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Leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less than equal. Founded in 2024, Advocates for Trans Equality was formed through an alliance by two national trans advocacy organizations and is of, for, and by the trans community. Advocates for Trans Equality (501c4) and Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund (501c3) focuses its efforts on political and legal advocacy, public education, and community engagement. The Advocates for Trans Equality team catalyzes progress from the inside out and will settle for nothing less than equality for trans people in America. Advocates for Trans Equality and Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund are incorporated in Washington, DC with offices in DC and New York and employ approximately 40 dedicated staff who share office space and work across the country.\nPosition Summary\nThe Vice President of Campaigns is responsible for developing, managing and executing state and federal ballot measure, public education, and advocacy campaigns in partnership with departments of Policy, Legal, Organizing, and Public Education.\nThe Vice President of Campaigns creates campaign engagement criteria, conducts campaign assessments, and makes recommendations about A4TE’s priorities and investments. They also coordinate A4TE’s cross-team engagement in campaigns, monitor and keep the full team regularly appraised on developments, and serve as the lead on priority campaigns as needed.\nDuties and Responsibilities\nPrimary Responsibilities \nDevelop a thoughtful, strategic, coordinated campaign and ballot strategy on behalf of A4TE to address urgent, emerging ballot measures at the state level that have the potential to significantly impact transgender people in the 2026-2028 electoral cycles and beyond.\nWork with A4TE leadership to execute A4TE’s ballot strategy in a manner to ensure such efforts are compliant with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and to protect the charitable statuses of A4TE and A4TEEF.\nServe as A4TE’s primary external contact and thought partner to LGBTQ+ movement partner organizations for coordination around advocacy strategy tactics influencing ballot issue work and electoral engagement, among other areas of advocacy.\nManage, cultivate, and inspire the leadership of the Organizing Director, who oversees A4TE’s organizing team. Support the transition of such organizing from predominantly mobilization techniques to deeper field organizing work in service of state needs, particularly around ballot issues. Support GOTV educational work as part of overall campaign strategy.\nSupport coordination of A4TE’s work on ballot measures impacting trans people, including how that work intersects with the work of other national partners. Serve as the primary A4TE representative working to support efforts in defeating anti-trans ballot measures in 2026 and beyond.\nOversee federal and state public education and advocacy campaigns, including creating and maintaining assessment criteria to determine priority campaigns and engagement in rapid response contexts, making recommendations about A4TE’s priorities and investments, developing and implementing successful strategies, advising and supporting organizational partners, and coordinating A4TE’s cross-team engagement in campaigns.\nKeep A4TE team regularly apprised of developments on campaign-specific public education and advocacy efforts.\nWork with consultants, lobbyists, organizational partners, and state and local leaders to help defeat discriminatory anti-trans ballot measures and advance pro-trans ballot measures. Determine and recommend prioritization of such campaigns and what role A4TE should serve in such campaigns, if any.\nManage, support, and ensure accountability of campaign consultants, including both existing teams and the cultivation of new consultant teams in states where work is not currently underway.\nContribute to fundraising efforts necessary to raise capital for campaign activities.\nWork with the Organizing, Policy, Strategic Communications, and Public Education departments to drive public education and advocacy victories.\nTravel to campaign sites as needed.\nWork cross departmentally to ensure the effective delivery of latest messaging and research to legislative leaders, organizational partners, key constituencies, and allies.\nRequired Qualifications\nA4TE Education Fund acknowledges that applicants from communities that have been historically marginalized are less likely to apply for positions unless they feel that they completely meet all qualifications listed in a job description. We understand that an ideal candidate might not completely meet the criteria listed above or be equally proficient in each area; we especially encourage applicants who are impacted by A4TE’s work to submit their application anyway.\nLeadership Experience: A minimum of 6 years of experience in a leadership role. Demonstrated management experience, including the ability to coach team members using tested management techniques, emotional intelligence, and good judgement. \n Ballot Experience: A strong working knowledge of and demonstrated success in advancing ballot campaigns. Deep understanding of how policy, legal, organizing, communications, fundraising, messaging, compliance, and other interests intersect within a given ballot campaign, and demonstrated ability to strategically coordinate these elements. \n Compliance Experience: A working knowledge of 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), PAC, and ballot legal compliance. Demonstrated ability to pull in experts, partners and/or legal counsel when necessary to support organizational compliance efforts. Ability to exhibit good judgement for advancing complex and legally compliant strategies to successfully engage in ballot campaign work.\nPolitical Experience: A strong working knowledge of the role politics plays within an overarching advocacy framework, including familiarity with campaign cycles, partisanship, and the role of politics in moving the Overton Window on a given issue.