Campaigns Manager

Job Title: Campaigns Manager

Employment Status: Full-Time Exempt Employee (An average of 40 hours per week, but as an exempt employee this position will be expected to work as many hours as it takes to fulfill their job responsibilities)

Compensation Range: $75,000- 85,000, determined by organizational equity, experience, and qualifications.

Location: This is a remote position. We are a California-based organization, and this individual will be expected to work predominantly on a Pacific time zone schedule.

Reports to: Director of Campaigns and Engagement

About The Center for Cultural Power:

The Center for Cultural Power (Cultural Power) is a women of color, artist-led organization, inspiring artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature. We support artists through fellowships, training, and opportunities for activation. We create intersectional stories and content addressing issues of immigration, climate, gender and racial justice. We engage movement groups in cultural strategy and organize artists around issues that inspire them. Together with allies, we are co-creating a field of cultural strategy with organizations and practitioners through convenings, design teams, and strategy tables. Our website has more about the organization and our team.

Our staff and board align around the following organizational values:

• Trust
• Collaboration
• Care
• Learning
• Inspiration

We assess our progress and work around the following organizational core competencies:

• Cultural Competency
• Empowers Others
• Ethics
• Strategic Alignment and Partnerships
• Collaboration
• Project Management
• Leadership
• Accountability

Cultural Power is part of a family of organizations including The Cultural Engagement Lab (CEL). More on these organizations and initiatives are below. This position may be split between Cultural Power and CEL approximately 80/20.

About The Cultural Engagement Lab (CEL)

CEL is our 501(c)(4) organization that organizes a powerful network of seasoned artists and culture makers from impacted communities to lend their storytelling talents to meaningful advocacy, electoral, and civic engagement efforts. You can visit CEL’s website to learn more about this body of work and what we accomplished during the 2020 election year.

Position Overview:

This is a highly execution-driven role requiring strong project management, systems thinking, and the ability to independently manage complex, multi-stakeholder campaigns from start to finish.

The Campaigns Manager is responsible for implementing culture and narrative campaign strategy, owning timelines, tracking systems, and deliverables across multiple campaigns, ensuring work moves forward with clarity, structure, and accountability. The Campaigns Managers will be responsible for: the implementation and execution of narrative-based campaign strategies at the intersection of art, activism, and civic engagement across issues including climate justice, gender justice, and migration.

This role requires a highly organized and strategic campaign operator who can independently manage complex campaign workflows while clearly executing in alignment with established direction.

Reporting to the Director of Campaigns and Engagement, this role translates strategy into execution- building and maintaining systems, managing workflows, and ensuring alignment across partners, artists, and internal teams.

This role contributes ideas and proposed solutions while aligning with Director-level strategy and decision-making. Managing contractors, partners, and collaborators as needed, the Campaigns Manager oversees a project management system, partnerships, and campaign activations and is responsible for tracking impact, ensuring alignment approaches to advocacy-based art, narrative shifting storytelling, and mobilization.

This role will be a Departmental Contributor at CCP/CEL. Roles categorized as Departmental Contributors are individuals who hold certain positions within a particular department, leveraging their seniority and expertise to actively drive the department's objectives, initiatives, and overarching achievements.

Core Campaigns Manager Role Expectations:

• Take ownership of project management systems, timelines, and deliverables across campaigns
• Solutions-driven approach when challenges arise
• Demonstrate strong judgment while aligning with leadership on key decisions
• Operate with autonomy in execution while maintaining alignment with leadership, taking initial direction and moving work forward independently

Team Structure & Role Scope

This role operates within a lean full-time team structure of Director and Manager with part-time support during our busiest seasons. The Campaigns Manager is directly responsible for executing core campaign functions, not only managing them. Given the lean structure, this role is expected to independently manage and execute campaign work and implementation, including administrative and operational responsibilities. The role will partner adhoc with our centralized Communications and Operations teams, but retains full ownership of campaign execution.

