Development Director

About Power Switch Action

Power Switch Action is a national network organizing to realize and build multi-racial feminist democracies in our cities, towns and regions. Together with our 21 affiliates we are driving an agenda to bring the billions of dollars in local public investments under the oversight of the communities most impacted, to expand decision making and power to more of the residents in our regions, to support the building and growth of member‑based organizations, and to challenge, when necessary, corporate actors who use their power to extract and cause harm to our communities.

Power Switch Action’s network currently includes 21 grassroots organizations pioneering innovative policy and organizing approaches in cities, counties, and states around the US. Our affiliates weave strategic alliances and alignments amongst labor, neighborhood, housing, racial justice, faith, ethnic‑based, and environmental groups to organize communities, advocate for policy change, and shift power from corporations to the people whose labor has been exploited and whose voices are excluded.

Leaders of our network and national staff recently completed our long term agenda on our path to collective liberation and towards a multiracial, feminist democracy that is powered by abundance, freedom and self‑determination, radical inclusion, and meaningful work that is valued. Our long term agenda is guided by four interwoven core strategies:

• Build Authentic Inclusive Democracy, by creating a body of campaigns and programs that develop ways in which to open government to resident voices.
• A People’s Economy, for many not the few. The racial wealth gap, the gender gap, the rampant racism, and human exploitation are常委 across the design of the machine. We need a new apparatus that is accountable to people, to the many.
• Grow Civic Organizations:
  Labor, Tenants, Borrowers, Ethnic. An organized citizenry is best able to take on questionable or corrupt practices. We need to dramatically increase the numbers of people organized in order to effectively contest capital, stave off authoritarianism, and bring out the democracies that we envision.
• Rein in Corporate Power. If our ultimate goal is to develop the capacity of people to govern and manage democracy and the economy then they must experience their power to bring corporations to heel. We can prove to the American people that it’s possible to reclaim public goods from corporate capture, reject extreme exploitation of workers, and beat back corporate overreach— all while fighting for our collective liberation.

The Development Director will serve as a key thought partner to the Executive Director, Program staff and members of the Leadership Team. They will be responsible for guiding the development of strategy, the oversight, and the execution of our development plans while maximizing the backend systems to ensure we have the resources and long term financial sustainability needed to achieve our mission.

The Development Director will also manage a grant writing firm who is responsible for writing grant proposals, reports and other key grant-related documents.

The Development Director is a seasoned development professional with a track record of setting and meeting ambitious fundraising goals, who can meaningfully lift up our mission, long‑term agenda, and solicit potential funders, ensuring that our values are at the forefront. The Development Director is adept at partnering with the Executive Director and other team members to execute our fundraising plans and steward donor relationships with regular updates and touch points.

The Director of Development will collaborate across the organization to ensure there is a cohesive strategy for revenue diversification, donor stewardship and grants tracking. All Directors are required to be both strategic leaders and hands‑on in executing strategies and digging into the details. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to be part of growing a mature organization that has gone through a strategic pivot.

The ideal candidate is relationships‑oriented with a strong acumen as a collaborator,…