Director of Movement Building

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Emergent Fund

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Funds
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: $135,000 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 25/03/2024
  • Location: United States 
LGBTQI+ rights/ SOGIESC Racial justice
Movements have long relied on creative collective responses to crises and catalytic moments as strategic opportunities to advance visionary organizing. The Emergent Fund (501c3) and our political arm Emergent Action Fund (501c4) are movement rapid response funds led by and for organizers with intersectional, collective liberation values. As a nationally recognized philanthropy culture disruptor and praxis leader, Emergent Fund challenges power in who we fund as well as with how we fund. We serve as one of the few open, accessible trust-based, no strings attached grants for rapid response and emergent organizing led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and people of color. All our grantmaking is driven by the leadership of directly impacted communities through our 100% people of color and Indigenous-led Advisory Council who are committed to building movement and transforming sociopolitical catalysts into lasting social change. Our model demonstrates that people-powered philanthropy can move at the speed of trust and at a pace that meets movements’ needs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provide direct, rapid response, frontline care for our movement partners by:
    • In moments of social catalyst, proactively reaching out to grantees to offer rapid response resources (grants, capacity building offerings, convenings, etc)
    • Cultivating relationships with grantee partners and prospective grantees
    • Corresponding with applicants regarding requirements and deadlines and answering questions about the application and grantmaking process (via email, video and phone) 

  • Lead key grantmaking processes and systems
    • Manage relationships with external grantmaking partners, including JustFund and The Amalgamated Foundation
    • Lead the facilitation of our monthly participatory grantmaking cycles, including preparing materials for the Advisory Council and tracking decisions
    • Fielding questions about the grantmaking process and compliance needs from the fiscal sponsor and grantee partners

  • Representing Emergent Fund as a movement and resource justice thought leader in a range of settings
    • Organize funder events, webinar briefings, webinars and activities that foster connection and learning among funders, donors, and grantees and to raise more awareness and investments in social justice movements
    • Cultivating presence and leadership among our funder colleagues– including identifying collaboration opportunities, and mobilizing and organizing peers, joining diverse funder tables, facilitating
    • Experiment with media & cultural organizing strategies (podcasts, op-eds, blog posts, etc) in partnership with the Director of Storytelling to amplify the work of our movement grantees and inspire/push our philanthropic peers to move resources

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
  • 4 to 6 years of experience within racial justice movements, reproductive justice movements, and/or social justice philanthropy
  • Strong demonstrated commitment to Emergent Fund’s mission, including to racial and economic justice, reproductive justice, Indigenous sovereignty, folks in the South, LGBTQ issues, trans justice, sex worker rights, people who use substances, people with experience with the criminal legal system, undocumented and immigrant communities, disability justice
  • Demonstrate personal/professional commitment to social justice movements and the leadership of trans and queer people of color, women of color including embodying this in how you show up within the organization
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to 

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