Movement Innovation Collaborative

Strategy & Innovation Program Manager

Movement Innovation Collaborative

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: California • United States

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Salary

💰 $100,000 - $120,000 per year

About the role

  • 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.)

Requirements

  • At least 5–7 years of experience in program management, development or administration, ideally within a social movement or community organizing coalition context.
  • Strong commitment to MIC’s mission of racial justice and transformative structural change in California.
  • High-level of cultural awareness and experience building trusted relationships and working with different demographic groups and diverse regions.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently with high attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate raw data into actionable lessons using an array of technical tools.
  • A flexible approach to working in a dynamic startup environment, with the ability to adapt project plans based on feedback.
  • Strong familiarity with the grassroots organizations and political landscape of California.
Benefits
  • 100% organization-funded medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, their spouses or domestic partners, and their children. Coverage begins on the first day of employment.
  • Paid Time Off: As a full-time employee, you will receive 15 days of vacation, 12 sick days per year, and a generous paid family leave policy. Accrual of this benefit begins on the first day of employment and becomes available upon completion of the 90-day trial period.
  • Paid Holidays: 21 days total, including a 10-day Winter Break overlapping with Christmas and New Year’s Day. Additionally, 4 Floating Holidays will be made available upon completion of the 90-day trial period.
  • Retirement Plan: MIC offers a 403b retirement plan. MIC contributes an employer-paid amount equal to 5% of your salary. Vesting for this contribution is immediate. Employees have a default 3% personal contribution rate and may adjust it at any time. This benefit becomes available after the 90-day trial period.
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