Join our dynamic, growing team! Together we are inspiring, empowering, and uniting Americans across the political spectrum to build a healthy democracy and lasting American republic. Contribute your passion, skills, and experience to our historic effort to amend the US Constitution to ensure equal opportunity and representation for all American people, not just the wealthy few.
As a nation, we are at a crossroads. The impact of COVID-19 on Americans throws into stark relief our systems level failures and the need for large scale reform to give all Americans the right to be heard and represented, regardless of wealth. Events in 2020 threw a spotlight on state-sanctioned violence against Black Americans highlighting the path that civil society must take right now to be antiracist our systems, institutions, communities, minds, and hearts. As an organization, we are committed to achieving our vision while creating a more just and equitable reality in how we operate. Join us and rise to the challenge of creating a more perfect union.
OPEN POSITIONS
Empowerment Coordinator
Information Systems Manager
Development Campaign Director
ABOUT AMERICAN PROMISE
We have a vision of a better America, where everyone’s voice counts. In our vision, every American gets an equal opportunity to shape the life they live; the economy is driven by businesses competing on a level playing field; and the government is representative of and accountable to the people it serves. We believe in human liberty, equal rights and representation, and responsible self-government.
American Promise is a nation-wide, cross-partisan network of citizens working to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to end the unlimited and unaccountable money in our elections. Our mission is to inspire, empower and organize Americans to achieve this goal. We empower people in all 50 states to take action and lead efforts to mobilize their districts, states, and networks to ensure we pass this amendment and strengthen American democracy. By working together—across party lines and town limits—we can realize our vision.
EMPOWERMENT COORDINATOR
Reporting to: Dr. Jessica Hare, Empowerment Director
Location: Remote
Status: Full-time
POSITION SUMMARY
The Empowerment Coordinator position is an exciting, highly visible role within the Empowerment Department at American Promise. As a whole, the Empowerment Department exists to ensure every American who shares our vision can join our mission and take action to achieve our goal. As the Empowerment Coordinator, you work directly with American Promise volunteers and volunteer-led chapters, connecting them with information, resources, trainings, and activities to empower their advocacy. You create and deliver programming that brings individuals together to advance the Amendment. Working collaboratively with all departments, you ensure programming enables volunteers to use their positions of influence to build awareness and political will with their peers and elected officials. Your work strengthens a culture of shared commitment, participation, and dedication to improving diverse, cross-partisan civic engagement. The position is full-time, 40-hours per week, with flexible hours. Travel within the US may be required 3-5 days per month.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITES
- Communicate American Promise’s mission, objectives and programs so as to inspire effective citizen action, connection and growth in state campaigns, chapters, and networks.
- Identify individuals with the drive and ability to start and lead strong chapters and initiatives in their states
- Train groups of people in civic engagement tactics, generating political power, and effective advocacy for the amendment
- Organize the logistics, content, and inspiration for the monthly national calls/webinars, monthly chapter leader calls, and monthly chapter check-ins
- Prepare action sheets and other materials, all as part of our commitment to training groups of people in civic engagement, generating political power, and effective advocacy for the amendment.
- Plan, organize, and participate in/speak at events that activate individuals and networks of people to take action for the amendment
- Generate program content including presentations, training materials, resource guides, emails, zoom invitations, etc.
