OVERVIEW

Justice Democrats seeks  a talented, committed leader to serve as Managing Director. This position is responsible for managing our staff and organizational structure; supporting the Executive Director; building and maintaining coordination and alignment across departments, projects and areas of work; and problem-solving major gaps in our organizational capacity to achieve our goals.

The Managing Director will remain grounded in day to day operations while also driving forward our long-term vision by supporting staff at all levels and ensuring that our resources are properly aligned to achieve our outcomes. They will optimize our work across the organizations to keep us as healthy and effective as possible.

The Managing Director reports to Hodari Williams, the Executive Director.

This position will begin in January 2027, the application deadline is November 19th 2026.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Drive long-term vision

• Work with the Executive Director and Directors team to ensure we have clear short and long term goals, and that these are clear and communicated to staff.
• Work with Directors team to ensure alignment between different departments in long term strategy and daily operations
• Ensure alignment between different departments in long term strategy and daily operations
• Identify short or long term strategic gaps or problems and work with the Executive Director and Directors team to solve them
• Lead the planning and implementation of the annual staff retreat.

Serve as core support person to the Executive Director:

• Work with the Executive Director to ensure their time is appropriately prioritized and spent in the appropriate focus areas
• Support strong cross-organizational reporting
• Prepare meeting and event briefings (or delegate to other staff members), ensuring the ED is properly prepared for all engagements and anticipating needs before they arise.
• As needed, attend key meetings and events with or on behalf of the ED, ensuring timely follow-up on all action items.
• Draft correspondence on behalf of ED and review and edit correspondence and remarks drafted by colleagues.
• Serve as a support to ED’s direct reports, ensuring strong accountability, efficient flow of communication, and alignment with the ED.
• Provide executive-level support administrative and logistical support to the ED, as needed, including coordinating meetings, managing follow-up communications, facilitating scheduling, preparing materials, and ensuring the timely executing of organizational priorities.

Organizational Management Systems

• Maintain the macro view of our organizational management structure and identify gaps and needs
• Manage onboarding of new staff onto our team
• Provide management training and/or support for everyone with management responsibilities (whether they manage volunteers, contractors, or staff)
• Convene, coordinate, and manage agendas for directors and all staff meetings and retreats
• Convene and coordinate ad hoc decision-making (when no one else is able to hold this effectively) about whether we need to “pump the brakes” on a major project, re-orient in a big way, or otherwise temp check the direction
• Work with the Directors team to ensure weekly, monthly, and annual priorities are clear.
• Manage staff to execute hiring processes. Maintain shared hiring resources.
• Lead on cross-team projects as needed, determined by the Directors Team. In this role support staff members to develop project plans, anticipate obstacles, and follow through on deliverables.

LOCATION

We are a fully remote organization. Anywhere in the US is fine. 

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.

SALARY & BENEFITS

• The salary for this position is $90,500
• This is a fully remote position, with some travel
• Unlimited vacation with a 2 week minimum, all federal holidays off, and the organization is closed the final week of the year
• Unlimited sick days
• Fully paid Health, Vision, Dental (including dependents)
• 401K and 4% employer match
• Raise every two years

JD/OFJ is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status.  Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.