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$ 165000 - 180000
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Chief of Staff
Civil Rights Corps
Salary: $165000 to $180000 per year.
Civil Rights Corps (CRC) is a nonprofit civil rights organization based in Washington D.C. Founded in 2016 CRC challenges wealthbased and racebased systems of oppression. We work to shift power to communityled movements particularly those led by Black Brown and poor people who are most affected by this legal system so they can build sufficient power to create structural change. We work with individuals accused and convicted of crimes their families and communities people currently or formerly incarcerated activists organizers judges and government officials to challenge mass human caging to create a legal system that promotes equality and human freedom and to dismantle white supremacy. Civil Rights Corps engages in advocacy and public education and specializes in innovative systemic civil rights litigation with the goal of resensitizing the legal system and our culture to the injustice and brutality that characterize the contemporary U.S. legal system. CRC has won groundbreaking litigation challenging the rise of debtors prisons abusive private probation schemes and wealthbased pretrial detention. CRC works closely with community partners and is committed to fundamentally transforming the criminal system. CRCs staff is comprised of passionate and dedicated advocates with a profound commitment to social justice and fighting inequality in all its forms. Learn more about our work at www.civilrightscorps.
Job Responsibilities:
Ensure the development and smooth implementation of key strategies outlined by leadership and the board
- Work closely with senior leadership to run the organization on a daytoday basis from highlevel strategy to personnel matters;
- Support COO in strategic planning policy development decisionmaking project management and special projects;
- Represent senior leadership with internal stakeholders;
- Advise the rest of senior leadership with internal communication and attending to staff needs ensuring any problems are resolved;
- Keep the rest of the senior leadership abreast of the current organizational climate (employee wellbeing project statuses new proposals etc.;
- Prepare presentations updates and reports in support of the Board of Directors meetings;
- Lead a consistent organizationwide approach to planning learning and assessment to increase organizational effectiveness;
Develop support and maintain a strong positive and collaborative work culture.
- Help develop and implement leaderships plan to create strengthen and/or support CRCs internal culture organizational workrelated policies and team structure;
- Represent management along with the COO in the labor management council and support the implementation of the CBA;
- Work with the COO to establish and maintain an HR structure for the organization;
- Develop implement and review updated policies and strategies. Maintain a highlevel awareness of all ongoing work throughout the organization and build connections across different streams of work to avoid duplication and amplify efforts;
- Build relationships with staff in order to improve internal communications and increase operational responsiveness;
- Develop and refine mechanisms for teams to work more effectively together and help ensure team members have the information and tools they need to be successful;
- Generate solutions to personnel conflicts as they arise;
- Design and facilitate effective and equitable hiring processes;
Administration
- Manage leadership team meetings.
- Coordinate and prepare briefing memos talking points and background research to prepare leadership for internal meetings and external engagements.
- Handle confidential information.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Skills:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to write for various audiences on various technical and policy topics;
- Ability to manage a portfolio of duties and projects with various timelines and deadlines;
- Track record of working closely with and building consensus among executive level leaders teams and outside partners;
- Successful implementation of strategy at different levels of the organization
- A critical thinker who can analyze issues and provide strategic input;
- Strong management skills and ability to navigate interpersonal relationships in a productive manner;
- Ability to guide or oversee the guidance for staff with interpersonal conflict in the workplace;
- Ability to collaborate with individuals and groups to reach solutions to needs or issues; strong intuition and problemsolving skills;
- Ability to think creatively and suggest new proposals for organizationwide and team specific education and professional development;
- Ability to exercise high and strict levels of confidentiality and use professional judgment and discretion;
- Familiarity with GSuite Slack and other webbased applications;
- Comfort designing and facilitating conflict resolution processes;
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Qualifications
- JD with prior litigation experience required (civil rights or criminal defense litigation experience preferred);
- Experience working on improving organizational culture human resources and/or internal policies;
- Experience recruiting and hiring staff as well as supervising and mentoring and providing critical and constructive feedback;
- Experience supervising team members in executing the priorities that have been identified;
- Experience implementing overseeing or reviewing organizational evaluations;
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice;
- Proven ability to navigate sensitive personnel issues around identity privilege and equity;
- Prior experience in an organizational leadership function.
A wellqualified candidate will possess the following:
- A recognized leader who elevates others;
- An ability to demonstrate respect professionalism and sound judgment clearly and consistently with all people;
- A network of relationships in the social justice movement space criminal punishment community or the nonprofit sector more broadly;
- Sophisticated understanding of workplace dynamics nonprofit governance and organizational effectiveness and development in social justice movement contexts.
- Strong conflict resolution skills; strong diplomatic qualities; proven capacity to build consensus and compromise within complex structures & teams
Whats attractive to the right candidate
- The opportunity to strengthen the internal capacity of a young innovative organization that is a leader in the field in a time of rising authoritarianism;
- The opportunity to support an important mission at a time of internal adaptation and evolution at CRC;
- The opportunity to work within a vibrant team of valuesdriven individuals;
- The opportunity to create organizational systems;
- A cultural aversion to superfluous internal bureaucracy.
Salary range:$
If you are interested please send your resume and cover letter to .
Employment Type
Full-Time
