Special Assistant to Co-Directors

The Opportunity

Down Home North Carolina (DHNC) is seeking an experienced professional and social justice practitioner to play a key role in supporting the effectiveness of Down Home’s Greensboro-based co‑directing team. We are looking for an organized, high‑performing, and thoughtful person who is excited about aligning the co‑directors’ day‑to‑day activities with the organization's vision, values, and goals. This is a unique opportunity to serve as an executive assistant who is part strategic thinking partner and part executive coach for senior leaders at one of the nation’s leading community organizing shops.

The ideal candidate has excellent personal organization and communication skills, and is highly motivated to win changes for working‑class people in North Carolina. They are familiar with nonprofit workflows and may have previous experience working with nonprofit leaders, boards, management, or in fundraising and development roles. They are highly accountable and professional, and enjoy building and maintaining organizational systems.

• You love building relationships with organizational leaders and helping them become more effective
• You are organized, detail‑oriented, and thorough with follow‑through
  ● you enjoy creating systems that help organizational leaders thrive
• You have a coaching and strategic thinking orientation: you know how to ask the right questions to help activate wisdom
• You value authentic connection
• You know how to “manage up” with grace and tact
• You embody and practice the values you wish to see in the world

Down Home North Carolina is a growing statewide organization of rural and small‑town communities that advocate for economic, gender, and racial justice. We move North Carolina toward the values of dignity, safety, and inclusion through leadership development, strategic campaigning, multiracial movement building, and civic engagement that advance positive, life‑changing reforms for rural communities.

Founded in 2017, Down Home has built a strong organizational track record, including:

• Helping to elect the first Latine state legislator in NC history
• Winning Medicaid expansion for more than 600,000 working Carolinians
• Growing a statewide membership base that includes all 100 counties of North Carolina
• Establishing member‑led chapters across 9 counties, stretching from the mountains to the sea
• Anchoring the first southern, rural, deep canvass and race‑class narrative tests
• Holding and growing statewide coalitions to fight for a just COVID‑19 recovery, community investment, and fully funded public schools

• Ensure that the Greensboro‑based co‑directors’ day‑to‑day activities align with organizational priorities, values, and vision, and that they support their effectiveness
• Coordinate all aspects of the co‑director calendars, including scheduling meetings and calls.
• Bottomline logistics for meetings, including identifying dates and locations and coordinating travel, lodging, and meals
• Participate in strategy sessions— with an eye toward organizational effectiveness and value‑alignment—and provide thoughtful feedback to the co‑directors
• Support the co‑directors’ management of email correspondence and organization of documents
• Work in partnership with program and fundraising staff to ensure that the co‑directors are prepared for meetings and events
• Represent the co‑directors and provide their perspectives on calls and meetings when needed
• Assist the co‑directors in implementing management policies regarding labor relations, including knowledge of and adherence to confidential information, including but not limited to collective‑bargaining negotiations.
• Contribute to a dynamic and growing staff culture at Down Home NC. Play a part in our diverse, dynamic, and inclusive team of organizers and fellow Down Home staff; contribute positively to the culture of the organization
• Be dedicated to building power with the multiracial working class of rural North Carolina

• Mission alignment: Committed to the vision of a powerful, inclusive, rural, multiracial, working‑class movement‑building as…