JOB: Campaign Manager (NY/DC), Center for Popular Democracy

[Nicole Cairns]

Campaign Manager

Center for Popular Democracy

DC/NY

https://cpd.hiringthing.com/job/20214/campaign-manager

Fed Up is the new national campaign mobilizing to demand that (1) the Federal Reserve build a strong national economy with rising wages, lower unemployment, and less inequality and (2) that it reform its governance to be more transparent, democratic, and accountable to the public interest. It is a national campaign with local organizing; it is targeted at the most powerful economic policymakers in the country – who are, nonetheless, accessible and moveable; and it is fully funded and is already gaining serious momentum.

Fed Up has already made waves with over 40 articles in the nation’s biggest media outlets featuring our high-profile protest at Jackson Hole and our meeting with Chair Janet Yellen. Four months into the campaign, our efforts are resulting in preliminary reforms within the Fed. The campaign has the deep support of the AFL-CIO, the Economic Policy Institute, and 20 partner organizations from around the country.

You can read much more about the campaign at www.whatrecovery.org.

About the Job

We are looking for an energetic, creative organizer who can help run this campaign. The campaign has 11 on-the-ground partners in Federal Reserve cities and major national partners in Washington DC. It has significant resources and staffing support. It needs somebody to pull all the pieces together to make it a success.

With support from the executive, organizing, policy, development, operations, and communications staff at CPD and ACG, the campaign manager will have primary responsibility for coordinating this effort. The campaign manager will report to the campaign director.

Primary Responsibilities:

The campaign manager will have responsibility for:

• Coordinating campaign strategy and decision-making;
  
• Fleshing out our current campaign template into a full campaign plan;
  
• Coordinating with field staff in target cities and working with those staff to build field plans; build local coalitions of labor, community, faith, small business, and elected officials; and run local campaigns targeting Fed regional presidents;
  
• Coordinating the work of digital campaign staff, both at CPD and partner organizations;
  
• Supervising the creation of messaging and public education documents for use in the field and online, including reports, emails, briefs, policy demands, op-eds, letters to the editor, etc.
  
• Working with regional and national partners to execute the strategy so that our demands enter the national dialogue and become a relevant presence at Federal Reserve policy-making meetings.

Job Requirements:

• At least 5 years organizing experience (excellent candidates with less experience will also be considered);
  
• Understanding of issues facing communities of color, and low-and moderate-income families;
  
• Experience building and working with broad-based issue coalitions;
  
• Comfort with the creative implementation of a range of campaign strategies and tactics, including on-the-ground mobilizations, grasstops communications, policy negotiations, and digital campaigning;
  
• Excellent communication skills;
  
• Excellent organizational skills and good attention to detail;
  
• Ambition, drive, energy, and the ability to work flexible and long hours when necessary;
  
• Ability to work well with diverse groups and populations;
  
• Spanish language skills preferred but not required.

About CPD:

The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) promotes equity, opportunity, and a dynamic democracy in partnership with innovative base-building organizations, organizing networks and alliances, and progressive unions across the country. CPD works to build the strength and capacity of democratic organizations to envision and advance a pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda. CPD’s model for change draws from the successful base-building and policy advocacy of core partner organizations such as Make the Road New York (MRNY), CASA de Maryland, and PCUN in Oregon, as well as New York Communities for Change (NYCC), Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) and Action Now in Illinois, among many others. CPD is a rapidly-expanding, young, dynamic organization that offers an exciting opportunity to imagine ambitious local and state policy and partner with powerful community-based organizations across the country to win tangible victories that improve the lives of low-wage workers, immigrants, and communities of color.

CPD is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. People of color, women, individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ community are strongly encouraged to apply.