Organizing Strategy & Innovation Program Manager

Movement Innovation Collaborative • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $100,000 - $120,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Program Manager for the Organizing Strategy & Innovations (OSI) program is a tactical, execution-focused role. Working closely with the OSI Program Director, the Manager translates high-level strategies into structured, actionable, and measurable deliverables. This position is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of core projects—such as resourced cohorts and capacity-building initiatives—ensuring they are delivered on schedule and meet high-quality standards. The Program Manager handles tactical communications, coordinates program logistics, and supports the implementation of MIC’s transformative organizing and experimentation agenda. In the MIC’s start-up phase, the OSI Program Manager will inform and support implementation of program strategy through:

Requirements

• At least 5–7 years of experience in program management, development or administration, ideally within a social movement or community organizing coalition context.
• Strong commitment to MIC’s mission of racial justice and transformative structural change in California.
• High-level of cultural awareness and experience building trusted relationships and working with different demographic groups and diverse regions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently with high attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate raw data into actionable lessons using an array of technical tools.
• A flexible approach to working in a dynamic startup environment, with the ability to adapt project plans based on feedback.
• Strong familiarity with the grassroots organizations and political landscape of California.

Responsibilities

• Manage the execution of core OSI initiatives, including cohorts focused on upsurge absorption, intergenerational leadership, and organizer pipeline infrastructure.
• Coordinate major project operations, including relationship management with field partners, event logistics, and participant engagement tracking for OSI programs.
• Support the development of detailed project scopes and implementation plans, tracking goals and learning milestones to ensure timely completion.
• Make tactical adjustments to resolve immediate implementation challenges and escalate critical programmatic roadblocks to the Program Director.
• Facilitate regular, program-specific information sharing within the MIC network and with anchor field partners and practitioners.
• Create agendas and facilitate committee meetings as needed to ensure discussions result in clear, actionable next steps.
• Support the management of cross-racial, intergenerational spaces for collaborative learning and strategic alignment.
• Support documentation to share "movement lessons" learned from experiments in building OSI-related movement infrastructure.
• Implement data tracking and other research tasks to support action research for testing OSI models in collaboration with the MS&I and Learning & Impact teams.
• Assist in the codification of breakthrough strategies and findings into accessible toolkits and learning models for the field.
• Support assessments of current trends in Transformative Organizing, including models and frameworks.
• Monitor project-specific expenditures to assist the Program Director in tracking overall resource allocation.
• Collaborate with MIC operations teams to implement program functions using internal systems and infrastructure (e.g., Salesforce, Asana, etc.)

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed