JOB: Director of Movement Technology | Wellstone Action (Flexible - DC, NY, or Bay area preferred)

[Jen Haut-Prokop]

 

Position: Director, Movement Technology

Status: Full Time, Exempt

Location: Flexible: Washington, D.C., New York, or Bay Area, CA preferred

Deadline: Open until filled

 

Wellstone Action is hiring a Director to carry on and evolve the incredible legacy of the New Organizing Institute, which recently rolled its essential training programs into Wellstone. In this role, the Director will drive our new strategy to support the next generation of progressive movement practitioners in emerging technology, with a particular focus on data and digital. The Director will lead a team of staff and adjunct trainers, raise resources and ensure a strong financial model for the work, develop deep partnerships with external stakeholders, and directly deliver high-level capacity-building work.

 

Who We Are

With 75,000 alumni and 350 partner organizations in all 50 states, Wellstone is the progressive movement’s premier center for public and political leadership development, supporting frontline organizations, activists, candidates, and campaigners across the country. Headquartered in MN, with staff and trainers anchored across the nation, we bring the hard skills and necessary strategies that help progressives build stronger organizations and run smarter campaigns to win immediate progressive change and build enduring progressive governing power.

 

What You’ll Do

As Director, you will work closely with the Executive Director and Director of Impact and be part of the program leadership team. You will shape our overall programmatic vision around data, digital, and other emerging technologies, with a central focus on ensuring the fields are reflective of the broader community. You will work with a highly strategic, results-driven, and good-humored team. And you will join an organization that that cares as much about our people as we do about the work (hint: that’s a lot!).

 

Specific responsibilities include:

 

·       Program leadership

o   Set short- and long-term priorities and plans for impact

o   Regularly evaluate progress to goals and effectiveness of programming, making adjustments and shifts in approach as needed

o   Develop a well-balanced financial model and annual budget for the work, evaluating and evolving the model over time to ensure delivery and sustainability

o   Ensure curriculum and delivery methods are best in class, current, and relevant for both in-person and remote learning

o   Develop relationships with key external stakeholders to inform strategy and create programmatic partnership opportunities

o   Ensure the alumni and stakeholder community is well engaged and supported over time

o   Directly provide high level training, facilitation and coaching for targeted individual and organizational leaders

·       Team leadership

o   Directly supervise core staff dedicated to data and digital capacity-building work

o   Develop team of external consultants and trainers key to program delivery

o   Work across program areas to ensure integration of data and digital content in all training curriculum

 

·       Resource development

o   Drive program-generated income from registration fees and program sponsorships

o   Engage in fundraising from individuals and institutions in concert with Wellstone’s development team

·       Organizational leadership

o   Represent Wellstone in key movement spaces

o   Participate and demonstrate leadership in all relevant organizational spaces, including program leadership team meetings, staff meetings and retreats

Who You Are

• Approach
• Strong self-initiative and ability to work independently as well as with a team in a fluid and fast-changing environment
• Highly relational with a strong belief in the centrality of deep relationships, internally and externally, for success
• A strong equity lens, particularly around race and gender
• Thoughtful, strategic leadership combined with energy to do the hard day-to-day work of program delivery
• Openness to giving and receiving feedback for continuous learning, evolution and improvement
• Willingness to work non-standard hours and travel extensively, including weekends, when required
• Deep and demonstrated commitment to social, economic, gender, and racial justice
• Ability to inspire, lead and manage a team of highly skilled, highly motivated staff
• Experience and skills
• Minimum of 5 years of combined experience in electoral, organizing and/or advocacy work, with a focus on data, digital and/or other emerging technology
• Direct experience developing and managing program work, including planning, budgeting, financial management and direct supervision of staff
• Dynamic training and facilitation skills, including agenda design, curriculum and written resource development
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills
• Demonstrated entrepreneurialism, having imagined and built something new in the world
• Experience managing program staff

·       Preferred qualifications

o   Demonstrated ability and interest in raising money from individuals and institutions

o   A great sense of humor – we’re serious about not taking ourselves too seriously

 

Compensation, Benefits, and Background

Compensation for this position is competitive and based on experience, and includes a comprehensive benefits package with health/dental/life/disability insurance, paid time off, retirement benefits, and more. Wellstone Action offers a rewarding and lively working environment. We are based in St. Paul, MN, although this position can be located anywhere in the United States convenient to regular travel.

 

Wellstone Action is an equal opportunity employer. We actively encourage women, LGBT individuals, people of color, and Native Americans to apply for this position and all positions at Wellstone Action. For more about our work building the world where “we all do better when we all do better,” check us out at www.wellstone.org.

 

How To Apply

Please send your resume and cover letter to hir...@wellstone.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.