Experienced Electoral Director Needed - Progressive Change Campaign Committee (virtual office)
Kayla Wingbermuehle
In the 2012 and 2014 cycles, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) raised over $4 million directly for progressive candidates, made over 6 million phone calls for these candidates, provided intensive one-on-one coaching to dozens of campaigns, trained 600 campaign staffers and candidates, placed key staffers on the ground, and won major primary and general election victories. In 2011, we also ran the campaign to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for U.S. Senate -- raising over $1.1 million for her campaign.
The Senior Communications Strategist works as part of the PCCC electoral team, helping progressive campaigns build their press shop, conceive their communications strategy, and advising on implementation of their strategy.
Your responsibilities will include:
Provide deep operational communications support to campaigns [75%+]
- Guide and coach campaign staffers on best practices for a well-organized, successful press shop.
- Consult campaigns on starting up a press shop, crafting a communications strategy, making decisions about polling, ads, and campaign literature, and more.
- Advise campaigns on how to achieve proactive and rapid response communications – including tipping campaigns off ahead of days when issues they are campaigning on are expected to make national news.
- Monitor media coverage of each campaign and provide insight and feedback to campaigns.
- Help plan and coordinate the PCCC’s communications support email stream – such as building crowds for our candidates’ media events.
- Conduct field visits as needed.
- Help develop and implement cross-candidate issue campaigns – organizing with dozens of House and Senate campaigns across the country to gain coordinated media exposure, fundraising, and list-growth.
Internal PCCC press work [Up to 25%]
- Assist the press team with day-to-day operations, as needed, including writing press releases and pitching reporters.
- Help refine PCCC’s media training curriculum and conduct occasional communications trainings as needed.
Strong applicants will have:
- Progressive ideals and work history.
- At least four years of media experience that includes pitching reporters, drafting press materials, and planning events.
- At least two cycles of electoral experience, including press on a federal campaign.
- Experience driving communications strategy and developing media plans, beyond implementation.
- Healthy skepticism of the "way things have always been done" and smart outside-the-box ideas for creating new models to win electoral campaigns.
- Strong sense of strategy.
- Strong ability to build relationships.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
- Strong work ethic, an ability to work in virtual workplace, and detail oriented.