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Executive Director Job Description
Position Title: Executive Director
Organization: Jobs With Justice San Francisco (JWJSF)
Salary Range: $120,000 – $145,000 annually (commensurate with experience)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA (Hybrid with regular in-person engagement)

Position Summary
The Executive Director (ED) activates JWJSF’s mission, centering coalition-building and shared power to advance social justice. Leading alongside a dedicated staff, the ED drives organizational strategy
and sustainable growth. This is a pivotal opportunity to bridge governance and grassroots action, strengthening the vital infrastructure and fundraising needed to scale our movement’s impact.

This is a full-time, exempt position, reporting to the Co-chairs of the Board of Directors, and will supervise a staff of 3- 6 people.

Our Mission & Movement
Jobs with Justice San Francisco (JWJSF) is a multi-racial coalition of labor unions, worker centers, and community organizations working to build power with and for working people. We believe that economic, racial, and gender justice are deeply interconnected. Our work brings together diverse communities, including immigrants, Black and Brown workers, tenants, and historically marginalized groups, to advance systems change rooted in dignity, equity, and collective power. At JWJSF, you’ll join a values-driven coalition, lead alongside the community, and contribute to a collaborative, sustainable movement for long-term change.

The Kind of Leader We’re Seeking
You may be a strong fit if you:
● Are deeply committed to economic, racial, and social justice
● Lead with emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and reflection
● Build relationships grounded in trust, empathy, and accountability
● Are comfortable navigating ambiguity, change, and complexity
● Listen deeply and communicate clearly across diverse audiences
● Value collaboration, shared leadership, and collective success
● Bring adaptability, creativity, and resilience to fast-moving environments
● Lead and strengthen coalitions through collaboration and shared purpose

Relevant Expertise
● Have 5 to 8+ years of senior leadership experience, preferably in a nonprofit, labor union, or worker center
● Ability to cultivate authentic, values-aligned relationships with funders, coalition members, and community partners
● Strong understanding of nonprofit governance, budgeting, financial oversight, and sustainable organizational operations
● We value lived experience, community connection, and non-traditional career paths as much as formal titles or years of experience.

Key Skills & Knowledge
We recognize that candidates bring a wide range of lived and professional experiences. If you connect with many of the areas below, we encourage you to apply.

Movement & Coalition Leadership
● Experience working in or alongside labor unions, community organizing, or social justice movements
● Ability to build trust across diverse stakeholders, identities, and power dynamics
● Skilled in navigating complexity, conflict, and shared decision-making
● Facilitate inclusive member engagement in shaping coalition priorities and policy positions
● Build shared agenda and strategy across the coalition with E-board and Leadership Team
● Manage relationships with coalition members (Steering Committee & Executive Board), including check-ins and conflict resolution Board Partnership & Governance
● Build collaborative relationships with the Executive Board, Executive Committee, and Steering Committee in support of transparent governance and shared leadership
● Coordinate meetings, board processes, and member engagement with strong attention to communication, accountability, and follow-through
● Understanding of nonprofit governance, compliance, and organizational policies, including bylaws, legal requirements, and Collective Bargaining Agreements

Strategic & Systems Thinking
● Skilled at co-creating and guiding long and short-term strategies in dynamic environments
● Experience aligning multiple stakeholders around shared goals
● Comfort working within evolving and emergent strategies
● Coordinate long- and short-term strategies, including campaign planning and responsive decision-making

People-Centered Leadership
● Demonstrated ability to manage, support, coach, and develop staff and teams
● Commitment to cultivating an inclusive, accountable, and supportive workplace culture
● Awareness of power, positionality, privilege, and equity in leadership practice

Fundraising & Resource Development
● Lead fundraising strategies, including prospecting, funder relations and grant management related to foundations, grassroots initiatives, and individual giving
● Ability to build meaningful relationships with funders and partners
Organizational Stewardship
● Experience overseeing or contributing to organizational operations (finance, budgeting, HR, compliance, etc.)
● Ability to balance big-picture vision with day-to-day management needs
● Responsible for cultivating a healthy and productive staff culture

Benefits
JWJSF offers an excellent benefits package currently including:
● Paid vacation that starts with 3 weeks for new employees and increases thereafter
● Additional paid leave during a scheduled 2 week winter break
● 401(k) Employer contributions begin after one year at 3% of salary and increase annually by 1% to a maximum of 12%, with no employee match required.
● 100% employer-paid premiums for high quality family healthcare, vision and dental coverage through our union health and welfare fund

Physical & Work Environment Requirements
JWJSF is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive workplace. We encourage candidates of all abilitities to apply.
● Work involves a combination of computer-based tasks, virtual communication, and in-person meetings
● Role includes regular engagement in community spaces, events, and meetings across the Bay Area
● Some evening or weekend participation may be needed, with flexibility and support provided
● Travel within the Bay Area is expected; additional travel may occur occasionally
● Some activities may involve moving or carrying materials

Accommodations:
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process and during employment. If you require support with any of the above, we welcome conversation to ensure access and success in this role.