\nOrganizational Experience: Direct experience with diverse social justice, government, organizing, and/or movement building organizations. Demonstrated ability to bring partners with diverse missions together around a common goal.\nUnderstanding of Transgender Justice: A deep and nuanced understanding of issues affecting transgender people as well as an understanding of how racism, classism, sexism, and other systems of inter-connected oppressions affect trans people. Strong belief in A4TE’s mission and the people who are driving the work forward. A strong commitment and desire to moving the Overton Window on trans issues over the next 5-10 years.\nCommunication Skills: Effective verbal and written skills to communicate complex policies and procedures to ensure staff have the information needed for their position responsibilities and overall organizational workflow; ability to listen to staff concerns and feedback to assist in working together for solutions that comply with organizational policies. Ability to understand organizational needs to communicate with those outside of the organization. \nTechnological Knowledge: Experience in all areas of MS Office 365 and collaborative tools, such as Slack, Asana, and Zoom. Experience with policy software, such as PolicyNote, BillTracker50, or similar product. Experience with organizing and campaign tools, such as NGP VAN, EveryAction, or similar products. \nPreferred Qualifications and Skills\nLeadership Experience: 6-8 years’ experience in a management role, such as a Field Director, Campaign Director or Political Director\nCampaign Experience: 8-10 years’ experience in traditional field organizing, preferably in ballot measures, advocacy campaigns, or political campaigns.\nGeographic Location: Remote but located near a major airport. Based in the Midwest, South, Southwest, or Central United States, which are areas most impacted and forecasted to be impacted by anti-trans state policies and ballot campaigns. Ability and willingness to travel to states where field and campaign organizing support is necessary.\nLanguage Proficiency: Fluency or proficiency in a language other than English, especially Spanish.\nTechnological Knowledge: Experience in using FileVine, FiscalNote, or other legal and policy database tools.\nTraits of Successful Candidates\nTrustworthy & Collaborative: Excellent relationship and trust building capabilities and a demonstrated track record building, leading, and managing teams; serving as a coach and mentor to staff across a range of areas. An earned reputation for being trustworthy, with excellent judgment and discretion. Kindness and strengths-based leadership: someone who sees value in every person and communicates respect and encouragement to people at all levels; a passionate investment in the well-being and success of staff. A willingness to accept input and feedback from colleagues at all levels of the organization.\nResponsive Problem-Solving Skills: Agile project management skills, ability to develop and implement new strategies and procedures, and meet multiple competing deadlines. \nSelf-Direction: Initiative and ambition to ensure that all projects are moving forward. Ability to adapt as needed, self-manage, and prioritize between and manage multiple demands.\nOptimism: A positive and productive attitude to problem-solving within the context of intense social justice work. Optimistic and resourceful, with strong self-awareness, cultural competence, emotional intelligence, and humility; grounded and flexible with a high degree of integrity and transparency.\nStrength and Persistence: The ability to be exposed to transphobia and other kinds of discrimination or stress on a daily basis and keep fighting hard for transgender equality.\nSalary & Benefits\nSalary for this role is between $146,000 - $163,000.\nAdvocates for Trans Equality offers a robust benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid medical, vision, dental, and life insurance; 75% employer contributions to spousal and dependent healthcare; employer contributions to retirement plan; monthly remote work stipends; access to gender-affirming healthcare pool; name and identity document change support; generous time off, including paid holidays, 20 paid vacation days annually, sick time, and office-wide closures; medical and parental leaves; weekly wellness hours; volunteer hours; 3-month paid sabbatical after 5 years; healthcare flex spending account; and professional development stipend.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10998,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":true}]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Parental leave","Professional development","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Nonprofits & Foundations"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T11:53:05Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":20,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.566,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":30,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":163000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/transequality-vp-of-campaigns","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/transequality-vp-of-campaigns.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T06:29:02Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11386,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1761640},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1761640"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftransequality-vp-of-campaigns"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftransequality-vp-of-campaigns"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftransequality-vp-of-campaigns"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/transequality-vp-of-campaigns\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftransequality-vp-of-campaigns"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2523778}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"transequality.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2523778},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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