General Description:
The League of Conservation Voters, Inc. (“LCV”), a non-profit organization, builds political power to protect people and the planet. We envision a world in which tackling the climate crisis, confronting environmental injustice, and strengthening our democracy lead to cleaner and healthier communities, good, well-paying jobs, and a more just, equitable, and sustainable planet for all.
For more than 50 years, LCV has fought for solutions to the interconnected threats facing our environment and democracy. We do so by working with and holding elected officials accountable, mobilizing, organizing, and building grassroots power in communities, electing candidates who share our values, and partnering with and supporting our 30+ state affiliates across the country.
LCV is hiring a Senior Vice President (SVP) for Campaigns who will oversee LCV’s Campaigns Department, which is responsible for developing and implementing the organization’s overall strategy on political and public education programs. As an LCV Executive Team member and through superior strategy development, excellent interpersonal engagement, and strong thought leadership, the SVP contributes to the successful operation of the entire organization. The SVP works closely and collaboratively with all departments at LCV and the Executive Directors of the 30+ state affiliates to support their existing programs and to develop new programs and partnerships. The SVP oversees the largest climate electoral program and one of the largest climate organizing programs in the country. In the 2023-2024 election cycle, LCV and its affiliated entities and state partners invested $165 million in supporting pro-climate candidates up and down the ballot. Most of that investment was our independent expenditure work conducted by LCV Victory Fund, which the SVP is responsible for leading.
The SVP is responsible for developing and maintaining a departmental culture that is inclusive, agile, collaborative, modern, transparent, and supportive of staff and partners. As a member of the Executive Team, the SVP must lead in demonstrating our organizational values of accountability, anti-racism, community, innovation, learning, and sustainability. The candidate must embrace that LCV has made racial justice and equity a strategic priority and will continue to lead the integration of this work throughout our national and state issue and electoral campaigns efforts. The candidate must understand the rapidly shifting political, technological, and media landscapes and the ways in which those shifts intersect and impact each other, and have the ability to lead programs that respond to a dynamic landscape.
This position is classified as “Regular Remote Work”, which means the position is not assigned to an office and can work remotely full-time.
This job operates in a professional office or home office environment, and routinely uses standard office equipment including, but not limited to, computers, phones, photocopiers, and audiovisual systems. This position is largely sedentary, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods. The person in this position frequently communicates with internal and external stakeholders using electronic platforms.
Applicants must be located in and legally authorized to work in the United States.
Responsibilities:
Organizational Leadership and Management
- Work in partnership with LCV’s President, key staff, relevant board committee and key stakeholders to develop LCV’s overall political strategy to elect pro-climate candidates.
- Represent the Campaigns Department on the Executive Team and help set the direction and strategies for LCV as a whole.
- Provide senior management to a large team that is responsible for implementing LCV’s independent expenditures; working with states on their electoral programming; conducting large scale, issue and public education organizing; conceiving electoral and non-electoral data and analytics; conducting testing and evaluation; and hosting candidate recruitment and training.
- Provide leadership and vision to the Campaigns Department, and support the team in meeting the department’s electoral, issue and public education organizing, data and analytics, and candidate recruitment and training goals while upholding our organizational values.
- Demonstrate leadership on racial justice and equity in departmental, executive team and full organizational work and venues, and ensure that the organizational commitment to racial justice work is present in all departmental plans and work.
- Work closely with and support the campaign-related needs of all parts of the organization to ensure that the Campaigns Department is well-integrated across the organization.
Fundraising and Budget Management
- Responsible for raising significant funds to support the work of the department, in partnership with the President and the other relevant LCV staff, through cultivating and sustaining a broad base of major donors and funders, developing compelling program plans, and writing memos and proposals to build support for the organization’s campaign work among donors and other key stakeholders.
- Oversee and manage the department’s budget.