Regional GOTV Director

The Fairness Project; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 61,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Cell phone stipend

Transit stipend

Job summary

Texas Democratic Party is hiring Regional GOTV Directors for the Texas Together 2026 Coordinated Campaign. You will manage a team of GOTV Organizers, coach for high performance, and coordinate with in-region counterparts to align efforts across the region.

Role starts before Labor Day and ends Nov 15, 2026. Full-time, exempt, with benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance and stipends for cell phone and transit.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team on a campaign or similar.
• Proven ability to coach and develop organizers.
• Strong planning and time-management skills.
• Experience staffing events and volunteer coordination.
• Comfort with Google Suite, spreadsheets, and databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of GOTV organizers with weekly touchpoints.
• Coordinate in-region efforts with other departments.
• Foster collaboration and accountability within the team.
• Support organizers to hit voter contact and volunteer goals.
• Maintain communication structures and reporting channels.
• Share priorities and strategic shifts with the team.
• Identify staging locations and ensure readiness for GOTV.
• Troubleshoot issues to keep programs running smoothly.

Skills

Team management

Campaign experience

Time management

Event planning

Volunteer leadership

Google Suite

Excel

Tools

Google Suite

Excel

Online databases

Job description

About the Role

The Texas Democratic Party is seeking Regional GOTV Directors to join our Texas Together 2026 Coordinated Campaign, supporting Talarico for Texas and Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Regionals will manage, develop, and support a team of GOTV Organizers to build execute a large-scale voter contact effort across their region. They are responsible for maintaining high-standards of execution via coaching, feedback, and troubleshooting with organizers, solving problems in real time, and ensuring the GOTV Leadership team has insight into the day to day needs of the team on the ground.

This position will start before Labor Day and end November 15, 2026.

Compensation

Pay

Regional GOTV Directors are compensated at $6,000 per month, with a one-time $500 GOTV Stipend.

Benefits

Regional GOTV Directors are eligible for generous benefits including health care, vision, and dental insurance and stipends for cell phone and eligible transit.

Union

The Texas Democratic Party staff are proudly unionized. This position is represented by IBEW Local 220. Regional GOTV Directors are eligible for union membership in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

Essential Duties

• Manage and support organizers: Lead a team of GOTV Organizers through weekly one-on-ones, coaching, feedback, etc.
• Coordinate in-region: Partner with in-region counterparts from other departments and members of the coordinated campaign to align efforts
• Build a culture of collaboration: Foster accountability, collaboration, learning, and support amidst the fast pace of the campaign.
• Drive voter contact goals: Support and hold organizers accountable for meeting voter contact, volunteer recruitment, and volunteer leadership goals.
• Communication structures: Maintain strong communication structures, including daily check in and check outs, team chats, reporting channels, shared calendars, etc.
• Share strategy: Share campaign priorities, strategic shifts, and plans to ensure organizers understand how goals contribute to overall success.
• Drive staging location selection: Ensure staging locations are identified, secured, appropriately equipped, staffed, and prepared to support GOTV operations throughout the region.
• Troubleshoot and solve problems: Respond quickly to challenges to keep organizing programs running effectively.
  Manage reporting: Collect, analyze, and communicate regional metrics, with increased reporting during GOTV.
  

Qualifications

Need to haves:

• At least 4 months experience managing a team
• At least 2 cycles of experience on a campaign
• Commitment to the Texas Democrats mission and our organizational values, goals, and objectives
• Task and time management skills
• Experience planning, setting up, and staffing events
• Volunteer management or teambuilding acumen
• Access to a reliable car and drivers license
• Access to a phone and laptop computer
• Attention to detail when reviewing documents, organizing personal workspace, and coordinating with volunteers
• Strong mastery of computer systems like Google Suite, Excel, and online databases
• There are no formal education requirements for this position

Nice to haves:

• Experience working or volunteering on electoral, union, or community organizing campaigns a plus
• Familiarity with Votebuilder, Mobilize, Google suite, and other campaign tools.

Time Commitment

This position will start before Labor Day and end November 15, 2026.

Regional GOTV Directors work full time and are exempt.

This is an intensive, time-limited role at a pivotal moment for Texas Democrats. Organizers should expect long days and a 6 day workweek beginning in August as the campaign scales toward Election Day. We anticipate working 60+ hours per week and will end the campaign on 7 day work weeks.

Equal Opportunity & Commitment to Diversity

The Texas Democratic Party is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or physical disability, or any other legally protected basis. Women and members of historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.