Hours: Full-time, 40 hours/week
FLSA status: Exempt
Location: Onsite (Oakland, CA)
Reports to: APSC Council
Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, and preference given to applications submitted by November 8, 2024.
About Asian Prisoner Support Committee
The Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) was founded in 2002 to provide culturally competent services to the currently and formerly incarcerated Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community. APSC has evolved and grown into a leading organization at the intersection of criminal justice, immigrant justice, and anti-detention/deportation for Asian Pacific Islander communities. With over 20 years of experience conducting organizing activities within California prisons, APSC is recognized as a national model for criminal justice transformation. ASPC is fiscally sponsored by Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE).
About Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality
The Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) network was launched in 2014 to focus on long-term movement building, capacity infrastructure, and leadership support for Asian Americans committed to social justice. Including APSC, there are currently 11 partnering member groups with unique strengths. Fiscal sponsorship, administrative, and operational support is provided centrally for all of these groups so they can focus on their core programs. Staff hired under APSC will be employees of AACRE.
About the Opportunity
Asian Prisoner Support Committee is looking for our next executive leadership. APSC has historically been led by a Co-Directorship model. In this transition phase, APSC is interested in moving toward an Executive Director model but is open to continuing a Co-Directorship, depending on the candidates that surface. This position is ideal for someone who is highly motivated to be APSC’s executive leader; seasoned, visionary, and deeply passionate about and connected to APSC’s mission/vision/values, ideally through lived experience. A strong candidate will have solid senior experience in managing healthy organizations internally through systems, people, and finances, and externally through public representation, advocacy, partnerships, and fundraising. This is a people-centered leader who is an approachable and thoughtful communicator and who can collaborate with our talented staff team and partners to move APSC forward in our next chapter. If you meet many of the qualifications and are called to this work, please apply.
Summary of the Position
The Executive Director/Co-Director, in collaboration with staff and accountable to the Council, will be responsible for executive leadership and strategy, people centered leadership, external partnerships and advocacy, and fundraising and financial management including:
Key Responsibilities and Qualifications
Executive Leadership & Strategy:
In collaboration with staff and Council (oversight body), provide overall strategic leadership to APSC to fulfill its mission, vision, and values while balancing different viewpoints, capacity, and resources. Foster an effective and clear decision-making process that helps to clarify organizational priorities and cultivate alignment and cohesion among staff and stakeholders. Coordinate regular communication and collaboration with Council on key organizational priorities, challenges, and questions.
Key qualifications:
People-Centered Leadership:
Lead, inspire, and coach a strong, cohesive team by building upon a shared sense of community and purpose. Build on systems, practices, and policies to nurture a healthy and positive organizational culture. Commit to shared leadership by fostering leadership and growth across the staff as well as enhancing and growing their own current skills.
Key qualifications:
External Partnerships & Advocacy:
Effectively represent APSC externally in advocacy efforts and movement spaces. Strategically build relationships with partner organizations and advocacy formations in the movement ecosystem on the local, state, and national levels. Engage in complex and impactful narrative development and storytelling about formerly incarcerated and systems impacted API communities and people at the intersection of criminal justice, immigration, and detention/anti-deportation.
Key qualifications:
Fundraising and Financial Management:
Ensure financial sustainability of APSC through strategic fundraising, partnership development, grants, and responsible financial management. Build strong relationships with existing and potential funders and partners. Maintain regular communication and collaboration with fiscal sponsor AACRE and Council to plan, track, and ensure fiscal health.
Key qualifications
Salary, Benefits & Location
This position is a full-time, exempt position, reporting to the Council, and includes an annual salary range of $100,000 – 135,000, depending on experience and leadership model. We are committed to supporting our employees to thrive in service of our mission by providing generous benefits, which include 100% health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance for employee coverage and 65% for dependent coverage, employer-funded health reimbursement account, paid time off, contributions to retirement account after one year, and more. This role is onsite and based in our Oakland, California office and requires some travel to conferences and events.
How to Apply
Please visit https://bit.ly/APSC-ED-Search to apply.
AACRE is committed to creating a work environment that is free from discrimination and a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Women, people of color, immigrants, queer and trans people, individuals with conviction and arrest records, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours/week
FLSA status: Exempt
Location: Onsite (Oakland, CA)
Reports to: APSC Council
Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, and preference given to applications submitted by November 8, 2024.
About Asian Prisoner Support Committee
The Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) was founded in 2002 to provide culturally competent services to the currently and formerly incarcerated Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community. APSC has evolved and grown into a leading organization at the intersection of criminal justice, immigrant justice, and anti-detention/deportation for Asian Pacific Islander communities. With over 20 years of experience conducting organizing activities within California prisons, APSC is recognized as a national model for criminal justice transformation. ASPC is fiscally sponsored by Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE).
About Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality…
We are committed to supporting our employees to thrive in service of our mission by providing generous benefits, which include 100% health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance, employer-funded health reimbursement account, paid time off, and more.
We are committed to supporting our employees to thrive in service of our mission by providing generous benefits, which include 100% health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance, employer-funded health reimbursement account, paid time off, and more.
Interested candidates must submit a complete application to be considered including:
1) Cover letter sharing your motivations, interest in, and connection to APSC and qualifications for the position. Also include answers to:
a) What’s a value you hold strongly that drives you to and would help you serve APSC’s mission?
b) What is a life experience and/or skill/quality that uniquely prepares you for this position?
2) Resume of relevant experience. Please fully complete the application, and note that applications with stock cover letters will not be considered.
Interested candidates must submit a complete application to be considered including:
1) Cover letter sharing your motivations, interest in, and connection to APSC and…