs to hold Republicans accountable, elect progressive candidates up and down the ballot, and work to build volunteer-led coalitions for the long term. WisDems’ work is grounded in inclusion, respect, and empowerment across race, gender, other dimensions of identity, and the rural/suburban/urban divide. Our work continues year-round, collaborating with partners to build a movement that delivers meaningful change for all Wisconsinites. We seek outstanding applicants who share our values and vision to join the team, help win elections, and build a future where everyone can thrive.

The Opportunity: Reporting to the Finance Director, the Call Time Manager’s job is to ensure that the Chair successfully executes the Call Time fundraising plan for the party and assists with donor communication to follow up on commitments and conversations. The Call Time Manager is responsible for directing, managing, and providing all support for Chair Call Time including: assure call sheets are ready for call time by researching and producing accurate call sheets, prioritize and manage all call lists, create all briefing materials on donors; sit with Chair during call time and ensure swift and effective execution of fundraising goals; log all activity in NGP software system; and ensure completion of all donor follow-up to daily call time calls via email, letter, and phone communication—either directly or by managing the chair to reach out to donors, as warranted.

Job Responsibilities:

• Direct, manage, and implement all aspects of the Chair Call Time operation including meeting assigned goals, creating call sheets, organizing outreach, staffing and coaching principals, tracking results, and managing data.
• Direct and manage donor and prospect call time follow up including scheduling future calls, pledge chase, and relational outreach.
• Prepare and prioritize scheduling calls for the Chair and other principals.
• Complete research on donor prospects and manage the prospecting program.
• Report out daily results of call time including actual donor contact, hard and soft pledge totals, and overall performance statistics.
• Work with the Finance Assistants to prepare calls, research lists and schedule calls.
• Train and manage interns on donor research, review their work regularly, and provide constructive feedback to improve intern research quality.
• Assist with drafting major donor fundraising email and communications.
• Travel with the Chair as needed, including to staff the Chair at donor meetings.
• Ability to provide coaching and feedback to the principal during Call Time.
• Ability to provide coaching and feedback to DPW interns and Finance assistants.
• Create ‘asks’ that reflect an individual's giving capacity.
• Build on the campaign’s existing fundraising programs to hit weekly & monthly goals.
• Assist Finance Team with other projects as needed.

Qualifications (Required):

• 1 Cycle of relevant finance experience.
• Detailed-oriented and ability to balance multiple projects at the same time.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work outside of normal work hours as needed; including canvassing and other election-preparation as necessary.
• Must have a willingness to be able to travel.
• Relentlessly Goal Oriented - enjoys working toward and achieving ambitious goals. Keeps calm in stressful situations.
• Cultural Competency - able to build relationships and collaborate with colleagues, voters, and volunteers across lines of identity difference.
• Growth Mindset - ability to take and implement feedback.

Benefits: Great benefits including; excellent health care ($1/month), dental ($1/month), vision ($1/month), life insurance (free), short term and long-term disability (free), TalkSpace virtual therapy, free Calm premium subscription, mileage reimbursement, monthly cell phone stipend, paid vacation days (starting at 10 days), retirement plan with employer match, 4 floating holidays, 9 paid holidays.

Equity and Inclusion: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has a vision for a deeply inclusive and diverse party organization, membership, and electorate. In order to be successful at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin candidates must have the cultural competence to successfully work with a diverse array of constituency groups. We especially strongly encourage applicants with close ties to Black, Indigenous, AAPI, Latinx, Muslim, non-English-speaking, disability, and LGBTQIA+ communities. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.