The Healing, Sustainability and Culture (HSC) Program Director will innovate healing, sustainability, and culture approaches to ensure power building in California is transformative, values-aligned, and durable at the scale to win. This position will refine and implement a strategic program, cultivate communities of practice, convene stakeholders, landscape and assess social-emotional training curriculum, and develop key interventions to meet the needs of power-building leaders, members, and movement support practitioners.
Requirements
- Strategic Architecture: Proven success in designing multi-year programs and curricula that build organizational resilience, durability, and belonging.
- Action-Oriented Innovation: An entrepreneurial and adaptable leadership style capable of linking people-development to measurable movement outcomes.
- Power-Building Experience: 5–10 years of experience supporting base-building organizations, with deep familiarity with California’s political economy and movement landscape.
- Mission Alignment: Fierce commitment to MIC’s mission and a demonstrated ability to tackle issues of race, equity, and power both internally and externally.
- Mastery of Transformative Practice: Significant expertise in arenas such as Generative Somatics, Forward Stance, or therapeutic methods, with experience embedding these practices into social movements.
- Cultural & Relational Intelligence: High level of cultural awareness and the ability to handle strong opinions and build trusted relationships across diverse, intergenerational, and cross-racial stakeholder groups.
- Consultative Convening: Skilled in facilitating groups to interpret complex data, navigate strong opinions, and reach collective decisions.
- Conflict & Care Management: The ability to co-design and implement codified protocols for collective care and generative conflict resolution.
- Project Precision: Operational and technical excellence, with exceptional project management and planning skills, and a track record of producing high-quality deliverables in a fast-paced, "startup" environment.
- Strategic Communication: Excellent verbal, written and technology skills, with the ability to present complex infrastructure concepts to funders, boards, and movement partners.
- Leadership Stance: Leadership style that is collaborative, action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, community-centered, and brings an innovative approach to addressing challenges.
Benefits
- 100% organization-funded medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 15 days of vacation, 12 sick days per year, and a generous paid family leave policy
- 21 paid holidays, including a 10-day Winter Break and 4 Floating Holidays
- 403b retirement plan with immediate vesting and a default 3% personal contribution rate
