REPORTS TO: Coordinated Campaign Director
LOCATION: Columbia, SC may be remote during shelter during shelter-in-place
The South Carolina Democratic Party (SCDP) is seeking a Mobilization Director, to join the Coordinated Campaign’s Digital Department to lead a digital organizing program and build up our organizing efforts in South Carolina to elect Jaime Harrison to U.S. Senate.
The ideal candidate is highly creative and is able to generate new ideas for mobilizing voters and creating digital communities of supporters. You will work across departments to develop a distributed organizing program including phones/dialer, social media, emails, texts, and more. You will train volunteers and organizers across South Carolina on digital organizing tools.
This position will be remote until it is safe to relocate to the campaign’s headquarters in Columbia, SC. The position reports to the Digital Director. Salary is commensurate with experience and full medical, dental, and vision benefits are provided.
Responsibilities
- Develop the distributed organizing program across various platforms
- Develop volunteer communities via Facebook, Slack, and/or other online platforms
- Produce text messages and call scripts to be used for peer to peer texting and phone banks
- Assist with other digital team tasks as needed—your role will be primarily digital organizing, but you may be needed to assist with online fundraising or social media as the team expands
Experience and Qualifications
- Familiarity with building and launching digital organizing campaigns
- Experience training and empowering volunteers and organizers
- Electoral Campaign or Advocacy Organizing background with at least 1 cycle of employed experience in digital or distributed organizing
- Experience with dialer tools and peer-to-peer texting tools
- Experience with online community tools such as Slack, Zoom, and Go-to meeting
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage time effectively, and adapt quickly and easily to the changing landscape of a political campaign
- Southern ties are a plus
To apply please submit a resume and three references to jobs@scdp.org with the subject line Mobilization Director. Consideration of applications will begin immediately. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: The South Carolina 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.
