Systemic Change Director

Sisters of the Road, a 45 year old Portland institution, is seeking a Systemic Change Director who’s excited to help us refresh our mission alignment. What we’re up to right now: we’re following in the footsteps of our founders by allowing a physical space and the needs of the surrounding houseless community to bloom into intimate, neighborhood-driven engagement. We want this role to cap out at 40 hours a week, and have constructed the job description to align with that. We are committed to interrupting burnout culture in the nonprofit sector! This starts at the top, and we back it up with concrete support.

Job description

Position: Systemic Change Program Director

Classification: Non-Exempt, 40 hours per week/Mon-Fri

Operating team: Systemic Change

Reports to: Executive Director

Wage: $68,640/year based upon current rate of $33 per hour with anticipated annual increases dependent on budget, responsibilities, and local cost of living.

Position description: The Systemic Change (SC) Program Director is the primary visionary and staff manager for the SC team. They are responsible for supervising all SC staff and initiatives, ensuring all work is consistent with Sisters’ philosophies and mission, and strategic planning. They work to engage and center SOTR’s community through street outreach, research, grassroots organizing efforts, and cultivating community partnerships.

Primary tasks of the position:

Team Management

• Staff management through high level supervision;
  • 1:1’s, leading team retreats, leading operational meetings.
• High level project management, ensuring all projects are fulfilling our mission, on time, and within budget.
• Developing and maintaining team workflow systems.
• Budget and work plan tracking and accountability.

Strategic Planning

• Leading the strategic planning process for team campaigns and programming.
• Initiating and setting goals for programs according to the strategic objectives of the organization.

Stewarding Key Partnerships

• Sisters representative for high level coalitions.
• Point of contact for partner organizations outside the scope of other Directors and Administrators.

Preferred/Recommended Background:

• Experiential background and/or formal education in non-profit or mutual aid organizing, community/labor organizing, public policy advocacy, food/housing justice, or another field relevant to Sisters’ mission.

If your experience is not represented in this list but you believe you might have something to offer in this role, we strongly encourage you to apply!

Sisters of the Road expects all employees to uphold the philosophies of the organization:

• Learn and practice the philosophies of nonviolence, gentle personalism, anti-oppression, systemic change, and dignity
• Demonstrate commitment to racial justice and anti-oppression through fostering understanding and refusing to perpetuate oppression in the space.
• Commit to a community-organizing model and a systemic change approach.
• Build and maintain relationships with customers, staff, volunteers, service partners, neighbors and donors.
• Interrupt violence and provide incident support, as needed.
• Collaborate and share power, including listening and supporting others to create and implement solutions, as well as prioritizing confidentiality. Sisters is radically community-oriented—both externally and internally.
• Adhere to the personnel policies as defined in the personnel handbook.

Work Environment

This position works in occasionally noisy and busy environments and directly with staff, volunteers, contractors, donors, vendors, and other stakeholders. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Sisters of the Road is committed to provide reasonable accommodations.

Summary of Benefits

• Fully paid health insurance with alternative medicine including chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy
• Dental and disability insurance
• Generous vacation leave: 2 wks (Ist year); 3 wks (2nd year) ; 4 wks (3rd and 4th year); 5 wks maximum (5th year and onward)
• Sick leave (12 days/year)
• 31 days paid sabbatical after every three years of consecutive employment
• 10 paid holidays plus a birthday off
• Personal paid (2 days)
• Civil disobedience leave up to 5 days per year
• Bereavement leave up to 5 days
• Paid jury duty leave
• Oregon Family Medical Leave after 6 months
• No payroll deduction for Paid Leave Oregon
• Non-profit Parking Permit when available

To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter via this platform or to employment@sistersoftheroad.org. Feel free to introduce yourself in the cover letter, but please also address the following prompt:

• Select a Sisters philosophy and share why it speaks to you: nonviolence, gentle personalism, anti-oppression, systemic change, and dining with dignity.