Commitment to Equity
JWJSF is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We strongly encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, and people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, veterans and those from diverse backgrounds. Consistent with San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance, JWJSF will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Hiring Process
Our hiring process is designed to be thoughtful, transparent, and respectful of candidates’ time. It typically includes an initial screening conversation, one to two interviews with staff and coalition leadership, and a final conversation with representatives from the Board. We aim to share clear expectations at each stage and provide updates throughout the process.

How to Apply
JWJSF has partnered with The Arora Collective to recruit an effective leader for this pivotal position. We invite interested candidates to submit a resume and a brief cover letter sharing your interest in the role, relevant leadership experience, and connection to JWJSF’s mission to apply@thearoracollective.com. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Are you an experienced organizer director who’s passionate about protecting workers rights in the era of climate change? Are you ready to lead our coalition’s efforts to build the labor movement’s power to win a worker- and community-led transition to a just and climate-safe economy? We’d love you to join our dynamic, strategic and ambitious team making a difference for the long haul. Apply today for the Climate Director position- $92-101k annual salary and excellent benefits. Apply atbit.ly/JWJSF_climatejobsorganizer

Reports to: Deputy Director
Compensation: $92-101k/year
Hybrid workplace, including weekly meetings in San Francisco, CA

Jobs with Justice San Francisco (JWJSF) is a long term, multi-racial alliance of labor unions and community groups supporting workers’ rights and fighting for economic, racial and gender justice. Our member groups represent service workers, domestic workers, healthcare workers, educators, city workers, seniors, people with disabilities, tenants, students and more. Our coalition connects people—workers, Black and Brown people, immigrants, queer and gender-oppressed folks—to build collective power.

We believe as Audre Lorde said, “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” Working people need good jobs with dignity and a voice at work, quality and equitable public education, affordable housing and a liveable climate. We see economic, racial and gender justice as intersecting and necessary to each other. Our current programs focus on workers rights, housing and climate justice.

By building a strong multiracial and multi-issue alliance rooted in long-term relationships and solidarity, we have the power to win real systems change. JWJSF staff coordinate California Labor for Climate Jobs (CLCJ), a statewide coalition of 16 unions working to advance a worker- and community-led transition to a just and climate-safe economy. CLCJ aims to advance workers rights and build worker organizing opportunities through our policy platform that focuses on climate hazard protections, safety nets for workers and communities in transition, good jobs in the low carbon economy and ensuring climate-resilient services and infrastructure for all. Climate change is forcing economic change; the labor movement has to lead on climate change to ensure that the changes are good for workers and advance racial justice.

Job purpose
The Climate Organizing Director builds worker and coalition power to win strategic victories for workers rights and good jobs in the era of climate change, and worker-led transition in California. Working primarily to advance the statewide coalition California Labor for Climate Jobs (CLCJ), the Climate Organizing Director will build the collective power and leadership of the CLCJ coalition’s member organizations and their rank & file members at the nexus of climate, economic and racial justice issues; mobilize workers to support statewide advocacy; and work to change the narrative so that strong climate action is seen as an opportunity to create good, union jobs.

While the majority of the Climate Organizing Director’s position will focus on the California Labor for Climate Jobs coalition, each position at JWJSF is an integral part of a collaborative staff team that develops, and wins collective campaigns across coalition issues, including workers rights, housing and climate justice, including locally in San Francisco. The Director will
contribute to the overall strategic direction of JWJSF by supporting the JWJSF coalition’s annual campaign planning processes.

Duties and responsibilities
CLCJ Organizing & Power Building (70%)
● Lead development, implementation and updates of the CLCJ coalition’s power building and organizing plan, including establishing annual goals, and union-specific power building plans.
● Serve as organizing project manager to coordinate coalition members’ participation, timelines, materials, and cross-issue collaboration to meet all deliverables.
● Directly implement coalition activities in the campaign workplan, including conducting research, convening 1:1s, power mapping, organizing and mobilizing, planning for events/actions, etc.
● Develop and implement a leadership development plan to establish individual champions and spokespeople within and with permission of member unions.
● Develop training materials/curricula and organize political education opportunities for member unions.
● Lead strategies to incorporate CLCJ joint priorities into contract negotiations of member unions.
● Build relationships with representatives and champions within member unions, mobilizing their participation in CLCJ coalition meetings and events. Anticipate and flag areas of potential conflict between close allies.
● Coordinate planning of CLCJ worker summits, legislator education days and other events.
● Engage member unions, worker centers and community groups to participate in CLCJ campaigns and actions.

