Managing Director of Grassroots Fundraising

Full-time •  Competitive Pay • Excellent Benefits • Work from Anywhere in the Contiguous U.S. 

Apply by: January 4th, 2026

MoveOn is a people-powered force for progress. We wield independent political power by bringing millions together to take action to create a country with a place of honor and dignity for everyone—where all are welcome, we take care of one another, and where everyone is set up to thrive.

For more than a generation, MoveOn has been a bulwark against the radical right and has channeled millions of voices to end wars, protect democracy, and advance justice for all. We've built political power for progressive change through mobilizing the left to Democrats so that we can advance our vision of an America for all.

MoveOn is the largest multi-issue digital first political campaigning organization in the country. We drive rapid-response campaigns at scale on a multitude of key issues at high-impact moments while building sustainable campaigns that resonate and grow over time. Whether its democracy, health care, foreign policy, economic justice, immigration or otherwise, MoveOn provides our members with timely ways to take action for change.

The Managing Director of Grassroots Fundraising provides leadership, strategic direction, and management of MoveOn's grassroots and midlevel donor fundraising team. This role is responsible for the full journey of grassroots and mid-level donors, including acquisition, retention, and upgrade. 

They will strategize around grassroots and midlevel donor fundraising messaging, long-term strategy, and planning across MoveOn’s fundraising channels, including email, mobile, paid advertising, and direct mail. In addition, this role will also manage the team developing both free and paid merchandise for MoveOn with the dual goals of driving fundraising and growth. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the dynamic, committed, high-impact, low-ego grassroots fundraising team, which must hit ambitious financial goals and is responsible for a substantial amount of MoveOn's budget.
• Establish short-term, annual, and long-term grassroots and midlevel fundraising goals and strategic priorities.
• Create and manage the grassroots fundraising budget and raise funds to meet or exceed annual revenue targets.
• Center and manage the grassroots and mid-level donor experience and cross-channel collaboration.
• Determine key performance indicators for grassroots fundraising, set goals for each metric, and regularly review performance against internal goals and industry benchmarks.
• Approve overall individual channel and cross-channel fundraising plans, ensuring that they are aligned with MoveOn’s values and principles and legal requirements. 
• Ensure and sign off on a continuous stream of high-performing communications and merchandise that speak in a MoveOn voice, engage the MoveOn audience, and motivate MoveOn members to donate to support the organization and our campaigns.
• Manage and build relationships across fundraising channels and organizational departments to synchronize messaging, ideate, and strategize major coordinated fundraising campaigns. 
• Provide expertise to analyze the organization’s financial resources and needs and implement strategies to meet these needs, including designing and implementing strategies to optimize current sources of support and cultivate new sources of support.
• Manage high-level interactions with major vendors, including negotiating contracts and ensuring that all vendors and contractors are meeting their contractual obligations at a reasonable cost. 

Qualifications:

• Significant leadership and management experience leading large and successful grassroots fundraising functions as well as managing a large budget.
• A track record of managing multiple priorities and developing infrastructure and systems that support grassroots fundraising strategies.
• Experience centering donor experience in a multi-channel fundraising program.
• Excellent people management, communication, and team-building skills, including the ability to coach, inspire confidence in, set goals for, delegate to, and ensure the accountability of colleagues.
• Have experience with and a deep commitment to applying anti-oppression frameworks, especially regarding racial, gender, and economic injustice.
• Demonstrated success in strategic thinking, planning, implementation, and problem-solving.
• A high degree of flexibility, dedicated work ethic, and the ability to manage in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities can change when news breaks.
• Deep understanding of, and a commitment to, diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Excellent change and project management skills.
• Think creatively about how to communicate the multi-faceted work of MoveOn to current and prospective funders.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Extensive experience managing communications with varied audiences.

Location: Position may be based anywhere in the continental United States.  May require occasional travel.  

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer

Classification, Salary and Benefits: At MoveOn, we commit to equity in our compensation philosophy and practices. We are committed to equal pay for equal work. To counter systemic compensation issues in this country and pay inequality, we have a nonnegotiable compensation practice. We utilize benchmarking and peer organization data to ensure we provide competitive nonprofit compensation and benefits. The annual salary for this position is $165,041.80. In addition to the base salary, we offer a monthly home office subsidy.  We also offer an internet and phone subsidy of $2,100 annually and a health and wellness subsidy of $900 annually. All of these cash benefits are added to your bimonthly paycheck. We offer strong medical, dental, and vision benefits, which are free to employees and children of employees (spouses or domestic partners can be added at a subsidized rate). We offer employer-paid premiums for life insurance; four weeks accrued paid vacation time per year, prorated for the period that you work; 18 weeks of paid parental leave (birth, adoption, foster care placement of a child), 10 days accrued paid sick time prorated for the period that you work; paid family medical leave; and 8 staff holidays and 6 floating holidays. We contribute 5% to your 401(k) after six months of employment. We also offer a $1000 in professional development budget each year for each staff member.

MoveOn.org Civic Action and MoveOn.org Political Action provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.