Strategic Victory Fund: Student Turnout Projects Director
Remote
$120,000 to $140,000. (Yearly)
Strategic Victory Fund
Other
This role will likely involve a high level of travel to spend time with our in-state partners. 30% of time for most of the year. Over 50% of time during the Fall 2026 semester. Location of Washington, DC or New York City preferred. Exceptional candidates that are remote will be considered. To apply, submit your resume and a brief statement of interest here.
The Student Turnout Projects is our flagship operation – a cohort of state-based organizations working to organize college campuses with scrapiness and creativity. We're looking for a Director to lead work in this vertical. The Director will be accountable for the success of STP 2026 programming, including the potential incubation of new state-based organizations, and will hire a team to help in-state leaders execute at a high level.
The Student Turnout Project seeks a Director to lead our organizing work with college campuses. The Director will be accountable for the success of our 2026 programming and will hire a team to help in-state leaders execute at a high level.
In this role, you would:
- Build and Manage a National Team
- Recruit, train, and manage a team of senior leaders who will provide support to in-state leaders around program, data, digital, and other areas that you'll determine in partnership with in-state leads (i.e. research + messaging, training, etc).
- Develop systems for monitoring the health of STP programming and design interventions to facilitate program success
- Manage team on a daily basis
- Advise In-State Leaders
- Be the primary point of contact for STP State Directors and Senior Advisors.
- Play the role of coach and advisor, pulling in other members of your team as necessary
- Meet with in-state leaders on a weekly basis and as-needed
- Facilitate cross-state knowledge and resource sharing
- Play a hands-on role supporting the incubation of new STP organizations
- Be a Leader
- Work with in-state leaders to set a vision for best-in-class effective and efficient campus organizing and build buy-in across states and teams.
- Represent STP to funders and other stakeholders across the ecosystem, while finding opportunities to uplift in-state leaders. (Note: Fundraising will not be a primary responsibility for the STP Director)
- Regularly meet with partners across the ecosystem to ensure alignment
You should have:
- Subject matter expertise in how to mobilize college students to vote
- Extensive experience in one of the following areas, with the expectation that you'd hire a well-rounded team to balance out areas you're less skilled in: organizing, campaign management, non-profit management, digital / content creation
- Experience working cross-departmentally, with a preference for experience in cross-department management
- Excellent management and coaching skills, including experience managing a team or department
- Demonstrated a track record of rallying a team around a shared vision and representing that vision to internal and external stakeholders
- Belief in the value of state-based leadership
- The ability to self-start able to figure out what needs to be done and to ask for help when needed
- Entrepreneurial spirit - be excited to build a team from the ground up, and support in-state leaders who will in many cases be doing the same
We recognize that candidates can come across these attributes in a variety of ways and are open to candidates from diverse career backgrounds. We suspect that candidates with some of the following experiences may be particularly well-positioned:
- Organizing Director/Leadership on statewide campaigns
- Campus Organizer as part of longer career in campaigns or organizing
- Campaign Manager
- National Desk
Travel
This role will likely involve a high level of travel to spend time with our in-state partners. 30% of time for most of the year. Over 50% of time during the Fall 2026 semester.
Strategic Victory Fund: Student Turnout Projects Director
Remote
$120,000 to $140,000. (Yearly)
Strategic Victory Fund
Other
This role will likely involve a high level of travel to spend time with our in-state partners. 30% of time for most of the year. Over 50% of time during the Fall 2026 semester. Location of Washington, DC or New York City preferred. Exceptional candidates that are remote will be considered. To apply, submit your resume and a brief statement of interest here.
The Student Turnout Projects is our flagship operation – a cohort of state-based organizations working to organize college campuses with scrapiness and creativity. We're looking for a Director to lead work in this vertical. The Director will be accountable for the success of STP 2026 programming, including the potential incubation of new state-based organizations, and will hire a team to help in-state leaders execute at a high level.
The Student Turnout Project seeks a Director to lead our organizing work with college campuses. The Director will be accountable for the success of our 2026 programming and will hire a team to help in-state leaders execute at a high level.
In this role, you would:
- Build and Manage a National Team
- Recruit, train, and manage a team of senior leaders who will provide support to in-state leaders around program, data, digital, and other areas that you'll determine in partnership with in-state leads (i.e. research + messaging, training, etc).
- Develop systems for monitoring the health of STP programming and design interventions to facilitate program success
- Manage team on a daily basis
- Advise In-State Leaders
- Be the primary point of contact for STP State Directors and Senior Advisors.
- Play the role of coach and advisor, pulling in other members of your team as necessary
- Meet with in-state leaders on a weekly basis and as-needed
- Facilitate cross-state knowledge and resource sharing
- Play a hands-on role supporting the incubation of new STP organizations
- Be a Leader
- Work with in-state leaders to set a vision for best-in-class effective and efficient campus organizing and build buy-in across states and teams.
- Represent STP to funders and other stakeholders across the ecosystem, while finding opportunities to uplift in-state leaders. (Note: Fundraising will not be a primary responsibility for the STP Director)
- Regularly meet with partners across the ecosystem to ensure alignment
You should have:
- Subject matter expertise in how to mobilize college students to vote
- Extensive experience in one of the following areas, with the expectation that you'd hire a well-rounded team to balance out areas you're less skilled in: organizing, campaign management, non-profit management, digital / content creation
- Experience working cross-departmentally, with a preference for experience in cross-department management
- Excellent management and coaching skills, including experience managing a team or department
- Demonstrated a track record of rallying a team around a shared vision and representing that vision to internal and external stakeholders
- Belief in the value of state-based leadership
- The ability to self-start able to figure out what needs to be done and to ask for help when needed
- Entrepreneurial spirit - be excited to build a team from the ground up, and support in-state leaders who will in many cases be doing the same
We recognize that candidates can come across these attributes in a variety of ways and are open to candidates from diverse career backgrounds. We suspect that candidates with some of the following experiences may be particularly well-positioned:
- Organizing Director/Leadership on statewide campaigns
- Campus Organizer as part of longer career in campaigns or organizing
- Campaign Manager
- National Desk
Travel
This role will likely involve a high level of travel to spend time with our in-state partners. 30% of time for most of the year. Over 50% of time during the Fall 2026 semester.
