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About Empower Project
Empower Project is the national leader in both paid and volunteer relational organizing.

Empower Project organizes to improve people’s lives using the power of relational organizing. Together with our partners, we’ve helped boost voter turnout, especially for BIPOC communities, through our approach of tapping into personal networks of friends and family. We provide the software and expertise to help communities, progressive organizations, and nonprofits leverage their personal relationships to build power and dramatically expand the electorate. Our cutting-edge technology, Empower, stands at the forefront of the industry and is trusted by over 1,500 organizations nationwide.

Program Overview
Our ground-breaking 2024 Paid Relational Organizing Hub program will touch up to 8 million people and generate 15 million conversations.

These statewide programs will:

• Initiate relational conversations with hundreds of thousands of people.
• Build a rapid-response network of trusted messengers to fight back against disinformation
• Aim to generate thousands of new voters in each state for the upcoming election.

Job Description
We are seeking a highly independent, proactive, and self-motivated individual who is skilled at prioritizing issues and digging into documentation and data. We frequently operate in fast-paced, rapid-response moments, and we are looking for a candidate who thrives in this environment. We foster a culture of experimentation–we want you to propose bold ideas that sometimes fail and sometimes succeed.

Core Responsibilities

Technical and Data Support

• Overseeing data and analytics projects and pipelines in concert with Engineering/Product team to build both short-term and long-term data infrastructure
• Collaborating with team members, other departments, and external partners as needed to ensure digital projects are completed effectively and efficiently.
• Assisting program leadership with other activities.

Internal Paid Relational Organizing Programs

• Determining and driving data management and analytics strategies to raise awareness of the paid relational programs.
• Working with voter file data, targets, and research to help drive program growth from start to finish.
• Support Empower Project leadership in monitoring and identifying trends in the Community Mobilizer recruitment pipeline.
• Provide data and programmatic support to the rest of the Empower Project Direct Organizing team when the organization is running paid relational programs.
• Developing periodic analytical reports.

Desired Qualifications

• Proven history of adept and timely problem-solving in a diverse work environment, managing multiple concurrent issues with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Possesses strong analytical skills and the ability to dig through various resources.
• You share our commitment to increasing racial diversity in our movement and organization, integrating justice and equity into the work we do and ensuring an inclusive organizational culture.

• Previous background working in diverse communities or cultures.
• Previous background with database and data analytics
• Previous background with customer service skills
• Previous background with the use of CRM software such as Zoho or SAP
• Previous background in providing technical support.
• Previous experience with programming such as Python is a plus.
• Familiar with NGP VAN and EveryAction
• Ability to build out data pipelines and automate movement or processing of data.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must. You are not afraid to ask questions and you are committed to assist across departments as the customer advocate

Additional consideration will be given to candidates who have existing relationships in one of the ten states or are fluent in a second language, including Spanish.

Compensation
This is a full-time, remote, salaried position available immediately and lasting through November 15, 2024.

The work schedule is six days per week with Fridays off. Data Managers will work either Sunday - Thursdays 9am - 5:30pm Eastern or 9am - 5:30pm Mountain time, depending on their state assignment. There is also one special projects position that will work 7:30-4pm Eastern.

We will also work the full week before the November election.

The salary for this position is $7,000/month plus healthcare benefits and 2 paid sick days.

Empower Project is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. Women, persons of color, and individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.