Reports to: Political Director

About us: 

The Jewish Voice for Peace family of organizations organizes a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews in solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality and dignity for all people. 

Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVP Action), which does business as Jewish Voice for Peace, is a 501(c)(4) organization that engages in legislative and limited election-related work, including but not limited to challenging the roles of Democratic and Republican officials and challenging AIPAC. JVP Leadership and Culture Lab (JVP Lab, formerly known as Jewish Voice for Peace, has worked for 30 years as an educational and basebuilding organization and contributed to a sea change in public understanding. 

JVP Lab continues to carry out its educational, cultural, and leadership-development mission, and to provide nonpartisan educational and charitable programs that anyone can participate in, regardless of whether they are a member of the 501(c)(4).

About you: 

You’ve been working in the progressive electoral world for years, and you have big ideas for how the movement can elect more progressives and build power to advance the demands of progressive movements, including the movement for Palestinian freedom. You know all the players and you have been around the block through many cycles and seen the pitfalls and strengths of past progressive campaigns. But at the end of the day, you are deeply excited by the potential for organized people to change who is in government when the odds are stacked against us. You have deep experience in the movement for Palestinian liberation and are excited about the role electoral strategies can play in strengthening that movement. You’re able to move at a rapid-fire pace and work on multiple things at once, while still bringing others along with you. 

About the role:

JVP Action is seeking a qualified candidate for the role of Deputy Political Director. The Deputy Director will be responsible for growing and leading a multi-layered, cross-country, grassroots-powered electoral program that leverages one of the largest bases of progressive Jews in the U.S. into effective and strategic electoral campaigning, for the sake of building power to advance the demands of the movement for Palestinian rights and freedom. 

About the role:

• You will be the primary leader of JVP Action’s electoral program, including: directing endorsements, holding engagement with campaigns, supervising broad strategy for grassroots field operations, and fundraising for both endorsed candidates and JVP Action PAC. 

• You will work under the direct supervision of the Political Director, who will set the overall strategic direction and priorities for the organization’s political program, including the electoral work. You will work with the Development team to raise the PAC funds needed to execute and expand programmatic work, ensuring JVP Action PAC has the resources necessary to keep expanding its impact 

• You will manage and maintain the PAC’s budget with oversight from Director of Finance and Operations 

• You will supervise JVP Action’s Manager of Field and Electoral organizing, overseeing grassroots field work for candidates, and providing supportive, clear supervision and leadership development 

• You will be responsible for building and maintaining our relationships with other progressive electoral organizations and growing JVP Action’s presence in the broader progressive electoral world, including representing JVP Action in coalition spaces 

The ideal candidate will have the following core competencies: 

• High level of management skill: Experienced in supervision, project management and cross-team collaboration. Brings a clear vision and recognizes the value of divergent perspectives. Regularly includes others in planning and decision-making. Able to make and communicate difficult decisions in the best interest of the organization. Uses coaching, training, and feedback to develop others and support problem-solving. Sees mistakes as learning opportunities. Seeks and engages well with feedback. 

• Visionary program development: Able to develop and implement a roadmap for scaling an electoral program across a large base-building organization. This includes having an eye to media and social media engagement and opportunities, mobilizing volunteers at a growing scale, and deepening partnerships with key partners and electeds.   

• Capacity for strategic and nimble thinking on electoral campaigns: Within specific campaigns, able to quickly and constantly assess the political terrain for opportunities, set ambitious but realistic goals, develop strategies that draw on JVP Action PAC’s strengths to reach those goals, and pivot quickly when the conditions change. 

• Proven ability in fundraising: Demonstrated ability to raise funds through grassroots channels, identify and grow a base of grassroots and high net worth donors, and to not only raise money but organize those donors into aligned action and community. 

• Project Management: Demonstrated ability to hold the implementation of projects across staff teams through a culture of respect, inclusion and justice within organizing structures; able to clearly articulate metrics for success and enable groups to work towards a common goal together. 

• Political alignment with JVP Action’s core principles (Accountability to Palestinians, Racial Justice, Responsibility for Jewish Communities) and strategic approaches. This includes alignment with the organization’s approach to engaging Palestinian movement partners as part of our broader electoral strategy.

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Please note: As part of JVP Action’s commitment to equity and transparency, we have a no negotiation policy. Salary negotiations can introduce bias and perpetuate wage inequality.

Our Job Application Process: 

We aim to be transparent and efficient in our hiring process. Each question you will be asked throughout our hiring process ties directly back to one of the skills and experiences listed above. In each stage, you will be asked to provide examples of these skills and experiences or how you would draw on your experience to handle a scenario commonly found at JVP Action. Our typical hiring process includes: 

• Job application: You will not be asked to submit a cover letter. Instead, the application consists of several questions related to the role you are applying for. Your answers will be assessed anonymously by the hiring committee, based on the skills outlined above. You may be required to upload a CV or resume. The hiring committee will not look at your CV/resume or any identifying information until you have been invited to a first round interview, and will make those initial decisions based on your answers to the initial set of questions. 

• 25 min video interview: usually with the hiring manager and staff members you would work with on a regular basis

• Written work assessment, responding to a scenario commonly found on the job.

• 50 min video interview: May be the same group of staff or a slightly larger group as the first interview 

• Reference check

Depending on logistics and scheduling, our hiring process generally takes about 4-5 weeks from the job closing to a job offer. We let candidates know after each step in the process, once we’ve made a decision, whether they are moving forward to the next stage or not, so candidates know the status of their application. 

People of color, Sephardi and/or Mizrahi applicants, people with disabilities, and transgender or gender non-conforming applicants strongly encouraged to apply.

Jewish Voice for Peace opposes anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Arab bigotry and oppression. JVP Lab does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. veteran.

Benefits of working at JVP Action: 

• Up to 20 accumulated vacation days per year

• Up to 12 sick days per year

• Paid time off for political education and anti-racist training

• 17 paid holidays (9 floating and 8 federal)

• Health, vision, and dental insurance with premiums currently paid by JVP Action, and 15% of family benefits to be paid by JVP Action

• A supplemental health fund for trans and gender nonconforming staff

• Leave without pay, bereavement, parental leave and medical leave

• Flexible Spending benefit

• 1% of salary paid into 401k by JVP Action (regardless of employee contribution)

JVP Action is committed to providing flexible work arrangements that suit the needs of our staff. All our positions are remote and based in the United States.