Healing, Sustainability and Culture; HSC Program Director

Position

Position Title:

Healing, Sustainability and Culture Program Director

Reports To:

Deputy Director of Transformative Organizing

The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is a new time-limited entity that will deepen and expand the capacity, impact, and sustainability of California's grassroots movements for racial justice and social transformation. Through offerings that are additive and synergistic with existing movement efforts, the MIC will support changemakers and organizations in catalyzing innovations in movement strategy, power-building, intergenerational leadership development, and collective long-term sustainability and resilience.

Through a network of physical and virtual centers, the MIC will contribute a key piece of infrastructure to fuel transformative structural change across California. This network will consist of new and existing centers serving hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of grassroots leaders in California. MIC will focus on six core strategies:

• Organizing Strategy and Innovation (OS&I)
• Healing, Sustainability and Culture (HSC)
• Network of Centers (NoC)
• Regional Ecosystems (RE)
• Movement Strategy & Innovation (MS&I)
• Learning & Impact (L&I)

Our Healing, Sustainability, and Culture Program (HSC) innovates healing, sustainability, and culture approaches that ensure power building in California is transformative, values-aligned, and durable  program strategy will leverage current initiatives to inspire transformative practice, integrate social-emotional capacities, innovate durable power strategies, and invest in collective care within power-building sectors. Through resourced cohorts and experiments, targeted leadership training, and healing infrastructure and events, the HSC Program builds movement infrastructure for transformative strategies that center safety, belonging, and dignity.

In partnership with the MIC Deputy of Transformative Organizing and other key stakeholders, refine and implement a strategic program, including key investments and partnerships, that leverage the outcomes and learnings from the pilot phase, and build collective systems and practices supported by networked infrastructure. Over the first year, this position will be managed by the Deputy Director of Strategy.

• Define and prioritize program goals and outcomes into actionable work plans to meet the overall objectives of the strategic plan
• Cultivate Communities of Practice (politicized healers, movement operations practitioners, power-building change makers) to understand and assess the healing, sustainability, and culture needs of the movement workforce, supported by research
• Convene a wide range of stakeholders to engage in collaborative ideation and shared analysis for defining collective movement standards/principles for fair labor standards, democratic governance, and other elements of durable and transformative power-building organizations
• Landscape and assess the state of social-emotional training curriculum and offerings, and develop interventions to meet the needs of power-building leaders, members, and movement support practitioners
• Cultivate networks and deepen relationships with practitioners, subject-matter experts, researchers, and capacity-builders
• Oversee all action research for testing HSC practices, collect data, and facilitate gatherings for sense-making
• Work in close collaboration with other MIC leadership to ensure alignment, cross-fertilization, and shared programming across all program strategies
• In collaboration with the Learning and Impact Director, support knowledge capture and dissemination related to HSC

We envision that as we move beyond the startup phase, the responsibilities for this position will shift to address other growing and strategic needs of Healing, Sustainability, and Culture in the power-building field.

While no one person will embody all of the qualities described below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:

• Strategic Architecture: Proven success in designing multi-year programs and curricula that build…