Program Manager, Advocacy and Organizing
Listed on 2026-10-02
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Non-Profit & Social Impact
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Management
Project & Program Management, General Management
Program Manager, Advocacy and Organizing
Transit Center is a private foundation that conducts research and advocacy and works nationally to improve public transit in ways that make U.S. cities more just and environmentally sustainable. To do this, we are committed to reforming how and by whom decisions about transit are made, bringing new perspectives, especially those of transit riders, into planning and policy work. We believe that supporting community-based activists and harnessing riders’ voices are critical to advancing change.
More about Transit Center’s work and staff can be found on our website, transitcenter.org In order to live our organization values (listed below), specifically to have an equitable and
inclusive workplace, people of color, people with low incomes, women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.
ABOUT THE POSITIONAdvocacy and Organizing Program Managers are the primary connectors between Transit Center and the universe of transit advocates and organizers across the country. They hold routine conversations and meetings with grantees and other field partners to discuss strategies and tactics, work plans, alliances, organizational sustainability, and funding strategies. They recruit and invite organizations into group organizing projects, and they make funding recommendations to senior leadership.
They assess alignment between individual organizations and Transit Center playing a key role in defining the nature of the relationship between field organizations and Transit Center. Program managers are involved in strategy development and program implementation of both Transit Center and that of our grantees and field partners.
The new program manager will join a small team with two to three other members. Work plans are highly integrated and candidates should expect to collaborate regularly with colleagues and with staff members from key partner organizations. Division of labor within the team is fluid and distributed through a combination of geographical and issue considerations, personal areas of interest and expertise, fair work load balance, and more.
COMPENSATION$84,000 to $126,000
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