Protect & Build Campaign Manager

About Community Change and Community Change Action

Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partner groups, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence the insider conversation.

Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform.

This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and justice – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another and each organization has its own board of directors.

Position Description

The Protect & Build Campaign Manager will serve as the strategic and operational lead for the Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign, with a focus on coordination, team management, partner alignment, and accountability for achieving targeted campaign outcomes. This full-time, one-year position will oversee a team of organizers and ensure that Community Change and Community Change Action’s campaign goals are met through robust base-building, narrative work, and powerbuilding strategies.

This person must be both a seasoned campaign tactician and a relational leader who can hold complexity, manage cross-state coordination, and integrate field, communications, and policy approaches into a unified plan.

A portion of time will be spent working with Community Change’s sister organization, Community Change Action.

Principal Responsibilities

Campaign Leadership & Strategy

• Lead the strategic planning and execution of the Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign.
• Develop, track, and refine field and advocacy goals across states.
• Drive target strategies and ensure alignment across federal and state-level tactics.
• Supports a culture of campaign collaboration and learning with other in-house campaigns.

Team Management & Supervision

• Supervise, coach, and support a team of Protect & Build Campaign Organizers across target states.
• Facilitate weekly team meetings and 1:1 check-ins to build cohesion and accountability.
• Foster leadership and skill development across the organizer team.

Relationship Management

• Manage relationships with grassroots partner organizations; ensure collaboration and alignment on goals, metrics, and narratives.
• Help identify and manage the relationship with other key campaign stakeholders.
• Support capacity-building for partner organizations in campaign execution and organizing infrastructure.

Cross-Functional Integration

• Coordinate across policy, communications, digital, and development teams to support unified campaign planning.
• Ensure alignment between fieldwork and narrative, communications, and federal advocacy efforts.

Data, Tracking, and Evaluation

• Track both, qualitative and quantitative field metrics, base-building progress, and leadership development benchmarks.
• Use data and reporting tools to inform strategic shifts and measure impact.
• Prepare and deliver regular updates to senior leadership and external stakeholders.

Rapid Response and Adaptive Strategy

• Lead agile responses to emerging policy threats or opportunities affecting Medicaid, SNAP, and related programs.
• Guide campaign pivots and mobilizations in response to the political and legislative landscape.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience developing, leading, and implementing community organizing/issue campaigns, electoral organizing, or strategic campaigns.
• An understanding of Medicaid, SNAP, or other social safety net programs, especially in a political and long-ter