Key Responsibilities:

Bucket 1: Campaign Execution

• Execute implementation of campaigns aligned with organizational priorities across gender, climate, racial justice, and civic engagement
• Support campaign work connected to civic engagement, advocacy, and electoral efforts through CEL focused C4 projects
• Write and produce campaign messaging, narrative framing, and creative briefs in collaboration with internal teams
• Ensure narrative cohesion across all campaign outputs (written, visual, experiential)
• Contribute to campaign storytelling, written content, and partner communications
• Track cultural, political, and artistic trends to inform timely campaign execution
• Collaborate closely with the Director and partners to align strategy and execution
• Adapt quickly to shifting priorities and emerging opportunities

Bucket 2: Project Management, Operations, and Administrative Ownership

• Serve as the primary owner of campaign project management, including systems (Asana), trackers, timelines, and deliverables across all campaigns
• Independently manage multiple campaigns simultaneously, ensuring all components move forward without day-to-day oversight
• Coordinate logistics and maintain organized systems for Campaign assets, timelines budgets, and workflows across campaigns
• Track contracts, invoices, and deliverables in collaboration with operations
• Hold administrative processes related to campaign execution (scheduling, documentation, follow-ups, reporting inputs)
• Proactively identify blockers and bring forward clear solutions with recommended next steps

Bucket 3: Strategic Positioning & Partnerships

• Strengthen, manage, and expand relationships with partners, artists, organizers, and collaborators across advocacy and cultural ecosystems
• Lead outreach and coordination efforts to align stakeholders around campaign goals
• Identify and secure strategic opportunities for campaign visibility (events, panels, activations), positioning campaigns within relevant cultural and political spaces
• Ensure partnerships reflect a balance of artistic integrity, narrative impact, and strategic reach
• Connect campaign work to broader civic engagement, advocacy and policy efforts

Bucket 4: Campaign Impact & Reflective Practices

• Manage systems for tracking campaign outcomes, engagement, and feedback
• Conduct data entry and tracking (in Salesforce and internal tools)
• Synthesize insights from campaigns, partners, and audiences to inform future work
• Develop post-campaign reflections and internal reports
• Support the creation of impact reports that demonstrate narrative and cultural shift
• Assess the effectiveness of storytelling approaches using both qualitative and quantitative inputs

Qualifications:

This role is ideal for someone who is both a strategic executor and systems thinker, someone who thrives on managing complexity, building structure, and driving work forward to bring creative, cultural, and narrative strategy ideas to life.

Required

The ideal candidate for this position will possess the following qualifications:

• 3-4 years of experience in campaign management, organizing, or cultural strategy
• Strong project management experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder campaigns, including building and maintaining timelines, trackers, and workflows
• Demonstrated experience in not only managing campaigns, but directly producing campaign deliverables (content development, implementation, and coordination)
• Experience executing campaigns that include messaging, audience engagement, and distribution (e.g., digital campaigns, public activations, or narrative campaigns)
• Strong writing skills, including experience developing campaign messaging, briefs, or narrative content
• Experience or demonstrated interest in civic engagement, advocacy, or policy-related work (C3/C4 familiarity preferred)
• Experience working within or alongside organizing spaces, grassroots networks, or movement ecosystems
• Ability to bring forward ideas and solutions while aligning with leadership on final decisions
• High level of ownership and accountability in execution
• Cultural fluency and experience working with diverse communities and/or organizations
• Understanding of how climate justice and gender justice intersect with broader social issues
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing conditions

To stay on the pulse of culture and in harmony with the campaign movement, this position may require some weekends related to occurrences, including but not limited to launches and activations.

Preferred

We prefer candidates that have experience in:

• Experience with marketing strategy
• Experience designing and executing campaigns centered on gender, climate justice, or related issues
• Experience working across both cultural strategy (C3) and civic engagement (C4) efforts
• Experience managing both digital and in-person campaign activations
• Experience developing systems for tracking cultural or political trends, impact and evaluation
• Experience reviewing or contributing to creative production
• Familiarity with impact measurement frameworks
• Experience lobbying

We offer a generous benefits package including full medical, dental, vision (100% company paid for employee & 70% contribution towards dependent premiums), life, long-term disability, flex spending accounts, $50 monthly stipend to support cell phone/wifi expenses, and a 401k plan with 3% employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution); generous vacation, office closures, sick leave, bereavement leave, sabbatical policy, and paid holidays. We also offer ample flexibility as a permanently remote workplace.

English - proficient in reading, writing, and speaking