Distributed Voter Contact Manager

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Position Summary

The DNC is the only national committee with permanent organizing infrastructure, which allows us to provide volunteer recruitment and get-out-the-vote organizing support to Democrats running at all levels of the ballot in elections year-round.

The Distributed Voter Contact Manager will lead the day-to-day operations of this core program and scale the DNC’s distributed volunteer capacity ahead of the 2026 election. This involves managing a team of Distributed Organizers, leading large-scale grassroots volunteer recruitment and training, sequencing voter contact targets, owning the logistics of voter contact tools, and innovating with new tactics and messaging to support Democratic campaigns and state parties nationwide. This position will be based out of the DNC’s HQ and report to the DNC’s National Organizing Director.

Responsibilities

• State Coordination & Reporting: Manage the intake process for voter contact support from states and campaigns. Review requests, coordinate priorities with the Political team, strategically sequence volunteer recruitment and voter contact, and report campaign performance and metrics to stakeholders.
• Platform & Data Administration: Manage systems and data standards for distributed volunteer recruitment and voter contact programs, including Scale to Win (STW) Text and Dialer administration.
• Scripting & Optimization: Write, manage, and test volunteer recruitment and voter contact scripts to optimize outreach. Analyze data reports to improve volunteer recruitment targeting and retention ahead of GOTV.
• Local Listeners Program: Oversee the continuation of the DNC’s Local Listeners volunteer training and voter contact program, including analysis of qualitative data and surfacing findings to internal and external stakeholders.
• Volunteer Retention: in partnership with Mobilization, host interactive grassroots organizing briefings to train and educate supporters nationwide on voter protection, salient current events, messaging, and organizing tactics.
• Grassroots Coordination: Manage all distributed volunteer leader operations and maintain relationships with grassroots/local Party leaders to scale on-the-ground volunteer programming in priority states.
• Other duties as assigned to support the department and the DNC's mission.
  
  

Qualifications

• At least 2 cycles of electoral organizing experience, ideally with at least 1 cycle of full-time staff management experience
• Strong data literacy: ability to quickly analyze reports and metrics and provide actionable recommendations for program and staff improvement.
• Experience managing voter contact and volunteer management tech platforms (e.g., Scale to Win, ActionKit, Mobilize, Winnable).
• Project management experience, specifically handling complex workflows, approvals pipelines, and QA processes.
• A fierce commitment to winning elections and innovating in organizing.
• Experience communicating and managing relationships with volunteer leaders, state parties, and external partners.
  
  

Salary: The starting salary for the Distributed Voter Contact Manager position is $80,000.00, on an annualized basis, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

This is a full-time, exempt position, that may require work on weekends.

Due to federal campaign finance rules, only U.S. citizens or U.S. green card holders are eligible for this role. See 52 U.S.C. 30121; 11 C.F.R. 110.20(i).

The Democratic National Committee (DNC), is committed to diversity among its staff, and recognizes that its continued success requires the highest commitment to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that provides the best quality services to supporters and constituents. The DNC is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or physical disability, or any other legally protected basis. The DNC will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly prohibited.

Benefits

• The DNC offers a generous benefit package, including:
• Generous paid time off, including federal holidays and open leave
• Health and dental insurance for employee and dependents; 90% paid by the DNC, 10% paid by employee
• Supplementary vision plans available to employees for purchase
• Up to a 5% employer match DNC 401(k) plan
• Pre-tax flexible spending account benefits available to employees and dependents