Right to the City Alliance 

Job Description: Director of Resource Strategies

Salary: $125-130K/year

About Right to the City Alliance

Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) emerged in 2007 with a strong and powerful vision to 1) halt the displacement of low-income people, people of color, LGBTQ communities, and youth of color, and 2) protect and expand affordable housing in tandem with a broader movement to build democratic and just healthy communities for the 21st century. Since its inception, RTTC has quickly grown to encompass over 75 community-based racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice organizations located in 26 states and 45 cities. Representing true grassroots power and leadership of the most impacted, RTTC’s member organizations weave together local on-the-ground policy advocacy campaigns to build a robust and unstoppable movement for land and housing justice.

Position Summary

The RTTC Director of Resource Strategies leads the Resource Strategies Department, advancing resource development, non-extractive capital strategies, and financial management as an integrated movement-building strategy for the RTTC ecosystem and the grassroots organizing sector more broadly. This position develops and coordinates resource strategies from individuals, foundations, and federal funding sources to advance the decommodification and democratization of land and housing on a mass scale. 

The Resource Strategies Department encompasses three main work areas:

1. Resource Development

2. Capital Strategies

3. Financial Management

The Director of Resource Strategies is a member of RTTC’s Directors Team, an eight-person senior leadership body responsible for guiding overall organizational strategy and sustainability. This position is supervised by RTTC’s Executive Director.

Job Responsibilities

1. Advance Organizing of Philanthropic Sector (40% FTE, 16 hours)

• Organize and align key sections of the philanthropic sector around the strategic importance of grassroots organizing and long-term power-building 
• Secure new funding sources for the alliance through establishing relationships with prospective foundation staff and other sources
• Provide political leadership connecting issue frameworks and articulating a compelling case for RTTC’s long-term vision, strategy and resource needs.  

2. Direct Resource Strategies Department (40% FTE, 16 hours)

• Lead all aspects of the Resource Strategies Department, and develop the leadership, political clarity, and effectiveness of department staff
• Provide rigorous ongoing support and accountability in the form of regular supervision to (1) the Associate Director of Resource Development, (2) the Senior Organizer of Capital Strategies, and (3) the Senior Organizer of Financial Management. Identify supervisees’ areas of growth and development, provide ongoing constructive feedback, and carry out formal annual staff evaluations. Participate as needed in supporting senior staff with supervision challenges and any performance improvement measures
• Collaborate across departments to create an environment that nurtures a strategic understanding of resources throughout the organization
• Foster an environment of cohesiveness, collaboration and effectiveness and ensure staff accountability for excellence through clearly defined and measurable goals. Create a climate that promotes principled struggle, respect for others, and acceptance of alternative ideas and approaches. 

3. Co-Direct Organizational Strategy & Sustainability (20% FTE, 8 hours)

• Provide and contribute to developing politically grounded assessments, proposals and strategic priorities as a member of the Directors Team
• Ensure operational coherence between various departments, staff teams, and member-led governance bodies while strengthening the interdependent relationship between infrastructure and programmatic work 
• Model grounded, politically clear leadership and provide guidance where necessary to continue aligning and cohering our staff and member leaders around organizational strategy, principles, policies, and practices
• Identify and respond to critical events in the form of threats, unanticipated incidents, or negative disruptions that have the potential to impact the alliance’s health, sustainability, and/or wellbeing
• Engage external relationships to build broader social movement-level alignment, capacity, resources, and infrastructure

Qualifications We’re Looking For

• Must have at least 5 years direct fundraising experience, and 5 years of management experience with at least 3 years in a senior management capacity
• Demonstrated record of transformative leadership within social movements and/or philanthropic sector with a proven record of developing successful partnerships
• Strong interpersonal skills with the intellectual and emotional depth, maturity and collaborative skills to work effectively across all levels of the organization as well as with movement allies and philanthropic partners
• A strong work ethic, ability to maintain and model high personal, political and professional standards, as well as a fit with RTTC’s “work hard, play hard” culture

Qualities We Are Looking For

1. Bold Vision. You bring fierce imagination and deep commitment that we can and will create the world our communities need. You can share that vision in ways that inspire and compel.

2. Swiss Army Knife. You are resourceful and creative, willing to do what it takes to make a project succeed. You can handle a lot in a fast-paced, multi-faceted work environment.

3. Interdependent. You are able to work independently, self-managing your time, while maintaining close communication with remote teams. You are flexible and know that changing the world doesn't always happen between 9am and 5pm.

4. Low ego, high impact. You are disciplined, rigorous, and more group-centered than self-centered. You have an excellent attention to detail and keep your eyes on the big picture.

Location & Travel: Location is negotiable. RTTC has concentrations of staff in the following areas: Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn, Durham, and the SF Bay Area. On average, this position will be expected to travel 1-2x per month for a total of 5-10 days per month.

Salary and Benefits: This is a full time, exempt position. The salary for this position is $125,000-130,000, with room for growth in subsequent years. RTTC offers a generous and comprehensive benefits package including 100% medical, dental and life insurance, 401k retirement plan, as well as sick and vacation PTO. 

Right To The City Alliance is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  Applicants from communities heavily impacted by gentrification, displacement and housing insecurity are strongly encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.