Consultant - Equity Audit

The Movement Cooperative (TMC) is seeking a Consultant to conduct a Bi-Annual Equity Audit.

Proposal Due Date: November 12, 2025

About The Movement Cooperative

At The Movement Cooperative (TMC), we know that real change starts with people—advocates, organizers, and changemakers working toward a more just and equitable world. Deep relationships, bold ideas, and people power fuel the progressive movement. But even the most visionary work can be held back by gaps in infrastructure—missing data, inaccessible tools, and systems that don’t scale with the work or grow alongside evolving strategies. That’s where we come in. TMC exists to bridge that gap. We provide the shared tools, trusted data, engineering expertise, research support, and collaborative space that help our members organize more efficiently, campaign more effectively, and build power that lasts.

Purpose

The Movement Cooperative (TMC) is seeking a consultant or consulting firm to design and complete a comprehensive equity audit that is aligned with our mission. This audit will explore and identify disparities that may currently exist across compensation, roles, promotions, hiring, and retention policies at TMC. The audit must include a lens that identifies equity issues in historically marginalized communities, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, women, and gender non-conforming people.

Scope of Work

The selected consultant or consulting firm will lead a full audit and process cycle, which will include:

• Design:
  • Design and manage a sustainable audit framework tailored to TMC’s needs and values.
  • Establish the methodologies for data collection and employee confidentiality where needed.
• Analysis:
  • Review and analyze our employees’ compensation, category designations, raises, promotions, hiring, and retention.
  • Identify individual and systemic disparities that are outside TMC’s core principles and agreed to in the TMC Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
  • Ensure the utilization of qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Intersectional lens:Apply an intersectional lens that prioritizes race, gender, and other relevant demographic analyses.
  • Include quantitative compensation and categorization analysis.
  • Present findings in accessible ways to multiple stakeholders.
  • Labor Management Committee (LMC):Work with the LMC and Executive team after delivery of the Equity Audit Report to assist with interpretation of findings and recommendations.

Deliverables

• • DesignProposal for audit methodology, metrics to be used, and project milestones.
  • Identify any barriers to data collection or analysis that may have influence on the reporting and make any necessary recommendations to overcome those barriers.
• Consultation with Key Stakeholders
  • Throughout this process, schedule check-ins and feedback cycles with the Chief of Staff (CoS) and required internal stakeholders (which may include other members of executive leadership, the people and operations teams, and the Labor Management Committee) to check in on work progress and deliverables.
• Equity Audit Report
  • Prepare and present a detailed report that outlines the key findings, root causes, and potential solutions to the Executive Team and LMC
• Remediation Support
  • Work with the LMC and executive leadership team to identify remediation for the identified issues and people directly impacted.

Term

This contract is from December 1, 2025 - February 27, 2026.

Qualifications

• Required:
• Demonstrated expertise in organizational equity audits
• Experience analyzing compensation, promotion, and retention equity
• Familiarity with unionized workplace environments
• Strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills
• Commitment to anti-racism, gender justice, and disability justice frameworks

Preferred:

• Experience working with fully remote, progressive nonprofit organizations
• Understanding of data privacy and ethical analysis practices

Estimated Budget or Fees

TMC invites proposals with budgets up to $250/hourly rates. The budget should be inclusive of all consultant fees, and include projected hours and total cost to completion.

Submission Guidelines

If you are interested, please submit the following items to the People team [hrpartner@movementcooperative.org] by: November 12, 2025.

• Cover letter (to include but not limited to a statement of qualifications and experience in conducting equity audits).
• Proposed project plan and timeline
• Fee proposal
• Three references from past clients

Selection process overview

• Consultant must be available for a Proposal review discussion with LMC and our People & Culture team between November 17 - 20, 2025 (45 - 60mins)
• Consultant will be notified November 24, 2025.

Consultant will report to

Direct reporting, check-ins, and feedback will be to the CoS. The Bi-Annual Compensation Audit process is specifically named in our CBA as a process with much input from our Labor Management Committee. The consultant may be asked to meet directly with the LMC at times, and reporting will be shared with that body.