We are seeking an experienced, creative, and collaborative Campaigns Director to work with the coalition, its staff, governing body, and member organizations to coordinate and drive campaign work to challenge the most powerful corporation in our planet’s history.
Organizational Background
Athena is a groundbreaking nationwide coalition of 50+ organizations dedicated to defeating unchecked corporate power and advancing a democracy that represents us all. Our attention is focused squarely on Amazon, which exemplifies a cross-section of the harms and impacts of corporate power: an erosion of worker rights and protections, hollowing out of local economies, an expanding police state, and undermining of critical social and economic institutions and policy. We bring together the most creative and dedicated corporate campaigners, researchers, policy advocates, and organizers from across the country into powerful campaigns.
Our members are racial justice and worker organizations, think tanks and public policy advocacy organizations, and grassroots groups around the country -- and together we are building a popular movement to rein in corporate power and ensure that the rules of our economy are set by we the people, not by the biggest corporations in the world.
Campaigns Director
We are seeking an experienced, creative, and collaborative Campaigns Director to work with the coalition, its staff, governing body, and member organizations to coordinate and drive campaign work to challenge the most powerful corporation in our planet’s history. A successful candidate will be excited to work within a multi-issue, multi-racial coalition and use a variety of strategies to stop corporate power, organize communities, and win concrete victories, locally and nationally. The Campaigns Director reports to the Coalition Director.
Responsibilities
Lead and Support National Corporate Campaigns
- Develop and execute campaign plans and tactics that maximize our impact and build long-term power.
- Work across the coalition to co-design and participate in multi-city, state-level, and national actions and campaigns.
- Coordinate key national compression moments, including convening the right group(s) to plan and execute.
- Identify time-sensitive opportunities to advance the coalition goals and facilitate coordinated rapid response.
Campaign management
- Work with coalition staff and members to plan and facilitate coalition-wide activities, including: meetings, strategy development, learning activities, and reflection.
- Build and strengthen the coalition, including developing working relationships with current and potential coalition members and allies focused on fully engaging them into the core elements of the campaign.
- Support a coalition culture of learning and adaptation by developing benchmarks, evaluation metrics, and reflection processes.
Coalition Coordination and Strengthening
- Participate in coalition processes and help facilitate discussions.
- Ensure that campaigns, internal communications, and other activities are advancing the coalition’s shared vision and goals.
- Support the coalition’s internal communications and administrative infrastructure.
What You’ll Bring
- At least 5 years campaign experience with demonstrated ability to develop and implement effective strategies
- Demonstrated ability to work with coalitions
- Experience working on racial justice issues
- Relational skills and a movement-building orientation
- Experience with one of more of the coalition’s central issues: worker justice, surveillance and policing, antitrust and monopoly, environmental justice, and corporate influence over local democracy and economies
- Ability to occasionally work varied hours including nights, weekends, and holidays
- Ability to travel regularly when safe to do so
We’re Excited About You Because You
- You are ready to take on Amazon and have a vision for a powerful campaign dedicated to building power over corporations.
- You want to challenge racial capitalism and build a powerful multiracial movement that can win material gains for working-class and BIPOC people and shift the dynamics of power in our country.
- You demonstrate a high level of proficiency in managing the execution of campaigns.
- You enjoy building relationships and connections between people.
- You see opportunities in collaboration.
- You are comfortable with disagreement and see its importance in developing an effective innovative strategy.
Compensation and Location
We offer a competitive starting salary between $85,000 to $100,000, based on experience, and generous benefits, including health, dental, vision, prescription coverage and a 401k.
This is a full-time, exempt staff position. The position is remote in the United States.
Interested candidates should email with your resume and cover letter to: jobs@athenaforall.org.
The position is housed at a coalition fiscal sponsor. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We strongly encourage and seek applications from gender oppressed (women, transgender, and gender non-binary) people, people of color including bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and broader queer communities. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender/gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.