Candidate Recruitment Manager
Justice Democrats
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About The Position
The Candidate Recruitment Manager primarily helps lead JD’s efforts to recruit the next generation of progressive leaders in Congress and secondarily supports campaigns. Working year-round, the manager recruits transformational leaders with strong paths to victory for current and upcoming election cycles. The role leads district targeting, outreach, and JD’s nomination and endorsement process. The position reports to Alexandra Rojas, the Senior Advisor, begins in January 2027, and is fully remote within the United States, with some travel.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of political campaign, electoral organizing, or progressive movement experience, including at least one electoral cycle in a campaign, political, or field role.
- Demonstrated community-level relationship-building and coalition-work experience, including the ability to listen, map local political landscapes, and identify community leaders.
- Comfort working with voter data and district-level demographic data, and synthesizing basic research or poll summaries for decision-makers.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to build and maintain relationships and navigate tension or disagreements productively.
- Comfort having direct, sensitive conversations, asking probing questions during candidate vetting, navigating delicate political dynamics, and delivering candid evaluations to leadership.
- Strong project-management and organizational skills, including maintaining pipeline tracking, coordinating schedules, and ensuring potential nominees are followed up with.
- Ability to turn complex or abstract goals into monthly, weekly, and daily priorities and hold oneself accountable for achieving them.
- Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure environment.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working on challenger or progressive primary campaigns.
- Familiarity with candidate endorsement processes, questionnaire tracking, or vetting workflows within an advocacy organization, caucus, or PAC.
- Existing contacts or familiarity with progressive movement groups, labor locals, or community organizing networks.
Responsibilities
- Manage and update JD’s candidate nomination and vetting process each cycle.
- Manage district research, targeting, and polling to focus recruitment on strategic districts.
- Plan district outreach and coordinate staff participation in candidate recruitment.
- Conduct in-depth outreach with community leaders to map local communities and identify potential nominees.
- Directly manage incoming nominations.
- Systematize and track candidate recruitment efforts internally.
- Manage external partners, consultants, and volunteers supporting candidate recruitment.
- Collaborate with the Campaigns Director to plan and debrief the candidate recruitment process.
- Maintain national and local political relationships and use them to identify transformational candidates.
- Support high-impact challenger races, including managing and monitoring budgets and key plans and coaching staff.
Benefits
- Unlimited vacation, with a two-week minimum.
- All federal holidays off.
- Organization closure during the final week of the year.
- Unlimited sick days.
- Fully paid health, vision, and dental coverage, including dependents.
- 401(k) with a 4% employer match.
- A raise every two years.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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