Movement Partnerships Coordinator - VCW

Organization: Vision Change Win (VCW)
Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund (CEPEF)
Position: Movement Partnership Coordinator
Reports to: Deputy Director of Strategy and Programs 
FLSA: Exempt, Full-Time, 40 hours/week 
Location: VCW is a fully remote organization. Must work from the United States and be eligible to work in the United States. Slight preference for Atlanta, GA or New York Area or Bay Area. 
Required Travel: Expected travel is approximately 40% 
Compensation: Starting salary range from $85,000 - $95,000
Benefits: Generous benefits package including 100% paid medical, dental, and vision as well as paid time off including holidays, sick time, vacation. 

About Vision Change Win

Vision Change Win is a Black-led team of mostly queer and trans people of color dedicated to supporting organizations in fully manifesting their missions, visions, and values. Vision Change Win exists to support progressive grassroots and organizing groups to build the tools needed to create a more liberatory society. VCW delivers practical support to social justice organizations in the areas of organizational sustainability and resilience, political strategy, conflict transformation, transformative strategy, and community safety. In this current political climate, the organization operates as both a strategic partner to social justice movements and leaders as well as a movement laboratory creating innovative programming to meet the needs of Left groups and to fight fascism. 

VCW’s work is drawn from a long lineage of Black and Latinx revolutionary organizing and incorporates political frameworks, including racial justice, gender justice, LGBTQ liberation, prison and police abolition, and disability justice. In addition to this, we are a strategic partner to abolitionist organizations actively working to defund the police on concrete campaign strategies and viable alternative institutions to provide safety. 

About the Position

Vision Change Win has spent the past several years expanding our programs, deepening our client work, and building relationships with organizations, practitioners, and movement partners across the country. As our reach has grown, we created the Movement Partnership Coordinator role to strengthen these relationships and help build the infrastructure that supports long-term collaboration across our movement ecosystem. 

The Movement Partnership Coordinator will cultivate and steward relationships across VCW's networks, including organizers, practitioners, alumni, partner organizations, clients, and program participants. Working across programs, this role will build systems that support ongoing engagement, connect people to VCW's broader ecosystem, and identify opportunities for collaboration, leadership development, and collective action. Although VCW is a fully remote organization, this is a highly relational role that requires regular travel to movement gatherings, conferences, partner meetings, and other in-person events. Travel is expected to average approximately 40% and may include travel once or more monthly, with frequency varying throughout the year. The Movement Partnership Coordinator reports to the Deputy Director of Strategy and Programs and works closely with staff across the organization to strengthen movement coordination and partnership.

This role requires someone with the instincts of a grassroots organizer and the discipline of a systems builder. You understand movements are built through relationships, and know how to create the coordination, infrastructure, and follow-through that helps those relationships to flourish. As Movement Partnership Coordinator, you are energized by organizing and systems-building, bringing thoughtful project management, and excellent judgment. As the newest member of the #humblegenius team, you have a deep attention to detail, appetite for self and organizational growth, a passion for liberation movements, and courageous yet compassionate interpersonal communication skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The following responsibilities are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel classified in this manner. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. 

Partnership Development

• Build and maintain relationships with organizers, practitioners, program alumni, partner organizations, clients, and current program participants. 
• Maintain and regularly update VCW's national movement ecosystem map, documenting organizations, practitioners, funders, movement partners, and key relationships.
• Conduct regular outreach to left movement organizations, coalitions, and networks and follow-up to strengthen relationships and support ongoing engagement across VCW's movement ecosystem.
• Document partnership opportunities and observations from the field to inform organizational planning.
• Identify opportunities to connect organizations and individuals to relevant VCW programs, resources, leadership opportunities, and peer networks. 
• Participate in and represent VCW at movement gatherings, conferences, and partner meetings, as appropriate. 

Movement Coordination

• Support recruitment and outreach for VCW trainings, fellowships, cohorts, convenings, and other programs. 
• Coordinate alumni engagement and leadership development opportunities across VCW’s network. 
• Support the planning and implementation of movement convenings, regional gatherings, and partner events. 
• Coordinate engagement pathways by connecting participants, alumni, practitioners, partners, and clients to ongoing opportunities across VCW's programs and movement networks.
• Coordinate partnership activities and collaborative projects across VCW’s networks. 
• Gather feedback from participants and partners to inform program development and organizational strategy. 