CLCJ Strategy Development & Campaign Planning (20%)
● Participate in labor/climate campaign strategy and planning processes with campaign staff and close partner organizations.
● Support CLCJ strategic planning processes, including organizing retreats etc.
● Provide content support for communications and policy staff to implement communications and policy strategy.
● Provide updates on organizing efforts to support campaign fundraising.

General JWJ program, fundraising, governance & administration (10%)
● Actively contribute to organization-wide campaigns and events, supporting JwJSF’s overall mission.
● Support the coordination of JWJSF’s Executive Board and Steering Committee.
● Actively participate in all organization-wide efforts, including internal committee, fundraising, communications, organizing drives/turnout, special events, etc.

Required Skills and Experience
● 8+ years previous work experience in labor and/or community organizing or associated fields with experience in organizing, including leading organizing efforts or campaigns.
● English/Spanish bilingual.
● Demonstrated, strong ability to lead the development and implementation of organizing and power building infrastructure and plans, lead the creation of new systems as necessary.
● Deep organizing expertise, with experience developing leaders, and moving both individuals and organizations in a coalition to build collective power and win campaigns.
● Strategic and creative thinker, with the ability to lead the innovation and implementation of new organizing strategies and campaigns – and win!
● Familiarity with the landscape of the labor movement.
● Familiarity with running campaigns in a coalition setting.
● Demonstrated commitment to combating racial, gender, and class oppression
● Ability to build strong relationships and move people from diverse backgrounds to take action in a multi-racial coalition.
● Ability to understand and navigate complex political dynamics.
● Exceptional time management and prioritization skills to consistently meet deadlines while working independently in a remote/hybrid setting.
● Strong project management skills, including ability to coordinate timelines, due dates, materials, GDrive files, and follow through on collaborative efforts to meet deliverables.
● Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively both online and in person. Strong tech aptitude; capacity to quickly learn and utilize new systems.
● Flexible, able to multitask and move forward multiple projects simultaneously; can work within an ambiguous, fast-moving environment, while also driving toward clarity and solutions; demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities.
● Sense of humor and flexibility are always appreciated.

Physical requirements
● Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time, ability to communicate via phone/text and email.
● May need to lift and carry up to 25 pounds (accommodations available if needed).
● Travel: must be able to travel weekly within the SF Bay Area, regularly statewide and occasionally nationwide.

Working condition and environment
Our staff promote a positive, collaborative and supportive environment for each other. While some periods are busier than others, JWJSF’s culture strongly supports and encourages work/life balance. Work will involve occasional travel, and sometimes long and irregular hours.

JWJSF is a hybrid workplace; staff performs remote and in-person work each week. JWJSF has offices in San Francisco and downtown Oakland (our weekly staff meeting is currently held in our Oakland office by 12th St BART). We regularly have in-person meetings and events in San Francisco, some of which take place in the evening and on weekends.

Compensation and Benefits
The starting salary range for this position is $92-101k, depending on experience.

JWJSF offers an excellent benefits package currently including:
● Paid vacation that starts with 3 weeks of paid vacation for new employees and increases thereafter;
● Additional paid leave during a scheduled 2 week winter break;
● 401(k) contributions rising from 3% to 12% of salary, no employee match required;
● 100% employer-paid premiums for quality family healthcare, vision and dental coverage through our union health and welfare fund.
● This is a union represented position with Teamsters Local 856.

Position open until filled. Apply at bit.ly/JWJSF_climatejobsorganizer.

Black, indigenous, people of color, gender-oppressed and queer people strongly encouraged to apply.

Health

We currently offer 100% employer-paid premiums, including for dependents, for quality family healthcare, vision and dental coverage through our union health and welfare fund.

Savings

Our 401(k) program includes employer contributions rising from 3% to 12% of salary at the completion of each additional year of employment, no employee match required. Employees may contribute any amount they choose.

Time off

We have a generous paid time off policy that includes 12 sick days, 13 holidays and 5 weeks paid vacation in the first year (2 weeks are a scheduled end of year office closure; 3 weeks are at the employees choosing). 

For growing families, we provide 12 weeks paid leave.

We grant eligible employees a paid sabbatical leave to focus on self development for 3 months for every 6 years of service.

Compensation

We are committed to salary transparency and perform pay equity assessments. Employees are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 856 and are eligible for a variety of other benefits through the union. Pay scales for each role are established in collective bargaining agreement. 

Working conditions and environment

We promote a positive, collaborative and supportive environment for each other. While some periods are busier than others, JwJSF’s culture strongly supports and encourages work/life balance. Work will involve occasional travel, and sometimes long and irregular hours. 

JwJSF is a hybrid workplace; staff performs remote and in-person work each week. Our hybrid work policy offers flexibility to employees. JwJSF has offices in San Francisco and downtown Oakland.

All job applicants are protected by employment laws, including: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal, Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA).