Senior Manager, Coalition & Campaigns
Economic Security Project
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $90,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Sit at the center of ESIL’s legislative and advocacy work.
- Operationalize ESIL’s priority campaigns by translating strategy into clear plans, timelines, and targets.
- Coordinate legislative outreach with staff, champions, and contract lobbyists.
- Track fast-moving political dynamics and ensure follow-through across staff, lobbyists, and partners.
- Strengthen ESIL-led coalitions by clarifying roles, securing commitments, and ensuring partners are moving in sync toward shared legislative goals.
- Represent ESIL in coalition spaces, legislative hearings, and partner meetings.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience running or supporting legislative or advocacy campaigns, ideally within Illinois.
- Understanding of how policy moves through the legislature, including how targets are identified, champions are cultivated, opposition is navigated, and pressure is applied.
- Comfortable tracking bills in real time, coordinating with lobbyists, and adjusting tactics quickly as political conditions shift.
- Ability to break complex campaigns into executable steps, assign responsibility, track progress, and close loops relentlessly.
- Strong judgment in assessing what is urgent, what is sensitive, and when to escalate.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and make smart calls with imperfect information.
- Skills in building trust quickly across diverse partners, navigating power dynamics, and moving organizations toward action.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
judgmenttrust buildingnavigating power dynamicsoperating in ambiguitycommunication