New Hampshire Voting Rights Campaign Director

Location

This position is based in Concord NH.

Responsibilities

• Staff Management: Responsible for the direct supervision and management of the staff and lobby team focused on voting rights and election administration. Support the state director in implementing America Votes organizational goals. Manage staff to goals for success in meeting organizational goals. Manage special projects to deliver on team goals. Ensure a safe welcoming cohesive and inspiring team culture for staff to excel in. Role model and uphold the organizations values of creating an inclusive and equitable working environment for all members of the team.
• Campaign Planning and Leadership: Facilitate innovative and creative solutions to challenges related to electoral and issue campaigns short and longterm campaign planning for statewide and ballot level electoral and voter education plans. Create transparency to support evaluation troubleshooting effectiveness and efficiency in progress towards goals. Facilitate ongoing conversations and collective actionable steps toward equity in the work of the NHCVR coalition and partner members. Build and manage relationships with key elections officials and current coalition members including managing the operations of the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights (NHCVR).
• Coalition Coordination: Facilitate weekly coalition calls with state voting coalition partners and national partners to report on progress. Set manage and build alignment around the short and longterm goals of the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights including establishing legislative priorities voter education campaigns accountability campaigns and the coalition strategy in a fastpaced and changing environment. Organize and facilitate coordinated and/or collaborative partner events including engagements like meetings and training
• Project Management: Cultivate and manage a nonpartisan bank of messengers on voting issues and train spokespeople as needed to advance coalition messages and priorities with various stakeholders. Represent the work of the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights to stakeholder and funder audiences including weekly progress reports presentations and written reports sometimes on short notice. Gather organize and communicate to local and national partners all necessary information about voting rights efforts training plans challenges needs opportunities etc.
• Products and Deliverables: Develop and execute an earned media strategy and communications materials for various internal and external audiences. Provide support leading and coordinating the coalition to advance legislative accountability programs with a clear focus on advocacy. Work with existing infrastructure to assist partner organizations in developing and coordinating earned media and social media opportunities with researchdriven messages.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• A minimum of five years of organizing nonprofit project management or government experience and a minimum three years of staff management experience. Standout candidates will have at least two cycles of work on electoral voter education or voter registration campaigns.
• Strong sense of ownership and resilience with respect to planning ahead finding alternative paths when needed and bouncing back from setbacks and rejections.
• Respect for local organizations and election officials.
• Experience working with underrepresented and/or historically marginalized communities preferably in campaign settings.
• Demonstrated ability to move people to action and hold them accountable with and without formal authority
• Experience managing strong volunteer engagement programs.
• Experience in a coalition setting. Standout candidates will have coalition management experience including building consensus and implementing a shared vision. Ability to build strong relationships quickly and cultivate those relationships over the long term.
• Excellent communication and time management skills with attention to detail. Proficient in Google Suites or Microsoft Office with emphasis on using Excel Powerpoint Google Slides and Google Sheets. Comfort with designing presentations in Powerpoint Google Slides and Canva.
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills and sound judgment. Must be a selfstarter willing to work irregular hours as needed and to travel as needed.
• Familiarity with voting rights policy especially election administration laws rules and implementation systems. Familiarity with voter education campaigns.
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus negotiate and strategically disagree within a highly collaborative work environment; ability to be respected by progressive stakeholders to be trusted to lead and to be able to practice confidentiality discretion and legal compliance.
• Candidates must have a willingness and aptitude to seek out and learn new skills and stay abreast of new developments.
• Experience managing contractors lobbyists and grasstops leaders.
• Positive attitude and a sense of humor.

PREFERRED

• Familiarity with New Hampshire election administration laws rules and implementation systems.
• Experience working with election administration officials.
• Knowledge of and experience with the New Hampshire political and community organization landscape.
• Experience with the legislative process including lobbying public engagement in the legislative process and preparing public testimony.

Compensation

The salary for this position will be between $75000 and $90000 and depend upon the applicants experience. America Votes offers a competitive benefits package covering 100% of employee medical dental & vision insurance premiums life insurance long term disability coverage monthly cell phone reimbursement personal professional development funds parental leave and 401 (K) after four months of continuous service with the organization. America Votes provides a generous paid time off policy with paid vacation unlimited sick and safe leave paid personal days at least 10 Federal paid holidays including Juneteenth as well as paid organizational time off from at least December 23 to January 1.

To Apply

Please submit a copy of your resume a cover letter and three references to the application form.

If you experience any technical difficulties with our application form please email Please note that only applications received through the application form will be considered; please do not email us your application materials.

America Votes is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse inclusive and equitable workplace. America Votes does not discriminate on the basis of race color creed religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability veteran status or any other protected category under local state or federal law. People of color LGBTQ candidates individuals with disabilities and neurodivergent individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

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