Virginia State Director

Overview:

Blue Wave America is seeking a motivated individual to join our team as full-time State Director for the 2025 election cycle, leading the effort to drive turnout in the rural counties of Virginia.

The Virginia State Director will recruit, train, and manage a team of regional directors and organizers to execute a field program featuring door-to-door canvassing, phonebanking, and textbanking as well as a relational organizing and events program. You will work alongside the National Field Director to create, implement, and oversee these programs to drive daily voter contact, increase relational capacity building, and facilitate volunteer-led community events while ensuring the optimal day-to-day functioning of all programs.

The ideal candidate has a proven history of creating, guiding, and mentoring teams to achieve high goals in a virtual workspace, with a track record of creating and implementing successful voter contact, volunteer recruitment, and relational organizing programs. In addition, candidates should have a passion for organizing in rural communities.

This is a hybrid position requiring in-person travel throughout Valley, Central, and Southside Rural Virginia. Compensation for this position is $6,500 per month, paid in installments twice monthly. Benefits include 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental and vision insurance. This amount is subject to deductions for taxes and other withholdings as required by Law. This full-time, temporary position is based in Virginia and ends on November 30, 2025.

Responsibilities:

• Create and oversee flexible campaign systems in conjunction with the National Field Director and training to ensure all staff have the resources they need to do their jobs effectively, including hiring, issue reporting, and onboarding.
• Support the recruiting, hiring, and personnel management of program staff in conjunction with the National Field Director and a team of regional directors within the state.
• Setting and defining goals for recruitment, voter contact, and relational organizing as well as coaching and managing regional directors to hit assigned goals.
• Facilitate a streamlined system for managing direct voter contact and volunteer recruitment, and hold regional directors accountable for running high-energy, high-output events and programming.
• Create and oversee a comprehensive relational organizing programming calendar and work with regional directors to structure overall relational programming.
• Design a clear volunteer experience and direct regional teams to recruit, cultivate, and escalate volunteers at every level of engagement.
• Manage the program’s budget and spending in your state, and provide key stakeholders with a view of budgetary realities.
• Enforce statewide data best practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• At least 3 cycles of campaign experience, with at least one of those in a statewide operations role.
• Strong organizational, communication, and project management skills, with the capacity to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and a passion for organizing people.
• Strong people management abilities, virtual management skills, and substantial previous management experience.
• Clear experience building systems and structures for staff and volunteers, experience in community organizing preferred.
• No task is too small, you are a team player willing to roll up your sleeves!
• Ready and prepared to work in a fast-paced environment including evenings and weekends and willing to be flexible with responsibilities over time.
• Experience managing a 6-figure budget.
• Experience with Administrative tools and applications, including VAN, Scale to Win Dialer and Text Campaigns, Mobilize, and Google Docs, Sheets, and Drive functions.
• A strong commitment to electing Democrats up and down the ballot.

Women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Studies have shown that folks with these backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every requirement. We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may come from a less traditional background. We may consider an equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and experience to meet minimum qualifications. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to think broadly about your background and skill set for the role.

Blue Wave America is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disability, or any other classification considered discriminatory under applicable law.