Associate Director of Membership Engagement

About The Right To The City Alliance (RTTC)

Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) emerged in 2007 with a strong and powerful vision to
1) halt the displacement of low-income people, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQ communities, and youth of color, and
2) protect and expand affordable housing in tandem with a broader movement to build democratic and just healthy communities for the 21st century.

Since its inception, RTTC has quickly grown to encompass over 90 community-based racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice organizations located in 26 states and 45 cities. Representing true grassroots power and leadership of the most impacted, RTTC’s member organizations weave together local on-the-ground organizing, policy, and advocacy campaigns to build a robust and unstoppable national movement for inclusive, healthy housing and community development.

We take the work seriously, but not ourselves:
Right to the City is committed to a work culture of care and balance. We understand that rigor and rest are compatible and both are necessary to reach our movement building goals. We actively work to audit our policy and culture in service of our commitment to racial justice and feminist praxis. Principled struggle and generative conflict are core commitments and we take a transformative approach to resolving harm.

While we take our commitments seriously, our work environment commonly includes jokes, laughter, celebration and all other manner of enjoyable human experiences.

The RTTC Associate Director of Membership Engagement will oversee alliance wide membership engagement, assembly planning and support campaign strategy and implementation as part of the organizing department leadership.

The Associate Director will guide and supervise national organizing staff to implement the alliance's membership programming. Specifically, monthly member calls and training, RTTCs all-member assembly (held every 3 years), and our annual RTTC Governance Assembly. This position will also lead the RTTC Membership Team to implement on-going engagement activities with member organizations to support, grow and prepare our national campaign, Homes For All.

We are looking for someone to join our energetic, visionary and solutions-oriented national staff team to help build the powerful movement we need to win the right to the city and liberation for our people. The ideal candidate will be someone who is multifaceted, able to adapt to changing conditions, believes deeply in self-determination and community power, and who embodies a commitment to both personal and systemic transformation.

This position

Reports to:

Director of Membership Engagement, participates in the Organizing Department, the Leadership Team and leads the Membership Engagement Team.

• Political and Organizational Leadership (approx 20%)
• Strategic and Political Alignment
• Provide leadership in developing politically grounded assessments, proposals, and strategic priorities
• Build alliance-wide coherence and alignment with both staff and members around strategy and priorities
• Reflect a commitment to praxis
• Cross-Department Integration
• Integrate departments through cross dept/team discussion
• Clarify work plans for departments and teams
• Department and Team Management (approx. 25%)
• Cross-Team Department Alignment
• Align the work of the Membership Team with the alliance’s long-term strategy, mid-term strategic objectives, and short-term campaign goals
• Finalize department & team work plans
• Plan for Dept Meetings with department leadership
• Plan & Monitor Program Implementation
• Share reports directly from team & supervision meetings
• Surface cross-department issues to bring to the leadership and/or…