Salary
💰 $148,000 - $153,000 per year
About the role
- Lead a multi-cycle strategy to build power at the state and national level and drive electoral strategy towards winning a national right to abortion by 2040.
- Co-lead the PPFA Campaigns Team and share managerial responsibility of Regional and Campaigns Directors and Managers.
- Manage Planned Parenthood Votes’ and Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s Independent Expenditure program, overseeing national and statewide electoral campaigns.
- Serve as strategist, partner, and consultant on ballot measure campaigns, federal and state-level legislative strategy and long-term power building.
- Direct multi-million dollar electoral IE expenditures on direct voter contact.
- Represent Planned Parenthood Votes to external partners including donors, allies, and media and participate in fundraising requests as required.
- Build, maintain, and support relationships with national and state based IE partners across the country.
- Support strategic planning with state and local PP advocacy and political organizations to secure electoral victories.
- Manage the Campaigns team alongside the Senior Director, Campaign Strategy and support Regional Campaigns Directors and Managers.
- Lead coordination of divisions and departments for electoral programs and partner with Senior Director, Campaigns Strategy and other departments.
- Oversee strategy, planning, and implementation of PPV national independent expenditure electoral program and make budgeting decisions alongside the National Director.
- Oversee compliance in partnership with the operations team and manage implementation of electoral, federal congressional, and state legislative campaigns.
- Provide strategic guidance on campaign development, grant-making, and evaluation of state and federal campaigns.
- Manage up to three Regional Campaigns Directors and connect national office departments in delivering support to PP state advocacy and political organizations.
- Assist in development and on-site facilitation of national meetings including national trainings, conferences and events throughout the country.
- Maintain current and accurate files, track affiliate and state office activity to provide weekly reports, and monitor work-related financial expenditures.
- Travel throughout the US and to national meetings/conferences.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of related political and electoral leadership, with minimum 1-2 cycles on independent expenditures.
- Management experience, not only of direct reports, but also of lateral cross-divisional teams.
- Must be able to build trust and work effectively with leaders across the country from Planned Parenthood state organizations.
- A track record of creating and maintaining strong work relationships with a diverse set of colleagues is required.
- Experience as a grassroots organizer; adept at consulting, advising, and training others to increase organizing activities and strategies.
- Proven ability in developing electoral budgets and executing strategies like direct voter contact, mail, digital.
- Proven track record of leading programmatic work through a lens of racial equity.
- Proven ability and fluency in long term power-building with a movement lens.
- Proficient trainer and communicator and possess assessment and analytical skills that allow effective coaching and consulting.
- Ability to identify priorities, work independently and develop tactics for addressing issues or requests and extensive knowledge of public policies at the state and federal level.
- Ability to stay ahead of all electoral related data and analytics tools and trends and be able to lend not only knowledge but also expertise about these tools and trends.
- Knowledge of research methodologies including randomized controlled trials, surveys, and qualitative methods and experience implementing them in campaigns.
- Must be willing and able to work extended hours as needed.
- Passionate about the mission of Planned Parenthood and the role of health provision and advocacy.
- Self-starter with a high level of creative initiative.