Senior Campaign Lead, Democracy

The role

The Senior Campaign Lead, Democracy will manage a team to chart the course for the organization's democracy program. This person will lead campaigns on issues including election safeguarding, structural democracy reform, voting rights, and privacy and surveillance.

What you will do

• Manage a team to chart the course for the democracy program
• Lead campaigns on election safeguarding, structural democracy reform, voting rights, privacy and surveillance and others
• Provide leadership in the development of goals, strategy, vision, and strategic plans
• Identify and prioritize annual work areas
• Provide strategic advice and counsel to the Director and Chief Political & Advocacy Officer
• Design and lead complex, multi-tooled campaigns from planning to execution
• Lead legislative and administrative campaigns
• Employ constituent and voter targeting, advertisements, polling, and creative campaign tactics
• Retain and manage vendors and consultants
• Coordinate day-to-day activities of staff in a matrixed structure

Required qualifications

• Significant experience with issue advocacy and/or electoral campaigning at the federal, state, and/or local levels
• Significant experience with campaign management
• Significant experience designing campaign strategy and executing campaign plans and tactics
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Experience building, leading, and working within coalitions
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet multiple deadlines
• Experience doing advocacy on both issue campaigns and electoral campaigns
• Experience doing legislative and administrative advocacy
• Experience doing grassroots organizing
• Comfort with policy and weaving policy objectives into campaign execution
• Willingness to travel

Nice to have

• Fluency, expertise and experience in multiple ACLU issue areas
• Sophisticated judgment
• Experience giving advice or counsel to a principal

Benefits

• Generous paid time-off policy
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage
• Parental leave
• Gender affirming care & fertility treatment
• 401k plan and employer match
• Annual professional development funds
• Internal professional development programs and workshops

About the company

The ACLU has worked for over 100 years to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The National Political Advocacy Department builds power to achieve an accountable, representative democracy.