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Political Director
Empower Project
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $144,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Develop and implement a comprehensive external affairs strategy aligning communications, partnerships, and development goals
- Serve as a thought partner to the Executive Director and leadership team to align messaging and positioning across all external channels
- Lead and manage the Campaigns, Partner Success and Communications departments and coordinate closely with the Development team
- Manage 2-5 political consultants engaged on Empower’s behalf
- Cultivate and deepen strategic partnerships with peer organizations, advocacy coalitions, and aligned networks
- Identify collaborative opportunities to amplify Empower’s work in the broader movement for civic engagement
- Represent Empower Project at national events, on advisory groups, and in public forums
- Oversee all public messaging and digital engagement strategies to raise profile within the movement
- Provide weekly talking points to leadership and lead brand development and storytelling to ensure consistency across channels
Requirements
- Extremely strong writing skills and mastery of formats for talking points, memos and decks
- Experience building and maintaining relationships with non-profit and community organizations, political candidates, and organized labor
- Strong cultural competency — able to build relationships and collaborate with diverse colleagues and organization partners and across lines of difference
- 4+ cycles of experience in political and/or nonprofit political work
- Able to work in a varied work environment with multiple projects in progress at once
- Ability to work remotely and manage staff across time zones
- Experience collaborating across departments as well as with external partners
- Demonstrated ability to work in and contribute to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment
- Ability to work independently for extended periods of time in a remote environment
- Additional consideration: experience with people-centered and ethical storytelling; existing relationships with national or state partners; previous background with use of NGP; fluency in a second language (Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Hmong, or Navajo)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, personal days, federal holidays)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
writing skillstalking pointsmemosdeckspolitical worknonprofit political workpeople-centered storytellingethical storytellingNGPfluency in Spanish
Soft skills
relationship buildingcultural competencycollaborationability to work independentlyability to manage staff remotelyability to work in diverse environmentsproject managementstrategic thinkingcommunicationleadership
