Protect & Build Campaign Manager

About Community Change and Community Change Action:

Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partner groups, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence the insider conversation.

Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform.

This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and justice – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another and each organization has its own board of directors.

Position Description:

The Protect & Build Campaign Manager will serve as the strategic and operational lead for the Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign, with a focus on coordination, team management, partner alignment, and accountability for achieving targeted campaign outcomes. This full-time, one-year position will oversee a team of organizers and ensure that Community Change and Community Change Action’s campaign goals are met through robust base-building, narrative work, and powerbuilding strategies.

This person must be both a seasoned campaign tactician and a relational leader who can hold complexity, manage cross-state coordination, and integrate field, communications, and policy approaches into a unified plan.

A portion of time will be spent working with Community Change’s sister organization, Community Change Action.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Campaign Leadership & Strategy
  • Lead the strategic planning and execution of the Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign.
  • Develop, track, and refine field and advocacy goals across states.
  • Drive target strategies and ensure alignment across federal and state-level tactics.
  • Supports a culture of campaign collaboration and learning with other in-house campaigns.
• Team Management & Supervision
  • Supervise, coach, and support a team of Protect & Build Campaign Organizers across target states.
  • Facilitate weekly team meetings and 1:1 check-ins to build cohesion and accountability.
  • Foster leadership and skill development across the organizer team.
• Relationship Management
  • Manage relationships with grassroots partner organizations; ensure collaboration and alignment on goals, metrics, and narratives.
  • Help identify and manage the relationship with other key campaign stakeholders.
  • Support capacity-building for partner organizations in campaign execution and organizing infrastructure.
  • Cross-Functional Integration
  • Coordinate across policy, communications, digital, and development teams to support unified campaign planning.
  • Ensure alignment between fieldwork and narrative, communications, and federal advocacy efforts.
• Data, Tracking, and Evaluation
  • Track both, qualitative and quantitative field metrics, base-building progress, and leadership development benchmarks.
  • Use data and reporting tools to inform strategic shifts and measure impact.
  • Prepare and deliver regular updates to senior leadership and external stakeholders.
• Rapid Response and Adaptive Strategy
  • Lead agile responses to emerging policy threats or opportunities affecting Medicaid, SNAP, and related programs.
  • Guide campaign pivots and mobilizations in response to the political and legislative landscape.

Qualifications:

• At least 7 years of experience developing, leading, and implementing community organizing/issue campaigns, electoral organizing, or strategic campaigns.
• An understanding of Medicaid, SNAP, or other social safety net programs, especially in a political and long-term powerbuilding context.
• Proven ability to supervise staff and coordinate multi-site, multi-issue campaigns.
• Experience organizing in rural areas or with cross-partisan constituencies preferred.
• Strong campaign planning skills, with the ability to move targets, build coalitions, and integrate organizing with communications and policy advocacy.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and organize people across lines of race, class, and geography.
• Experience with leadership development and training models rooted in a powerbuilding framework.
• Strong commitment to racial, economic, and gender justice.
• Ability to travel up to 50% and work flexible hours as needed.
• Proficiency with digital organizing tools, Google Workspace, and databases like Salesforce.
• Understanding and use of research to inform work.
• Facilitation and training skills.
• Strong team player, familiar with team dynamics and willing to work in a team environment; experience and comfort working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

This Position Reports to: Director of Powerbuilding Strategies

Supervisory Responsibility: Yes

Travel Requirements: Up to 40-50%.

Salary and Benefits: Salary range of $110,000-$120,000 annually. Community Change also offers an excellent benefits package, which includes 4 weeks of annual paid vacation; additional paid holiday leave between December 24 and January 1 and a Summer Break the week of July 4th; 8% employer contribution to a retirement account after six months of employment (and 3% employer contribution for the first 6 months); cell phone and internet stipend; and a choice of generous health insurance plans.

Classification: Community Change recognizes a staff bargaining unit affiliated with IFPTE Local 70, a union for non-profit workers. This position is not included in Community Change's bargaining unit and covered under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement. This is a one-year position.

Location: Must be based in either Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, or North Carolina. This is an in-person, field-based position with on the ground organizing required.

Equal Opportunity: Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform. We strongly encourage the interest and applications of people of color, women, and people in the disabled and LGBTQ+ communities. Community Change is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Closing Date of Position: Open Until Filled

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