Vice President of Policy and Campaigns

Overview

Title
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Vice President of Policy & Campaigns

Location
: (Remote) Must reside in California

Timeline
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The position is open until filled.

Expected start date
: Q2 of 2026

Reclaiming the California Dream….

California Calls is looking for a Vice President of Policy & Campaigns—a strategic and politically savvy leader—who is energized by our work of building a movement to reclaim the California Dream of equality, opportunity, and prosperity for all Californians. In this role, you will develop campaign strategies and drive the policy agenda for the alliance, be a member of the executive leadership team and a thought partner to CEO and Board of Directors, and represent the organization across the movement ecosystem.

You will manage a team of two talented senior staff members and work collaboratively across the organization to model a workplace culture that fosters: rigorous practice, mutual accountability, creativity, and boldness. To learn more about our work and other opportunities to join the team, explore our website.

California Calls (501c3) and its sister organization California Calls Action Fund (501c4) is a powerful alliance of 27 local community-based organizations spanning urban, rural, and suburban counties across the state. We engage, educate, and motivate new and infrequent voters, including young people, communities of color, and poor and working-class communities to ensure that the electorate represents all of California. Through our bottom-up approach, we organize people most impacted by decades of disinvestment, deteriorating public services, mass incarceration, and growing inequality in support of systemic policy solutions.

Working together and building the power of communities who are often left out of policy decisions, we believe we can reclaim the California Dream for all Californians. Founded in 2009, we have an annual budget of $11M and a talented team of 27 staff members. With our headquarters in Los Angeles, remote staff across California, and partner organizations anchored in 14 counties, we advance state-based structural battles that strengthen democracy, fully-fund schools, affordable housing and local services, and expand racial, gender, and economic justice.

Knowing no one organization alone can win the bold policies needed to address California’s biggest issues, we strengthen the capacity and build collaborations with organizations across the for a strong movement capable of winning structural change.

In this moment of peril and possibility, we are holding the urgency of now while also creating space to dream expansively about the future. We are growing our power toward a broad-based multiracial movement of Californians united behind our shared values of authentic democracy, racial solidarity, corporate accountability, and interdependence.

Million Voters Project is an unprecedented multi-racial, multigenerational alliance of 103 community-based organizations that comprise nine community-driven state and regional networks, reaching out to millions of voters across the state. Since 2015, we have collectively built a base of nearly 2.1 million supportive voters and infrastructure designed to win statewide and regional races. We are activating the rising California majority by organizing Black, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), Latino, and young voters and employing voter outreach programs with cultural competency and in multiple languages.

We Are California catalyzes a powerful mass base–a multiracial, multigenerational, multi-issue movement–that will carry forward a decade-long fight for true representative governing power in California. Through strategic collaboration with multiple organizations, we are opening avenues for hundreds of thousands of people to unite across differences and create a shared future where all communities can thrive. Together, we will build the California we are dreaming of: a home where everyone belongs.

Schools and Communities First is a foundational campaign for California Calls and represents the kind of tough fight we are uniquely situated to pursue as a tenacious organization with…