New Mexico Lead

Location: New Mexico

Reports To: Political Director

Salary: $50,000-$60,000 commensurate with experience

About Electing Women Alliance:

Electing Women Alliance (EWA) is a national network of local giving groups that bring women together as a community to support Democratic women candidates. Our goal is to inspire intentional, informed giving to increase women’s political leadership and close the political gender giving gap.

Although there has been some progress in recent election cycles, women still make up only 28 percent of Congress and 24 percent of governorships. In New Mexico, women make up only 26 percent of the State Senate. The US ranks 71st in the world in the number of women in elected office. And while women candidates rely more heavily on women donors, women make up only 38 percent of all donors.

EWA is a national network of giving groups that host in-person events for US Senate, governor, and the White House. We work in partnership with WomenCount, an online donation platform that supports Democratic women up and down the ballot – from school board to president. While WomenCount and EWA are separate efforts, they partner regularly and share mission and vision, team members, and operations.

About the Position:

The New Mexico Lead is a new position that will have responsibilities for managing a local Electing Women group focused on national US Senate and Governor’s races while coordinating with in-state allies on fundraising for state legislative races in New Mexico. The New Mexico Lead will grow a community of women donors who want to help close the political gender giving gap at the national and state level.

Specific opportunities and responsibilities:

• Work directly with the EWA team to vision and execute a comprehensive and ambitious membership and development program;
• Work directly with the NM Donor Table to align and coordinate lists, events, and communications;
• Prospect and outreach to potential members;
• Organize and execute multiple fundraising events per quarter, including coordination with candidates and their campaigns;
• Maintain accurate database of current and prospective donors and member donations;
• Lead stewardship activities, including regular communications with donors, reporting, and other forms of relationship building;
• Help create local Steering Committee of members;
• Engage in regular communications with EWA team.

Attributes and qualifications:

Women of color are encouraged to apply. We recognize that no candidate has all of the following attributes so we encourage you to apply if you have many or most:

• Three to five years of experience in political fundraising, political organizing, or similar;
• A track record of commitment to women’s leadership and empowerment;
• Existing relationships and connections within the women’s political donor community, and New Mexico specifically, is preferable;
• Outstanding personal and relationship management skills;
• Ability and desire to hustle, think proactively, take initiative, and be a self-starter;
• Excellent writing, organizational and time management skills;
• Willingness to travel across the state with some national travel;

Commitment to working collaboratively in an inclusive and collegial workplace.
EWA is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, or veteran’s status.

Compensation:

This is a mid-level, full time or part time (70-80% time) position with a salary range of $50,000 to $60,000 commensurate with experience. Electing Women Alliance offers benefits that include health insurance, paid holidays, and vacation. We are also looking forward to building out a more developed benefits package in the future.

We are also open to discussing a more senior consulting role where the consultant would spend at least 50% of their time on this project.

Our team is remote and distributed across the country. We like to get things done, while also valuing each others’ time and work-life balance. We typically work flexible hours in both remote and hybrid environments.

Overview of hiring process:

• Submit resume and cover letter that specifically outlines your interest in this role and relevant experience;
• Initial interview;
• Complete an assigned exercise;
• Final interviews.

Our goal is for the New Mexico Lead to join the team by March 2024.

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to [email protected].