Healing Justice & Sustainable Work Culture (HJ&SWC) Program Strategy Director
Remote
Full Time
Executive
About Us:
The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is a new entity that will deepen and expand the capacity, impact, and sustainability of California's grassroots movements for racial justice and social transformation. The Movement Innovation Collaborative will support changemakers and organizations to catalyze innovations in movement strategy and power building, intergenerational leadership development, and our collective long-term sustainability and resiliency. Through a network of physical and virtual "centers," the Movement Innovation Collaborative will also contribute a key piece of infrastructure needed to fuel transformative structural change across California. This network will consist of new and existing centers serving hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of grassroots leaders in California. We aspire to raise the necessary resources to fuel the mission, vision, and programs of the Movement Innovation Collaborative.
The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is focusing on three core strategies to deepen the power, coordination, and impact of the sector. In all three areas, we will create program and infrastructure supports that are additive and synergistic with existing movement efforts rather than duplicative.
The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is a new entity that will deepen and expand the capacity, impact, and sustainability of California's grassroots movements for racial justice and social transformation. The Movement Innovation Collaborative will support changemakers and organizations to catalyze innovations in movement strategy and power building, intergenerational leadership development, and our collective long-term sustainability and resiliency. Through a network of physical and virtual "centers," the Movement Innovation Collaborative will also contribute a key piece of infrastructure needed to fuel transformative structural change across California. This network will consist of new and existing centers serving hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of grassroots leaders in California. We aspire to raise the necessary resources to fuel the mission, vision, and programs of the Movement Innovation Collaborative.
The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is focusing on three core strategies to deepen the power, coordination, and impact of the sector. In all three areas, we will create program and infrastructure supports that are additive and synergistic with existing movement efforts rather than duplicative.
- Movement Strategy and Innovation
- Intergenerational Leadership Development
- Healing Justice and Sustainable Work Culture
What You’ll Be Doing:
HJ&SWC Program Strategy seeks to build durable and impactful movement culture to strengthen our resilience and capacity, nurture our health, and heal from trauma with the support of an interconnected community. This strategy area will leverage the myriad of current initiatives and efforts focused on healing and incorporate the lens of sustainable work culture in new ways. As such we hope to experiment with ways to support, educate and train individual leaders, organizations, and the movement as a whole to build infrastructure for transformative strategies that center safety, belonging and dignity.
The HJ&SWC Program Strategy Director will have the following responsibilities in this startup phase of MIC:
- In partnership with MIC leadership and other key stakeholders, develop and implement a strategic plan that leverages the outcomes and learnings from the pilot phase towards building collective systems and practices supported by networked infrastructure
- Define and prioritize goals and outcomes into actionable workplans to meet the overall objectives of the strategic plan
- Cultivate Communities of Practice (politicized healers, progressive human resources folx, power building changemakers), partnering with research/academics to understand and assess the needs of the movement workforce
- Convene a wide range of stakeholders to engage in collaborative ideation and shared analysis and approach for defining collective movement standards/principles for work sustainability
- Cultivate networks and deepen relationships with practitioners, subject-matter experts, researchers, and capacity builders
- Oversee all action research for testing HJ&SWC practices, collect data & facilitate gatherings for sense making
- Work in close collaboration with other MIC leadership to ensure alignment, cross-fertilization, and shared programming across all program strategies
- In collaboration with Learning and Impact Director, oversee knowledge capture and dissemination related to HJ&SWC
We envision that as we move beyond the startup phase, the responsibilities for this position will shift to address other growing and strategic needs of HJ&SWC in the power building field.
Who You Are:
While no one person will embody all of the qualities described below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:
- A strong alignment with the MIC's mission, values and culture.
- Will have demonstrated success in leveraging lived experience to drive meaningful results and change
- A track record of building relationships with progressive organizational leaders.
- Demonstrated expertise in community organizing and program development, with at least three-five years of experience in coalition and base-building
- Lived knowledge and professional experience testing and embedding healing justice and sustainable work culture practices
- Combination of related training and work experience for minimum of seven to ten years
- Leadership style that is action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, community-centered and brings an innovative approach to addressing challenges
- Values cross-functional collaboration and building strong and trusted relationships across diverse individuals and groups of stakeholders
- High-level of cultural awareness and experience working with different demographic and cultural groups
- A flexible and resilient approach, with the ability to handle strong opinions/feedback well, and adapt to the dynamic nature of a startup environment.
- Unafraid to tackle issues of race & equity both internally with MIC colleagues and networks externally with the field
- Strategic leadership abilities, and the ability to link the development of people with achievement of organizational outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to effectively present information to diverse audiences (MIC staff, Board of Directors and Advisors, movement organizations, funders, etc.)
- Possess facilitation, training and consultation skills in order to convene groups to interpret and examine data, make decisions, and move to action.
- Exceptional project management, prioritization, and planning skills, with demonstrated success producing high-quality deliverables on time and with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent computer skills (Google Apps, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.); willingness to learn additional applications and accessible technology as necessary.
Benefits
Employees receive 15 days of vacation, four personal days, 12 sick days per year, and a generous paid family leave policy. We also provide the following at no cost to the employee:
Employees receive 15 days of vacation, four personal days, 12 sick days per year, and a generous paid family leave policy. We also provide the following at no cost to the employee:
- Medical insurance. Employees pay only 10% of the premium to add dependent(s).
- Dental and vision insurance, including dependent coverage.
- Life and AD&D Insurance of $50K.
- Short-term and long-term disability plans, which cover up to 60% of weekly salary.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- RocketLawyer services
- Retirement plan. Employer match of 5% after one year of employment.
- Commuter benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Supplemental Life and Dependent Life insurance
- Pet insurance
- 529 College Savings Plan
Movement Innovation Collaborative is an equal-opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage those who see alignment with our mission and believe they have the relevant skills and experience to apply. We commit to providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated with fairness, dignity, and respect.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage those who see alignment with our mission and believe they have the relevant skills and experience to apply. We commit to providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated with fairness, dignity, and respect.
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