Wisconsin Program Manager

ABOUT EVERYBODY VOTES CAMPAIGN

Everybody Votes Campaign (EVC) is a national non-partisan, not-for-profit hiring staff for a large-scale coordinated civic engagement campaign active through the 2024 election cycle. The campaign aims to create a more representative democracy by registering millions of underrepresented voters across the country. This effort focuses on voter registration in a targeted fashion by conducting at-scale, effective, efficient, metrics-driven registration work. Through this work, we seek to fundamentally change the make-up of the electorate and to increase the political power of traditionally underrepresented communities in our democracy. 

 

We directly fund organizations who execute voter registration and run quality control operations. We are dedicated to being active participants with the organizations to ensure their programs are effective and promote an investment in the future of emerging communities.

 

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

The Program team is responsible for helping to ensure partners and vendors on the ground have all the tools and support they need to run successful registration programs, and the Program Manager (PM) is at the heart of that effort. The PM sits at the pivot point between EVC and the states - they are in constant communication and collaboration with partners, they understand better than anyone else the goals and plans and challenges of their state, and they serve as a conduit between EVC and partners on expectations, needs, questions, and concerns. 

 

A successful PM will be detail oriented, understand how to take in significant amounts of communication and information and organize, manage, use, and share it back to different audiences. They will be able to balance being responsible for the overall progress and success of a state’s effort while not being the direct decision maker or manager of the day-to-day operations being run by partners. They will be extremely knowledgeable and conversant in field operations and, ideally, voter registration site-based programs, with the ability to talk canvassing numbers, discuss turf coordination, and promote and brainstorm field engagement techniques. They will know how to build and manage spreadsheets and be familiar with standard field reporting metrics. They will have experience in creating and revising large budgets with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. 

 

WHAT YOU WILL DO IN YOUR ROLE

• Manage State and Region
• Manage multiple partners 
• Work with partners to optimize their programs toward registering people of color
• Ensure that there is adequate coverage for important conversations around program and budget through backstopping conversations 
• Double check work and step-in, as necessary
• Help improve the quality of work in their region
• Edit documents and resources for their region, as necessary
• Provide leadership with state plans to reach program goals 
• Oversee development and application of quality control standards for the region 
• Help to implement and troubleshoot registration tracking and administration of QC processes
• Oversee Budgets
• Ensure that their states have site based voter registration plans and budgets
• Assist with developing and designing multi-million dollar budgets for state table/s and partner/s 
• Review and provide recommendations for approval of final budget/s for table/s and partner/s 
• Provide recommendations on experimental programming 
• Build and maintain relationships
• Identify emerging opportunities for additional partnerships in state/s
• Ensure that we continue to maintain relationships with tables and partners that are respectful, collaborative and productive
• Lead conversations on alignment and expectation setting with partners and tables, as necessary

• Support Other Duties, as Assigned
• Manage all components of the grant management systems in their state 
• Support, help, coordinate and occasionally lead other aspects of the Program Department’s support of programs that need capacity. Some examples include, but are not limited to:
• Training
• Committee and working group management
• Troubleshoot, as necessary
• Occasionally assist in developing processes to operationalize initiatives and enable program facing staff to do their jobs more effectively

CORE COMPETENCIES:

 

• Relentlessly goal-oriented: enjoys working toward and achieving ambitious goals; willing to go over, under, around, or through any obstacle that gets in the way of meeting goals with a proven track record of creating and executing/managing comprehensive strategic goals
• Cultural competency: able to build relationships and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders across multiple lines of identity difference
• Growth mindset: demonstrated ability to take and receive feedback with professionalism and grace from peers and staff as well as supervisors
• Remains focused on problem solving while balancing multiple priorities within a constantly evolving political environment.

 

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

• Critical thinking and problem-solving ability
• Experience with field programs, direct voter contact programs or voter registration programs 
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Past success as a manager of people and programs 
• Experience tracking and setting field metrics

Highly organized, motivated, and detail-oriented

• Able to manage a high volume of work with efficiency while still paying close attention to detail 
• High level of proficiency with Excel Spreadsheet, able to create interconnected budgeting spreadsheets and find and correct errors quickly and with a high level of accuracy 

Relationship builderPM must have the desire to actively contribute to a more equitable and inclusive organization and facilitate REI discussions with partners, vendors, and tables to ensure collaboration is centered to build authentic relationships across lines of difference, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, ability, gender identityStrategic Planning

• The role requires expectations for maintaining field ramps and projections on a quarterly, annual, and cycle basis. SPMs and PMs are explicitly expected to build out state plans that reach EVC goals within budget.

Inclusive leadership

• Ability to develop, coach, provide feedback and manage people 
• Experience and success collaborating in settings with multiple stakeholders with competing interests

 

KEY REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

• 40% Travel Required: The role involves extensive travel, comprising 40% of the working time, to effectively manage and support on-the-ground registration programs, attend state trainings, attend all staff events, etc. as needed. 
• Location Requirement: Candidates must reside within Wisconsin.
• Driving Ability: A valid driver's license and the ability to drive are essential for this role, given the travel and on-site management responsibilities.

 VACCINE REQUIREMENT

Under applicable legal guidance, an employer like VRP may require its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The CDC has advised that vaccines are one of the most effective tools to protect employee health and prevent disease. The CDC further strongly recommends that all individuals eligible to receive a booster shot promptly do so. VRP requires all employees to be “fully vaccinated” with their vaccines against COVID-19.

 

”Fully vaccinated” means a person has received all recommended COVID-19 vaccines. More information about when an individual is considered “fully vaccinated” with their COVID-19 vaccines can be found here.

BENEFITS AND CULTURE

 

We offer flexible remote work and a generous benefits package, including:

 

- Flexible Paid Time Off

- 100% cost coverage of employee health benefit premiums

- Dedicated weekly “Flex Day”

- 401K with an automatic employer contribution regardless of employee contribution level

- $1000/yr toward Professional Development

- Free virtual therapy

- Stipend for ergonomic office setups

- Generous extended medical and personal leave

 

All employees must be eligible to work lawfully within the United States upon the commencement of employment. The organization does not sponsor visa applications for prospective or current staff.

 

This position is in a bargaining unit represented by the Washington Baltimore News Guild CWA.

 

Salary Range: $88,000 - $102,500

 

Our work is centered on creating a deeply inclusive and significantly more representative electorate. In order to be successful in this role, the candidate must have the cultural competence to successfully work with a diverse group of staff, partners and stakeholders. We especially strongly encourage applicants with close ties to Black, Latinx, Indigenous, non-English-speaking, disability, and LGBTQ+ communities to apply. We are proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer.