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Campaign Manager
Position Title: Campaign Manager
Reports To: Advocacy Director
Status: Salaried Exempt, Full-time
Location: This hybrid position has at least 3 days required in-office. The number of in-office days is subject to change. Our office is in downtown San Jose near San Pedro Square and less than a mile from Diridon Station. This role also requires being out in the field to support community events and evening meetings and develop relationships.
About Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) is a non-profit membership-based organization founded in 1993 that seeks to build healthy and just communities. We’re proud of the extraordinary impact we’ve had over the past 30 years to improve local infrastructure and normalize bicycling for transportation in San Mateo & Santa Clara Counties. And we’re excited about how much more we can do to solve challenging local and global issues through the humble bicycle. SVBC stands among peer organizations in the nine Bay Area counties as one of the largest bike coalitions in North America. See our strategic plan to better understand SVBC’s vision, strategy, and priorities.
You’ll join a team of approximately 12 core & 15+ ad hoc staff members who are passionate about getting more people on bikes safely. We invest a great deal of time in strengthening relationships and building a high-trust environment where feedback in all directions is welcomed as opportunities to learn. The organization is a non-profit with a start-up culture that values creative problem-solving, open communication, and a can-do attitude. We approach a work-life balance structure by piloting innovative programs (i.g., summer Fridays and others).
It is also important to highlight that we are a group of folks deeply committed to doing one of the most difficult things on the planet – to get people out of cars and onto bikes to solve some of society’s most intractable problems. If you’d like to join a team to build better communities through the humble bicycle, we want to bring you on and continue investing in building a team that can do great things together.
Position Summary:
The Campaign Manager reports to the Advocacy Director and works closely with SVBC staff to implement our policy agenda across teams. We’re looking for someone who has experience winning policy campaigns by bringing people together to advance a common cause. For SVBC, this entails three main areas of experience:
A track record in community organizing
Technical knowledge of Bay Area transportation and related policy
Successfully moving an issue through the public policy process
The ideal candidate would have experience in achieving advocacy wins by working with community members and government partners. This involves an understanding of the public process and how to navigate it, deploying volunteers to support our campaign priorities, developing campaign strategy, connecting with relevant decision-makers, being that conduit of information to a local agency, and more.
It’s important to note that SVBC is deeply committed to advancing its mission through a lens of cultural humility and social justice. Candidates should have a deep understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The right person would bring a perspective that helps build a diverse team, measured by a set of lived experiences that leads SVBC to be more successful in attracting a broad swath of people to live life joyfully through the bicycle.
Specifically, the person in this role would:
Assist the policy director and advocacy team in leading and managing our campaigns, projects, and volunteer network, including but not limited to:
El Camino Real complete communities campaign
Vision Zero Campaign
Bay Wheels bike share expansion
Equity projects in South San Francisco, East Palo Alto, and East San Jose.
SVBC Local Teams
Develop, lead, and support volunteer-powered campaigns.
Facilitate and lead volunteer meetings, training, and other activities.
Organize on-street grassroots campaigns and outreach with volunteers, municipalities, transportation agencies, and elected officials.
Play a key role in organizing our annual Silicon Valley Bike Summit.
Provide support for SVBC’s signature events:
Bike Month
Bike to the Future
Member Party
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in public policy, urban planning, political science, public health, or related field, OR at least 3 years of full-time-equivalent hands-on campaign management experience.
Must have a deep passion for bicycling and growing an inclusive bike movement.
Well-versed in transportation and housing policy issues within the context of the Bay Area and Silicon Valley.
The ability to build and maintain good relationships with municipal staff, transportation agencies, and elected officials, and an understanding of diplomacy.
Ability to organize events and represent SVBC’s policy agenda in diverse settings, including at government hearings, roundtables, working groups, conferences, and with media.
Seasoned public speaker with experience presenting at neighborhood meetings, business associations, community-based organizations, and city council meetings.
Ability to develop and execute successful advocacy campaigns.
Experienced community organizer adept at building power in working-class communities: coalition-building, power mapping, and campaign strategy to achieve meaningful victories.
Proven ability to recruit, manage, and organize volunteers while effectively aligning their interests with the strategic priorities and constraints of a non-profit organization.
Skilled at analyzing policy and translating complex information into clear action alerts and talking points for volunteer advocates.
Demonstrated quantitative and qualitative research skills.
Strong written and oral communication skills, with experience producing high-quality policy analysis and recommendations through blogs, policy briefs, and reports for a non-technical audience.
Excellent project management abilities, setting and meeting deadlines effectively.
Adept at meeting facilitation and building consensus across a wide range of stakeholders, including government, community, academia, and corporate partners.
Self-starter with the ability to inspire others to action.
Experience working with local jurisdictions and navigating public outreach projects or campaigns.
Ability to work well in a team, facilitate meetings, and maintain positive working relationships with people from diverse backgrounds.
Additional desired qualifications:
Experience with grant writing, securing sponsorships, and/or partnership development.
Connections within San Mateo and Santa Clara counties that include other policy advocacy organizations, city and elected officials, transportation agencies, academia, the tech sector, and/or other policy professionals.
Fluent in Spanish or another language spoken in one of our equity priority areas.
Demonstrated resilience and problem-solving skills to navigate non-profit transitions and organizational change.
Salary and Benefits:
Annual salary starts at $75,000 and more depending on experience in the field. Full-time, exempt position with a competitive benefits package including PTO, health, dental, and vision insurance, and 401k with employer match.
How to Apply:
Send a compelling cover letter and resume, saved in PDF Format, to jobs@bikesiliconvalley.org. Please include "Campaign Manager, [YOUR NAME]" in the subject line. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
SVBC is committed to providing an open, fair, inclusive, non-discriminatory environment for all individuals across differences of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, socio-economic status, ethnicity, physical ability, or medical condition.
Core Competencies
Reliability: Consistently meets deadlines with little oversight, excellent attendance, creates meeting agendas and leads team meetings in director's absence.
Productivity: Consistently produces high-quality work with minimal oversight and direction. Is organized and able to juggle multiple tasks and priorities. Provides constructive feedback and guidance to colleagues.
Relationship Building: Ability to initiate and build relationships with an understanding of the organizational objectives, professional communication, attentiveness to partner needs, responsiveness, and a willingness to learn, contributing to the establishment of mutually beneficial connections and fostering trust.
Communication Skills: Displays strong interpersonal communication skills that help nurture relationships with local teams and public officials. Composes high level communications to internal and external stakeholders, conveying information with clarity. Able to summarize work and projects through blogs and for grant reports with minimal supervision.
Teamwork and collaboration: Consistently demonstrates a positive, can-do attitude. Skilled at balancing desires of volunteer advocates and the priorities of SVBC to achieve alignment of purpose.
Creativity and Innovation: Develops and executes way to solve problems or improve existing workstyles or methods.
Flexibility and adaptability: Able to adjust priorities quickly as situations change and in collaboration with the director. Prioritizes, considers alternatives, and responds quickly and thoughtfully to unexpected changes. Seen as a trusted source for direction.
Leadership: Seeks opportunities to learn and develop new skills while also providing necessary feedback to team members. Actively plans for and participates in professional development. Ability to inspire others to action. Can grasp policy intricacies and translate into actionable alerts. Acknowledges volunteer efforts publicly.
Project Management: Maintains focus and clarity despite the pressures associated with a dynamic set of responsibilities. Oversees and manages volunteer advocates toward a common goal. Assess efficiency and evaluate effectiveness.
Emotional Intelligence: Displays maturity and sensitivity in all interactions. Ability to navigate and defuse challenging situations and address concerns of upset individuals, demonstrating effective conflict resolution skills. Displays resilience in the face of obstacles, and is able to learn from mistakes.
Racial Equity and Inclusion: Demonstrated commitment to equity, with an understanding of how to incorporate DEI principles/workplan into public policy work and engagement strategies. Demonstrates openness and ease within an environment that consistently examines power dynamics. Makes ongoing efforts to examine own biases and continue learning on DEI issues.
Industry Knowledge: In-depth understanding of SVBC's policy agenda and ability to apply it to local team work and campaigns. Understanding of politics and bureaucracies of areas they work in and ability to customize campaigns accordingly to have the most impact. Proven ability to run and lead campaigns
Managing Local Teams: Ability to encourage cross-team sharing and learning. Ability to support creating necessary systems/protocols for local team organizing.
Strategic Planning: Plans goals, campaigns, and initiatives in alignment with org strategic plan.
Budget/Finance: Manages and maintains and records of grant proposals and contract negotiations. Manages and efficiently utilizes program budgets with guidance from director.