Intergenerational Leadership Development (ILD) Program Strategy Director

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.

• Movement Strategy and Innovation
• Intergenerational Leadership Development
• Healing Justice and Sustainable Work Culture

What You’ll Be Doing:

Intergenerational Leadership Development is the engine that will enable power building movements to grow at scale and for the long term. Given the current depth and breadth of all aspects of leadership development in the field, this role provides an opportunity to create a shared definition and approach to cultivating dialogue between young people and long-time organizers, strengthen leadership pipelines, and develop an intentional strategy to support and retain current and future leaders within our movements.

The ILD Program Strategy Director will have the following responsibilities in this startup phase of MIC:

• Lead and manage project scope for an iterative landscape scan from consultant RFP to recommendations review with key MIC stakeholders, and sense-making to final deliverables. This scan will inform the development of a broader set of strategies for ILD.
• In partnership with MIC leadership and other key stakeholders, develop and implement a strategic plan to strengthen the infrastructure needed to coordinate, train, and develop thousands of youth and adult leaders in the power building ecosystem.
• Define and prioritize goals and outcomes into actionable workplans to meet the overall objectives of the strategic plan
• Cultivate networks and deepen relationships with practitioners, subject-matter experts, researchers, and capacity builders
• 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 ILD

We envision that as we move beyond the startup phase, the responsibilities for this position will shift to address the growing and strategic needs of ILD 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
• Experience in Program Development, Capacity Building and Youth Leadership Development/Youth Organizing
• 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 offer 21 days total including a 10-day winter break overlapping with Christmas and New Year's Day. Additionally, 4 floating holidays will be made available. We also provide the following at no cost to the employee:

• Medical insurance. Employees pay only 20% 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

Employees may also elect these coverages, paid for with payroll deductions:

• 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

This is a full-time, exempt position starting as soon as possible. This role is remote; however, the candidate must be in California. The starting salary for this position is $160,000.