Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness

The Position

The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) seeks a strategic, collaborative, data-driven and innovative Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness to serve as a key leader within the Office of the President and CEO and collaboratively across the organization.

A new role reporting directly to the Vice President of Equity, Organizational Effectiveness, and Learning, the Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness will guide organization-wide planning and evaluation efforts and drive strategies for organizational effectiveness, equity, and inclusion. The Director will leverage their expertise in strategic planning and equitable research, evaluation, and organizational effectiveness to create and adapt tools to monitor progress and ensure alignment and shared accountability toward achieving the strategic plan at organizational, team, and individual levels. The Director of Equity and Org Effectiveness will play a critical role in measuring and communicating our impact to internal and external stakeholders.

With a strong background in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, the Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness will also collect, analyze, and report data that will inform priorities for improvement every year. The Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness will ensure that we are asking the right questions, collecting the most essential data, conducting strong analysis, and using the insights gained to inform our organizational improvement planning, professional development offerings, workplace practices and policies.

This Director will play a leadership role across the organization. They will bring best practices and emerging ideas in social justice organizational effectiveness principles to our staff, piloting and guiding a range of projects to support cross-team collaboration to ultimately help accelerate our impact. They will spend a significant portion of their time developing and refining ways to measure our impact and compellingly communicate it to internal and external stakeholders.

This is a full-time exempt position of 37.5 hours per week.

The Organization

The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) fights for gender justice — in the courts, in public policy, and in our society — working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls.

We use the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions to the gender inequity that shapes our society and to break down the barriers that harm all of us — especially women of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and low-income women and families.

The National Women’s Law Center Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) affiliate of NWLC, aiming to drive progressive change in our policies and laws so that all women and girls can live, learn, and work with safety, dignity, and equality. Another affiliate, the National Women’s Law Center Fund LLC, houses and administers the Legal Network for Gender Equity and the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund.

For more than 50 years, we have been on the leading edge of every major legal and policy victory for women, and we need you with us to continue this fight. Find out more at NWLC.org.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and OKR leadership

• Support organization’s strategic planning process by providing project management, working groups facilitation, retreat agendas, and expert advice
• Lead the organization-wide OKR (Objectives & Key Results) process — facilitating goal-setting cycles, aligning team-level OKRs to organizational strategic priorities, and embedding regular check-ins across the organization
• Partner with senior leadership team to translate the strategic plan into actionable, measurable annual and quarterly goals
• Develop and maintain systems for tracking OKR progress; create accountability structures and cadence of analysis that supports continuous improvement
• Research and implement best practices in nonprofit effectiveness, equity-centered evaluation, and organizational development to continuously improve our own practice

Data Governance and Visualization for Equity and Organizational Effectiveness

• Own and continuously improve the organization’s Airtable environment, including base architecture, automations, forms, and cross-base integrations
• Develop data governance practices and work to ensure data integrity and accessibility across teams
• Serve as the internal subject-matter expert and primary point of contact for Airtable-related questions and enhancements
• Prepare data summaries, visualizations, and impact reports for board presentations, grant reports, and public communications

Measuring and Communicating Impact

• Develop a robust organizational impact measurement framework including impact indicators, data collection protocols, and reporting cycles
• Partner with program teams to identify outcome metrics and translate findings into accessible, compelling narratives

Equity, Learning, and Continuous Improvement

• Serve as a thought leader and internal champion for organizational equity — embedding equity considerations into all operational systems and data practices
• Develop and implement an internal DEIB health assessment and present timely findings and recommendations
• Steward an organizational learning culture by creating structures for after-action reviews, lessons-learned documentation, and cross-team knowledge sharing
• Effectively communicate about DEIB progress and learning across the organization& externally as appropriate
• Develop a survey calendar and feedback loop system that ensures insights are regularly shared, discussed, and acted upon by leadership

Additional job-related duties as assigned

Qualifications

The candidate must possess:

• A minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience in strategic planning, change management, program evaluation, and organizational effectiveness, ideally in an advocacy nonprofit of similar size and complexity;
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience designing and implementing program logic models, theories of change models or similar organizational effectiveness tools and managing research, evaluation, and performance management projects in social justice settings;
• Proven ability to develop, facilitate, and champion organizational effectiveness and internal communications initiatives through strategic, inclusive, and creative problem solving, project management, and decision-making processes;
• Experience and passion for using qualitative and quantitative data to make decisions and help people align around shared goals;
• Demonstrated integrity and sound judgment, including the ability to exercise appropriate discretion when dealing with sensitive or confidential matters;
• Demonstrated commitment to and experience working on gender and racial equity and centering LGBTQI+ communities and communities of color in the approach to work;
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; and
• Excellent skills in technology, particularly Microsoft Office, qualitative and quantitative research software, Airtable, and project management software (Asana or equivalent).

Key Relationships

The Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness reports directly to the Vice President of Equity, Organizational Effectiveness, and Learning. Additionally, this position collaborates closely with the President and CEO; HR colleagues, other Executive and Senior staff; the Manager of Equity, Belonging, and Learning; and other Directors. They may occasionally work with Board members.

Compensation & Benefits

A salary within the range of $133,591-161,563 will be provided to the successful candidate with at least 7 years of applicable experience, consistent with the National Women’s Law Center’s compensation framework. The successful candidate’s salary within this range will be determined by the number years of relevant experience they bring to the role.

The Law Center offers a comprehensive benefits package and four weeks of annual vacation.

NWLC is a non-profit organization whose headquarters and staff are based in Washington, D.C. at our new office at 1350 Eye Street N.W. This role is based in D.C. and will be eligible for some telework while also being expected to work in person on a regular basis. The successful candidate will need to live in or relocate to the DMV (broadly defined as DC, Maryland, or Virginia).

The first 90 days will be considered a probationary period.

Classification

This position is a management role and as such is not included in the union-represented bargaining unit, NWLC United, affiliated with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union/IFPTE Local 70.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit a resume and a cover letter outlining how your professional background is a good fit for this position. Resumes should include exact start and end dates (month and year) of employment. Applications accepted until position is filled.

The National Women’s Law Center is an Equal Opportunity employer and values a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage and seek applications from people with disabilities; people of all genders, gender identities and sexual orientations; people of color; and veterans.

At NWLC, our diversity is our strength, and the variety of lived experiences that connect our teammates to the mission of gender justice is our superpower. We know that members of marginalized groups tend to apply for positions only if they believe they are a 100% match for the role. If you are passionate about NWLC’s mission and think you can be successful in this role, please apply. We’d appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

Reasonable Accommodations

If you require reasonable accommodations during any part of the hiring process, please email NWLCHR@nwlc.org.