Director, Organizing and Partnerships

• Relationship cultivation and management. Develop and oversee relationships with senior stakeholders at partner organizations, and support them to implement tactics at scale, tailoring them to their goals and operations.

• Program management. Manage and ensure partners’ – and potentially Vote Rev or Vote Rev Action Fund’s own – program health through appropriate resource allocation, prioritization and focus, and identify key areas for improvement throughout the cycle. 
• Paid canvass management. Directly, or in support of partner organizations, vet, contract with, oversee the training of, and monitor the progress of paid canvass firms.
• Risk management and compliance. Work with the Director of Operations and legal counsel to develop systems for risk management.
• Quality control. Work with the Program Team to Design and implement strong systems to detect and prevent canvasser fraud and ensure program quality.
• Implementation of learning pilots. Potentially run small pilot(s) in state primaries to pinpoint the larger program’s scope, costs, best practices, and failure points.

• People management. Possibly manage a 1-3 person team, depending on the scope of the project. Set a tone of engaged coaching and leadership for all direct reports, creating a positive, cohesive team environment focused on success and professional growth
• Project management. Track relationship development and progress to goal in agreed upon CRMs and goal trackers
• Collaborate with the Program team to ensure that best practices are applied

• Donor materials creation. Work with senior leadership to provide timely updates to donors and other stakeholders about program design and performance.

• Reporting. Report out regularly to the Department Heads on program performance and outputs. 
• Documentation. Document all aspects of the program, from planning and execution to wind down. Develop and present a retrospective report at the end of the year.

• Campaign experience. Minimum 8 years in organizing, at Democratic political campaigns or movement organizations. Includes at least one year of campaign management on a federal or statewide race, or a leadership role (e.g., Organizing Director) on a statewide campaign or independent expenditure program.
• Partner management. Demonstrated ability to drive strategic conversations with senior stakeholders at campaigns, committees, and state tables. Experience managing professional relationships with external partners, vendors, or clients.
• Paid canvass experience. Multiple cycles vetting, contracting with, and overseeing paid canvass firms running large-scale programs.
• Program and team management. Experience managing budgets and scaling programs with complex logistics. Ability to guide a program to success under pressure, and to manage a small team (1-3 people) with a coaching orientation.
• Research mindset. No direct research experience required. We're looking for curiosity, willingness to learn, and enthusiasm for adapting canvassing practices based on evidence — from both wins and failures.
• Communication. Proactive, clear communicator who bridges gaps across diverse stakeholder groups and ensures consistent follow-through.
• Availability. Available 10am–6pm ET core hours; flexibility required as Election Day approaches. Ability to travel to program sites up to 40% of the time (all travel costs covered).

• Commitment to the missions: 
• Vote Rev: design and quickly mainstream field-tested voter engagement innovations to help Democrats win
• Vote Rev Action Fund: design and quickly mainstream field-tested voter engagement innovations to amplify the power of historically disenfranchised communities
• Embodies Vote Rev and Vote Rev Action Fund core values:
• Cultivate people. We cultivate and invest in our most precious resource: our people. Without our team, our mission would be impossible, and a lot less fun to pursue.
• Yoda, we are. We seek to provide innovations – and the resources necessary to implement them – to our partners, who are the true heroes of this work.
• Problem-oriented, solution-agnostic. We tackle problems that seem insurmountable. We question ourselves and revisit our hypotheses until we find – and improve upon – the right solution.
• Pursue equity. Our mission is to drive toward a more equitable society that dismantles systems of oppression and white supremacy. We strive to create inclusive spaces and processes that honor diverse experiences.
• Cross-pollinate. We build smart, elegant innovations by creating through-lines across disciplines. Our innovations improve with each implementation, as we learn from and share our partners’ insights.
• Ability to thrive in a startup environment: you move quickly, think strategically, are adaptable to changing circumstances, and are good at tactical execution.

• Experience with tactic development and research 
• Experience selling or providing customer support on consulting or strategic services to political organizations

This isn't a typical organizing job. You'll be working at the intersection of large-scale field organizing, behavioral science research, and program innovation — and what you build this cycle will directly inform how the progressive movement runs relational programs in 2028 and beyond.

Vote Rev and VRAF have a unique model: we design tactics, test them rigorously, and then push them into practice through a broad partner network. As Director, you won't just implement — you'll help shape how our tactics evolve in real time, with partners informing the work as it happens.

You'll also be joining a small, high-trust team that values direct feedback, autonomy, and learning from both successes and failures. We move fast, we take the work (but not ourselves!) seriously, and we believe that how we do the work matters as much as what we accomplish.

If you want to spend this election cycle doing work that is genuinely experimental, high-impact, and grounded in evidence — this is the role.

Submit your application by July 1, 2026. 

The application includes: 

• Basic personal information and eligibility questions 
• Three short essay responses
• A resume upload

We expect this hiring process will move very quickly and seek to set clear expectations about the included steps. 

Not all candidates will progress through all stages. 

• Application Deadline - July 1
• Phone Interviews - July 6 - July 10
• Final Interviews via Zoom - July 13 - July 20
• Reference Checks and Offers - Late July
• Start Date - August 3

• OPTIONAL: We invite you to watch this video to familiarize yourself with our work, and also visit www.voterev.org/media for more resources if you are interested.
• When you complete the application form on this page.
• You will be asked to provide information about yourself, a resume, and to answer some questions in lieu of a cover letter.
• Do not submit a cover letter.