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
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