Director of Partnerships & Outreach

Job Description

The Campaign Finance Board is a nonpartisan, independent city agency that empowers New Yorkers to have a greater impact on their elections. Our mission is to make local democracy more open, transparent, and equitable by removing barriers to participation.

We make it easier for New Yorkers to vote, meaningfully support candidates for city office, and run for office themselves. NYC Votes, our voter engagement initiative, meets people where they are to share trustworthy election information and help New Yorkers make a plan to vote. We publish the citywide Voter Guide, which delivers information about candidates directly to voters’ doors. Our public matching funds program ensures small contributions can make a big difference, allowing regular people to run for office by relying on the support of other regular people, not just wealthy donors and special interests. And we lift the veil on how candidates raise and spend money, increasing transparency and accountability in local government.

We believe that when every New Yorker is empowered to participate meaningfully in elections, candidates will better reflect the communities they serve, elected leaders will be more accountable to the public, and New Yorkers will have a democracy they can truly trust.

The CFB Public Affairs Division promotes the agency’s key role in equipping all candidates and voters to power a fairer and more open democracy in New York City. We engage New Yorkers, inform them about elections, and boost their civic participation in the democratic process.

Our strategic goals are to make election information accessible and relevant, increase engagement with underrepresented communities, and cultivate a team that reflects our core values of purpose, curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. The Public Affairs division includes Marketing & Digital Communications, Partnerships & Outreach, Product Management & Operations, and Public Relations. Our division’s work includes publishing the citywide Voter Guide, running the official citywide Debates Program, and managing the voter engagement initiative NYC Votes.The person who assumes this role will direct the Partnerships and Outreach Unit, which comprises 10 staff across two teams: Community Engagement and Education, and Outreach. This position reports to the Assistant Executive Director for Public Affairs. The Partnerships & Outreach Unit identifies, targets, builds, and maintains strategic partnerships for the agency with community-based organizations, educational institutions, advocacy groups, non-profits, and other partners with the aim of increasing New Yorkers’ participation in city elections, particularly in underrepresented communities.

In 2024, through the work of the Partnerships & Outreach team we hosted 110 events for youth voters around the city, conducted over 150 educational workshops in underrepresented communities, distributed Voter Guides to over 400 partner sites across the five boroughs, hosted 500 outreach events in priority neighborhoods across the city, knocked on doors and engaged 6,000 voters in face-to-face conversations, conducted over 10,000 phone calls, collected more than 14,000 voter pledges, distributed over 15,000 pieces of literature, and sent over 1.9 million text messages to New York City voters.

Through programming with organizational partners and direct outreach to New Yorkers, the Director of Partnerships & Outreach will direct the agency’s outreach activities, including nonpartisan get-out-the-vote activities, community-based voter registration, civic education, and engagement programs aimed at increasing positive awareness of and participation in the matching funds program for city elections. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Lead the development and execution of the agency’s high-level strategy for partnership development; establish relationships with and lead the agency’s strategic engagement with advocacy organizations, civic engagement organizations, and other groups with an interest in the agency’s work.
- Develop and execute a strategy for collaboration with community-based organizations to drive engagement, provide voter education, and build positive awareness of CFB programs and resources for voters and candidates in our priority neighborhoods and communities.
- Lead the development of resources and tools to support community education and engagement programming and evaluate their effectiveness.
- Develop and execute a strategy for person-to-person voter outreach programs targeted to drive engagement and build positive awareness of CFB programs and resources in our priority neighborhoods and communities.
- Establish and maintain an overall framework for the unit to measure performance, ensure alignment, and facilitate effective coordination between unit staff.
- Work with internal partners to identi