Center for Popular Democracy, Fair Workweek Initiative

Join the next wave in the movement for economic justice in America.

Across the country, low-wage hourly workers struggle with unpredictable part-time hours that wreak havoc on their lives and cause economic insecurity. The Center for Popular Democracy’s Fair Workweek Initiative (FWI) seeks a Director of Corporate Strategies to drive national field and digital campaigns to restore a sustainable workweek for the country’s hourly workforce.

About The Center for Popular Democracy

CPD promotes equity, opportunity, and a dynamic democracy in partnership with innovative base-building organizations, organizing networks and alliances, and progressive unions across the country. CPD builds the strength and capacity of democratic organizations to envision and advance a pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial justice agenda. Learn more at: www.populardemocracy.org.

About The Fair Workweek Initiative

Anchored by the CPD and CPD Action, the FWI is driving the growing momentum to restore a workweek that enables working families to thrive. We are committed to elevating the voices of working people to ensure they shape the solutions that work for their families – through improved industry practices or workplace protections. Learn more at: www.fairworkweek.org.

Job Responsibilities

The Director of Corporate Strategies will develop and drive campaign strategy to restore a fair workweek for the country’s hourly workforce. Working with community partners, the Director will advance a national and local campaigns that are driven by worker leadership and grassroots mobilizations and integrate research, legal, digital and communications.

The Director will play a hands-on role with CPD community partner organizations implementing worker-driven campaign strategies.

The Director of Corporate Strategies will report to the Director of the Fair Workweek Initiative.

Duties will include:

• Advancing national and local worker-driven campaigns to raise work hours standards in the service sector along with a broader public education campaign to raise awareness about fair workweek issues.
• Developing the leadership of workers to drive corporate accountability campaigns and build sustainable worker networks.
• Working with grassroots partners to implement these campaigns through staff training and coaching in organizing, leadership development, providing essential campaign tools and coordination with other groups.
• Providing the infrastructure for Fair Workweek campaign partners to collaborate, coordinate strategies, organize national days of action, and convene national committee calls and meetings of member leaders.
• Collaboration with communications and digital teams to drive innovative, creative digital organizing and communications strategies to support worker outreach, engagement and to advance the public education campaigns.
• Working with the Deputy Director of policy campaigns to provide support to field, coalition, political, and media work related to municipal, state and federal policy campaigns.
• Collaborating with the Director on fundraising efforts to support the national program and re-grant resources to partners in the field.
• Supervise the Program Manager and provide guidance on achieving programmatic and campaigning goals and partnerships related to CPD’s supported workforce development programs and employer engagement.

Qualifications

We seek outcome-driven candidates with excellent relationship-building skills. Ideal candidates should have demonstrated experience in the following:

• 8-10 years of relevant campaign experience, including 5 years of managerial-level experience on worker or community organizing campaigns, developing grassroots leadership and building worker committees, coalition-building.
• Experience utilizing comprehensive campaign strategies to drive campaigns.
• A strong commitment to social justice and an understanding of challenges facing caregivers, communities of color, and low-and moderate-income families.
• Extensive experience supervision and navigating organizational partnerships.
• A track record of developing and maintaining strong working relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple projects and ability to coordinate with partners on digital campaigning, earned media, and joint campaign projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong writing skills for public education, digital organizing, and earned media.
• Experience with earned media, social media, multimedia and/or creative communications strategies.
• Foundation and other fundraising experience.

Generous salary and benefits package, depending on experience.

We encourage interested candidates to apply by July 15. However, the position is open until filled, and candidates who apply after that date will still be reviewed.