Vice President, States

Common Cause

5d • $153,831 - $185,658 • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a Vice President of States to join our team at Common Cause. This is a senior leadership role that will work in collaboration with the Senior Vice President of States and our other Vice Presidents of States to oversee and support our State Director to manage their teams and lead advocacy efforts in their states, ensuring alignment between state-level and national priorities, fostering collaboration across states and teams, and driving impact across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to use your deep understanding of policy advocacy, team management, and organizational change management to guide our state teams to reach their goals. This is a full-time role reporting to the Senior Vice President, States; this role is remote anywhere within the lower 48 United States, with an expectation to travel up to a week per month. We hope our new Vice President, States will start in December.

Requirements

• Have led successful state-level or national issue-based advocacy campaigns; and ideally you have experience with strategic direction setting for grassroots organizing
• Demonstrated experience with the legislative process in at least one state, including policy research and analysis, policy development, legislative drafting, legislative advocacy and lobbying, communications, and policy implementation
• Demonstrates knowledge of unique aspects of the political dynamic in at least one state, including decision-makers, partners, and funders – ideally, you have existing relationships with these people and organizations
• Have managed a team, and ideally you have managed other managers, and coached and trained mid-level and senior staff to develop skills
• A track record of working collaboratively with others, and have managed coalitions or groups with diverse interests to achieve a goal
• Track record of leading organization-wide change initiatives
• Ability to travel up to a week per month for site visits, conferences, team and/or all staff retreats
• Willing to have a social media presence on behalf of Common Cause, including being tagged on posts and creating content on behalf of the organization (as needed, Common Cause will provide accounts for staff members to use)
• Per our nonpartisan policy, Common Cause staff members may not currently be in elected office (or running for office); on the Steering Committee or Finance Committee for any political candidate; or affiliated with the leadership of a political party

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with office productivity tools including Microsoft Office, Slack, and Zoom

Responsibilities

• Manage State Directors
• Manage and support State Directors across several states to ensure that those teams meet or exceed their programmatic, financial, and operational goals
• Collaboratively setting goals to ensure alignment between state, programmatic, and operational priorities
• Guide state teams to develop proactive and responsive strategies based on the political landscape of their state
• Build and maintain strong and trusting relationships with state teams
• Ensure sustainability and efficiency of state budgets and resource allocation, and work with State Directors and other teams to implement system and process improvements as needed
• Lead professional development and coaching efforts to strengthen state teams, including management under our collective bargaining agreement, differentiating for needs across our organization
• Support State Directors’ career progression and retention at Common Cause, and drive succession planning to ensure sustainability
• Serve as an external representative and advocate for our states’ work
• Represent Common Cause externally, building relationships with donors, policymakers, and coalition partners to strengthen the organization's influence and impact.
• Speak to the media about our work as needed
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to promote the work in our states, including developing public-facing materials and written communications
• Work closely with our Development team to ensure alignment of states’ strategy with development activities
• Support state teams to meet their fundraising goals to maintain and grow our effectiveness and solvency; this may include drafting grants and other written fundraising materials, ensuring accuracy in grant reporting, and supporting states with other fundraising activities
• Lead change initiatives across the organization to help ensure alignment between state, program, and operations team priorities
• Ensure collaboration, responsiveness, and accountability between state, program and operations teams.
• Build expertise in democracy and electoral policy to be able to support various states with their work
• Collaborate with organizational leadership to share state-level insights that shape Common Cause’s overall strategy

Benefits

• A robust healthcare plan that covers 97% of employee’s medical care, 100% of employee’s vision and dental benefits, and 75% of family medical care and 100% of family vision and dental benefits
• Long-term disability and life insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off including 20 Days of Vacation and 10 observed Holidays per year, and additional days off for Thanksgiving and Winter break
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible spending accounts
• A 401k retirement savings plan, with immediate Employer Match
• Dependent Care and Pet Care Support when you travel for work
• Funds for professional development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed