Healing, Sustainability and Culture (HSC) Program Director

What You’ll Be Doing:

Our Healing, Sustainability and Culture Program (HSC) innovates healing, sustainability, and culture approaches that ensure powerbuilding in California is transformative, values-aligned, and durable at the scale to win. This program strategy will leverage a myriad of current initiatives and collaborative efforts to inspire transformative practice, integrate social-emotional capacities, innovate durable power strategies, and invest in collective care within power-building sectors. Through resourced cohorts and experiments, targeted leadership training, healing infrastructure, and events, the HSC Program builds movement infrastructure for transformative strategies that center safety, belonging, and dignity.

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

Key Responsibilities :

In partnership with the MIC Deputy of Strategy and other key stakeholders, refine and implement a strategic program, including key investments and partnerships, that leverages the outcomes and learnings from the pilot phase, and builds collective systems and practices supported by networked infrastructure

• Define and prioritize program goals and outcomes into actionable workplans to meet the overall objectives of the strategic plan
• Cultivate Communities of Practice (politicized healers, movement operations practitioners, power-building changemakers), to understand and assess the healing, sustainability and culture needs of the movement workforce, supported by research
• Convene a wide range of stakeholders to engage in collaborative ideation and shared analysis and approach for defining collective movement standards/principles for fair labor standards, democratic governance and other elements of durable and transformative power-building organizations
• Landscape and assess the state of social-emotional training curriculum and offerings, and develop key interventions to meet the needs of power-building leaders, members, and movement support practitioners
• Cultivate networks and deepen relationships with practitioners, subject-matter experts, researchers, and capacity-builders
• Oversee all action research for testing HSC practices, collect data, and facilitate gatherings for sense-making
• 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, support knowledge capture and dissemination related to HSC

We envision that as we move beyond the startup phase, the responsibilities for this position will shift to address other growing and strategic needs of Healing, Sustainability and Culture 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 five-ten years of experience in coalition and base-building
• Lived knowledge and professional experience embedding and testing healing, sustainability, and movement culture practices
• Significant training, leadership and/or expertise in one or more arenas of transformative practice, ie: Generative Somatics, Forward Stance, martial arts, meditation, therapeutic methods, or related arenas of practice.
• 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 the 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 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.