Managing Director at SumOfUs

Summary

SumOfUs is looking for an experienced non-profit leader to work side by side with our Executive Director. This is a full-time position, requiring a minimum of 32 hours per week. The position can be based anywhere that is compatible with working with colleagues in both Europe and the Americas, and can be filled remotely.

The Managing Director will be a critical part of our leadership team, responsible for overseeing staffing and team performance, organisational culture and learning, and, in partnership with the Executive Director, organisational strategy.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years experience supervising staff and working closely with leadership teams, ideally in a campaigning context. If you are passionate about working with people and in fast moving organisations, and are committed to our mission of corporate accountability, then this could be the perfect role for you.

Here are some things you might do

Oversee staffing and team performance

• Work with senior management to develop staffing and resourcing strategies, including hiring plans and budgets, as well as team allocations
• Manage recruitment and onboarding processes across the organisation, and support new managers in learning how to hire and supervise staff
• Manage performance review and accountability systems across the organisation, with a special focus on ensuring equity and progressive values are reflected in the way we manage performance and hold staff accountable

Organisational culture and learning

• Work with our Anti-Oppression Leadership Team, our HR team, and senior leadership to nurture and help grow SumOfUs culture
• Manage professional development and learning across the organisation, including identifying and filling training needs, and building learning cycles into our day to day work

Organisational strategy

• Support the Executive Director in the development of organisational strategy, and in monitoring and evaluating progress against organisational vision
• Maintain open lines of communication throughout the organisation around strategy, direction and vision
• In close coordination with the Executive Director take on special or ad hoc organisation wide projects as needed (specific projects to be determined based on experience and skill-set of successful candidate)

Management/other

• Supervise a range of senior SumOfUs staff (specific staff to be determined based on experience and skill-set of successful candidate)
• Serve on SumOfUs’s Organisational Leadership Team, which guides overall organisational strategy

The Managing Director will report to the Executive Director.

We need someone who

We have no formal education requirements – if you can do and grow with the job, that’s all that matters. This role requires some who:

• Has experience supervising staff and managing large and diverse teams, preferably in a campaigning or non-profit context
• Has demonstrated organisational strategy, HR, facilitation, or people management skills
• Is fluent in written and spoken English (our language of operation)

Big pluses include

We don't expect you to have all of these! A strong candidate will likely have 2 or 3 of them.

• Formal training or demonstrated experience in HR, preferably in workplaces that are unionised or have a staff association
• Proficiency in major world languages other than English -- especially German, French or Spanish
• Has a deep understanding of the MoveOn/Avaaz/38 Degrees/GetUp/Campact model of rapid-response digital campaigning
• Experience working closely with communities affected by corporate accountability issues -- from indigenous communities to low-wage workers
• Extensive network of community organizations, non-profits and advocacy groups, and a political understanding of key world regions
• Member focused fundraising experience, or experience managing/running campaigns in a digital context