Senior Vice President, Campaigns

Title: Senior Vice President, Campaigns

Department: Campaigns

Status: Exempt

Reports To: President

Positions Reporting To This Position: Vice President Field; Vice President of Paid Communications and Elections; Manager, Campaigns; Director of Data & Analytics

Location: United States, Washington, DC Metropolitan Area strongly preferred

Remote Work Eligibility: Yes; Regular Remote Work

Travel Requirements: Up to 30%

Union Position: No

Job Classification Level: M-V

Salary Range (depending on qualified experience): $165,000 – $295,000

General Description:

The League of Conservation Voters, Inc. (“LCV”), a non-profit organization, builds political power to protect people and the planet. We envision a world in which tackling the climate crisis, confronting environmental injustice, and strengthening our democracy lead to cleaner and healthier communities, good, well-paying jobs, and a more just, equitable, and sustainable planet for all.

For more than 50 years, LCV has fought for solutions to the interconnected threats facing our environment and democracy. We do so by working with and holding elected officials accountable, mobilizing, organizing, and building grassroots power in communities, electing candidates who share our values, and partnering with and supporting our 30+ state affiliates across the country.

LCV is hiring a Senior Vice President (SVP) for Campaigns who will oversee LCV’s Campaigns Department, which is responsible for developing and implementing the organization’s overall strategy on political and public education programs. As an LCV Executive Team member and through superior strategy development, excellent interpersonal engagement, and strong thought leadership, the SVP contributes to the successful operation of the entire organization. The SVP works closely and collaboratively with all departments at LCV and the Executive Directors of the 30+ state affiliates to support their existing programs and to develop new programs and partnerships. The SVP oversees the largest climate electoral program and one of the largest climate organizing programs in the country. In the 2023-2024 election cycle, LCV and its affiliated entities and state partners invested $165 million in supporting pro-climate candidates up and down the ballot. Most of that investment was our independent expenditure work conducted by LCV Victory Fund, which the SVP is responsible for leading.

The SVP is responsible for developing and maintaining a departmental culture that is inclusive, agile, collaborative, modern, transparent, and supportive of staff and partners. As a member of the Executive Team, the SVP must lead in demonstrating our organizational values of accountability, anti-racism, community, innovation, learning, and sustainability. The candidate must embrace that LCV has made racial justice and equity a strategic priority and will continue to lead the integration of this work throughout our national and state issue and electoral campaigns efforts. The candidate must understand the rapidly shifting political, technological, and media landscapes and the ways in which those shifts intersect and impact each other, and have the ability to lead programs that respond to a dynamic landscape.

This position is classified as “Regular Remote Work”, which means the position is not assigned to an office and can work remotely full-time.

This job operates in a professional office or home office environment, and routinely uses standard office equipment including, but not limited to, computers, phones, photocopiers, and audiovisual systems. This position is largely sedentary, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods. The person in this position frequently communicates with internal and external stakeholders using electronic platforms.

Applicants must be located in and legally authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities:

Organizational Leadership and Management

• Work in partnership with LCV’s President, key staff, relevant board committee and key stakeholders to develop LCV’s overall political strategy to elect pro-climate candidates.
• Represent the Campaigns Department on the Executive Team and help set the direction and strategies for LCV as a whole.
• Provide senior management to a large team that is responsible for implementing LCV’s independent expenditures; working with states on their electoral programming; conducting large scale, issue and public education organizing; conceiving electoral and non-electoral data and analytics; conducting testing and evaluation; and hosting candidate recruitment and training.
• Provide leadership and vision to the Campaigns Department, and support the team in meeting the department’s electoral, issue and public education organizing, data and analytics, and candidate recruitment and training goals while upholding our organizational values.
• Demonstrate leadership on racial justice and equity in departmental, executive team and full organizational work and venues, and ensure that the organizational commitment to racial justice work is present in all departmental plans and work.
• Work closely with and support the campaign-related needs of all parts of the organization to ensure that the Campaigns Department is well-integrated across the organization.

Fundraising and Budget Management

• Responsible for raising significant funds to support the work of the department, in partnership with the President and the other relevant LCV staff, through cultivating and sustaining a broad base of major donors and funders, developing compelling program plans, and writing memos and proposals to build support for the organization’s campaign work among donors and other key stakeholders.
• Oversee and manage the department’s budget.

Elections

• Manage development and execution of LCV Victory Fund’s independent expenditure political program.
• Represent the organization to an array of groups, including the political community, funders, press and elected officials.
• Engage with LCV’s Board of Directors on campaign priorities, and staff the LCV Board’s Political and Campaign Committee, which oversees LCV’s independent expenditure electoral work.
• Work closely with state affiliates to develop and successfully implement their electoral strategies, in coordination with the Vice President of Paid Communications and Elections.
• Supervise LCV’s extensive electoral and non-electoral campaigns testing and evaluation programs.
• Oversee the Campaign Department’s significant public opinion and message research.
• Build strong partnerships with climate and environmental organizations, political allies and other institutions, including environmental groups and other aligned entities.

Issues and Accountability

• Work collaboratively with leadership and senior staff in other departments in developing and overseeing issue, legislative, and public education campaigns and projects.
• Oversee LCV’s Climate Action organizing program.
• Develop accountability campaigns to advance LCV’s climate and democracy priorities.

Additional Duties

• Travel up to 30% of the time for in-person work outside of Washington, DC, including meetings with donors, state affiliates, staff retreats, conferences, and professional development opportunities, as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Work Experience:
  • Required – At least fifteen years of leadership-level experience in political or electoral campaigns with similar levels of complexity, budgets and staff, including:
    • Proven ability to develop compelling programs and campaigns;
    • Demonstrated success raising significant money for political or issue campaigns;
    • Proven experience as an effective manager of large teams with excellent interpersonal and communications skills to work effectively across different differences and collaborate with a wide range of allies;
    • Proven track record of successful recruitment, cultivation and retention of highly skilled staff and teams with a high level of racial and gender diversity.
  • Preferred –
    • Strong preference for experience working closely with state-level organizations;
    • Experience working on political campaigns focused on climate and environmental issues;
    • Working knowledge of federal and state election laws.
• Skills: Superior leadership skills; excellent strategist; strong writing skills; very strong interpersonal and communications skills; demonstrates initiative, including the ability to seize strategic opportunities; works well in a fast-paced setting and is able to meet deadlines without sacrificing quality of work. Ability to lead on issues of racial justice and equity. A clear understanding of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofit legal issues/structures.
• Racial Justice and Equity Competencies: Demonstrated awareness of how one’s life experiences influence one’s personal attitudes, biases, and assumptions. Demonstrated commitment to continual learning and ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services. Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture. Understands how environmental issues intersect with racism, economic and social inequality in the U.S. and has a passion for working to dismantle these systems.

LCV offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes vacation, sick and parental leave, personal days, paid holidays, health insurance (two plan options for staff to choose from), dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance (short- and long-term), Flexible Spending Account, 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contribution, commuter benefits program, sabbatical, and student loan assistance.

To Apply: Send cover letter and resume to hr@lcv.org with “SVP, Campaigns” in the subject line by April 27, 2025. No phone calls please.

All employment is contingent upon the completion of a background check, employment verifications and reference checks.

LCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a racially just, equitable and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information, or any other protected status. LCV is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the employee selection process, including, completing the application, interviewing, or pre-employment testing, please contact hr@lcv.org.