# democracyFIRST Voter Protection Deputy Director

**Company:** [Progressive Turnout Project](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/tRn6NiESCczWd3vdxRDvA1.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** democracyFIRST

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## Description

**Position Title:** democracyFIRST Voter Protection Deputy Director

**Location:** Remote

**Salary**: biweekly, $4,090

**Preferred Start Date:** September 1, 2026

**End Date:** November 20, 2026

**Position Summary:**

democracyFIRST is seeking an experienced Voter Protection Deputy Director. The role will support the national program by tracking and leading voter protection activity across multiple states. The VoPro Deputy Director will be responsible for ensuring the broader program’s alignment on ensuring access to the ballot, helping turn out voters, and tracking certification and cure activities. This is a full-time remote position that reports to the Executive Director. Given placement of staff across time zones, this employee must be available for work during 10:00am - 6:00pm ET hours with night and weekend availability as the cycle demands.

**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):**

-   Either: At least two cycles of experience in a voter protection role, or, experience working in election law.
-   Experience producing briefing materials, 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 (Not Required):**

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

Questions about the position may be directed to info@democracyfirst.org.

**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.

democracyFIRST and PTP are committed to building a staff that reflects the diverse communities that make up our country and the progressive movement. PTP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is PTP’s policy to recruit, hire, train, promote, and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to age, color, creed, disability, economic status, ethnic identity, gender identity, national origin race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veterans status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.