Manager/Senior Manager, State Campaigns

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status — has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.  

CBPP combines rigorous research and analysis, strategic communications, and effective advocacy to shape debates, affect policy, and inform effective implementation both nationally and in states. It works closely with a broad set of national, state, and community organizations to design and advance policies that promote economic justice; improve health; broaden opportunity in areas like housing, health care, employment, and education; and lower structural barriers for people of color and others in communities that continue to face systemic barriers to opportunity. CBPP promotes policies that will build a more equitable nation and fair tax policies that can support these gains over the long term. CBPP also shows the harmful impacts of policies and proposals that would deepen poverty, widen disparities, and worsen health outcomes.  

The State Fiscal Policy (SFP) department conducts research on and analysis of tax and budget policies in the states, with a focus on how they affect low-income people and build antiracist, equitable, and inclusive communities and economies. SFP also coordinates and provides in-depth assistance to a nationwide network of state-level policy organizations, the State Priorities Partnership (SPP) network. The SPP network is the nation’s leading network of state policy organizations working to advance racial, social, and economic equity to build broad prosperity and thriving state economies.   

As we gear up for high-stakes debates at the intersection of tax justice, economic opportunity, and democracy at the federal and state levels in the coming years, SFP is hiring one Manager and one Senior Manager of State Campaigns, with the Manager focused on training and coaching on organizing and partnership strategies and the Senior Manager focused on leading priority economic and tax justice campaign strategies. The Manager will report to the Deputy Director of State Campaigns and the Senior Manager will report to the Senior Director for Advocacy and State Campaigns.   

The Manager and Senior Manager will bolster the SPP’s network policy campaigns and CBPP’s federal field strategies, support skill-building around equitable partnerships and community engagement through work with our state partners, conduct and lead trainings, and engage national allies to grow our collective impact.   

The ideal candidates will have a track record of state-based and/or federal issue campaigns, advocacy, and organizing work; a passion for building power at the state level to advance bold policy change; strong knowledge of the issue campaign toolbox; experience working in coalition and engaging people with lived experience in advocacy campaigns; and a coaching mindset. 

Responsibilities: 

• Provide surge advocacy campaign support to state partners, including facilitating campaign planning sessions, advising on rapid-response approaches and best civic engagement/digital organizing practices, and synthesizing learnings from winning strategies in states.
  • The Manager’s organizing portfolio is focused on coaching and support to state partners on the ladder of engagement and coalition management.
  • The Senior Manager’s economic and tax justice revenue campaign portfolio is focused on supporting state partners to advance efforts to raise state revenues, defeat existential state tax threats, and support bold federal tax justice as the 2025 federal tax debate heats up.<