Policy Campaigns Associate

Worth Rises; United States; Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental coverage

20 days vacation

Personal/sick leave 10 days

Bereavement leave 3 days

11 holidays and winter break

401k match

Tech stipend $75/month

Wellness reimbursement

Professional development budget

Job summary

Worth Rises seeks a Policy Campaigns Associate in the United States to support strategy execution, build coalitions, manage outreach databases, and monitor legislative activity across key states. The role emphasizes engagement with directly impacted communities, advocacy document preparation, and coordination with Policy, Corporate, and Narrative teams.

The ideal candidate has at least two years’ experience in legislative campaigns, strong communication, and a willingness to travel.

Qualifications

• Two years of professional experience supporting legislative campaigns.
• Experience building coalitions and engaging communities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple campaigns and projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Director of Policy Campaigns & Government Affairs in executing strategy.
• Support campaigns by building coalitions, coordinating meetings, and developing collateral.
• Monitor legislative activity and maintain tracking systems across states.
• Coordinate coalition efforts and logistics for state campaigns.
• Develop and manage outreach databases for community partnerships.
• Help prepare testimony, briefs, and advocacy materials.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Active listening

Tools

CRM tools

Job description

Key Results (Year One)

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive campaign tracker and community engagement database for our policy campaigns.

• Build coalitions to support each of Worth Rises’ policy campaigns, with at least five key partners in each.

• Build a rapid response network of partners and directly impacted communities in priority states and effective engagement mechanism.

• Organize at least two successful lobby days, involving at least ten legislative office meetings for each.
  Major Responsibilities

• Assist the Director of Policy Campaigns & Government Affairs in executing the organization’s policy campaign strategy.

• 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.

• Monitor bill movement, hearings, and other legislative activity across assigned states, maintaining tracking systems and providing timely updates to the team.

• Coordinate coalition efforts, partner engagement, and logistics in support of state campaigns.

• Build and sustain strong relationships with advocacy partners, stakeholders, and directly impacted individuals in both active and past campaign states to support implementation.

• Develop and manage contact databases and outreach systems for community partnerships to enable consistent engagement and mobilization for campaign actions.

• Implement base-building strategies in directly impacted communities to elevate their voices and center their leadership, analysis, and stories.

• Help prepare testimony, briefs, and advocacy materials, including letters, petitions, fact sheets, and talking points, and support campaign events, actions, and content development.

• Work across Policy, Corporate, and Narrative teams to streamline coordination and project management.
  Critical Factors for Success
  This role requires a motivated self-starter who takes initiative, consistently delivers high-quality work, is an excellent project manager, is a proactive and innovative problem-solver, appreciates direct feedback, and has the following:

• At least two years of professional experience providing high-quality support to legislative campaigns.

• 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, strongly preferred.

• Working understanding of the prison industry or strong interest in learning.

• Willingness to travel as required.

• A genuine commitment to Worth Rises’ organizational values: act with integrity, focus on impact, deliver excellence, get it done, and operate with intellectual curiosity (visit worthrises.org/jointhefight).
  Compensation and Benefits
  The annual salary for the Policy Campaigns Associate is $72,000. Worth Rises offers a generous compensation package, including comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 20 days of vacation time, ten days of personal/sick leave, and three days of bereavement leave in addition to 11 holidays and winter break. Employees also receive a generous 401k contribution match, $75 monthly technology stipend, monthly wellness reimbursement, and dedicated budget for professional development. Finally, we offer retention benefits every five years. We currently operate in a remote-first environment with office options and an on-video culture.

Worth Rises is an equal opportunity employer, and strongly encourages formerly incarcerated individuals, directly impacted individuals, people of color, members of the disabled community, gender-variant and non-binary individuals, and other members of the LGBTQIA+ community to apply.