About the role

  • Power Building Director leading organizing efforts to build resident power for housing justice in California. Managing campaigns, team, and strategic initiatives for Housing California's mission.

Responsibilities

  • Translate Vision to Strategy
  • Manage RUN’s member driven, multi-year campaign process (also known as There Ought to Be a Law)
  • Manage the team and RUN leaders to identify, develop, and implement RUN’s priority campaigns
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to evolve Housing CA’s statewide, multi-year power-building strategy
  • Build, maintain, and leverage relationships across our cross-sector ecosystem
  • Develop, refine, and strengthen RUN governance and decision-making processes
  • Grow RUN’s influence by developing and managing the organizing infrastructure to increase its grassroots membership
  • Lead the Power Building team to develop the leadership capacity and impact of affordable housing residents, service providers, and regional advocacy organizations
  • Manage and oversee RUN’s legislative, budgetary, and electoral strategy
  • Work closely with the Narrative and Strategic Communications team

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant experience, including community organizing and building power with communities of color in California
  • demonstrated commitment to racial and economic justice and professional experience working on housing justice issues
  • excellent staff management and coaching skills to supervise, mentor, and grow the capacity of staff
  • proven ability to communicate (written and verbally) effectively with a variety of audiences
  • experience organizing statewide policy campaigns and/or working on issues of housing policy, homelessness, equitable development, infrastructure policy/finance, land-use planning, or other closely related fields
  • additional experience that would be welcomed but is not required: lived experience with housing instability or homelessness; knowledge and/or experience of public policy analysis and advocacy; ideally, experience working in the California legislative and budget process; bilingual Spanish/English; experience with non-profit fundraising, including developing and maintaining relationships with funders and writing grant proposals and reports; experience with program evaluation; experience developing or overseeing successful implementation of base-building trainings and workshops

Benefits

  • fully paid medical, dental, and vision for employee
  • 25% paid medical, dental and vision for dependents
  • paid parental leave
  • long-term disability and group life insurance coverage
  • commuting subsidy
  • cell phone/at home internet subsidy
  • 403(b) retirement plan with 3.5% employer contribution
  • generous vacation (3+ weeks, depending on tenure)
  • sick leave (8 hours per month + employees start with 8 hours of leave)
  • 12 paid holidays
  • organization-wide closure during the last week of December and a shortened workweek during the summer legislative break
  • training and professional development opportunities
  • hybrid work environment

Job title

Power Building Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$115,000 - $145,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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