Movement Innovation Collaborative

Program Manager

• Manage the execution of core OSI initiatives, including cohorts focused on upsurge absorption, intergenerational leadership, and organizer pipeline infrastructure.
• Coordinate major project operations, including relationship management with field partners, event logistics, and participant engagement tracking for OSI programs.
• Support the development of detailed project scopes and implementation plans, tracking goals and learning milestones to ensure timely completion.
• Make tactical adjustments to resolve immediate implementation challenges and escalate critical programmatic roadblocks to the Program Director.
• Facilitate regular, program-specific information sharing within the MIC network and with anchor field partners and practitioners.
• Create agendas and facilitate committee meetings as needed to ensure discussions result in clear, actionable next steps.
• Support the management of cross-racial, intergenerational spaces for collaborative learning and strategic alignment.
• Support documentation to share 'movement lessons' learned from experiments in building OSI-related movement infrastructure.
• Implement data tracking and other research tasks to support action research for testing OSI models in collaboration with the MS&I and Learning & Impact teams.
• Assist in the codification of breakthrough strategies and findings into accessible toolkits and learning models for the field.
• Support assessments of current trends in Transformative Organizing, including models and frameworks.
• Monitor project-specific expenditures to assist the Program Director in tracking overall resource allocation.
• Collaborate with MIC operations teams to implement program functions using internal systems and infrastructure (e.g., Salesforce, Asana, etc.)

Strategy & Innovation Program Manager

• In partnership with the MIC Deputy of Transformative Organizing and other key stakeholders, refine and implement a strategic program, including key investments and partnerships, that leverage the outcomes and learnings from the pilot phase, and build collective systems and practices supported by networked infrastructure.
• Define and prioritize program goals and outcomes into actionable work plans to meet the overall objectives of the strategic plan
• Cultivate Communities of Practice (politicized healers, movement operations practitioners, power-building change makers), 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 the 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.

Healing, Sustainability and Culture Program Director

Director

• The Regional Ecosystems Director will develop, manage, and support the design and implementation of regionally grounded frameworks, assessments, and coordination models that strengthen the capacity of key regional organizations to engage powerbuilding organizations across California’s regional ecosystems.
• Lead the collaborative and iterative design of Regional Ecosystem frameworks, assessments, and coordination models in deep partnership with grassroots powerbuilding organizations, MIC teams, and strategic partners.
• Support the experimentation, testing, and refinement of facilitation tools within regional ecosystems, grounded in real-time practice and regional context.
• Translate learning from experimentation into practical tools, guidance, and documentation that can be adapted and applied by regional organizations.
• Support anchor regional organizations to build the capacity to convene and steward Regional Roundtables as structured spaces for coordination, strategy alignment, and ecosystem learning.
• Coordinate resourcing and support for regional organizations to engage in experimentation that strengthens regional ecosystem structure and practice.
• Provide technical assistance and accompaniment to regional organizations implementing Regional Roundtables and related ecosystem tools and practices.
• Oversee the development and implementation of regional ecosystem assessments, including regional landscaping and power mapping.
• Work in tandem with MIC’s Movement Strategy & Innovation and Learning & Impact teams to facilitate sense-making and synthesis of assessment findings and implementation learning, informing program refinement, model development, and cross-regional comparison.
• Design and facilitate learning processes, including Regional Learning Visits and cross-regional sense-making sessions, to support shared analysis and alignment.

Regional Ecosystems Director

• Design and lead initiatives and collaborative efforts that support the revival and evolution of transformative organizing approaches and organizer pipeline infrastructure.
• Collaborate with partners to research key questions facing the field.
• Facilitate collaborative learning, and resource cohorts, capacity-building, and major pipeline infrastructure projects across the state.
• Lead the comprehensive design, planning, and launch of programming that focus on the development of movement infrastructure that is responsive to the major challenges facing the power building ecosystem in CA and the innovation and strategy required to build the power needed – ensuring high-quality, cross-racial, and cross-sector participation.
• Cultivate and maintain high-value relationships with anchor field partners, practitioners, subject-matter experts, researchers, capacity builders and other strategic partners.
• Inform, manage, and monitor the annual program budget for the OSI program, ensuring responsible resource allocation across research, convenings, and capacity-building grants.
• Assess the development and current trends of Transformative Organizing, including models, frameworks and related infrastructure.
• Lead programming that invests in and supports OSI related field innovation and infrastructure; develop and oversee experiments in building OSI related movement infrastructure and ensure they are evaluated and analyzed for cross movement learning and growth.
• Design, facilitate, and manage cross-racial, intergenerational, and relational spaces (convenings, cohorts, internal containers) for collaborative learning, problem-solving, and strategic alignment across California’s power-building ecosystem.
• Work in close collaboration with other MIC leadership to ensure alignment, cross-fertilization, and integrated programming across all program strategies.

Strategy and Innovation Program Director

Operations

• Provide oversight, leadership, management, and enhancement of organizational systems, policies, and procedures, aiming to foster an internal culture of care, discipline, resilience, and innovation.
• Work closely with program teams to assess operational needs and design and execute plans to operationalize a wide range of program initiatives.
• Management and implementation support to establish clear, values-driven expectations and practices for staff conduct, communication, decision-making, and accountability.
• Contribute towards the completion of HR systems and procedures and manage their implementation. Ensure legal compliance and risk management in all HR systems and procedures.
• Supervise the Operations Manager's work and provide support and guidance. This includes conducting weekly supervision check-ins, progress reports, and annual performance reviews.

Strategy & Innovation Program Manager

Healing, Sustainability and Culture Program Director

Regional Ecosystems Director

Strategy and Innovation Program Director

Director of Operations – Culture