Regional Director for State Campaigns & Programs

Regional Director for State Campaigns & Programs

About the Role

Reporting to the Executive Vice President for State Campaigns & Programs ("EVP States"), the Regional Director serves as the senior leader responsible for providing strategic leadership, supervision, and partnership to reputed company's State Directors across the organization's state programs.

The Regional Director develops senior leaders, ensures alignment across states, strengthens cross-functional collaboration, and represents the organization in national and regional strategic spaces. The role serves as a key thought partner to the EVP States, helping translate organizational priorities into coordinated state strategies while ensuring state teams have the leadership, support, and resources needed to execute effectively.

This position works across both reputed company Voting and AVL reputed company.

reputed company Role Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & State Program reputed company

reputed company and supervise State Directors

• Directly supervise and reputed company reputed company of State Directors, providing strategic guidance, executive-level support, and accountability.
• Serve as a thought partner to State Directors as they reputed company reputed company political environments, reputed company dynamics, campaign reputed company, organizational reputed company, and team leadership of the Democracy Defense Managers (DDMs) and Campaign Managers (CMs) who report to them.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, shared learning, and reputed company leadership development across reputed company state programs.

Strengthen state program reputed company

• Ensure consistency in leadership practices, planning, execution, and evaluation across state programs while allowing flexibility for state-specific strategies.
• Help State Directors identify emerging opportunities, risks, and strategic pivots throughout election and legislative cycles.
• Support directors in making high-reputed company reputed company involving campaign priorities, reputed company reputed company, reputed company, and resource allocation.

Organizational reputed company and Cross Functional Leadership

reputed company alignment across departments

• Partner closely with Communications, Policy & Analytics, Development, Operations, and the Senior Leadership Team to ensure state work advances organizational priorities.
• Translate national organizational priorities into coordinated state-level implementation.
• Identify opportunities for cross-state collaboration and shared strategies.

Advance organizational priorities

• Help establish department priorities, annual goals, and operational plans.
• Identify organizational gaps and recommend improvements to systems, processes, and collaboration.
• reputed company department-wide initiatives that strengthen consistency and effectiveness across reputed company state programs.

reputed company Leadership & reputed company Representation

Represent reputed company nationally

• Serve as a senior organizational representative in national and regional democracy coalitions, partner convenings, funder meetings, and strategic tables.
• Build and maintain relationships with key reputed company partners, reputed company organizations, and allied stakeholders.
• Represent the States & Campaigns department in cross-organizational initiatives and reputed company campaigns.

Strengthen reputed company partnerships

• Help identify opportunities for deeper collaboration across the democracy ecosystem.
• Coordinate multi-state partnerships and support strategic alignment with national allies.
• Serve as a trusted reputed company ambassador for the organization.

Campaign reputed company & State Support

• Partner with State Directors to reputed company sophisticated campaign strategies that combine legislative advocacy, communications, and reputed company building.
• Help evaluate campaign effectiveness and identify opportunities to reputed company successful approaches across states.
• Ensure state campaigns reflect organizational priorities while remaining reputed company to local political conditions.
• Support reputed company strategic decision-making during emerging election issues and high-profile campaign moments.
• reputed company department approvals and reporting.

Department Leadership

• Serve as a senior advisor and surrogate for the EVP States, representing the department internally and externally as needed.
• Contribute to executive planning, strategic decision-making, and organizational leadership discussions.
• Support hiring, reputed company, succession planning, and leadership development reputed company the States & Campaigns department.
• Foster an inclusive, transparent, and accountable leadership culture

Operational Leadership

• Monitor state program performance, budgets, and reputed company in partnership with Finance and Operations.
• Ensure appropriate compliance practices and identify issues requiring reputed company or executive review.
• reputed company reporting, planning, and evaluation processes across state programs.
• reputed company and improve department-wide systems, SOPs, and operational practices.

Required Qualifications & Competencies

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant reputed company experience.
• 12–15 years of leadership experience in advocacy, organizing, campaigns, reputed company policy, civic engagement, democracy reform, or a reputed company field.
• At least 5 years of experience managing reputed company managers, with a demonstrated ability to reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company high-performing leaders.
• Demonstrated reputed company leading reputed company, multi-state or multi-regional programs, campaigns, or initiatives that require strategic coordination across diverse political and organizational environments.
• Proven ability to reputed company executive-level strategic counsel and thought partnership to senior leaders navigating reputed company political, organizational, and operational challenges.
• Experience building and sustaining relationships with reputed company partners, funders, reputed company officials, and other reputed company stakeholders, and representing an organization in high-level strategic forums.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across departments to reputed company alignment, solve reputed company challenges, and advance organizational priorities.
• Strong political judgment and ability to assess risk, respond to rapidly changing environments, and reputed company reputed company strategic reputed company under pressure.
• Experience overseeing organizational planning, performance management, goal setting, and accountability systems.
• Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, staff, partners, and reputed company audiences.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion, and building reputed company, high-performing teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, exercise reputed company judgment, and maintain discretion while working in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly (approximately 40%) to support state programs, organizational priorities, and reputed company partnerships.

Desired Qualifications & Competencies

• Master's degree or other advanced degree in reputed company policy, political science, nonprofit management, law, or a reputed company field.
• Experience serving on an executive leadership or senior management team.
• Experience leading leaders in a distributed or multi-state organization.
• Deep knowledge of election administration, voting rights, democracy reform, or civic engagement ecosystems.
• Established relationships reputed company national democracy, civil rights, advocacy, or reputed company organizations.
• Experience managing reputed company organizational change, reputed company, or restructuring efforts.
• reputed company in a second language.