ACLU is hiring a
Senior Campaign Strategist in Worldwide

Summary

The ACLU is seeking a term-limited, full-time Senior Campaign Strategist to join their National Political Advocacy Department. The role involves developing campaign strategies and tactics, managing budgets, building relationships with affiliates, and coordinating day-to-day activities of staff. The candidate should have significant experience in candidate races and electoral campaigning at the state level, as well as excellent research, writing, analytical, and communication skills.

Requirements

• Significant demonstrated experience with candidate races and/or electoral campaigning at the state level
• Significant demonstrated experience designing campaign strategy and executing campaign plans and tactics
• Ability to work independently as well as within a team
• Excellent research, writing, analytical, and communication skills
• Experience building, leading, and working within coalitions
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, simultaneously handle many tasks; work efficiently, meeting multiple deadlines, while remaining composed under pressure
• Comfort with policy, including an ability to efficiently and effectively weave policy objectives into campaign execution
• Able to work outside of normal office hours, including weekends and evenings, as determined by campaign need
• Willingness to travel

Responsibilities

• Develop robust campaign goals, plans, strategies, tactics, and budgets
• Develop strong affiliate relationships
• Embed into candidate race campaigns with minimal need for management level guidance
• Utilize a wide variety of sophisticated campaign tactics and tools
• Successfully employ constituent targeting, developing advertisements (TV, radio, print), polling, and developing creative campaign tactics for earned media or other purposes
• Retain and manage consultants
• Work closely with Organizing Division on developing plans for relevant campaigns
• Coordinate the day-to-day activities of the staff working on the campaigns in matrixed structure
• Work in coordination with other senior stakeholders, affiliate staff, and national staff, including policy staff within NPAD
• Develop strategic partnerships that expand the ACLU’s influence in ways the ACLU would otherwise not have operating alone
• Convene and execute on-the-ground meetings, planning, and campaign events in priority jurisdictions

Benefits

• Generous paid-time off policy
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits (including medical, dental and vision coverage, parental leave, gender affirming care & fertility treatment)
• 401k plan and employer match
• Annual professional development funds, internal professional development programs and workshops