Regional Political Director

Summary

Join The States Project as Regional Political Director, working directly with caucuses, candidates, and in-state partners to achieve power-building outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build and leverage relationships to increase effectiveness
• Build strategic and deep relationships with key stakeholders to further TSP electoral and policy goals
• Build, manage, and oversee the relationships with caucus staff, candidates, campaign staff, and other in-state political organizations in assigned states
• Increase TSP political knowledge about each state, staying fully up to date on the latest developments in order to help TSP make the most strategic decisions possible
• Have a deep understanding and analysis of the global state legislative campaign spending landscape in each assigned state and a full understanding of spending gaps in each state
• Ensure that state lawmakers know how to access TSP lawmaker resources and supports
• Help to identify, build, and maintain relationships with key lawmakers
• Build relationships to ensure access to all metrics and data necessary to analyze state legislative campaigns in the chamber
• Draft plans for how TSP will do its spending in each assigned state based on our Spending Guidelines and knowledge of the global spending landscape and incentivize campaign best practices with our spending
• Make investment decisions on which districts will be critical to invest in to achieve our goals
• Influence the overall spending program with our in state strategic spending partner to ensure they are running the most effective possible program in alignment with our Spending Guidelines
• Provide timely, relevant updates and information about candidates, caucuses, other in-state partners, and the landscape in each state to other teams and TSP supporters
• Share best practices, identify innovations, and support operations across the political team
• Demonstrate organizational leadership and participation by serving on and/or leading internal committees as requested (e.g. Care Committee, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee, Retreat Planning Committee, etc.)