America Votes is excited to grow our teams by adding a well-organized self-starter for a full-time position as Program and Data Director. Positions available in each Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to join our core staff teams. The Program and Data Director plays a key role in the supporting campaign strategy and direct voter contact programs for the progressive movement. America Votes offers its diverse set of progressive partners a range of voter file, data, and targeting services, leveraging these tools to develop, align, and coordinate our partners around a shared strategy. We seek a service oriented individual with a combination of technical, programmatic, and political skills for this work. This position is ideal for someone who is ready to grow into a campaign leadership role and is eager to advance their campaign strategy skills and has a passion for helping others do their best work.
Qualifications
Required
At least two cycles of experience (at least 4 years) with statewide programmatic and/or data responsibilities. This includes experience with planning, program implementation, and analysis, especially related to direct voter contact and canvass programs. .
Cultural competency, including the ability to communicate respectfully across lines of difference and a demonstrated understanding of how bias impacts the ability of different communities to vote and how racial disparity presents in data
Strong sense of ownership and resilience with respect to planning ahead, finding alternative paths when needed, and bouncing back from setbacks and rejections.
Candidates must have an understanding of common direct voter contact programs and experience using data to inform advocacy and electoral plans, including previous experience in packaging progress to goal information and making recommendations on strategy. Strong VAN or other database skills are required with at least one cycle of experience administering voter contact tools. Standout candidates will have experience with large scale canvass operations.
Must be comfortable and able to present data in understandable ways, including visualizations, historical context, and more. Candidates must have a willingness and aptitude to seek out and learn new technical skills.
The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated history of persistence and resourcefulness in developing campaign strategies as well as solving technical problems. Candidates should have a spirit of service and curiosity, along with a diplomatic approach to problem-solving.
Demonstrated ability to manage work in a high stress, fast paced environment . This includes demonstrating calm & clarity, balancing and re-balancing priorities, advancing program with required urgency, working collaboratively on a team, and building and maintaining trust with a diverse set of stakeholders. Ability to manage several tasks/projects concurrently and prioritize work effectively by meeting team goals.
Excellent communication (oral and written), organizational, and time management skills, with attention to detail. Comfortable working with a diverse set of stakeholders in one-on-one meetings and group settings. Must be comfortable meeting in person. Ideal candidates will have previous work experience in a coalition setting with a demonstrated ability to move people to action and hold them accountable with and without formal authority.
Stand out candidates will have a desire and willingness to learn SQL including a comfort level with SELECT, WHERE, GROUPBY. Advanced Google Sheets or Excel skills required including familiarity with common functions (VLOOKUP, SUMIF, INDEX(MATCH)), pivot tables, and charts.
Must be a self-starter willing to work long irregular campaign-style hours and to travel as needed, especially during campaign season. Meeting in person one-on-one, in small groups, and in large coalition meeting settings.
Preferred
Standout candidates will have knowledge of and experience with the state political landscape and/or independent expenditure campaigns.
Experience preferred with at least one of the following: Mapping tools (QGIS, Maptitute, etc), visualization tools (Tableau, Periscope, Google Data Studio, etc), or analysis tools (R, Python).
Experience conducting small group trainings or developing training materials for end users and high-level staff.
Experience with direct voter contact tools like Scale to Win.
Experience with digital campaigns, mail programs, and Vote by Mail programs.