Arizona Women's Vote Program Manager - Equitable Hiring Group

About Supermajority
Supermajority Education Fund partner organization, Supermajority, aspire to make the Majority Rules real for all people. Ed Fund brings together women from different backgrounds to learn from each other’s lived experiences, grow their innate leadership skills, and drive education through research on the issues women care about most.

We are a community of employees guided by five core values: We fight for justice, we are radically inclusive, we innovate and achieve impact, we collaborate and lift each other up, and we are sustainable. We are grounded in our Super Rule that the lives and experiences of women—particularly women of color—are front and center in addressing all of our nation’s challenges. We believe that those closest to the pain must be closest to the power.

We understand that our people are our most important resource, and we value them accordingly. From equitable compensation, to benefits that support caregivers, to sustainable schedules, we strive to build a radically inclusive workplace that truly puts our people first
 

Position Summary
The AZ State Program Manager will lead core program tactics to build women’s political power: building relationships with action takers, creating local grassroots volunteer teams, escalating volunteer leaders towards distributed organizing efforts, leading direct voter programs that use calls, texts, and doors to contact our target voters, and implementing our values based conversation models for deep canvassing, member and voter GOTV mobilization, volunteer recruitment, and member retention conversations. They will also train and manage a team of part-time community organizing staff to implement our core programming. The AZ State Program Manager will be SMEF’s point person in-state to lead our members through year-round power-building phases, including a statewide Get Out The Vote campaign for the November 2024 General Election.  

Essential Responsibilities and Activities:

• Execute a values-driven, membership-based organizing program in Arizona. 
• Meet defined goals in support of the SMEF strategic plan to build an unshakable voting bloc of women. This includes member acquisition and onboarding, direct voter contact (calls, texts, doors), state based advocacy efforts, civic engagement training, supporting the communications team, earned media efforts, volunteer recruitment, event planning and event execution.
• Lead the growth of in-state membership and implement aspects of the state-specific membership experience, train and manage volunteers in the state (and those who come from out-of-state).
• Serve as a representative of the organization and liaison to partners and grasstops leaders for coordination and collaborative programming.
• Manage a team of part-time organizers, providing the support, resources, and structure needed for each community organizer to lead weekly voter contact events for SMEF community members. 
• Develop and implement robust, people-powered field/organizing operations programs to increase the share of the women's electorate both virtually (primarily on calls/texts) and in-person (primarily on doors). 
• Grow relationships and collaborate directly with state partners, community leaders, activists, members, and registered voters to increase voter participation and bring about real people-powered political movements. 
• Achieve results in a fast-paced environment without sacrificing input or quality and has a proven ability to build high-performing teams in our field and cultivate talented team members.

The successful candidate must have the following skills and qualities:

• An accomplished people manager with a demonstrated commitment to racial equity and previous experience as a leader working with and centering young, working-class, and/or historically marginalized communities. You’ve had this experience on an organizing or political campaign or at a social impact organization. You identify as a skilled manager of people.
• A multi-tasker with a track record of reaching direct voter contact goals. You’ve led direct voter contact programs using phones, texts, doors and distributed events at the statewide or congressional district level. You’re motivated and organized in pursuit of hitting goals. 
• A strong project manager and an effective collaborator (virtually and in person). You’re responsive, efficient, and comfortable with leading effective collaboration across the organization or with external stakeholders. You can keep a project on time and hold collaborators accountable, as well as support them in problem solving and meeting deadlines
• Proficiency in administering EveryAction/NGP VAN and proficiency in managing campaign data. You’re comfortable with making data informed decisions and understand the strategic imperative of quality data in civic engagement operations. 
• A comfort and fluency in the dynamics of statewide political organizing in Arizona. You have relationships with key stakeholders and volunteers in-state. 
• You have access to reliable transportation to meet our members in-person across Arizona, and commute to meet day-of needs. 

The strongest candidates will also have some of the following skills and experience:

• Experience working with organizations and community leaders in the women’s advocacy space, particularly on the state level in Arizona.
• Experience with Deep Canvassing, a voter contact model that prioritizes non-judgement with voters to open up about their real, conflicted feelings. 
• Experience and comfort with speaking vulnerably about your own life to voters, and asking curious questions about a voter’s experiences. 
• Knowledge of the civic engagement tools Scale to Win, Spoke, or MobilizeAmerica.

Compensation & Location

• New hires start at $93,000. The entire range for this position is $93,000-$105,000. While we know applicants may be accustomed to negotiating salary, the $93,000 starting salary is not negotiable in order to maintain pay equity. Instead, we provide transparent, consistent, and competitive starting salaries for job postings based on job level.
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). Employees accrue 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health and caregiver leave, and 20 hours of volunteer leave annually. Employees will also receive 22 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. 
• This is a full-time, fully-remote, exempt position that is temporary from February 2024 through December 31, 2024.

The Application Process
Supermajority Education Fund has engaged Equitable Hiring Group to support this hiring process. To apply, please complete the short form to the right. 

When you apply, we kindly ask you to remove your schools from your resume. There is no need to reformat your resume and leave your degree as is; simplify it to “B.A. Economics,” for example. Just remember to remove any undergraduate and graduate school name references where possible. This “bias-reduced” process is aimed at opening this opportunity to more candidates, reviewing applicants on performance assessments instead of resume proxies (e.g., where you went to school).

This evaluation process will follow practices shown to reduce bias in decision-making and may be different from other application processes you have experienced. 

If you have any questions about the opportunity, please feel free to email abe@equitablehiringgroup.com.


Covid-19 Policy
To center the safety and well-being of its employees, SMEF requires that any employee who is required to conduct in-person activities for their job, including our in-person gatherings, must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within four weeks of their start date. You should discuss with your supervisor how this policy applies to your role. If you believe that you need an exception from this policy as a reasonable accommodation for religious, medical, or other personal reasons, contact our people team.

Hiring Statement
Supermajority Education Fund is an equal opportunity employer with core values of radical inclusion and fighting for justice. We strive to build a staff team as diverse as the intergenerational and multiracial voters we organize.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin and ancestry, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, pregnancy, military and veteran status or medical condition.

Candidates can make a reasonable accommodations request for this job opportunity by emailing our people team at jobs@supermajority.com.

Supermajority Education Fund participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the United States. Job candidates and employees with the right to work may not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin or citizenship status.