Senior Manager, Organizational Transformation

Role Description

This position will facilitate and support SEIU’s change effort to become an anti-racist organization by developing and scaling up effective education and engagement, anti-racial change strategies and programs, and facilitating the development of racially just organizational practices, policies, and systems.

• Lead capacity building efforts targeted at developing the ability of SEIU’s various locals, programs, and departments to effectively implement, monitor, and evaluate progress towards becoming an anti-racist organization.
• Identify, convene, and facilitate collaborations and design efforts around campaigns, programs, and efforts that advance anti-racist organizational practices, policies, and systems.
• Work with specified Union departments, locals, BOLD consultants, etc. to develop and integrate robust racial justice change strategies and practices.
• Analyze/assess capacity building needs.
• Provide input on relevant performance indicators and evaluations to reflect progress (quantitative and qualitative).
• Participate in program monitoring, evaluation, and periodic reporting.
• Stay abreast of key developments in the anti-racist organizational transformation movements and/or organizational development, capacity building, human resource, and leadership development fields to incorporate innovations into the BOLD Center’s approach.
• Develop and maintain relationships with racial justice movement, capacity building, and organizational changes partners.
• Connect union partners with external partners as needed.
• Facilitate the sharing of experiences, dissemination of successful practices, and fostering of a learning culture.
• Compile, develop, and update written resources and templates.
• Ensure coherence and mutual reinforcement of specific projects as they fit into advancing the Union’s overall racial justice strategy and approach.
• Work collaboratively with the BOLD Center team to develop and define its programs and strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in economics, race studies, political science, organizational development, or a related field.
• Three years of experience implementing and leading racial justice change programs, including two years in a capacity-building and coordination role.
• Program or project management background that involved developing and executing complex project timelines, coordinating multiple projects, and prioritizing tasks.
• Substantive experience helping organizations achieve impact through capacity building and organizational change.
• Significant experience within communities of color – Black communities, in particular.
• Excellent writing, verbal, and analytical skills with a particular ability to communicate complex ideas in clear, concise terms.
• Strong structural and anti-Black racial justice analysis that corresponds with SEIU’s adopted racial justice analysis, conclusions, and approaches.
• Solid understanding of the issues involved in organizing for economic and social justice, and a strong commitment to meeting the particular challenges facing communities of color, especially Black communities.
• Broad knowledge of systems thinking, organizational development, capacity building, and change management theories, methods, and approaches.
• Knowledge and practices for racial justice to offer, as well as enjoyment and openness to learning from others, incorporating new perspectives, issues, and experiences, and taking risks.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively, build consensus, and cooperate with a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience developing and facilitating partnerships among diverse teams, groups, and leaders.
• Experience supporting colleagues from a distance.
• Ability to work in a team, share information, and contribute to the routine tasks of the team.

Requirements

• Must have the ability to work in an office (or similar) setting with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Travel in addition to long and extended work hours are required.

Benefits

• A comprehensive, employer-sponsored health benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• A defined benefit pension plan.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
• Additional benefits consistent with a mission-driven workplace.