Healing, Sustainability and Culture (HSC) Program Director

Position Title: Healing, Sustainability and Culture Program Director

Reports To: Deputy Director of Transformative Organizing

About Us

The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is a new time-limited e ntity that will deepen and expand the capacity, impact, and sustainability of California's grassroots movements for racial justice and social transformation. Through offerings that are additive and synergistic with existing movement efforts, the MIC will support changemakers and organizations in catalyzing innovations in movement strategy, power-building, intergenerational leadership development, and collective long-term sustainability and resilience. Through a network of physical and virtual "centers," the MIC will also contribute a key piece of infrastructure to fuel transformative structural change across California. This network will consist of new and existing centers serving hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of grassroots leaders in California. MIC will focus on six core strategies:

• Organizing Strategy and Innovation (OS&I)
• Healing, Sustainability and Culture (HSC)
• Network of Centers (NoC)
• Regional Ecosystems (RE)
• Movement Strategy & Innovation (MS&I)
• Learning & Impact (L&I)

Position Overview

Our Healing, Sustainability, and Culture Program (HSC) innovates healing, sustainability, and culture approaches that ensure power building in California is transformative, values-aligned, and durable at the scale to win. This program strategy will leverage a myriad of current initiatives and collaborative efforts to inspire transformative practice, integrate social-emotional capacities, innovate durable power strategies, and invest in collective care within power-building sectors. Through resourced cohorts and experiments, targeted leadership training, and healing infrastructure and events, the HSC Program builds movement infrastructure for transformative strategies that center safety, belonging, and dignity.

What You’ll Be Doing

In partnership with the MIC Deputy of Transformative Organizing and other key stakeholders, refine and implement a strategic program, including key investments and partnerships, that leverage the outcomes and learnings from the pilot phase, and build collective systems and practices supported by networked infrastructure. Over the first year, this position will be managed by the Deputy Director of Strategy.

• Define and prioritize program goals and outcomes into actionable work plans to meet the overall objectives of the strategic plan
• Cultivate Communities of Practice (politicized healers, movement operations practitioners, power-building change makers), to understand and assess the healing, sustainability, and culture needs of the movement workforce, supported by research
• Convene a wide range of stakeholders to engage in collaborative ideation and shared analysis and approach for defining collective movement standards/principles for fair labor standards, democratic governance, and other elements of durable and transformative power-building organizations
• Landscape and assess the state of social-emotional training curriculum and offerings, and develop key interventions to meet the needs of power-building leaders, members, and movement support practitioners
• Cultivate networks and deepen relationships with practitioners, subject-matter experts, researchers, and capacity-builders
• Oversee all action research for testing HSC practices, collect data, and facilitate gatherings for sense-making
• Work in close collaboration with other MIC leadership to ensure alignment, cross-fertilization, and shared programming across all program strategies
• In collaboration with the Learning and Impact Director, support knowledge capture and dissemination related to HSC

We envision that as we move beyond the startup phase, the responsibilities for this position will shift to address other growing and strategic needs of Healing, Sustainability, and Culture in the power-building field.

Who You Are
While no one person will embody all of the qualities described below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:

• 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.

Employment Classification and Salary

• This is a full-time, exempt position starting as soon as possible. This role is remote; however, the candidate must be in California.
• The starting salary for this position is $160,000
• The MIC has a 90-day trial period policy for all new hires. This allows both the organization and the employee to ensure a great fit. During this period, performance, adaptability, and cultural alignment will be assessed through ongoing feedback and a formal review.

Benefits

• 100% organization-funded medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, their spouses or domestic partners, and their children. Coverage begins on the first day of employment.
• Paid Time Off: As a full-time employee, you will receive 15 days of vacation, 12 sick days per year, and a generous paid family leave policy. Accrual of this benefit begins on the first day of employment and becomes available upon completion of the 90-day trial period.
• Paid Holidays: 21 days total, including a 10-day Winter Break overlapping with Christmas and New Year’s Day. Additionally, 4 Floating Holidays will be made available upon completion of the 90-day trial period.
• Retirement Plan: MIC offers a 403b retirement plan. MIC contributes an employer-paid amount equal to 5% of your salary. Vesting for this contribution is immediate. Employees have a default 3% personal contribution rate and may adjust it at any time. This benefit becomes available after the 90-day trial period.

MIC’s salaries and benefits reflect our commitment to collective care and sustainability. They may evolve as the organization grows, and employees will be updated as changes occur. Additional details will be provided upon hiring.

Movement Innovation Collaborative is an equal-opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage those who see alignment with our mission and believe they have the relevant skills and experience to apply. We commit to providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated with fairness, dignity, and respect.