Nevada State Director

About the Role:

As Nevada State Director, you will serve as the frontline leader protecting voting access and defending democracy in one of the nation's most critical battleground states. Reporting to the Regional Director, you will build strategic coalitions, counter election subversion, and shape data-driven campaigns that empower historically disenfranchised communities. The State Director is responsible for the development and implementation of a program that effectuates All Voting’s mission in Nevada.

The State Director will focus on developing strategies and building and managing relationships with state leaders and organizations. This position involves work for both All Voting and AVL Action.

Core

Role Responsibilities:

Translate All Voting’s national goals into State-specific tactics.

State Strategy & Political Environment Management

• Support the development of national and cross-state strategies to protect the right to vote.
• Partner with the All Voting policy & analytics team to ensure that strategy is data-driven and metrics-oriented.
• Develop and execute multi-year state strategy aligned with national priorities and State political conditions
• Identify threats and opportunities to voting access before they materialize
• Integrate C3 + C4 strategies into one cohesive state campaign plan

Election Administration Expertise & Protection Operations

• Develop and implement effective strategies to expand access to the ballot and protect vote-counting and certification in coordination with the existing network of voting rights organizations in State and nationally
• Scenario-plan for election subversion, certification disputes, and administrative breakdowns

Policy & Legislative Advocacy

• Track changes to election administration in key areas, and develop an assessment of the implications of these changes, particularly for historically disenfranchised communities.
• Analyze legislative landscape, power structures, and leadership dynamics (legislature, Election Commission/Board, Governor, courts)
• Drive pro-voter and election administration policy changes in coordination with national and in-state coalitions.
• Advise national leadership on political feasibility and timing of policy initiatives

Coalition Leadership & Ecosystem Coordination/Communications, Narrative & Public Leadership

• Represent All Voting within the civil rights and pro-democracy community in Nevada and to the media.
• Build relationships with state and county election officials, and other key decision makers in how elections are run.
• Build relationships and partner with coalition leaders to push back on anti-voter policies being considered at the county level and in the State Legislature, to positively impact election administration for voters.
• Engage and coordinate with membership-based and mobilization partners to support and expand the capacity of the existing voting rights community to advocate for voting reforms and against needless and discriminatory obstacles to voting, particularly at the local level.
• Partner with the All Voting communications team to develop a communications strategy and incorporate effective messaging into the strategy.
• Work on both sides of the aisle & push the coalition to do the same, by building trusting relationships with unlikely or bipartisan stakeholders.
• Conflict management & make sure it doesn’t all fall apart.

Management of State Team

• Mentor, guide, and advise direct reports
• Manage conflict within and between teams as necessary
• Balance the human resources of the State team, and delegate or absorb the work as necessary.

Core Organizational Responsibilities:

• Develop, work toward, and successfully accomplish OKRs for the States & Campaigns department.
• Navigate and utilize All Voting’s various platforms…