Friends of Chris Justin: Deputy Campaign Manager

Deputy Campaign Manager

Louisiana residential electricity rates are up 45% since 2018. The Public Service Commission approves those increases, and for the first time in 18 years its District 1 seat is open. November 3 is plurality, no runoff.

Chris Justin is a licensed Professional Engineer and former energy consultant to the LPSC, running as a No Party candidate. He is the only viable candidate who has pledged to take zero money from utility companies, and the campaign has a passionate mix of local and national support. The goal is locked: about 150,000 votes in a knife-edge three-way race.

Deputy Campaign Manager. Your job in one sentence: take as much off Chris's plate as you can. You report to the Campaign Manager, but most days you're in lockstep with Chris, in the car, at events, on calls, in the room. Not a back-office hire.

You're a real voice in the decisions. The Campaign Manager and the candidate set the direction; you surface ideas, push back, and flag anything that isn't pointed at the win. Winning is the goal. You carry it in your head, and you prioritize your own work against it.

Whatever the highest-priority bottleneck is that week. Recent examples:

• Content publishing: Mailchimp sends, social cadence across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok, cross-posting earned media, cutting 60 to 90 second vertical clips.
• Video production: Chris drives the concept; you drive everything downstream, from crew, locations, and shot lists to platform-ready cuts.
• List-building and CRM: voter-file pulls through Good Party, building contact lists, logging donations, reconciling Anedot and Mailchimp, keeping the Asana board clean.
• Vendors and producers: chasing deliverables, sourcing new vendors, running the production pipeline end to end.
• Events and logistics: scheduling, venues, sign-in, day-of runbooks, calendar triage, riding along on multi-stop days.
• Compliance calendar: owning the LA Ethics filing schedule (30-G on Oct 5, 10-G on Oct 26, the pre-election special-report windows). You gather, the Campaign Manager reviews, the candidate signs.
• Whatever else surfaces: a donor coffee tomorrow, a TikTok tonight, a 7am drive to Slidell. The bottleneck is the bottleneck.

You get things done start to finish without being chased. You're fluent with modern software: you pick up a new SaaS dashboard in an afternoon, and you've used a CRM, a voter-file tool, an email platform like Mailchimp, and donation software like Anedot. Google Workspace is muscle memory. You've actually run social media for a brand, business, or campaign (TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn), not just used it. You write clean, on-brand copy at draft quality. You can be in New Orleans / District 1 five days a week and travel with the candidate.

• Experience growing a social account or running content, ops, or projects for a business, nonprofit, advocacy org, or campaign.
• Familiarity with Louisiana political geography (Jefferson, St. Tammany, Northshore, Orleans).
• Prior campaign experience is a plus, not a requirement, and it is not what we're screening for. The sharpest operator who's never worked a race beats a campaign veteran who needs to be chased.

You don't need to walk in understanding utility regulation or the LPSC. We'll brief you. What we judge is whether you've absorbed it by the 30-day mark and whether your content shows it.

• Hungry, organized, direct. You carry the goal (winning on November 3) as the thing every decision gets measured against.
• You love learning. Chris is the domain expert on the technical side, utilities and regulation. Your domain is campaign management, and you'll get expert at it fast: read the books, ask the people who've done it, come back with sharper questions.
• You bring ideas and push back. You see what the candidate and Campaign Manager can't, because you're closer to the work, and you say so, directly, without pulling punches. A yes-person here is a hire we'd regret.
• Empathy. The voters we need are 45+, mostly Republican, watching their bills climb. You hear what they're actually frustrated about, and you can meet them where they are and speak to them in terms they understand.
• You prioritize. With a backlog this size, half the job is choosing what to cut and what to defer. You propose a path with a recommendation and a reason, and you make the call when no one else is around to.

$4,000/month base. Significant win bonus on victory November 3. Full-time contract through Election Day.