Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Movement Labs is dedicated to building durable political power from the ground up through its Contest Every Race program. The Distributed Neighborhood Captains Program Manager will oversee the development and management of a program aimed at recruiting and supporting volunteer captains to increase voter engagement and support for Democratic candidates across the country.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage the distributed Neighborhood Captains program end-to-end, scaling it across hundreds of county parties nationwide
- Directly manage a program deputy who owns training and the front-of-house captain and volunteer experience
- Design and own the program's digital infrastructure: onboarding flows, communication cadences
- Build and maintain systems to track program health, report on key metrics, and monitor performance across the country
- Use data to inform decisions and surface insights and recommendations to leadership
- Partner with your deputy to recruit, train, and support volunteer captains, each of whom will own a list of roughly 50 voters in their own community
- Foster a team culture that is inclusive, celebratory, and built to withstand the pressure of a campaign environment
- Find creative solutions to digital issues as they arise to keep the program moving under tight deadlines
Skills
- 3–4 years working on political candidate campaigns in digital and/or volunteer management roles
- Data fluency & technological proficiency: comfortable working with data managers to interpret outreach metrics and using tracking platforms to identify regional trends or underperformance; able to troubleshoot mobile applications for your team in the field
- Digitally fluent, fast learner: you pick up new software quickly, think in systems, and are genuinely excited about how digital tools can amplify organizing. You're not intimidated by new platforms; you're curious about them
- Project management: you can hold a lot of moving parts, prioritize well under pressure, and know when to ask for help in a fast-moving environment
- Experience managing staff in a campaign environment
- Familiarity with how county Democratic parties typically work and the volunteer experience in those settings
- Comfortable with, and energized by, the pace and pressure of a campaign environment with tough, tight deadlines
- Experience on a congressional campaign running a strong field program
Benefits
- Work-life stipend of $700/month pre-tax to support employees during our highest-intensity work period, starting August 1 (prorated for partial months).
- Excellent health, dental, and vision benefits; 401(k) matching.
- Remote-first culture with teammates across the country.
- Possible on-call requirements.
- This position is eligible for the collective bargaining unit.
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