Hampshire Voting Rights Program Director

Organization Overview

America Votes is the coordination hub of the progressive community, leading collaborative efforts among a diverse coalition of more than 400 state and national partner organizations to advance progressive policies, win elections, and protect every American's right to vote. America Votes works nationally and in more than 20 states to provide a range of services to partners, including strategic planning, advocacy and electoral campaign coordination, data tools and targeting services, and on-the-ground leadership in key states.

America Votes is committed to developing long-term roadmaps and setting critical goals for states. With an eye on redistricting and the consequences of extreme conservative gerrymanders and attacks upon voting rights, these efforts are essential to building progressive power in the states, session-by-session and election-by-election.

America Votes and its partner organizations are at the heart of the progressive movement's effort to win elections and create change. In 2020, the America Votes coalition deployed their largest-ever voter engagement and mobilization effort to reach millions of voters in states. For more information about America Votes, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

As a leader of collaborative efforts to mobilize voters, protect voting rights, and win elections, America Votes is committed to advancing racial equity within our organization and across our coalition. We acknowledge the systematic racism that permeates all facets of our society, beginning with the foundational right to vote. America Votes is also engaging with an understanding of the ways gender, sexuality and other forms of oppression intersect with race and how those relationships impact inequities faced by our staff, our partners, and the communities that we engage in our work.

America Votes strives to model our commitment to racial equity through our internal and external operations, programs, and partnerships. We acknowledge the inequitable structures that continue to exist and are moving forward with a sustained commitment in time, resources and people to challenge structural racism and work towards creating a reflective organization and democracy.

America Votes is seeking a well-organized campaign strategist and people manager for a full-time position as Voting Rights Program Director as a part of a team focused on elections, campaigns, and voting rights in New Hampshire. The position works directly with the America Votes team in New Hampshire and will support advancing team priorities and goals. The Voting Rights Program Director will lead a nonpartisan coalition, the NH Campaign for Voting Rights (NHCVR), and work with the America Votes coalition to organize around key voting rights issues in the state legislature, build relationships with stakeholders, and ensure voting access for all Granite Staters.

The Voting Rights Program Director will bring key organizations and stakeholders together to execute the larger coalition strategy around this work that focuses on protecting access to the ballot, election administration support and modernization, and easing the administrative burden of election officials. The Voting Rights Program Director will supervise the staff focused on voting rights as well as provide strategic leadership for the coalition of organizations working to engage in elections in the state, protect democracy, and the fundamental right to vote.

This position reports to the New Hampshire State Director.

This position is based in Concord, NH.

• 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 organization's 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 long-term 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,…