- Ability to collect and report on statistics that will help inform analysis of effectiveness and efficiency of the chapter programs
- Build strong relationships with chapter leaders, members, and advocates through in-person, phone, video conference, and email interactions
- Inspire and encourage advocates through your conversations with them and by working with the Communications department to celebrate and share victories large and small
- Maintain a culture of our shared vision, commitment to the mission, and dedication to cross-partisanship, diversity, and empowering others
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
- A sincere passion for the American Promise vision, mission, and goal, and a conscious commitment to hope and optimism
- Demonstrate cultural competence and sensitivity, and a commitment to uniting people of widely different backgrounds and political views in pursuing a common goal
- 2+ years of professional experience w/grassroots organizing, teaching, tutoring, facilitating, coaching, and/or motivating others to achieve
- Experience volunteering or working for grassroots campaigns related to issues advocacy or political candidates
- Experience leading a collaborative, supportive, high-functioning team or group
- Experience building cross-cultural relationships
- Experience using G-Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Zoom, and Salesforce or other contact and relationship management database
- Preferred skill: Is bilingual or multilingual with the ability to read, write, and speak in English
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to connect with others, listen, relate, and collaborate to the collective satisfaction of the participants
- Strong communications skills, written and verbal, including public speaking and group facilitation
- Able to work both independently and as part of a team
- Able to be flexible: able to understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue, adapting one’s approach as the requirements of a situation change
- Able to keep a calendar, prioritize, and work on multiple projects with competing deadlines
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
- $40-45,000, commensurate with experience
- Professional development opportunities
- Health insurance (medical)
- Flexible spending account (FSA) for pre-tax transit, health, and dependent care benefits
- Two weeks of paid vacation (three after one year), 13 holidays, and 5 personal/sick days
- Flexible schedule
- Passionate, inclusive, and collaborative work environment
TO APPLY
Please submit a cover letter and resume to Dr. Jessica Hare at [email protected]
American Promise celebrates the diversity of our nation and seeks to build a team and a movement that reflects that diversity. We welcome all qualified applicants who share this vision. Applicants from marginalized and underrepresented communities or applicants that speak another language in addition to English are strongly encouraged to apply.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGER
Reporting to: Leah Field, Managing Director
Location: Remote
Status: Full-time
POSITION SUMMARY
You have a major impact on our ability to simplify and scale our dynamic and complex operations. You are responsible for building a SaaS-based infrastructure integrated with Salesforce to effectively and efficiently enable the organization, the staff, and volunteers across the nation to achieve their goals. You analyze business processes, identify system requirements, identify vendor partners, design the workflow architecture, and keep it operational. You work closely with all departments, collaborating with directors to implement new solutions on schedule. You train or arrange for training of staff on the use of each platform. On a day-to-day basis you administer each platform and/or liaise with the vendor(s), create documentation, policy and procedures, and support staff and volunteers in their use. You work with the goals of 1) improving/creating systems that facilitate the flow of data and the accessibility of real-time, actionable information to all departments and stakeholders, 2) enabling automation and scalability, and 3) simplifying the user experience. The position is full-time, 40-hours per week, with flexible hours and occasional nights and weekends.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
- Understand the goals, information needs and processes of all departments in order to optimize business processes and improve user experiences through the use of web-based applications
- Facilitate cross-functional team meetings to design solutions for project requirements, update team about the progress of projects, keep the project on schedule, and resolve any issues that may arise
- Solve mission critical issues by researching and vetting new tools and applications, including understanding the issue, determining “must haves” versus “nice to have” features, identifying solutions and/or vendors, conducting initial discussions, and scheduling demos with key stakeholders
- Integrate solutions into the Salesforce platform through the management of our Salesforce Managed Services Provider and new vendors
- Create and maintain documentation and training resources including tracking of customizations to the platforms, integrations with other systems and platforms, process documentation, and training documentation for end users
- Ensure end-users receive trainings on the platforms that enable them to easily to do their jobs
- Create and enforce policies for effective data and information management to keep data safe from security breaches, unauthorized access, data losses, platform failures, and integrated system failures
- Keep all platforms up-to-date with new releases, system updates, and patches to ensure continuous, error-free operation
- Create techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy, legitimacy, and usability of data
- Support users in the daily use of platforms and applications
- Assist with reports and data extraction when needed
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS: TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
- 2+ years’ experience in managing information systems, or equivalent line of business experience
- 2+ year’s experience as a systems analyst
- 1+ year’s experience as a business analyst
- 1+ years’ experience with project management
- Experience working with CRMs and establishing integrations with other platforms, experience w/Salesforce is preferred
- Experience as an Google Workspace administrator is preferred
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS: GENERAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- A sincere commitment to and excitement for the American Promise mission, goal, and values
- Experience with providing application user training to staff
- Experience in selecting and implementing packaged software solutions a plus
- Demonstrate an understanding of data administration and management functions
- Ability to think big-picture while attending to details
- Problem-solving skills: Able to quickly analyze, diagnose, and resolve technical problems
- Good communication skills: Able to listen, understand, and respond appropriately to different stakeholders; able to be proactive in communicating issues and potential delays
- Time management and planning: Able to balance priorities, assess resources, and make plans to achieve desired outcomes within agreed upon timelines
- Initiative: Able to recognize what needs to be done, or the questions that need to be answered to move forward, and execute tasks independently
- Good collaboration skills: Able to work independently and as part of a team to achieve shared organizational goals
- Demonstrate and value integrity, reliability, sound judgment, a commitment to learning, and a sense of humor
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
- $55-65k, commensurate with experience
- Professional development opportunities
- Health insurance (medical)
- Flexible spending account (FSA) for pre-tax transit, health, and dependent care benefits
- Two weeks of paid vacation (three after one year), 13 holidays, and 5 personal/sick days
- Flexible schedule
- Passionate, inclusive, and collaborative work environment
TO APPLY
Please submit a cover letter and resume to Leah Field at [email protected]
American Promise celebrates the diversity of our nation and seeks to build a team and a movement that reflects that diversity. We welcome all qualified applicants who share this vision. Applicants from marginalized and underrepresented communities or applicants that speak another language in addition to English are strongly encouraged to apply.
