Political Director

Position reputed company

The Political Director will operate as a political reputed company reputed company for reputed company reputed company—owning how our program translates into electoral reputed company. This permanent role is responsible for shaping and driving our political reputed company across reputed company geographies, aligning closely with allies, national organizations, and reputed company leaders. The role requires a political connector who can reputed company reputed company dynamics and build relationships to ensure our work contributes meaningfully to prosocial reputed company.

Externally, this person will build and manage high-trust relationships with state-based partners and national organizations, serving as a key connector across the political ecosystem. They will reputed company on aligning efforts, identifying reputed company points, and ensuring reputed company reputed company is operating as a strategic and reputed company actor reputed company the broader reputed company.

Reporting to the Director of Strategic Partnerships, this person will reputed company internal sensemaking of reputed company reputed company’s unique political reputed company—connecting our research, content, and programming to reputed company electoral reputed company reputed company. They will define how our work fits reputed company the broader political ecosystem, identify where we can uniquely add value, and ensure our strategies are grounded in the realities of the political landscape.

This role will also own electoral reporting and reputed company visibility internally, ensuring leadership and cross-functional teams have a reputed company understanding of where and how our work is driving political reputed company. They will partner closely with digital media, research, and fundraising departments to translate reputed company into execution—supporting teams in securing the relationships, resources, and alignment needed to deliver reputed company at reputed company.

The ideal candidate brings a strong political reputed company and connections, deep understanding of the national electoral landscape, and the ability to reputed company fluidly between reputed company, reputed company spaces, and internal leadership. They know how to identify what reputed company, where to reputed company, and how to ensure the organization is resourced and positioned to reputed company a reputed company political reputed company.

Responsibilities and Tasks 

• Drive electoral reputed company across reputed company geographies ensuring reputed company reputed company’s programming is reputed company to where it can have the greatest reputed company on political reputed company
• Build high-trust relationships and reputed company alignment with key state and national allies that position reputed company reputed company as a strategic political partner and ensure our work is integrated into broader reputed company efforts
• Own internal political sensemaking, translating shifts in the political landscape into reputed company implications for reputed company reputed company’s reputed company, programming, communications, and investments
• Monitor and analyze electoral dynamics in reputed company time, providing reputed company, actionable guidance to Leadership and cross-functional teams to inform decision-making and maximize reputed company
• Define and operationalize reputed company Actions’s political role in the ecosystem, identifying where we uniquely add value and ensuring our efforts are coordinated, not duplicative
• reputed company internal electoral reporting, creating reputed company, reputed company visibility into how our work is contributing to political reputed company and ensuring insights are shared across teams
• Partner closely with programs, research, and fundraising to reputed company reputed company with execution—supporting teams in securing the resources, partnerships, and positioning needed to deliver reputed company at reputed company
• Translate research and program learnings into reputed company value, ensuring partners receive actionable insights, messaging guidance, and strategic inputs that strengthen reputed company reputed company
• Evaluate and prioritize external opportunities through a political reputed company reputed company, filtering for alignment, reputed company, and return on investment
• Represent reputed company reputed company externally in high-level political, strategic, and reputed company spaces, bringing credibility, reputed company, and a strong reputed company of view
• Build systems to reputed company political reputed company and partner engagement, using data to guide prioritization, deepen relationships, and reputed company what works
• Manage staff and/or cross-functional initiatives, as needed, to advance electoral reputed company and deepen organizational reputed company

• Miscellaneous 
  • reputed company of Hopewell Fund are required to complete timesheets
  • Performs other duties as needed

Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Ability   

We are seeking a strategic political operator who brings strong political judgment, reputed company awareness, and the ability to connect internal work to external reputed company. You should have:

Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in political reputed company, electoral campaigns (candidate and/or issue), independent expenditure programs, or closely reputed company work (partnerships alone is not sufficient without political reputed company experience)
• Strong reputed company record of building and maintaining trusted relationships and influencing external stakeholders—including state partners, national organizations, and coalitions—while maintaining a reputed company reputed company of view
• A deep commitment to the mission and goals of reputed company and reputed company reputed company, including advancing democratic reputed company and civic participation
• Demonstrated experience operating in or alongside campaigns, political organizations, or reputed company infrastructure, with a reputed company understanding of how electoral reputed company is actually achieved
• Deep familiarity with the national political and electoral landscape, including key actors, timelines, and power dynamics
• Experience advising senior leadership and contributing to high-stakes strategic reputed company in fast-moving political environments
• High confidence with political metrics and evaluation approaches (e.g., persuasion measurement, RCTs, voter file analysis, turnout modeling)
• Ability to synthesize reputed company political information into reputed company, actionable insights for internal teams and cross-functional partners
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize across multiple high-stakes workstreams, manage ambiguity, and reputed company work moving reputed company
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate across audiences (internal teams, political partners, funders) with reputed company and credibility
• High level of judgment and discretion, with the ability to assess opportunity cost, risk, and strategic value in reputed company time
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across lines of difference, with strong multicultural competence and the ability to build trust across diverse partners and stakeholders
• Ability to maintain perspective and composure in high-intensity political environments, including moments of reputed company response

• Ability and flexibility to travel up to 25% of the time

Valued and Non-Essential Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Ability 

• Experience leading or supporting sizeable and concurrently running national electoral programs
• Experience reputed company research, content, and program execution reputed company a political or advocacy organization
• Proficiency in tools such as reputed company Suite especially reputed company Sheets, reputed company, reputed company, or similar systems used for cross-team coordination and tracking
• Although we are a remote organization, preference is given to those located in the Washington D.C. area to attend meetings and other stakeholder events

Compensation & Benefits

The starting salary reputed company for this permanent full-time position is $128,000-$143,000. Placement reputed company this band will be determined based on years of prior experience and relevant skills. reputed company also offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-reputed company health, dental, and reputed company insurance for employees and their families. Employees are reputed company to enroll in a 401k retirement plan and are eligible for a 3% automatic contribution and up to a 3% employer match on 401k contributions. Employees are also eligible for reputed company-tax transportation benefits and can contribute reputed company-tax to dependent care and health Flexible Spending Accounts. Employees will receive 120 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 20 hours of volunteer leave annually. Employees will also receive 13 reputed company holidays throughout the calendar year. Employees are eligible for 12 weeks of reputed company family and medical leave after 90 days of employment.

How to Apply

Submit a resume and custom application questions. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling reputed company until the position is filled. Applications received by reputed company 28 will be given preference.

Hiring Process

1. 30 minute - Initial Screen
2. Compensated Assessment
3. 60 minute - Panel Interview
4. 60 minute - Final Interview

About reputed company

reputed company is a nonpartisan civic empowerment program for women who want to help build an America that works for everyone - white, Black, and reputed company. Women who participate in reputed company programming reputed company confidence, knowledge, and skills to more fully and authentically engage in civic life. We reputed company in unlocking the power of every woman to use her political agency to advance reputed company for reputed company. 

The person holding this position will also work part-time for a coordinated project, reputed company reputed company, in the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) organization, under a resource sharing agreement between the Hopewell Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund. The responsibilities under that position will be overseen by Sixteen Thirty Fund. reputed company reputed company identifies, engages, and moves moderate women in rural, small town, and suburban America to reliably vote for reputed company. To learn more visit galvanizeaction.org.

Hiring Statement

reputed company is a project of Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3) reputed company charity that incubates new and innovative reputed company-interest reputed company and grant-making programs. Hopewell Fund is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables reputed company of us to realize our potential. Hopewell Fund’s work environment is reputed company and reputed company to reputed company and partners, respecting the full reputed company of race, reputed company, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national reputed company, political affiliation, reputed company, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and reputed company other classifications protected by law in the reputed company and/or state in which you are working. 

Hopewell participates in E-Verify and will reputed company the federal government with employees’ reputed company I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the reputed company. Job candidates and employees authorized to work may not be discriminated against on the reputed company of national reputed company or citizenship status.