Application Guide

How to Apply for EveryAction Database Manager

at One Fair Wage

🏢 About One Fair Wage

One Fair Wage is a national advocacy organization leading the movement to eliminate subminimum wages for service workers, combining grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and ballot initiatives. What makes them unique is their dual C3/C4 structure and their direct impact on improving wages for millions of workers through both legislative and electoral strategies. Someone might want to work here to contribute to meaningful economic justice while gaining experience in a fast-paced, multi-faceted advocacy environment.

About This Role

This EveryAction Database Manager role involves maintaining and optimizing the CRM across both C3 and C4 entities, ensuring data integrity, and creating reports for key metrics like volunteer recruitment and donor acquisition. It's impactful because clean, well-organized data directly supports organizing drives, fundraising campaigns, and voter outreach efforts that advance the organization's mission to raise wages nationwide. The role serves as a critical hub connecting organizing, development, communications, and digital teams.

💡 A Day in the Life

A typical day might start with checking data syncs between EveryAction and integrated tools, then moving to a data audit to clean up duplicate records or update activist codes. You could spend the afternoon building a dashboard for the organizing team to track volunteer recruitment progress, followed by troubleshooting a source code issue with the development team to ensure accurate donor reporting. The role balances routine maintenance with ad-hoc requests from cross-functional teams in a remote, campaign-paced environment.

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🎯 Who One Fair Wage Is Looking For

  • Has 2+ years of hands-on EveryAction experience, specifically with managing parent/subcommittee structures, custom fields, and activist codes in a political or advocacy context
  • Understands the compliance nuances of C3/C4 data separation and can implement processes to maintain legal boundaries while supporting integrated campaigns
  • Has worked in fast-moving campaign environments (preferably with ballot initiative or field program experience) and can prioritize data tasks under tight deadlines
  • Can translate organizing and fundraising goals into actionable dashboards and reports, with a focus on metrics like petition signatures and voter contact

📝 Tips for Applying to One Fair Wage

1

Explicitly mention your experience with EveryAction's parent/subcommittee features and how you've handled C3/C4 data separation in past roles

2

Highlight any work with ballot initiatives, field programs, or wage advocacy campaigns to show alignment with One Fair Wage's mission

3

Describe a specific data audit or deduplication project you led, including the tools and processes you used

4

Provide examples of dashboards or reports you've built for KPIs like volunteer recruitment or donor acquisition

5

Demonstrate familiarity with tools commonly integrated with EveryAction in advocacy settings (e.g., peer-to-peer texting platforms, dialers, or digital action tools)

✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter

['Your direct experience managing EveryAction in a political, advocacy, or nonprofit setting, emphasizing C3/C4 compliance and data hygiene', "How you've supported integrated campaigns by ensuring smooth data flow between organizing, development, and digital teams", 'Specific examples of optimizing CRM processes to improve metrics like volunteer recruitment or petition signatures', "Your passion for economic justice and worker advocacy, linking it to One Fair Wage's mission to end subminimum wages"]

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🔍 Research Before Applying

To stand out, make sure you've researched:

  • → One Fair Wage's current and past ballot initiatives (e.g., recent state campaigns to raise minimum wages)
  • → The organization's structure, including its C3 (research/education) and C4 (advocacy/political) arms and how they collaborate
  • → Their partnerships with high-road employers and worker advocacy groups to understand the ecosystem they operate in
  • → Recent news about subminimum wage policies at the federal and state levels to grasp the political landscape they're working to change
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💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics

Based on this role, you may be asked about:

1 Walk us through how you would structure source codes, tags, and custom fields in EveryAction to support both C3 and C4 activities while maintaining compliance
2 Describe your approach to building a dashboard for tracking volunteer recruitment and voter contact metrics in a ballot initiative campaign
3 How would you troubleshoot a sync issue between EveryAction and a digital tool used by the organizing team?
4 What processes would you implement for regular data audits and deduplication in a fast-moving campaign environment?
5 How do you prioritize data tasks when supporting multiple teams (organizing, development, communications) with competing deadlines?
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⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid

  • Applying with only commercial CRM experience (e.g., Salesforce) without highlighting EveryAction-specific skills or advocacy context
  • Failing to address C3/C4 compliance considerations in your application, which is critical for this role
  • Using generic language about data management without tying it to campaign metrics like voter contact or petition signatures

📅 Application Timeline

This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.

Typical hiring timeline:

1

Application Review

1-2 weeks

2

Initial Screening

Phone call or written assessment

3

Interviews

1-2 rounds, usually virtual

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