DEVELOPMENT CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR
Reporting to: Liz Harvey, Development Director
Location: Remote
Status: Full-time
POSITION SUMMARY
American Promise is comprised of American Promise Education Fund, a 501c3 organization and American Promise Inc., a 501c4 organization. After a successful phase-1 launch and build-out from 2016 to 2021, American Promise is launching a phase-2 raise to scale the organization and national effort with a fast-paced $20 million Keep the Promise (KTP) campaign. Our expanding base of committed funders understand the necessity of our growing movement and value American Promise’s unique position to deliver the reform needed. This newly-created position will collaborate with the President, development director and staff, and board leadership and be responsible for leading, implementing and completing American Promise’s three-year $20 million fundraising campaign. The director of the KTP campaign will execute and track progress for the KTP campaign, and coach and keep on task the KTP leadership team and volunteer committees. The ideal candidate is a driven, organized, ambitious, and flexible team player, with experience with successful major fundraising campaigns and political organizations and/or fundraising. The Director of the KTP Campaign will report to the Development Director. The position is full-time, 40-hours per week, with flexible hours and occasional nights and weekends. Travel within the US may be required.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage the activities of the KTP leadership team (President and board members) responsible for the implementation of the $20 million campaign
- Execute fundraising plan which includes prospect expansion and cultivation, solicitations and follow up, volunteer committee development, and managing the President’s call time
- Drive the expansion of volunteer fundraising committees to include identification of potential members and engagement plans
- Manage volunteer committee member outreach to include prioritization, preparation and documentation
- Expand potential prospect lists. Develop the optimal funding mix of lead donors, major donors and private foundations. Review existing members/donors/prospect lists, research to uncover potential new donors
- Develop solicitation strategies and prepare profiles in advance of donor / prospect meetings
- Partner in direct cultivation and solicitation of prospects
- Ensure follow up on all correspondence and pledges
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
- A sincere commitment to and excitement for the American Promise mission, goal, and values
- 5-7 years of increasingly responsible experience in development and fundraising
- Must be results oriented, with a proven track record of successful identification, cultivation, solicitation, and closure of major gifts ($25,000 and above)
- Demonstrated experience building productive relationships with high net worth donors
- Demonstrated experience leading campaigns to include managing major gift programs and volunteer fundraising committees with a focus on setting clear goals and delivering on outcomes
- Outstanding research skills and success identifying prospects and moving relationship through the engagement process
- Excellent interpersonal and networking skills with large groups as well as with individuals
- Strong communications skills, including organizational, conversational, presenting, and writing skills, with the ability to inspire hope and articulate the mission, goals and progress of American Promise
- Ability to be a self-starter and initiator, working both independently and collaboratively on a team
- Experience working with political organizations and/or on political campaign fundraising
- Experience using G-Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, and Zoom
- Familiarity with development CRM’s, Salesforce preferred
- Able to travel and work occasional evenings and weekends
- Demonstrate and value integrity, reliability, sound judgment, maturity, a commitment to learning, and a sense of humor
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
- Commensurate with experience
- Professional development opportunities
- Health insurance (medical)
- Flexible spending account (FSA) for pre-tax transit, health and dependent care benefits
- Paid two-weeks vacation (three after one year), 12 holidays, and personal/sick days
- Flexible schedule
- Passionate, sociable, and inclusive work environment
TO APPLY
Please submit a cover letter and resume to Liz Harvey at [email protected]
American Promise celebrates the diversity of our nation and seeks to build a team and a movement that reflects that diversity. We welcome all qualified applicants who share this vision. Applicants from marginalized and underrepresented communities or applicants that speak another language in addition to English are strongly encouraged to apply.
