Campaign Manager, Government

The Agency You’ll Join:
The New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City’s economy stronger. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team.

The Team You’ll Work With:
The Mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement (OME) is responsible for strategizing, coordinating, and executing engagement that reaches the masses of everyday New Yorkers. We engage New Yorkers in shaping policy outcomes, demystifying government, and ensuring that the government remains accountable to serving the people of this great City. Our work is designed as a long‑term project – we are building the power of everyday New Yorkers, and we are building a City that works for all of us.

• Build volunteer systems that allow New Yorkers to participate in large‑scale, meaningful engagement and events.
• Build out campaign initiatives for The Mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement by collaborating and liaising with other offices and agencies to develop a strategic, scalable campaign that helps New Yorkers join town halls, trainings, canvases, and other events that forge relationships and leadership development among regular New Yorkers.
• Map out timelines, goals, and metrics to help us communicate how the mass participation of New Yorkers as volunteers can meaningfully impact our city.
• Work across the Mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement to bring in all pieces of our engagement work into mass initiatives.
• Represent the Mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement at public meetings when required.
• Other duties as required.

• You are a committed organizer, passionate about ensuring that the public can meaningfully engage in the development and implementation of government policies and processes.
• You are a motivated self‑starter who can manage complicated projects with minimal guidance.
• You are an enthusiastic collaborator.

Special Assistant (MA)-MGRL - 0668A

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 3+ years of experience.

• Excellent at collaboration and building and maintaining a wide array of working relationships.
• High level of skill in clear and open communication.
• Experience organizing mass participation campaigns.
• Ability to develop and execute long‑term plans, including schedules, metrics, and goals.
• Comfort with any of the following tech a plus: volunteer databases/CRMs, VAN, Autodialers such as Scale to Win.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.