Regional Campaign Manager

Riders Alliance is a grassroots advocacy organization that builds the power of transit riders to win better public transportation. Since our founding in 2012, we’ve grown a small, collaborative staff and a membership base of more than 50,000 riders, winning major campaigns including Fair Fares and congestion pricing. The Regional Campaign Manager will lead the development of Riders Alliance’s first campaign focused on improving commuter rail and public transit in strategic communities beyond New York City’s five boroughs. Working as part of the fundraising and organizational development team and collaborating closely with colleagues across the organization, the Regional Campaign Manager will build relationships with regional riders and supporters, create meaningful opportunities for them to participate in advocacy; and develop a growing constituency for fast, frequent, affordable, and reliable regional transit.

Key Responsibilities

• Build Riders Alliance’s first regional campaign, including driving campaign strategy and goals. Work with organizational leadership and colleagues across teams to develop and advance the campaign’s goals, strategy, priorities, and tactics.
• Manage campaign implementation. Maintain work plans,  timelines, budgets, expenses, events and logistics for campaign activities.
• Develop a regional constituency for better transit. Identify and engage riders, civic leaders, and other prospective members and supporters who are motivated to improve commuter rail and regional transit service, affordability, reliability, and connections. 
• Build strategic relationships and partnerships. Develop and facilitate connections with community organizations, civic institutions, labor unions, journalists, elected officials, and other potential allies that can expand the campaign’s reach and influence. 
• Create accessible and varied pathways for participation. Design opportunities for new members and allies to contribute through 1:1 meetings, community and social events, canvassing, digital outreach, and campaign activities, maintaining data and tracking engagement against strategic goals.  
• Cultivate donors and transit champions. Partner with colleagues on the fundraising team to identify and engage prospective donors, including individuals who may  support Riders Alliance at the Conductors Council level and/or serve as grass tops voices to influence key elected officials.
• Connect regional and city transit priorities over time. Help regional members and leaders understand New York’s transit network as an interconnected system and, as relationships deepen, create opportunities for them to support shared priorities impacting riders across the region, including NYC’s bus and subway service. 
• Collaborate across the organization. Coordinate closely with the organizing, policy, and communications teams to exchange knowledge, align strategies, and devise tactics, ensuring the regional campaign is aligned with Riders Alliance’s broader mission and priorities.

Salary: $75,000 - $80,000

Employment type: Full-time, 40-hours a week (with some schedule flexibility). We are currently a hybrid office.

Benefits: Riders Alliance offers employer premium support for medical and dental insurance, vision insurance, 403(b) retirement account with generous employer match, life insurance, access to commuter benefits, and more.
 

Expectations: Riders Alliance is entering an exciting new chapter. Alongside our continued work organizing bus and subway riders across New York City, we are expanding our organizing beyond the five boroughs to build a stronger regional constituency for public transit. We’re looking for a new team member who is excited to help shape this work from the ground up: building relationships in communities served by commuter rail, developing new rider leaders, and creating a shared sense of identity and power among riders whose trips and communities are connected by the same regional transit system. We aspire to a workplace culture characterized by effective communication, collaboration, creativity, and a shared commitment to ambitious, strategic goals and are excited to have a new member join us!

Qualifications

• Values making public transit more reliable, accessible, affordable, and truly world-class
• Meaningful experience as a volunteer or professional in a political campaign, community organizing, and or fundraising effort
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and creative approach to projects and community building 
• Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple assignments
• Highly organized and attentive to detail, especially names and numbers
• Clear, concise, compelling communication skills
• Demonstrated innovative thinking and problem-solving abilities 
• Proficiency using a CRM for relationship and communication management 
• Experience with online project management tools such as Asana, Trello, or Mondays a plus

How to apply:

• Please send a thoughtful cover letter and resume to hr@ridersalliance.org with the subject line: “Regional Campaign Manager.”
• Applications are considered on a rolling basis; early applications are encouraged.
   

Riders Alliance values variety in backgrounds and in experiences that are reflective of the city it serves. Applicants of all backgrounds are strongly encouraged and welcomed to apply.