Vice President

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee and assist State Directors across multiple states to ensure that programmatic, financial, and operational objectives are achieved or surpassed.

• Collaboratively establish goals to align with state, programmatic, and operational priorities.

• Advise state teams in crafting proactive and reactive strategies based on the political climate of each state.

• Cultivate and sustain strong relationships with state teams.

• Ensure the sustainability and efficiency of state budgets and resource distribution.

• Execute system and process enhancements alongside State Directors and other teams.

• Lead efforts in professional development and coaching, including management under the collective bargaining agreement.

• Assist State Directors with career advancement, retention, and succession planning.

• Advocate for and represent the work of states externally.

• Establish connections with donors, policymakers, and coalition partners.

• Communicate with the media regarding Common Cause’s initiatives as necessary.

• Create public-facing materials and written communications in collaboration with cross-organizational teams.

• Align state strategies with the activities of the Development team.

• Support state fundraising efforts, including the drafting of grants, fundraising materials, and grant reporting.

• Lead organization-wide change initiatives.

• Ensure collaboration, responsiveness, and accountability among state, program, and operations teams.

• Develop expertise in democracy and electoral policy.

• Share insights from the state level with organizational leadership to inform Common Cause’s overarching strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong dedication to Common Cause’s nonpartisan mission and the promotion of racial equity through its national agenda.

• Commitment to equity in professional goals and interactions with others.

• Ability to establish rapport, trust, and credibility with a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Proficient in navigating organizational and power dynamics, leveraging relationships, and influencing change.

• Skilled at managing conflict while upholding personal values.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex concepts for broader audiences.

• Innovative and strategic thinker capable of navigating ambiguity.

• Ability to manage multiple short-term and long-term priorities and deadlines with a keen attention to detail and organization.

• Resourceful and effective in problem-solving.

• Openness to providing and receiving feedback with an awareness of personal strengths and areas for growth.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, Slack, and Zoom.

• Experience in leading successful state-level or national issue-based advocacy campaigns.

• Proven experience with the legislative process in at least one state, encompassing policy research and analysis, policy development, legislative drafting, advocacy, communications, and policy implementation.

• Knowledge of political dynamics in at least one state, including key decision-makers, partners, and funders.

• Experience in managing a team; ideally, experience managing other managers and coaching/training mid-level and senior staff.

• History of collaborative efforts and managing coalitions or diverse-interest groups.

• Proven track record of leading organization-wide change initiatives.

• Willingness to travel up to a week per month for site visits, conferences, team retreats, and/or all-staff retreats.

• Readiness to maintain a social media presence on behalf of Common Cause.

• Must not currently hold elected office, run for office, serve on a political candidate’s Steering or Finance Committee, or be affiliated with political-party leadership.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States; Common Cause cannot sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.

• This position is supervisory and excluded from the union-represented collective bargaining unit.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plan covering 97% of employee medical expenses, 100% of employee vision and dental benefits, 75% of family medical care, and 100% of family vision and dental benefits.

• Long-term disability and life insurance coverage.

• Generous Paid Time Off including 20 days of vacation and 10 observed holidays each year.

• Additional days off for Thanksgiving and Winter break.

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Flexible spending accounts available.

• 401k retirement savings plan with immediate employer match.

• Support for dependent care and pet care when traveling for work.

• Funding available for professional development.

• Geography-specific percentage increases based on location.

• Option for remote work anywhere within the contiguous United States.