Progress Iowa - Executive Director

Progress Iowa seeks a thoughtful, strategic, creative, and results-oriented leader to fill the role of Executive Director. The executive director reports to the board of directors and is responsible for developing and implementing the strategic vision of the organization, managing our team of staff and volunteers, and leading the fundraising efforts to ensure we have the resources needed to achieve our goals. For additional information about the position and a complete job description, click here.

About Progress Iowa

Progress Iowa is a multi-issue advocacy organization and our state’s progressive communications hub, and a fiscally sponsored affiliate of ProgressNow. Year-round, we promote progressive ideas and causes with creative earned media strategies, targeted email campaigns, and cutting-edge new media.

Founded in 2012, Progress Iowa has grown from one employee to a staff of seven and an annual operating budget of more than half a million dollars and an online network of more than one hundred thousand. As Iowa’s progressive communications hub we are a leading voice in the state, operating as a center for innovative research, data-driven messaging, training, and communication strategies for the progressive community and its elected allies.

Progress Iowa’s work builds a stronger progressive movement in Iowa, advances progressive public policy, and shifts the narrative, reshaping what is possible by educating the public and increasing civic participation.