Policy Campaigns Manager

🕒 June 10

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $92k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Worth Rises

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1 - 10 employees

⚖️ Legal

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Legal • Non-profit • Social Impact

Worth Rises is a non-profit organization focused on dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of incarcerated individuals and their families. The organization works to stop corporate profiteering from the carceral system and aims to make prison communication free, advocating legislative changes and public education. Through campaigns like #EndTheException, Worth Rises seeks to amend the 13th Amendment and eliminate slavery used as criminal punishment. The group's efforts extend to exposing corporations that profit from incarceration and influencing policy reforms for justice.

📋 Description

• Assist the Chief Advocacy Officer and the Director of Policy Campaigns & Government Affairs in executing the organization’s policy campaign strategy. • Lead and support policy campaigns, building coalitions, facilitating stakeholder meetings, conducting research, monitoring legislative calendars, developing collateral (e.g., letters, petitions, fact sheets, talking points, etc.), advocating with decision makers, planning direct actions, coordinating events, supporting communications, and tracking progress. • Work closely with organizational partners and community members, implementing base building strategies when appropriate, to advance policy goals through robust and ethical coalition management, which includes elevating the leadership and voices of directly impacted people. • Track and support the implementation of previous policy wins, sharing best practices with correctional agencies, supporting procurement processes, and collecting data and analyzing results. • Collaborate with the communications team on campaign-related activities to ensure timeliness, accuracy, and consistency of campaign messaging. • Manage policy interns, fellows, volunteers, and other staff as assigned. • Manage administrative needs and tasks for campaigns and related events.

🎯 Requirements

• At least three years of experience leading legislative campaigns, including setting strategy, building and managing coalitions, drafting campaign materials, leading direct actions, and engaging digital advocacy tactics. • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple campaigns and projects at once with efficiency, skill, and calm. • Demonstrated ability to build trusted working relationships with partners and community members, which includes exhibiting reliability, delegating effectively, and practicing empathy. • Strong oral and written communication skills. • Regular and disciplined practice of active listening, seeking clarification, and note taking. • Direct impact by the prison industry or experience working with directly impacted communities. • Working understanding of the prison industry or strong interest in learning. • Willingness to travel as required. • Genuine commitment to our organizational values: act with integrity, focus on impact, deliver excellence, get it done, and operate with intellectual curiosity.

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare: 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental coverage, plus a one-time reimbursement of up to $5,000 for family planning expenses. • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation, 10 days of personal/sick leave, 3 days of bereavement leave, 11 paid holidays, and winter break. • Retirement: Mission-aligned 401(k) plan divested from the prison industry with a 4% employer match. • Professional Development: Annual budget for professional development. • Wellness: Monthly reimbursement of up to $50 for personal wellness expenses. • Workplace: Annual stipend for remote work or community office space, plus a $75 monthly technology stipend.