POLITICAL ASSOCIATE (contract)

Good Party is looking for an experienced political campaign professional with a background in campaign management, field operations, and/or communications and a passion for supporting and empowering veterans. This opportunity in particular will support veteran candidates through our organization’s partnership with Independent Veterans of America. 

You’re a relationship builder and candidate coach, adept at leveraging voter data to provide strategic insights and enhance campaign effectiveness. Success in this contract role looks like helping local and state veteran candidates from across the ideological spectrum use Good Party’s tools to win their elections this cycle.

About Good Party:

Good Party is the movement to make people matter more than money in our democracy. We’re building free tech and a movement to end America’s two-party political dysfunction. 

Americans are losing faith in democracy – especially young people. The rigged, two party system has turned Independent into a dirty word to make voters trapped between voting for the lesser of two evils. In fact, a majority of eligible voters (over 130M Americans), including more than half of Millennials and Gen Z, say that neither Republicans, nor Democrats represent them…but they keep getting elected! 

Whether you’re concerned about the climate, privacy, inequality, or our individual freedoms, solutions are held back by the dark doom-loop of dysfunctional partisan politics. With over 500,000 elected offices in the United States, Good Party is empowering a grassroots revolution to take back our communities from career politicians. We help real people run winning local and state level campaigns.

Good Party’s solution is to train people to run for office plus support candidates who take our pledge with cutting-edge tech tools to win, all without selling out to the Democrats, Republicans, big money, or special interests. Our free AI Campaign Manager and team with 50+ years of campaign experience make running, winning and serving as an independent, alternative party, or nonpartisan candidate possible.

We are building a community to end the corrupt two party system and then harnessing that community’s collective power to elect the most promising independents around the country. By leveraging social media and creators, we’re making our mission to make people matter more than money mainstream.

Good Party is founded by serial entrepreneur, Farhad Mohit, with over $1B in exits — Flipagram (now TikTok), Shopzilla, and BizRate.

About Independent Veterans of America:

Independent Veterans of America (IVA) is the first engine to identify and empower the millions of politically independent/unaffiliated American veterans to defend and strengthen our democracy. Led by and built around the unique power and potential of veterans, and founded by renowned social entrepreneur and veterans advocate Paul Rieckhoff (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Operation Liberty, Righteous Media),  IVA is growing, deploying and electing a new generation of leaders who will protect the soul of the country we love, defend the values we hold dear, and improve our nation for generations to come. 

Regardless if this is the right role for you, go to GoodParty.org to join our movement!

What you’ll do:

• Remotely support veteran candidates in understanding and utilizing Good Party’s AI Campaign Manager to its fullest potential. 
• Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates, offering personalized support and strategic advice.
• Analyze elections and voter data to generate insights that inform campaign strategies and decisions.
• Coordinate text banking and phone banking scripting and rollout with candidates and volunteers.
• Contribute to the candidate community in Discord so Good Party and IVA’s offerings are engaging and useful.
• Collaborate with the product team to continuously improve our tools, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of political campaigns. Assist in enhancing and improving AI prompts and generative candidate content.
• Provide comprehensive customer success services to ensure candidates’ satisfaction and success.

Who we’re looking for: 

• You’re up for the audacious challenge of transforming our democracy for Good and don’t think the two-party system is the answer.
• You have at least three years of campaign experience, with at least one election cycle in the role of Campaign Manager, Political Director, Field Director or Communications Director. You have a track record of working on successful candidate campaigns.

• You have strong knowledge of the veteran experience and a high level of military/veteran cultural competency. 
• You understand the numbers and can translate complex data into actionable insights about how campaigns are performing.
• You make excellent use of systems to keep everything organized and speed up your work, including CRMs, AI tools, data tracking, and reporting tools. 
• You have exceptional interpersonal skills with a knack for building and maintaining relationships.
• You’re tangibly using ChatGPT or other AI tools professionally. You’re capable of translating your political experience into feedback for enhancing the product experience.
• You’re adaptable to the changing nature of campaigns and enjoy creating and trying new tactics.

Bonus if:

• You’ve used anything in our tool stack – Discord, Hubspot, Scale to Win, and ChatGPT.
• You have experience with the latest in political campaign technology. 
• You have worked in support of a veterans service organization, the VA, Department of Defense or a related enterprise.

Ready to learn more or apply?

This is a remote contractor role. We’re open to working with people who have 30 to 40+ hours per week available. We’re able to pay between $34 to $44 per hour.

The final pay rate will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, seniority, education, qualifications, certifications, and organizational needs. 

We hope you’ll reach out! Email victoria@goodparty.org and people@goodparty.org with your resume. Let us know if Paul or Chris from Independent Veterans for America sent you!

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