Regional Ecosystems Program Director

Position Title:

Regional Ecosystems Program Director

Reports To:

Deputy Director of Regional Power

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 also 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)

The Regional Ecosystems Director is primarily responsible for stewarding MIC’s Regional Ecosystems program eight key priority regions in California, with strategic prioritization of the Inland Empire and Central Valley. This program does not drive campaigns or policy agendas. Instead, it strengthens the underlying infrastructure and conditions that enable grassroots power building organizations to lead durable collective action. Through regional experimentation, shared learning, and accompaniment, the program supports organizations in evolving governance, coordination, and collaborative practices that build durable regional power.

This role is critical in the design, implementation, and continuous refinement of frameworks, assessments, models, and other tools, tailored to support regional organizations to strengthen alignment, deepen strategic coherence, and integrate movement-building practices into regional formations.

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Regional Power, this role works cross-functionally with MIC program teams, strategic partners, and regional organizations to co-design, pilot, and refine approaches that strengthen shared analysis, strategic alignment, co-governance, principled struggle, and ecosystem coordination, embedding movement-building practices that increase the long-term effectiveness and resilience of regional ecosystems.

The Regional Ecosystems Director will have the following responsibilities in this phase of the MIC:

• Regional Ecosystem Frameworks & Models, 30%
  • Lead and steward collaborative and iterative processes to develop Regional Ecosystem frameworks, assessments, tools, and coordination models in deep partnership with grassroots base building/power building organizations, MIC teams, and strategic partners.
  • Lead the synthesis of learning from regional experimentation into practical tools, guidance, and approaches that can be adapted across regional contexts.
  • Contribute to MIC-wide strategy development and learning related to regional power and movement infrastructure.
• Regional Formations & Implementation Support, 30%
  • Support anchor organizations in building the capacities needed to convene, coordinate, and steward regional power building efforts.
  • Guide and oversee the development and testing of regional formations as durable spaces.
  • Steward the development of practices that help regional formations move beyond transactional coordination toward durable relationships, shared governance, collective strategy, and long‑term regional power.
  • Oversee and coordinate resourcing and support for regional organizations to engage in experimentation that strengthens regional ecosystem formations, culture, and practice.
  • Provide technical assistance and accompaniment to regional organizations implementing tools, practices and collaborative governance models in emerging or established Regional formations.
• Regional Assessments, Learning & Synthesis, 20%
  • Oversee the development and implementation of…