Learning Community Manager -- Social Transformation Project -- Remote
Matt Blizek
Social
Transformation Project (STP) is seeking a Learning Community Manager to
join a growing team, called BaseLab. BaseLab is a project in support of
state-based power-building organizations designed to help them find
breakthrough organizing practices to build their leadership base and
achieve governing power in their states.
The Learning Community
Manager will work with the broader BaseLab team and state-based
organizations (such as New Virginia Majority, Kentuckians for the
Commonwealth, Take Action Minnesota, and more) to build a cross learning
culture that allows staff and organizations to learn from each other’s
innovations.
STP is committed to ensuring equity, diversity, and inclusion are significant considerations in our decision‑making, in our internal work, and in our work in the world. We encourage applications from members of communities that are marginalized or that experience structural discrimination, including those identifying as Indigenous, people of colour, members of non‑dominant ethnic, religious, linguistic, and/or cultural groups, women, (im)migrants/newcomers, people with (dis)abilities, working class people, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities. We encourage you to self-identify in your application.
Responsibilities include
- Oversee all aspects of the Baselab Learning Community, a network of organizers from dozens of state based progressive organizations sharing learnings and knowledge about their work.
- Produce monthly virtual gatherings where organizations share results and learnings from base building experiments. (also bringing in outside experts and topics to push and challenge organizations around their organizing practices)
- Work with state-based progressive organizations across the country to pull out insights and determine how to distill them to share with other state orgs and across the movement. (encourage staff to share & and integrate learnings directly w/ their peers).
- Conduct regular interviews with staff of state based organizations to produce short shareable videos with key training frameworks, learnings and best practices.
- Facilitate cross-learning between organizations. Manage the BaseLab Learning Community Slack channel. Encouraging groups to share resources and knowledge across the movement and facilitating a healthy ongoing discussion around organizing practices. (coming up w/ creative incentives to get organizations participating and sharing)
- Create a Baselab Resource Library where organizations can easily access previous organizing learnings.
What we’re looking for:
Someone who can organize organizers
-- You’ll be working with busy organizers in multiple states to
identify top learnings from experiments and campaigns and distilling
them to be shared with the wider community.
Strong equity analysis -- You have a solid understanding of how race, class, power, and privilege influence society and organizing.
Relationship builder -- You’ll need to be able to quickly build relationships and trust with a diverse group of people.
An engaging trainer and facilitator -- You’ll need to be comfortable presenting information to groups online and facilitating online learning Zoom calls.
Organizing chops - You’ve
done enough organizing to know basic best practices and be comfortable
getting deep into innovative organizing tactics and strategies.
Familiarity with state based progressive organizations is a plus.
Independent -- You’re able to manage projects independently and work comfortably in a remote virtual environment.
Salary & Compensation
How to Apply
Your application materials should include your resume and a cover letter that highlights your relevant experience and outlines why this position is for you.
If you’re interested, please follow these instructions to apply:
- Submit your resume and cover letter as one document attached to your email.
- Name the attachment: Last Name, First Initial_Learning Community Manager.
- Include “Learning Community Manager” in the subject line of your email.
- Submit the attachment to car...@stproject.org.
Application Deadline: We will vet applications on a rolling basis so we encourage you to submit as soon as possible. The deadline to apply is Friday, July 31.
Interview Process: Selected applicants will be invited to interview on a rolling basis. We aim to contact those we’d like to move forward with by Friday, August 7. Finalists will be asked to provide 3 professional references, which include at least one that speaks to your organizing work.
*Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are not able to respond to all applicants or those inquiring about the status of their application. If you have not heard from STP by August 7, we encourage you to keep an eye out for other opportunities.
Anticipated Start date: ASAP
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We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based upon gender, race, national origin, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or gender expression.
About Us
Social Transformation Project (STP) supports progressive network and organization leaders to respond strategically to rapidly changing and complex environments and facilitates the development of new collaborative network infrastructure and strategic capacities through shared communities of practice, cross-state/network working groups, and other innovative collaborations.
The organization provides a new kind of embedded infrastructure and innovation hub within existing and emerging grassroots networks, helping to staff them and becoming a rapid-response, strategic ally in their day-to-day development towards long-term transformational goals. STP’s scaffolding for emerging networks and power-building organizations, and our experimentation lab, is helping networks and organizations lift off, reduce the cost of organizing, and learn new ways to collaborate and innovate.
To get
to where we are now, STP has relied on self-directed teams, lean
startup/ experimentation methodology, intersectional feminism and a deep
equity lens, and an embodied practice that movements are crystallized
at a very small scale and in small transformational steps that set new
patterns of growth and emergence, and thus new opportunities for
larger-scale social transformation.
Our network infrastructure and practice are supporting a fast-growing number of state and national organizations to develop shared analysis, hone long term strategies, align around opportunities to build power, and experiment towards breakthroughs for the field.
We believe that:
- The most critical and strategic place to build power is local -- in and across states.
- Leadership should come predominantly from women, queer and trans folks, and people of color on the ground in their local communities.
- Local organizations need to be funded directly and supported to build their capacity and infrastructure.
- Progressive movement infrastructure and culture must be transformed in order for what we believe to be possible.
Our organization tests, practices and shares new approaches to leadership, collaboration, strategy, and experimentation. Modeling and facilitating culture change is key to how we work.
We strive to create a healthy high performance work culture by:
- Bringing our whole selves to our work.
- Building trusted relationships.
- Embodying a culture of deep equity.
- Setting stretch goals and achieving them.
- Cultivating radical hope and joy.
- Setting clear expectations.
- Having effective accountability mechanisms.
- Communicating clearly and proactively.
- Working transparently.