Justice Democrats: Campaign Coordination Manager

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The Campaign Coordination Manager will primarily help lead JD’s efforts to ensure our endorsed candidates win their races, and support our efforts to recruit the next generation of progressive leaders in Congress.

This includes hiring and overseeing campaign staff, building out plans for each campaign department, and working closely with team members and consultants to ensure our candidates hit their goals. The ideal candidate has high emotional intelligence and communication skills, is able to build trusting relationships with a wide array of individuals, the instinct to lean into productive conflict, and a well-rounded background across campaign departments.

Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning the week of January 6th.

Responsibilities

Winning Campaigns (85%)

• Recruit, hire and train skilled teams of staff for each of our campaigns

• Maintain close, supportive relationships with the candidates, staff, and consultants to help develop effective budget, field, finance, paid media, and political outreach plans and work closely with campaign teams to ensure we hit those goals.

• Proactively look for ways each of our campaigns can scale and improve their progress towards goals

• Report out campaign progress to the rest of JD staff, and work internally with other staffers, especially the campaigns, communications, and finance teams, to ensure we are providing the best services possible in helping our campaigns hit their goals.

• Help maintain political relationships with coalition partners.

• Travel to campaigns as needed to provide direct support.

Candidate Recruitment and Endorsement (15%)

• Coordinate with the Candidate Recruitment Manager to support execution of the candidate recruitment program and endorsement process.

• Conduct district outreach across the country, having in-depth conversations with community leaders to power map communities and identify potential nominees.

• Hold relationships with key local stakeholders in congressional districts.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to build and maintain strong relationships, communicate effectively, and move through tension/disagreements productively.

• Significant campaign leadership experience, ideally within multiple campaign departments.

• Experience advancing a set of priorities within a coalition and/or complicated staff structure

• Strong management skills, including project management, setting work plans, supporting campaign staff in hitting their goals, and giving feedback.

• Ability to turn complex/abstract goals into monthly, weekly, and daily priorities, and to hold yourself accountable to achieving them

• 1-3 cycles of campaign experience and/or other commensurate organizing and management experience

• Willingness to ask for support when needed

• Interest and experience in a variety of aspects of campaign work, such as local political work, paid media, field strategy, etc

• Ability to operate well in a high-pressure environment

Salary & Benefits:

• The organization is fully remote, Anywhere in the US is fine.

• $85,500 annual salary

• Fully paid Health, Vision, Dental (including dependents)

• 4 weeks per year PTO (Paid Time Off), and Federal Holidays off

• Unlimited sick days

• 4-day work week

• Raises every 2 years

• 401k + employer match

JD is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.