Movement Innovation Collaborative

Program Manager

• 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 and Innovation Program Director

Director of Operations – Culture