Deputy State Director

Common Cause

Strategic and collaborative Deputy State Director overseeing organizing strategy across North Carolina for Common Cause. Lead outreach and ensure alignment with organizational policy pillars.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeNorth Carolina • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $116,699 - $137,917 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Oversee statewide organizing strategy
Lead the development and execution of Common Cause’s organizing and outreach strategy at the state level, ensuring alignment between state-level and national organizing strategy, as well as alignment with our organizational policy pillars: Voting & Fair Representation; Anti-Corruption & Accountability; Civil Rights & Civil Liberties; and Media & Technology

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have led successful local- or state-level public advocacy campaigns related to democracy, elections, voting rights and civil rights, including creating and managing campaigns or annual plans, from conception through implementation and completion
Have managed coalitions or groups that represent stakeholders with diverse interests to achieve a goal, as well as a demonstrated knowledge of the political dynamics, funders and decision-makers at the state level, with a preference for candidates who have existing relationships with these people and organizations
A track record of leading organization-wide change initiatives
Have organized advocacy events, and ideally, experience with state and local advocacy as well
Have managed and developed a team; set strategic direction for a team, and built a unified approach to achieve goals; ideally has managed managers
Willing to have a social media presence on behalf of Common Cause, including being tagged on posts and creating content on behalf of the organization (as needed, Common Cause may provide accounts for staff members to use)
Ability to travel in-state at least 5 times per month, as well as domestically 1-2 times per year for team and/or all staff retreats
Per our nonpartisan policy, Common Cause staff members may not currently be in elected office (or running for office); on the Steering Committee or Finance Committee for any political candidate; or affiliated with the leadership of a political party

Benefits

Comp & perks

A robust healthcare plan that covers 97% of employee’s medical care, 100% of employee’s vision and dental benefits, and 75% of family medical care and 100% of family vision and dental benefits
Long-term disability and life insurance
Generous Paid Time Off including 20 Days of Vacation and 10 observed Holidays per year, and additional days off for Thanksgiving and Winter break
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Flexible spending accounts
A 401k retirement savings plan, with immediate Employer Match
Dependent Care and Pet Care Support when you travel for work
Funds for professional development
And more! See more details here: https://www.commoncause.org/our-benefits/

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Hard Skills & Tools

public advocacy campaignscampaign managementstrategic planningevent organizationteam managementchange initiativescontent creation

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationrelationship buildingstrategic directiongoal achievement