The Equity Alliance

Director

• Develop and execute a comprehensive fundraising strategy
• Lead grant research, writing, submission, and reporting
• Build and manage a major gifts program
• Collaborate with program teams to integrate fundraising goals

Development Director

Manager

• Working in close coordination with the Statewide Community Mobilization Manager to implement the overall organizing plan and other strategic campaign initiatives on the state and local level.
• Managing a team of Community Organizers, Fellows, and Paid Canvassers to meet organizing goals.
• Building a robust volunteer base that focuses on deep engagement with communities of color.
• Developing strategic organizing partnerships and alliances with regional organizations and leaders across the field.
• Assessing and ensuring that the work in the field and internal organizing are actively happening and tracking systems are being maintained.
• Lead a regional organizing team to implement programs and campaigns for the organization.
• Ensure community organizers and regional partners are engaged in the development of programs and implementation strategy.
• Lead The Equity Alliance’s regional coalition strategy.
• Participate in local and regional coalition spaces.
• Assess/evaluate potential regional allies.
• Effectively build a team of organizers and volunteers invested in building power and establishing deep relationships with grassroots leaders and voters of color in the community.
• Supervise and manage members of the organizing team.
• Implement work plans, assessments, and evaluations.
• Engage, promote, and practice shared leadership across the organizing department, promoting a team-oriented organizational culture.

Regional Organizing Manager

Communications

• Developing and implementing a comprehensive, data-driven communications and digital organizing strategy rooted in The Equity Alliance’s mission, goals, and initiatives.
• Leading TEA’s earned and owned media — from press and public relations to our website, newsletter, social channels, and podcast — and amplifying our work and impact to community members, disenfranchised constituencies, coalition partners, stakeholders, volunteers, policymakers, funders, and donors.
• Supporting TEA in maintaining a strong public voice in the social justice movement and in the media to advocate for the wider adoption of equitable and just policies and practices rooted in reparations, self-determination, and liberation, influencing shifts in power to grassroots organizing led by Black people, including those directly impacted by institutional harmful policies.
• Implement an integrated communication strategy that ensures brand consistency across all channels and aligns communication with TEA’s mission and objectives;
• Contribute to increasing TEA’s racial equity, civic engagement, and power-building capacities, coordinating input from staff on communications materials, and shaping how we communicate these values externally;
• Expand the reach of TEA’s message and communications projects to diverse audiences;
• Develop and strengthen the organization’s unapologetic brand “voice”;
• Develop and maintain annual communications work plans, program budgets, and timelines across TEA’s network of entities;
• Provide quality control for printed and digital materials, such as palm cards, voter guides, graphics, press releases, social media, and slide decks;
• In partnership with executive leadership, provide final approval of all outgoing communications and materials;
• Monitor developments in communications best practices, tools, and technologies that will strengthen TEA’s communications;
• Support development of fundraising, campaign, and event materials, videos, and digital content;
• Maintain contracts and relationships with consultants and external vendors providing communications services and tools.

Development Director

Regional Organizing Manager

Communications Director