Vice President of Political Strategy and Outreach

The Proportional Representation Hub

American democracy is at a breaking point. Across the country, voters increasingly find themselves throwing up their hands and turning away from a failing political system. Hyper-partisanship has become entrenched. Fewer than one in ten House races is competitive, and 97% of incumbents cruise to reelection: for most voters, the outcome was settled before a single ballot was cast. Little wonder that politicians feel little pressure to deliver legislative results. Public trust in democratic institutions continues to erode as more and more voters tune out.

But the problem isn’t the politicians. It’s the rules. U.S. elections are distorted by single-winner, winner-take-all districts. A party can win 45% of the vote in districts across a state yet it wins no power. The Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act has made things much worse: voters in communities of color are being carved up and packed into districts engineered to drown out their voices, and the court has triggered a redistricting death spiral. The need for structural reform has never been more urgent.

There is a fix, and most of the world already uses it: proportional representation. The idea is simple––districts elect several members, and a party that wins a third of the votes wins about a third of the seats. It breaks the two-party monopoly, makes every district competitive, eliminates partisan gerrymandering, and reduces polarization.

The Proportional Representation Hub has launched to help build the next chapter of American democracy. We have raised more than $70 million to lead a campaign to advance proportional representation at the local, state, and federal levels and build a government that delivers again. Proportional representation is the best path to create a democracy that better reflects the diversity of the American people, and the best path to end the redistricting wars.

This work is ambitious: forging unlikely coalitions, winning new legislation and ballot measures, changing public narratives, and developing innovative political strategies. Above all, it demands a cross-partisan movement big enough to persuade the huge majority of Americans who say the political system no longer works for them that our democracy can work far better than it does today.

We are building a team of exceptional leaders working together to reshape the architecture of American democracy itself.

Position Summary

The Vice President of Political Strategy & Outreach serves as the organization’s senior political relationship strategist and coalition builder, responsible for organizing partners and leaders to action in support of our campaigns while growing the movement behind proportional representation.

This leader will cultivate the political support, organizational partnerships, and strategic alliances necessary to advance proportional representation across the country. This role focuses on building external relationships and coalitions necessary to propel both the federal and state campaigns to victory.

This role is responsible for building the ecosystem that enables those campaigns to succeed; bringing together civil rights organizations, labor unions, democracy reform organizations, policymakers, right-of-center constituencies, philanthropic partners, campaign organizations, and other influential stakeholders into durable coalitions capable of winning transformational reform.

This executive will serve as one of the movement’s principal ambassadors, helping position proportional representation as one of the defining democracy reforms of the coming decade. The Vice President of Political Strategy and Outreach will serve as a member of the organization’s Senior Leadership Team.

This is a role for a senior strategist, movement builder, and campaign leader who understands how to translate ambitious ideas into real-world political victories.

What You’ll Lead

National Coalition Building

- Develop and execute a nat