Deputy Political Director

Full-time • Competitive Pay & Benefits

About The Outreach Team

The Outreach Team is the national engine of campaigners and organizers powering the progressive movement. With an on-the-ground presence in communities all across the country, our teams run successful civic engagement campaigns on behalf of progressive candidates, causes, and organizations. We do the work to build a future that is fairer, cleaner, safer, and more peaceful for everyone.

About the Position 

This is a full-time, exempt position for a seasoned, versatile campaigner with the ability to juggle many priorities, build ambitious programs, and manage a lot of different responsibilities and relationships simultaneously. The position is remote, and unfortunately we can’t hire people who would be working from these states: Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia. The position will involve a fair amount of travel during peak campaign periods. 

This is a Project Director-level position reporting directly to the Political Director and working closely in collaboration with the Executive Team, Support Departments, and on-the-ground leadership all across the country. This has an anticipated end date of December 2026.

What you’ll do:

Build Campaign Plans, Proposals & Pitches 

• Work with the Political Director to create campaign models, budgets, and program proposals. Research prospective locations, analyze past performance of relevant campaigns, and assess local political dynamics. Build out staffing and growth plans, create projections for production volume and efficiency, and create campaign budgets with complex webs of costs and variables.
• Work with the Political Director and other senior leadership to respond to RFPs and other client program requests by crafting campaign proposals. You’ll lead the drafting and compiling of forward-facing proposal content, produce supporting documents and spreadsheets, and build pitch decks, talking points, and strategic plans for client meetings and presentations.. 

Collaborate with Project Directors and Campaign Leadership 

• Run weekly one-on-one meetings with Project Directors. The Deputy Political Director will assess ongoing and impending campaign progress with each PD, hear about PD-identified strengths and weaknesses of each program, and review recent campaign trajectory with a set of PDs to identify trouble spots and areas of potential savings in campaign budgets. 

Data and Reporting 

• Work with the National Data & Targeting Director and other data staff to evaluate and improve data reporting systems. Build out and maintain internal databases of past and current performance by office and project. 
• Monitor client data reporting and transmission to ensure all campaigns are consistently transmitting data and reporting to clients in an accurate, timely, and effective manner.
• Analyze daily reports from all ongoing projects and the People Department to synthesize campaign toplines. Help the team get ahead of developing trendlines in the numbers by identifying campaigns that are tracking ahead and behind on production and growth goals. 
• Back-end budget analysis. Work with the Political Director to analyze completed campaign spending and evaluate actuals relative to budget targets. Identify areas to hone and improve campaign budgeting.

Business Development and Project Scheduling 

• Engage your own political network to identify new business opportunities and prospective clients. 
• Help maintain the Political Department’s central schedule of current and potential campaigns, coordinate with support department leadership to ensure everyone understands companywide priorities and anticipated production volume across campaigns. 

This job may be for you, if you:

• Are experienced in running large-scale social change campaigns with urgent deadlines. It is a plus if you’ve worked at a Project Director or Regional Director level for an issue-based campaign, voter registration drive, voter contact campaign, signature drive, candidate campaign, face-to-face fundraising drive, or some combination thereof. The ideal candidate will have campaign experience in a number of different capacities, including finance and field program management.
• Have a head for math and spreadsheets and have created and/or tracked project budgets
• Are a good writer and editor, ideally with experience producing public-facing content
• Share The Outreach Team’s commitment to prioritizing equity and justice in our work and team culture
• Have client management experience and/or experience coordinating stakeholders
• Are able to work long or irregular hours, if needed, and are able to travel regularly during peak campaign periods
• Have an eye for details that others may miss, and enjoy making systems efficient for everyone
• Are comfortable using standard campaign tech including Google Suite, Slack, VAN, and are confident in learning others as necessary
• Have administrative experience
• Have worked with The Outreach Team in the past and are familiar with our systems and approach to running campaigns (this is a plus, but not required)

Compensation

This is a salaried position with a range of $90,000-$110,000 per year depending on experience, including bonuses. We offer benefits including fully-paid health care, vacation, and sick days.

Apply here: https://www.theoutreachteam.net/jobs

At The Outreach Team, we prioritize equity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage Black, indigenous, people of color, women, people with previous felony convictions, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and others who identify with underrepresented groups to apply. 

Please note: We want to hire people of all gender identities. This hiring platform (JazzHR) does not allow us to add in specific options for gender identities outside of the binary, but we are currently working with them to find a solution.