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California Director building statewide organizing, membership, and coalition strategies for a racial and economic justice movement of local elected officials. Supervising staff, developing leaders, and leading fundraising.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and implementation of a California statewide strategy
- Build organizing and governance infrastructure to grow and strengthen membership and support and mobilize local elected officials across California
- Represent Local Progress, the Impact Lab, and the state chapter in statewide coalitions, campaigns, and strategic tables
- Embed Local Progress within California’s movement ecosystem as a trusted advocacy and organizing partner
- Recruit and engage California-based members
- Provide and facilitate policy, communications, and campaign support to members
- Cultivate relationships with allies, state and local partners, labor, and funders
- Establish Local Progress as a coalition partner for trans-local and statewide campaigns
- Design and execute local and statewide leadership development initiatives
- Collaborate across teams on caucuses, state chapter activities, academies, labs, reports, convenings, and web products
- Supervise up to three organizing team members and support staff development
- Lead an assigned fundraising portfolio and identify funding opportunities
- Support national policy, organizing, and campaign projects
Requirements:
- Must reside in California, with a preference for Northern California
- 7–10+ years of organizing, strategic campaigning, and/or advocacy experience
- 3+ years of demonstrated success supervising staff across diverse issues and functions
- 3–5 years of demonstrated fundraising success
- Experience in relational organizing
- Ability to engage and mobilize diverse groups across local contexts and virtual settings
- Experience designing membership-based and/or issue-based organizing strategies
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects
- Ability to create and execute organizing work plans
- Ability to anticipate obstacles, navigate challenges, identify stakeholders, and drive projects independently
- Commitment to inside/outside strategy and movement governance
- Demonstrated commitment to social, racial, and economic justice
- Deep interest in local policy, politics, and government
- Ability to work flexible, long hours when necessary
- Ability to travel approximately 1–2 times per month, up to 6 days per month
- Experience leading and managing multi-stakeholder coalitions preferred as an ideal-candidate qualification
- Previous experience working with elected officials preferred as an ideal-candidate qualification
Benefits:
- Four day workweek with a default schedule of Monday through Thursday
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Five weeks of vacation per year
- 20 sick days per year
- Paid holidays
- Contributions to individuals’ 403(b) plans
- Local Progress office closed between December 24 and January 1 annually
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