Systems and Project Management

• Develop systems and workflows that strengthen relationship management, engagement, and cross-program coordination.
• Utilize VCW's CRM and other relationship management tools to document engagement, identify opportunities, and support relationship management.
• Coordinate communications, timelines, and follow-up related to partnership development and movement engagement. 
• Track partnership and engagement activities and prepare reports to support organizational planning and evaluation.

Organizational Support

• Participate in staff meetings, retreats, political education, and organizational planning.
• Collaborate with staff across programs, communications, and operations to strengthen VCW's movement partnerships and engagement.
• Support team in identifying and leading outreach to aligned organizations and leaders for 1:1 client engagements
• Act as an active member of VCW’s Client Work team
• Manage a small portfolio of clients to provide one-on-one support, including but not limited to trainings, coaching, assessments in your areas of expertise

Who You Are

• You have a results orientation. You have an “it’s handled” mentality and have demonstrated experience overseeing successful projects both independently and through managing other team members (staff and consultants) to achieve collective goals and objectives. You have a high degree of focus. Because VCW has many incredible projects, they will lean on you to focus in on the mission, act decisively to ward off distraction, and assertively set clear boundaries to keep the work moving in the right direction.
• You have a high attention to detail. You check things multiple times, have your own systems of keeping yourself organized and there’s rarely errors or unassigned tasks within your work.
• You are creative and innovative. You can see a need and propose a solution. You’re passionate about supporting movements to be stronger. You’re able to coordinate and execute on successful projects with limited guidance. You’re also a pro at managing up, bringing in the Deputy Director, Executive Director and other members of the team when and where you need them.
• You lead with integrity. You care about what fixes the problem, even if it’s not what an organization (or a person) wants to hear. You stand by your work and are an honest and accountable collaborator. 
• You’re a vault. What’s said to you stays with you. You understand the risks of disclosing sensitive information, have deep experience with managing confidentiality, and are comfortable with the risks of holding a movement’s confidences. 

Qualifications

• At least five years of relevant work experience in community organizing, movement building, coalition building, nonprofit programs, partnerships, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining relationships across diverse organizations, coalitions, or networks.
• Experience coordinating meetings, convenings, trainings, or collaborative initiatives. Facilitation skills are a plus.
• Excellent project management skills and extensive experience coordinating multiple projects, timelines, and partners simultaneously. Experience working across teams of staff and consultants is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to build systems that strengthen relationship management, collaboration, or network engagement.
• Experience utilizing CRM or other relationship management databases to document engagement and support relationship management.
• Experience and demonstrated knowledge of security culture; digital security skills are a plus
• Demonstrated knowledge, commitment and experience working within racial justice, LGBTQ liberation, and gender justice organizations. 
• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communications skills. 
• Proficiency with project management tools, Microsoft Office, and comfortability with navigating new technology and digital security protocols. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within capacity building groups supporting left movement organizations
• Experience supporting national networks, coalitions, or movement infrastructure. 
• Preference for a bilingual or multilingual staff member, Spanish and English preferred

Work Environment and Physical Demands

Vision Change Win staff mostly work remotely, with some in-person activity. This position will be required to travel often for program work, in-person retreats, and meetings. This job will require regular work on a computer, including typing, reading a screen, video meetings, and audio calls, all in English.

Benefits

Statement of Equal Opportunity and Values

Vision Change Win is an equal opportunity employer rooted in abolitionist values and the belief that our movements are strongest when led by those most impacted by systemic oppression. We understand leadership to be collective, emergent, and shaped by lived experience, not only titles or traditional career paths.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, immigration status, religion, or any other protected category. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please reach out, and we will meet your access needs with care and respect.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you require accommodations to fully participate in the application or interview process, please contact hr@visionchangewin.org.

Vision Change Win contracts with Resilient Strategies LLC for backend and operational support including hiring and employment. Resilient Strategies is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, caste-oppressed, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply. Pursuant of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment. 

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