Deputy Director of Programs and Impact

This position is being posted on behalf of Avow Texas.

Avow Texas

Avow Texas is working to build a Texas where every person is trusted, thriving, and free to pursue the life they want. Through legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, voter engagement, and values-based messaging, Avow leads bold strategies to secure abortion access and reproductive justice for all Texans. We fight against stigma and disinformation, build power with Texans, and advance a vision of reproductive justice rooted in pro-abortion values.

Deputy Director of Programs and Impact

Role Summary

Avow is seeking a bold Deputy Director of Programs and Impact to help shape the direction, influence, and long-term sustainability of Texas’s pro-abortion movement. This executive-level role is ideal for a program leader with a strong background in reproductive health, rights, and justice and experience leading high-performing teams. The Deputy Director will guide the vision and execution of Avow’s power-building programs, oversee evaluation and impact systems, and serve as a senior thought partner to the Executive Director.

The Deputy Director of Programs and Impact shapes and advances the strategic vision for Avow’s power-building programs, ensuring they are sustainable, scalable, and aligned with the organization’s theory of change. As a member of the executive team, they lead high-level decision-making across the Governing Power, Movement Power, and Narrative Power teams. This leader establishes and maintains systems to monitor, evaluate, and report on impact, using data and community feedback to guide program design and improvement. They ensure that all programmatic work reflects Avow’s pro-abortion commitment to reproductive justice and culture change.

Avow highly encourages applications from leaders with Texas-based organizing, public health, and/or legislative advocacy experience, especially those whose lived experiences reflect the communities most impacted by reproductive oppression.

Salary & Benefits

Avow offers a four-day work week for all employees as part of our commitment to sustainability and work-life balance. Our benefits package includes:

Benefits include:

• Employer-paid medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability plans
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Unlimited paid time off and flex time
• Up to 6 months of paid family and medical leave
• Stipends for remote work and wellness

The salary range for this full-time role is $100,000 to $120,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Requirements & Preferences

The listed qualifications and preferences reflect the skills we believe will support success in this role, but they are not mandatory for consideration. Avow welcomes candidates with a mix of professional and lived experience, recognizing that skills and expertise are developed in many ways. If you are passionate about reproductive justice and believe you can thrive in this position, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every listed requirement.

Required Qualifications

You’ll be a fit for this role if your experience includes 3-5 years of:

• Mission-driven work, with at least 3 years in a senior program leadership role managing multiple, complex initiatives.
• Commitment to pro-abortion advocacy and a strong grounding in reproductive health, rights, and justice (RHRJ), especially within a Southern, BIPOC, or movement-building context.
• Supervising and developing senior-level staff or Director-level team members (minimum of 2–3 direct reports).
• Designing, implementing, and managing program evaluation systems, including both quantitative and qualitative data methods.
• Strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and team alignment in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
• Building and maintaining coalitions, funder relationships, or cross-sector partnerships with clarity and political alignment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate impact into strategic messaging, reports, or public-facing materials.

Preferred Qualifications

While not required, you will be an excellent fit for this role if your experience includes 2-3 years of:

• Deep understanding of the Texas sociopolitical landscape, with a history of social justice, direct service, or advocacy work in Texas communities.
• Background in public health, community organizing, and/or legislative or policy advocacy, particularly related to reproductive health, rights, and justice.
• Lived experience navigating systems impacted by reproductive injustice
• Familiarity with power-building strategies, narrative change, or electoral work rooted in reproductive justice values.
• Experience working in multi-entity nonprofit environments (e.g., managing across 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and PAC structures).
• Proficiency in data tools or evaluation platforms used in impact tracking, learning, or strategic planning (e.g., Salesforce, Airtable, or Tableau).
• Experience representing organizations publicly through media, coalition leadership, or high-profile convenings.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Avow is committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities at the heart of the reproductive justice movement. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote, and administer all personnel practices without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, immigration status, socioeconomic status, ancestry, age, size, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, familial status, reproductive choice, veteran status, disability, AIDS/HIV status, medical condition, prior conviction, arrest history, traits historically associated with race, (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), or any other characteristic protected by law.