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Program Director, Resource Generation

Resource Generation (RG) is recruiting for a full-time Program Director to lead our national conferences, webinars, and political education materials. This is a remote position.

About us:

Resource Generation is a national multi-racial, membership-based organization mobilizing young people (age 18-35) with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power. The broader Resource Generation community includes people of all ages and class backgrounds who support the role that young people with access to wealth play in social change. RG has 18 chapters in cities around the U.S., and our chapters engage in base-building, political education programming, giving circles, local and national campaigns, and building local organizational relationships. Resource Generation is proud to have 1100+ dues-paying members who collectively made $100 million in pledges to social justice movements in 2022. RG is 95% funded by our members.

Resource Generation operates on a 32-hour work week schedule (generally Monday-Thursday). We currently have 24 full-time staff and are a multi-class and multi-racial team. We especially encourage those who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color; trans, non-binary, femmes, and gender non-conforming people; and people from poor and working-class backgrounds to apply.

 

Overview of role:

The Program Director is an evolving position. The key responsibilities include generating content to engage and activate Resource Generation’s base of young people with wealth and/or class privilege. This includes curating national in-person multi-day conferences, virtual programming such as webinars, and supporting other staff who are leading program areas.

The Program Director leads a team whose mission is to integrate, coordinate and strengthen RG political education and programming. The Program Director  is also a core member of a team whose focus is to organize and politicize RG’s base locally and nationally through base-building and leadership development, resource mobilization, and campaigns in service of RG’s mission. These two teams are where the majority of the long-term collaborations occur. In alignment with our shared power structure, this position will also have rotating responsibilities on other teams.

The Program Director will be joining a 16 person organizing team in a highly collaborative work environment. We use a decentralized leadership structure known as Collab.

 

Job Responsibilities:

Lead on political education strategy:

• Develop political education goals for the year that support our campaigns, resource mobilization, base building and leadership development goals
• Develop and coordinate a political education calendar for the year that includes conferences, webinars, and other national offerings
• Lead Programming and Political Ed Scope
• Map out political education arcs for members
• Supervise 2-4 staff members on the organizing team

Manage national conferences:

• Create schedule, goals, workshop topics, and registration rates for conferences
• Design curriculums and work with workshop presenters to create content
• Hire retreats consultant and provide weekly supervision
• Facilitate orientation calls for new presenters, consultants and staff
• Create registration forms
• Act as primary contact for all presenters and facilitators; ensure payments and logistical needs are met
• Identify program book designer and manage contractual relationship; support editing of program book
• Determine supply and copy needs and work with staff to ensure timely production and delivery
• Create list of event accessibility resources
• Evaluate effectiveness of retreats based on evaluations and propose changes
• Fill or delegate all roles for multi-day in person conference

Lead on national political education content creation:

• Keep core curriculums (ex praxis) updated, effective, and aligned with our organizational goals
• Update political education print and digital materials
• Serve as primary staff person for land justice, land back and land reparations work
• Support staff who are leading national programming
• Write pieces for newsletter, website, and rapid response statements

Manage national webinars:

• Manage schedule and overall budget of webinars, collaborating with organizing team and members to determine priorities and topics
• Lead on or assist with content of webinars
• Create projected webinar schedule with room for emerging content to be added

Additional Responsibilities:

• Support national organizing priorities and collaborative staff leadership structure as needed
• Fundraising:
  • Do transformative fundraising with RG leaders to become dues-paying members.
  • Manage individual major donor list and consistently develop members to become major donors, pushing members to give more boldly to movements through our Redistribution Pledge.
• Admin: Responsible for owning the accuracy and regular input of data for assigned donors in our EveryAction database; as well as core administrative functions such as uploading and tagging receipts for expenses, and filling out timesheets.
• Participate in staff caucuses, political education, staff retreats, our participatory budgeting process, and other team-building & collective decision-making processes.

Core qualifications and required skills:

• Popular Education Scholar. 5+ years of experience designing and facilitating trainings, workshops, and conferences through a popular education approach.
• Transformation Oriented. Someone who will put in the care required to make a learning experience transformative and thus is deeply familiar with healing justice and disability justice frameworks.
• Develops others’ leadership. Understands how to help people move into greater levels of leadership with at least 2 years of formal or informal supervisory experience.
• Strong project manager who is able to build trust across differences. Someone who has experience successfully managing teams on complex projects with many moving parts. Collective-oriented. Skills working and building trust with a wide range of people across class, race, gender, etc.
• Self-directed and able to work remotely. Persistent, creative, and solutions-oriented. Can work-plan effectively to meet goals, communicate in a timely and responsive way, and can spend 32 hours a week on video calls and on a computer.
• Desire to do transformative organizing of a multiracial base of young wealthy people. Has a demonstrated commitment to racial and economic justice. Believes in the stake young wealthy folks have in collective liberation, and the possibility and necessity of cross-class and multiracial movement building. Commitment to own transformation & healing from oppressive systems.

The ideal candidate is someone who:

• Has a solid understanding of class, classism, and own class experience
• Is a lifelong learner with a demonstrated commitment to collective liberation
• Cares about shared power and decision making
• Can work in a highly collaborative organization while still managing individual short-term and long-term projects
• Competent working with CRMs (RG uses EveryAction), digital organizing tools (e.g. Hustle), and project management tools (e.g. Asana).
• Believes in the stake young wealthy folks have in collective liberation and necessity of cross-class and multiracial movement building

If you are excited by this position but don’t meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply. We recognize that all candidates may not be strong in all of the areas listed. We also welcome learning about the strengths and talents that you do have to bring to this role that may not be fully captured in our list. 

 

Compensation, Benefits, and the Application Process:

Salary: $69,000-79,000 depending upon experience and regional cost of living.

Benefits: RG offers excellent benefits including 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance; majority employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance for partners, spouses and and families. We offer 100% employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance; medical and transit flexible spending account with a $500 employer contribution; 403(b) retirement plan with a 5% employer contribution after one year of employment, parental leave (up to 6 months within the first year after birth, adoption, or fostering), as well as an 8-week paid sabbatical after 4 years of employment. We also offer 15 vacation days, 15 sick days, 5 personal days, and a minimum of a 1 week office closure in late December. RG provides  professional development funds; initial home office tech set-up ( including shipment of desktop and laptop), and a monthly office supply/co-working allowance.

Location & Travel: The Program Director can work remotely from anywhere in the continental US and is expected to be available between the hours of 1-4pm EST to accommodate staff across time zones. Travel is expected approximately 4-6 times.

Staff Culture: RG is grounded in feminist and social justice principles. We engage in revolving identity-based caucuses and bi-monthly political education sessions. RG is a highly dynamic and fast-paced organization. Our working culture is highly collaborative and we spend a considerable amount of time goal setting and work planning to ensure staff are empowered and supported to be successful in their positions. Staff collaborate to support hiring processes, annual budgeting, and event programming. We engage in group wellness practices every quarter, and support one another to counter a culture of overwork. We recognize that paid work is only one aspect of our lives and encourage each other to take breaks and paid time off.

Timeline and Hiring Process: There will be up to two interviews for selected qualified applicants. Candidates may be asked to complete an assessment/exercise or provide a sample of their work (if any of these are requested, you will be compensated for your efforts). All interviews will take place via Zoom.

Approximate Timeline:

• February 6th-February 28th: Applications open
• February 28th: Last day to apply
• Week of March 6th: 1st round interviews
• Week of March 13th: 2nd round interviews
• Week of March 20th: Offer made
• March 28th: Start Date

 

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