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The National Employment Law Project is seeking two Directors of Campaign Strategy to enhance its impactful work in promoting a just and inclusive economy. These senior leadership roles, focused on the Midwest and Southwest regions, will oversee strategic planning, coalition-building, and team mentoring, supporting transformative policy solutions for workers. Candidates should have substantial experience in lobbying, campaign strategy, and relationship-building, and a commitment to worker justice.
The National Employment Law Project is hiring for two roles!
Director of Midwest Campaign Strategy (APPLY HERE) Remote based in the Midwest (Illinois or Michigan preferred) FTE $140K/yr+benefits
Director of Southwest Campaign Strategy (APPLY HERE)Remote based in the Southwest (Arizona or New Mexico preferred) FTE $140K/yr+benefits
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) seeks a highly collaborative and strategic leaders to advance our mission to build a good jobs economy—a just and inclusive economy where all workers have expansive rights and thrive in good jobs. Each Director of Campaign Strategy will lead and coordinate our expanding state and regional engagement strategy, which is central to our effort to incubate and advance bold, long-term transformative policy solutions. Those solutions reflect the needs of all workers—including historically marginalized groups such as women, Black, immigrant, and low- wage workers, and workers with records. We will be hiring additional Directors of Campaign Strategy so please check our careers page for upcoming opportunities. Join us!
About National Employment Law Project
Founded in 1969, the nonprofit National Employment Law Project (NELP) is a leading advocacy organization with the mission to build a just and inclusive economy where all workers have expansive rights and thrive in good jobs. Together with local, state, and national partners, NELP advances its mission through transformative legal and policy solutions, research, capacity building, and communications. Our victories over the last decade have impacted the lives of an estimated 100 million workers and their families. We lead and collaborate in fights for higher pay and just benefits, secure and safe jobs, and support at each stage in a worker’s life. For more information, read our annual reports and explore our website: www.nelp.org
NELP has a team of 55 staff people based across offices in New York City, Washington D.C., and Berkeley, CA, with a 9-person Board of Directors, an annual budget of $14M, and hundreds of partners in the field with whom we work to further our mission.
Role Overview
The Director of Campaign Strategy (DCS) will bring their leadership and expertise to building and shaping a first-of-its-kind role at NELP—one that represents our commitment to deepening collective capacity to move transformative policy solutions at the local, state, and regional levels.
Recognizing that federal avenues for advancing labor law and enforcement are currently limited, we are turning with purpose and intention toward state and regional strategies—where we believe enhanced engagement and collaboration with in-state allies can deliver meaningful gains for workers. This strategy will also allow us to continue to cultivate the ground for federal reform.
Joining a leadership cohort that includes other newly hired regional Directors, each representing a different set of states, the DCS will work collaboratively with NELP teams and local in-state allies to identify and resource capacity building initiatives. The DCS will also support knowledge sharing and collaboration between states, cohering a shared multi-year strategy and vision to support locally led worker justice initiatives, connecting campaigns across regions, and ultimately to the national level. We are planning to resource and support the DCS to design and build a team of 2-4 staff members to supervise, depending on the needs and opportunities for impact in the states and region.
What You Will Do
The Director of Campaign Strategy will be part of NELP’s management team in this senior leadership role, reporting to the Chief Program Officer. Key responsibilities include:
Strategic State Planning, Campaign Design, and Advocacy
Cross-Issue Integration and Strategic Learning
Team Leadership and Management
Start Date, Location, Compensation & Benefits:
This is a full-time exempt remote position. Candidates must be able to work full-time from their resident state and have reliable internet. While we have a nationally distributed team, most staff work in a hybrid arrangement from one of our three offices in Berkeley, CA; New York City; or Washington D.C. This role will require regular travel within the region and to our offices for meetings and events—likely monthly during the first two years.
For the Director of Midwest Campaign Strategy, we have a strong preference for candidates based in Illinois or Michigan but may consider others in the Midwest region with deep experience and strong relationships in those states.
For the Director of Southwest Campaign Strategy, we have a strong preference for candidates based in Arizona or New Mexico but may consider others in the Southwest region with deep experience and strong relationships in those states.
The ideal start date is September 2025 or earlier.
The salary for the Director of Midwest Campaign Strategy is $140,0000.
The salary for the Director of Southwest Campaign Strategy is $140,000.
Compensation at NELP includes an excellent comprehensive benefits package, including full coverage of family health insurance, a medical reimbursement plan, generous vacation and sick leave, plus additional organization-wide holidays, significant contribution from the employer to a retirement plan (both an unelected contribution and employer match); and for qualifying participants, up to 26 weeks paid parental leave, 12 weeks paid medical leave, 6 weeks of paid family medical caregiving leave, childcare/eldercare reimbursement assistance, and student loan repayment assistance. Staff at NELP are represented by Local 2320, UAW, excluding management and certain other categories. This role is a non-bargaining unit position.
Who You Are
We understand that the right candidate may not have all the qualities below. We seek candidates who have deep experience with key skills and the demonstrated judgement, leadership capacity, and readiness to develop others as needed in this senior leadership role.