Vice President, States

We are looking for a Vice President of States to join our team at Common Cause. This is a senior leadership role that will work in collaboration with the Senior Vice President of States and our other Vice Presidents of States to oversee and support our State Director to manage their teams and lead advocacy efforts in their states, ensuring alignment between state-level and national priorities, fostering collaboration across states and teams, and driving impact across the organization.  

  

This is an exciting opportunity to use your deep understanding of policy advocacy, team management, and organizational change management to guide our state teams to reach their goals.  

 

This is a full-time role reporting to the Senior Vice President, States; this role is remote anywhere within the lower 48 United States, with an expectation to travel up to a week per month. We hope our new Vice President, States will start in December. 

 

Responsibilities

Manage State Directors 

• Manage and support State Directors across several states to ensure that those teams meet or exceed their programmatic, financial, and operational goals 

• Collaboratively setting goals to ensure alignment between state, programmatic, and operational priorities 

• Guide state teams to develop proactive and responsive strategies based on the political landscape of their state 

• Build and maintain strong and trusting relationships with state teams  

• Ensure sustainability and efficiency of state budgets and resource allocation, and work with State Directors and other teams to implement system and process improvements as needed 

• Lead professional development and coaching efforts to strengthen state teams, including management under our collective bargaining agreement, differentiating for needs across our organization  

• Support State Directors’ career progression and retention at Common Cause, and drive succession planning to ensure sustainability 

 

Serve as an external representative and advocate for our states’ work 

• Represent Common Cause externally, building relationships with donors, policymakers, and coalition partners to strengthen the organization's influence and impact.  

• Speak to the media about our work as needed 

• Collaborate with teams across the organization to promote the work in our states, including developing public-facing materials and written communications 

• Work closely with our Development team to ensure alignment of states’ strategy with development activities   

• Support state teams to meet their fundraising goals to maintain and grow our effectiveness and solvency; this may include drafting grants and other written fundraising materials, ensuring accuracy in grant reporting, and supporting states with other fundraising activities  

 

Strategic Leadership  

• Lead change initiatives across the organization to help ensure alignment between state, program, and operations team priorities 

• Ensure collaboration, responsiveness, and accountability between state, program and operations teams. 

• Build expertise in democracy and electoral policy to be able to support various states with their work 

• Collaborate with organizational leadership to share state-level insights that shape Common Cause’s overall strategy