NRG Consulting Group · 13 hours ago
United Working Families - Executive Director
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$95K/yr - $105K/yrNRG Consulting Group is supporting United Working Families, an independent political organization representing over 100,000 working people across Illinois. They are seeking an Executive Director to lead the organization in winning and wielding political power for the working class, focusing on strategic leadership, fundraising, and organizational development.
Non-profit Organization Management
Responsibilities
Collectively craft and drive a set political and organizing strategy aimed at taking the power needed to use the levers of the state to self-evidently improve people’s lives such that other dimensions of struggle can accelerate
Drive goal-setting across multiple stakeholder axes (leadership, staff, membership, ecosystem) and put the necessary systems in place (coordination structure, staff support, fundraising, etc) to meet them
Seek out learning opportunities, practices, tools, and resources to sharpen our collective thinking, praxis, and arguments
Cultivate relationships with key organizations, partners, funders, and allies to encourage greater solidarity, clarity, and alignment in the movement ecosystem
Create and execute fundraising workplans that prioritize keeping UWF’s revenue stream majority dues-based in order to allow for programmatic dynamism and keep us accountable to our working-class membership
Drive an organizational culture of learning, experimentation, and principled struggle that is continuously bringing working-class, BIPOC people into a political home in which they are members, organizers, and leaders
Provide staff supervision, coaching, support, and accountability
Work to ensure that UWF has the structural stability (finance, legal, HR, operations) needed to nourish an environment of innovation, collaboration, and possibility
Supervise the Communications team to tell the story of UWF’s learnings, contributions, and victories to our leaders, members, funders, and partners
Build a team of officers who are owning and taking responsibility for the work of the party, including preparation for all Executive and Party Committee meetings
Build deep relationships with Party Committee delegates from both affiliated organizations and individual membership in order to foster a bold, clear, and strategic decision-making environment based on solidarity
Create on-ramps for individual members and incoming organizations to take on leadership of our party, with a focus on nurturing the inclusion of BIPOC organizations and members
Provide reports and recommendations to the Officers, Executive Committee, and Party Committee as needed
In addition to the specific job responsibilities, the staff member will perform other tasks as requested
Qualification
Required
Have recent experience in a senior- or executive-level position in a labor, community, and/or political organization. Experience across multiple types of organizations (e.g. labor AND community) is especially desired
Have recent experience managing mid- or senior-level employees, with a focus on staff development and skill-building
Have a proven track record of fundraising from a wide variety of sources (including grassroots, institutional, major donors) and managing budgets accordingly
Have a track record of working in coalitions and leading coalitions and understands coalition dynamics
Can clearly communicate and champion UWF's political goals, strategy, and mission and has a track record of work aligned with UWF mission
Are highly emotionally intelligent and able to build deep relationships with a wide range of leaders and stakeholders
Preferred
Are experienced and comfortable with organizational change processes. This is a major transition for a dynamic organization that has changed significantly over the past five years; a successful applicant will be excited about change management work
Have a track record of building resilient, reflective, high-functioning, and collaborative organizational cultures
Has existing relationships and a strong network within UWF, or in UWF-adjacent or UWF-aligned organizations
Are experienced organizers who are willing and able to model the hard and soft skills they seek to develop in others
Benefits
Health benefits
Paid time off
Company
NRG Consulting Group
We build teams, so you can build movements. How do we do it? In three words: relationships and speed.
Founded in 2018
11-50 employees
Funding
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Early StageLeadership Team
Charity Carbine-March
Chief Operating Officer
Naomi Roth-Gaudette
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