Job Openings: Multiple Positions on Dem Campaigns

This position involves Fundraising, and Other Campaign Activities. This is a full-time position: half-time fundraising, half-time other-campaign work (to be determined in part on your experience, in part day-to-day). This position is guaranteed through June, with the expectation and hope that our campaign will win the Primary Election. If we win the primary, this job will continue through November.

Fundraising: Under the direction and using the lists, systems, and tactics of our fundraising consultant (Tissot Solutions), you will manage call time, fundraising events, contribution pick-up, and all other day-to-day fundraising activities. This includes:

• Staffing candidate for a rigorous call time schedule each week
• Assisting with tracking all calls, pledges, and donations received during call time
• Helping staff with all campaign fundraising events
• Helping staff the candidate at all donor meetings
• Coordinating fundraising for the campaign with the Fundraising Consultant and Compliance Firm
• Completing miscellaneous fundraising tasks as needed

Other Campaign Activities: The rest of your work hours could be spent in any number of ways, depending on your skill set and the day. You will almost certainly do some or all of the following:

• Accompanying the candidate to events and staffing them while there, including driving the candidate so they may make calls or eat/freshen up, talking to and recruiting people at events, and helping candidate work the room
• Taking pictures and short “b-roll” video at events
• Knocking doors, making phone calls, and/or sending texts alongside the candidate
• Depending on your skill your skill, interest level, and campaign needs, you may additionally be asked to assist in any of the following ways:
• Videoing, cutting, and/or posting social media videos
• Recruiting and organizing volunteers
• Setting up and staffing events from meet and greets to canvasses
• Assisting on all other campaign activities

Applicants for this position must:

• Be extremely detail oriented
• Have a strong desire to work in Democratic politics
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be willing to make at least three different asks of any person before taking “no” for an answer
• Be willing and able to pleasantly, persistently, and politely “manage up” to keep the candidate focused and get what you need from staff across the campaign
• Live in or near Reno, NV
• Have a reliable vehicle and laptop/computer they can use on a regular basis
• Have some demonstrated work experience and references, ideally in a related field or a customer-facing or public-relations-type field (no political campaign or fundraising experience is required)
• Expect to work many nights and weekends (at least one full day off M-F flexible/scheduled ahead of time, plus ample flexible time off during the regular work week)

Compensation: approximately $4,000 -$6,000 per month starting salary, DOE.

This position involves oversight, planning, and execution of daily campaign activities. Working under the direction of the General Consultant (Changing Dynamics’ Riley Sutton) and the Fundraising Consultant, you will oversee the day-to-day work of the Lead Staffer: Candidate Activities position as well as other paid staff that may be brought on board. You will be the main person responsible for execution on outreach and field activities, be included in leadership and strategy discussions, and assist on all events including press outreach. For the right applicant, this job may grow into a Campaign Manager or similar leadership role. This position is guaranteed through June, with the expectation and hope that our campaign will win the Primary Election. If we win the primary, this job will continue through November.

Ideal Applicant:

• Worked at least one full-time field campaign job, ideally more
• Knows the basics of VAN set up and are confident you can learn back-end set up configuring API keys.
• Eager to learn and grow volunteers, interns and paid staff to take over most of your organizer duties
• Interested in learning, helping on, and/or managing photo/video shoots, content writing, social media, mail, and targeting and outreach strategy

Applicants for this position must:

• Be extremely hard working and able to flourish in the “organized chaos” of campaigns
• Have a strong desire to work in Democratic politics and take back congress
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be willing to make at least three different asks of any person before taking “no” for an answer
• Be willing and able to pleasantly, persistently, and politely “manage up” to keep the candidate, the GC, and other vendors focused and get what is needed
• Live in or near Reno, NV
• Have a reliable vehicle and laptop/computer they can use on a regular basis
• Expect to work many nights and weekends (at least one full day off M-F flexible/scheduled ahead of time, plus ample flexible time off during the regular work week)

Compensation: $5,000-$7,000 per month starting salary, DOE

This position will support our downballot campaigns (city council, judicial, county commission, and more). 

Required Job Duties

The is what you’ll be doing as Outreach Director (OD). You do not have to have strong experience in all of these, but you must have a willingness (or eagerness) to engage in them all. If you do not have strong experience in at least two of these areas, you must have strong experience in some of the “other skills” areas.

• Basic VAN set up and maintenance for different campaigns, including creating survey, editing report formats, connecting API keys for P2P texting
• Manage candidate door-to-door programs, which for most involves working with the candidate to identify volunteers to take on leadership roles, then training and managing them in those roles. The OD is expected to not be at every candidate launch; the OD is not expected to be a paid canvasser
• Recruit, train, and manage interns, who can and should be trained and used to launch candidate canvasses
• Assist with some paid canvass operations
• Set up and manage candidate outreach events, like house parties
• Run P2P texting programs, which are usually candidate-only doing the texting
• Work directly with candidates/elected officials. At a minimum, you must be ok with interacting with our clients and be able to ask them gently but firmly to do what we need, and tell them “no” when they ask for things that aren’t in our scope of work (at first, this looks like saying “let me check with Riley” or “talk to Riley, he’s my boss and he has said I shouldn’t be doing that”).
• Work nights and weekends. Many nights, and most weekends, though not every one. OD must be available to “backstop” canvass launches and evening events, but is not expected to be running every single one. Work schedule is at least one full day off M-Th flexible/scheduled, plus ample flexible time off during the regular work week. We’re a small, family business that values work-life balance, and also works political campaigns.

Other Possible Job Duties

The OD may be asked to help in some or all of the following areas as needed. As much as the OD is able to organize themselves out of being completely full of work with the Required Job Duties, we would love to train and use them more and more in other areas where they have skill and interest.

• Set up and staff photo/video shoots large and small
• Manage some organic social media
• Assist on social and digital media advertising placements
• Proof/edit written materials, possibly generate or adapt some first drafts
• Website updating (WordPress)
• Photo, graphic, and/or video editing
• PR event or other work. We do not anticipate picking up major other outreach or public relations work that the OD would be expected to work on, at least in the short term. However, that is work we engage in and the OD is expected to assist as necessary with this or other duties as assigned.
• Accounting/budgeting/bookkeeping

Compensation: $4,500 -$6,500 per month, DOE

Benefits: We offer a simple IRA with a three percent employer match, and choice of a healthcare plan or subsidy

Other Minimum Qualifications

1. Two years of professional/full-time work experience in a directly related area, and;
2. An undergraduate degree, or substantial/equivalent work experience in a related or at least semi-related job