democracyFIRST Voter Protection Deputy Director

democracyFIRST is seeking an experienced Voter Protection Deputy Director to support the national program by tracking and leading voter protection activity across multiple states.

About the role

This full-time remote position reports to the Executive Director. The employee must be available for work during 10:00am - 6:00pm ET hours with night and weekend availability as the cycle demands.

Preferred start date: September 1, 2026. End date: November 20, 2026. Salary: biweekly, $4,090.

Responsibilities

• Track and develop voter protection efforts across multiple states, including understanding and implementing efforts around early voting, mail-in-ballot utilization, day-of election protection, and certification/cure efforts.
• Work with the field team to develop and oversee ballot chase and cure efforts.
• Build and maintain reporting regarding legal and legislative efforts in priority states that impact election access and administration.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Executive Director and National Organizing Director.

Qualifications

You will be a good fit if you have:

• Either: at least two cycles of experience in a voter protection role, or experience working in election law.
• Experience producing briefing materials and tracking legal and legislative activity.
• Proven experience in developing voter protection plans utilizing field and paid communications strategies to turn out and protect the vote.
• Ability to manage several tasks and projects concurrently and to prioritize work effectively.
• Experience working across campaign departments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Votebuilder, voter file data, and election results data.
• Previous campaign experience in a field or operations role.
• Experience automating and managing Google Sheets.

About democracyFIRST

Founded in 2021, democracyFIRST is a cross-partisan and ideologically diverse project that aims to restore the political consensus on the central pro-democracy principles underpinning our electoral process. Our mission is to confront the rising anti-democracy movement in America and preserve the future of our democracy. Our electoral programming is designed to confront, isolate, and defeat the anti-democracy candidates and elected officials who pose the greatest threat of subverting our elections—those in positions that administer and certify our elections on a state level.

democracyFIRST is an affiliated organization of Progressive Turnout Project.

About Progressive Turnout Project

Progressive Turnout Project (PTP) has a single mission: Rally Democrats to vote. Since our founding in 2015, we've supported 2,227 Democrats in competitive campaigns, raised more than $368 million from more than 2.4 million unique donors, and deployed 38,962 paid team members. These organizers helped make more than 190 million voter contact attempts at doors and through our innovative field programs.