The Proportional Representation Hub
American democracy is at a breaking point. Across the country, voters increasingly find themselves throwing up their hands and turning away from a failing political system. Hyper-partisanship has become entrenched. Fewer than one in ten House races is competitive, and 97% of incumbents cruise to reelection: for most voters, the outcome was settled before a single ballot was cast. Little wonder that politicians feel little pressure to deliver legislative results. Public trust in democratic institutions continues to erode as more and more voters tune out.
But the problem isn’t the politicians. It’s the rules. U.S. elections are distorted by single-winner, winner-take-all districts. A party can win 45% of the vote in districts across a state yet it wins no power. The Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act has made things much worse: voters in communities of color are being carved up and packed into districts engineered to drown out their voices, and the court has triggered a redistricting death spiral. The need for structural reform has never been more urgent.
There is a fix, and most of the world already uses it: proportional representation. The idea is simple––districts elect several members, and a party that wins a third of the votes wins about a third of the seats. It breaks the two-party monopoly, makes every district competitive, eliminates partisan gerrymandering, and reduces polarization.
The Proportional Representation Hub has launched to help build the next chapter of American democracy. We have raised more than $70 million to lead a campaign to advance proportional representation at the local, state, and federal levels and build a government that delivers again. Proportional representation is the best path to create a democracy that better reflects the diversity of the American people, and the best path to end the redistricting wars.
This work is ambitious: forging unlikely coalitions, winning new legislation and ballot measures, changing public narratives, and developing innovative political strategies. Above all, it demands a cross-partisan movement big enough to persuade the huge majority of Americans who say the political system no longer works for them that our democracy can work far better than it does today.
We are building a team of exceptional leaders working together to reshape the architecture of American democracy itself.
Position Overview
The Vice President of Communications and Narrative Strategy will build and lead the communications, research, and narrative infrastructure necessary to make proportional representation one of the defining democracy reform movements of the 21st century.
The Vice President of Communications and Narrative Strategy will lead all communications, narrative development, public opinion research, digital engagement, media relations, and strategic communications efforts for the Proportional Representation Hub.
This executive will be responsible for shaping how policymakers, voters, journalists, funders, advocates, and opinion leaders understand proportional representation, in the context of other democracy reforms. They will oversee the communications strategies supporting federal, state, and local campaigns while simultaneously building a long-term narrative change effort to help transform the national conversation about democracy and move the idea of proportional representation from the margins to the mainstream.
The Vice President will oversee communications consultants, research firms, polling vendors, creative agencies, digital partners, media strategists, and public affairs consultants. They will also help build communications capacity throughout the broader democracy reform ecosystem, providing strategic guidance and technical support to allied organizations and campaign partners.
The Vice President of Communications and Narrative Strategy will serve as a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
This is a role for a visionary strategist, storyteller, communicator, and movement builder who understands that political change begins with narrative change.
What You’ll Lead
Build a Narrative for Democratic Reform and a Message for Proportional Representation
- Develop and execute a long-term narrative strategy for multiparty electoral reform and redefine the public conversation about representation, accountability, fairness, and democratic legitimacy.
- Create messaging frameworks that make proportional representation understandable, compelling, and that resonate across ideological, geographic, racial, and generational divides. Translate complex policy reforms into accessible, motivating narratives that inspire action and support. Ensure campaign communications consistently advance both immediate policy goals and long-term narrative and movement-building objectives.
Lead Narrative Intelligence and Opposition Analysis
- Build a narrative intelligence operation that continuously tracks public opinion, media narratives, opposition messaging, cultural trends, and emerging political opportunities.
- Identify threats, attacks, misinformation campaigns, and opposition arguments before they become obstacles to campaign success, and develop proactive communications strategies that inoculate target audiences against predictable attacks and mischaracterizations.
- Lead ongoing analysis of the political, media, and advocacy landscape to identify opportunities to expand support for proportional representation.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to the Executive Director and leadership team on reputational risks, emerging opportunities, and changing political conditions.
Drive Winning Campaign Communications
- Lead communications strategy for federal, state, and local campaigns across the organization’s portfolio.
- Develop integrated communications plans that leverage earned media, paid media, digital engagement, thought leadership, coalition communications, grassroots storytelling, and public affairs strategies.
- Ensure campaigns have compelling messaging, rapid response capabilities, media strategies, research support, and public engagement plans.
- Provide communications strategy, message guidance, narrative support, and technical assistance to allied organizations and coalition partners to support thought leadership across the movement. Create shared tools, research products, messaging resources, narrative frameworks, and strategic guidance that can be deployed by partners nationwide.
- Build and train a bench of spokespeople and champions for proportional representation, diverse across multiple dimensions including ideologically, and place their voices in traditional and new media channels.
- Build strong relationships with journalists, editorial boards, influencers, content creators, podcast hosts, and opinion leaders.
Oversee Research and Message Development
- Lead all public opinion research with polling, focus groups, message testing, audience segmentation, narrative research, and voter insight efforts.
- Work with leading research firms and strategists to deepen understanding of voter attitudes toward democracy, representation, and political reform.
- Build systems that allow successful innovations and lessons learned in one campaign to strengthen efforts across the broader movement.
Build a Modern Digital and Media Program
- Oversee all digital communications, content strategy, social media, paid media, influencer engagement, online organizing, audience growth efforts, and emerging communications platforms.
- Develop innovative approaches to reach audiences beyond traditional political and advocacy channels.
- Build a modern communications infrastructure capable of supporting persuasion, movement-building, and rapid-response objectives across federal, state, and local campaigns.
Who you are
You bring a proven track record of leading large-scale communications, public affairs, political, advocacy, or movement-building efforts that have shifted public opinion, shaped public narratives, and contributed to significant policy victories. You have demonstrated experience thinking strategically about the right messengers to the right audiences in the right channels.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 15+ years of senior leadership experience in political communications, public affairs, advocacy, movement-building, media, narrative strategy, or related fields.
- Demonstrated success leading communications efforts that shifted public opinion, shaped public narratives, influenced policymakers, or contributed to significant policy victories.
- Deep expertise in message development, polling, audience research, media relations, digital communications, public affairs, and strategic communications planning.
- Experience overseeing communications for complex, multi-state, national, or international campaigns.
- Strong understanding of how narrative change contributes to long-term political and social change.
- Experience managing communications firms, polling vendors, research partners, creative agencies, and large communications budgets.
- Exceptional writing, storytelling, presentation, and strategic thinking skills.
- Familiarity with campaign finance regulations (C3/C4 compliance).
- Strong relationships within national media, digital media, political communications, philanthropy, or advocacy ecosystems.
- Experience building and managing high-performing teams.
- A deep commitment to strengthening American democracy and advancing representative government.
Equal Opportunity/Diversity Policy:
Proportional Representation Hub prohibits discrimination of employment, promotion, compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, sex (including marital and parental status), religion, age, disability, actual or perceived gender identity or expression, weight, personal appearance, family responsibilities, genetic information, economic status, genetic information, veteran’s status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Proportional Representation Hub is an equal opportunity employer and will comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in employment.
Compensation Details:
The salary range is $185,000-$285,000. A person with fewer years of work experience living in a lower-cost metro area will earn in the bottom third of that range, while a person with more years of experience living in a higher-cost location will earn in the middle third of the range. The highest end of the range reflects the most work experience, the highest-cost metro areas, and more years at the Proportional Representation Hub.
The Proportional Representation Hub offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employees professionally and personally. Benefits and perks Include:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 100% company-paid
- 401(k) with company match
- Unlimited PTO
- 16 weeks paid family leave
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Free virtual therapy and wellness support
- Discounted fertility and family-building support