Campaign Organizing Director

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is helping various campaigns recruit applicants for Campaign Organizing Director roles in competitive districts nationwide for the 2026 election cycle.

The DCCC acts as a resource to campaigns seeking hard-working, dedicated individuals to lead their teams.

Notice: These are positions with individual campaigns, not with the DCCC itself. Campaigns are solely responsible for all hiring decisions, including salary, benefits, location, job duties, and overall employment terms.

By submitting your resume and personal information, you consent to the DCCC sharing this information with Democratic campaigns for use in their activities or special projects.

Responsibilities

• Working within a battleground congressional district to design and execute an Organizing program that engages, persuades, and turns out voters for the 2026 Midterm elections
• Communicating consistently with both the congressional campaign in district and the DCCC Organizing Team on progress to goal, program analysis, and troubleshooting challenges
• Developing strong relationships with local party leaders, grassroots organizers, and key activists
• At the campaign’s discretion, owning on the ground relationships with external Voter Contact partners such as state parties, activist groups, down ballot campaigns, or labor
• Building and implementing systems and structures to lead the organizing program to successfully meet daily, weekly, and phase goals for capacity building and voter contact, as well as maintain data integrity
• Hiring, training, and managing additional field staff in the district
• Other department responsibilities as needed
  
  

Requirements

• Unrestricted driver’s license and a reliable method of transportation is required
• Basic understanding of targeting and organizing metrics
• 2 cycles (4 years) of campaign, issue or nonprofit organizing experience and 1 cycle (2 years) of staff management experience is preferred. One cycle of electoral campaign organizing is required
• Prior experience recruiting, training, and managing volunteers on electoral or issue campaigns in a paid staff capacity
• Proficiency in VAN or PDI, Google Docs, and MobilizeAmerica
• Familiarity with peer-to-peer texting, relational, and dialer tools
• Experience developing, training and empowering volunteers
• Strong ability to build relationships and foster a positive team culture
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
• Ability to meet tight deadlines under pressure and problem solve effectively and creatively
• Access to a vehicle or other, reliable means of transportation
• Draws from team members’ strengths, empowering them to maximize their talents; contributes where needed to achieve and exceed goals; mentors and guides colleagues with regular feedback and recognition; clearly lays out vision and expectations to the team
• Proactively fosters an inclusive atmosphere and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
• Ability to demonstrate multicultural competence – the awareness, knowledge and skills needed to work with others who are culturally different from self in meaningful, relevant and productive ways
• Personal and professional commitment to promoting and investing in cross-cultural skills and awareness related to individuals from broad backgrounds, races, ethnicities, religions, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability.
• Proven interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to build relationships with staff at all levels