Senior Director of Partnerships – Advocacy

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🕒 April 1

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Democrats for Education Reform

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2007

📚 Education

🏛️ Government

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Government • Non-profit

Democrats for Education Reform is a national political organization dedicated to electing Democratic leaders who prioritize high-quality and equitable education for all students. The organization supports policies that improve the quality of education in America, including public school choice, resource equity, and teacher quality. DFER engages in political campaigns to endorse and elect candidates who align with their educational reform values and works to influence education policy at both national and state levels.

📋 Description

• Design and lead a comprehensive national and state strategy to build stakeholder support for FSTC opt-in across priority states, with an eye toward the 2026 gubernatorial election cycle • Develop and manage state-specific plans, working closely with in-state coalition partners and policymakers • Track gubernatorial and legislative developments in target states and adapt strategy in real time • Synthesize data and research provided by our policy team and partner organizations to develop state-specific messaging and advocacy materials, such as factsheets, webinar presentations and toolkits • Direct targeted multi-channel digital communications campaigns in 4–5 high-priority states to illustrate FSTC’s benefits for families • Present results of polling and public opinion research, including national polls and deep-dive state-level polling in target states • Cultivate and maintain high-level relationships with center-left governors, gubernatorial candidates, and their senior staff on both official and campaign sides • Build and sustain a structured coalition of national and state partners—including school choice and charter advocates, youth-serving organizations, and community groups—to ensure alignment and amplify advocacy efforts • Oversee budgets across 3 entities, ensuring resources are allocated effectively across communications, lobbying, polling, research, and coalition activities • Direct outside consultants and manage vendor relationships • Report to senior leadership and contribute to organizational fundraising by demonstrating campaign impact • Supporting organizational engagement in the 2028 presidential election cycle, including stakeholder outreach and voter-facing education advocacy • Identifying and launching new mission-aligned state and federal initiatives aligned • Building out organizational infrastructure—systems, processes, and partnerships—to support a growing multi-initiative operation

🎯 Requirements

• Significant knowledge of school choice, charter schools, and K–12 education reform policy is preferred • Familiarity with political campaigns, government affairs, or advocacy, with a track record of winning complex legislative or executive-branch campaigns at the state or federal level • Strong personal relationships with center-left governors, gubernatorial staff, presidential campaign alumni, or other executive-branch decision-makers are strongly preferred • Demonstrated ability to build and manage complex, multi-stakeholder coalitions across diverse political and community partners • Ability to translate complex policy concepts into compelling narratives for policymakers, press, and the public; experience overseeing digital campaigns and earned media efforts • Experience managing multi-faceted campaigns with multiple workstreams, contractors, and budgets simultaneously • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment; ability to build systems and structures while executing on an ambitious timeline • Ability to think beyond the immediate campaign cycle and contribute to building organizational capacity for future priorities, including the 2028 presidential cycle

🏖️ Benefits

• health, vision, and dental coverage • cell phone and internet reimbursement • flexible spending plan • life insurance • short- and long-term disability insurance • 401K plan with a match • paid family leave • paid time off (vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and all national holidays)