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Company

Common Cause · 14 hours ago

Vice President, States

Lower 48 United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$145K/yr - $175K/yr

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Responsibilities

Manage and support State Directors across several states to ensure that those teams meet or exceed their programmatic, financial, and operational goals

Collaboratively setting goals to ensure alignment between state, programmatic, and operational priorities

Guide state teams to develop proactive and responsive strategies based on the political landscape of their state

Build and maintain strong and trusting relationships with state teams

Ensure sustainability and efficiency of state budgets and resource allocation, and work with State Directors and other teams to implement system and process improvements as needed

Lead professional development and coaching efforts to strengthen state teams, including management under our collective bargaining agreement, differentiating for needs across our organization

Support State Directors’ career progression and retention at Common Cause, and drive succession planning to ensure sustainability

Represent Common Cause externally, building relationships with donors, policymakers, and coalition partners to strengthen the organization's influence and impact

Speak to the media about our work as needed

Collaborate with teams across the organization to promote the work in our states, including developing public-facing materials and written communications

Work closely with our Development team to ensure alignment of states’ strategy with development activities

Support state teams to meet their fundraising goals to maintain and grow our effectiveness and solvency; this may include drafting grants and other written fundraising materials, ensuring accuracy in grant reporting, and supporting states with other fundraising activities

Lead change initiatives across the organization to help ensure alignment between state, program, and operations team priorities

Ensure collaboration, responsiveness, and accountability between state, program and operations teams

Build expertise in democracy and electoral policy to be able to support various states with their work

Collaborate with organizational leadership to share state-level insights that shape Common Cause’s overall strategy

Qualification

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Required

Have led successful state-level or national issue-based advocacy campaigns, including creating and managing campaign plans from conception through implementation and completion

Demonstrated experience with the legislative process in at least one state, including policy research and analysis, policy development, legislative drafting, legislative advocacy and lobbying, communications, and policy implementation

Demonstrates knowledge of unique aspects of the political dynamic in at least one state, including decision-makers, partners, and funders – ideally, you have existing relationships with these people and organizations

Have managed a team, and ideally you have managed other managers, and coached and trained mid-level and senior staff to develop skills

A track record of working collaboratively with others, and have managed coalitions or groups with diverse interests to achieve a goal

Track record of leading organization-wide change initiatives

Ability to travel up to a week per month for site visits, conferences, team and/or all staff retreats

Per our nonpartisan policy, Common Cause staff members may not currently be in elected office (or running for office); on the Steering Committee or Finance Committee for any political candidate; or affiliated with the leadership of a political party

Benefits

A robust healthcare plan that covers 97% of employee’s medical care, 100% of employee’s vision and dental benefits, and 75% of family medical care and 100% of family vision and dental benefits

Generous Paid Time Off including 20 Days of Vacation and 10 observed Holidays per year, and additional days off for Thanksgiving and Winter break

Flexible spending accounts

A 401k retirement savings plan, with Employer Match after 1 year of service

Dependent Care and Pet Care Support when you travel for work

Funds for professional development

And more!