Job Title: Director for Campaigns

Department: Government & External Relations

Center Background: The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is a global human rights organization working to ensure that reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights around the world. With offices in New York City, New York; Nairobi, Kenya; Bogota, Colombia; Geneva, Switzerland; and Washington, D.C., the Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization changing law and policy throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States. Our 230 diverse professionals are committed to advancing the Center's human rights mission through game-changing litigation, legal policy, and advocacy work. This has powered the Center's exceptional growth to an operating budget of over $50 million and won the respect of law firms in countries around the world, with an additional $29 million annually of donated legal services, representing the work of countless lawyers from more than 46 countries.

The Center's Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: By 2030, half of the world's population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they are today. The Center has a track record of success to back up this ambitious goal. Since our founding in 1992, the Center has transformed how reproductive rights are understood and applied by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, abortion, assisted reproduction, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We have won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies. Additionally, the Center has led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights and has built the legal capacity of women's rights advocates in more than 65 countries and counting.

The Role: This role will be accountable for designing and leading the Center's campaigns work, evaluating the Center's activities in this area and making adjustments accordingly, conceptualizing and executing an ambitious and sustained external engagement strategy that will include: outreach, education, and advocacy opportunities for new networks and partners; innovating, prototyping, and implementing new campaigns and special projects to engage new networks and partners, developing a results-oriented framework and metrics for evaluating this work; assessing staffing requirements; and collaborating across Center programs and departments, as well as with outside partners, to ensure the Center accomplishes its goals.

This role will be based in the Center's Washington, DC office in a hybrid model of three days in-office, two days working-from-home. Covid-19 Vaccination is required for all U.S.-based employees of the Center.

Primary Responsibilities:

Lead Strategy, Development, and Implementation of Campaigns work

• As the Center's first Senior Director/Director for Campaigns, establish the unit and functions;
• Lead ideation, development, planning, and implementation of an innovative campaigns strategy to increase the Center's external engagement and relations, build new partnerships and areas of work, strengthen existing relationships, and drive the Center's agenda in new industries and areas with new changemakers and leaders;
• Partner with the Senior Director for Corporate Engagement and other relevant Center leadership to develop a risk assessment and management system for the Center to assess potential partners and collaborations;
• Stay abreast of global and U.S. developments within these sectors and the broader political and social landscape and keep leadership briefed on the risks and opportunities for the Center;
• Develop and manage unit budget (money, staff, pro bono); maximize pro bono engagement.
• Assess the need for additional staff to successfully execute the Center's campaigns strategy and, as needed, recruit, develop, and supervise those additional staff members.

Serve as an Ambassador, Collaborator, and Thought Leader

• Operate as a representative of the Center with partners in new areas of focus including with Mayors and other local leaders; athletes, coaches, and other sports influencers and leaders in the sports community; college and university officials; think tanks; and other potential partners in spaces where the Center will increase engagement. Serve as a spokesperson and ambassador for the Center and our issues to these constituencies.
• Serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to the CGERO, CEO, and leadership team on ideating and developing new campaigns, initiatives, and areas of engagement;
• Collaborate with GER leadership, program, communications, and digital teams, among others, to develop program content and messaging strategies for this work.
• Lead development of conversation-changing analyses and reports and drive action in furtherance of the Center's policy goals and external impact.
• Develop connections to organizations that represent or work with relevant constituencies and coalitions to help establish the Center as a leader in these spaces.

Qualifications:

The Senior Director/Director for Campaigns has proven leadership, analytical, strategic, relationship-building and management skills, and will be knowledgeable about social justice movement coalitional politics, dynamics, and priorities. Ideally, this candidate would bring existing relationships and a relevant network to the role along with a strong reputation among potential partners.

• 15-20 years of relevant experience
• Mission & Values Alignment: Commitment to advancing reproductive rights in law as human rights. Demonstrated fit with Center's core values: global inclusivity, integrity, excellence, and impact. Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Center's statement and commitments on DEI are here. Focus on the persons and stakeholders most impacted by corporate action or inaction when developing strategy and programming.
• Executive Leadership: Experience driving strategy and execution in a senior management role, with high integrity and in an inclusive way. Proven ability to understand the operating environment, think about the organization as a whole, and engage with stakeholders, internal and external, to define and achieve impact.
• Global Mindset: Understands the contextual differences within the countries and core constituencies with which the Center works. Understanding of multilateral institutions.
• Staff Leadership: Strong people manager with a track record of leading teams around a vision and through organizational change. Proven ability to structure, attract, develop, and retrain a diverse, cohesive, goal-oriented, and successful team.
• Relationship Building and Collaboration: Ability to listen deeply, cultivate connections, break down silos, foster collaboration, and build a culture of trust within the division, across the organization, and with external stakeholders. Ability to establish credibility and trust with diverse constituencies.
• Effective Communicator and Interpersonally Savvy: Effective and persuasive communications and presentation skills at all levels of the organization and externally; Diplomacy skills to move leaders and partners.
• Leads by Personal Example: Courageous, results-oriented, agile, and resilient, projects confidence and steadiness, learns from experience, and is self-aware.
• Not-for-Profit Understanding: Experience working full-time and/or in a Board capacity at a non-profit organization, preferably at an INGO.
• Ability to travel internationally and within the U.S.
• Fluent in English: additional languages a plus.

Don't meet every single requirement? At the Center, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Leadership Competencies:

• Leading the Work (Strategy & Implementation): Generates new ideas, develops long-term objectives and strategies that align with institutional priorities, and translates them into actionable plans.
• Leading Others: Inspires commitment; develops and empowers staff; identifies and mentors the next generation of organization leaders; establishes results-oriented culture in teams.
• Leading by Personal Example: Models organizational values; takes action and is courageous; projects confidence and steadiness; learns from experience and is self-aware.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Attracts, develops and retains a diverse team; recognizes the many dimensions of diversity and the particular harms of anti-Black racism and colonialism; considers equity in decisions and processes internally and externally; demonstrates inclusive leadership behaviors

Compensation: This position's annual salary is $200,000. This salary is reflective of a position based in Washington D.C. This salary will be subject to a locality adjustment, if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting. Note that most of the salaries listed on our job postings reflect New York, NY salaries, where our National offices are headquartered.

Benefits:

• Health: The Center pays up to 95%* of the premium for a comprehensive health insurance plan with no in-network deductible and best-in-class reproductive healthcare coverage, including infertility. The Center also offers Dental and Vision coverage. (* % may differ in various countries)
• Flexibility: The Center currently operates in a hybrid model, allowing staff to work 3 days in the office and work 2 days from home
• Well-being: The Center offers resources to help prevent and recover from burnout through different programs that enable mental, physical and community well-being. The Center offers generous leave including paid parental leave, personal days, vacation, and sick leave. We are also closed the last week of December to allow staff to spend time with their loved ones.
• Growth: You will be working with and learning from some of the top legal and operational minds, all passionate about the mission of advancing reproductive rights around the world. You will also be eligible for a stipend to use towards professional growth.
• Global: You will get a front-row seat to update on the fight for reproductive rights in the global space. You will also have access to Employee Resource Groups to connect to colleagues that share similar interests/backgrounds/views.
• Investment: After the first year of employment, the Center will contribute 7.5%* of your annual salary to a 401(k) (* only applicable in US and Kenya)

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Center is committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage people from all communities to apply. If you are excited about this role and unsure about whether your past experience aligns with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Our hiring processes and our work culture offer support and flexibility for staff with a variety of needs. Should you face an accessibility barrier in the application and interview process please let us know by contacting talent@reprorights.org. We will work with you to provide the accommodation that works best for you.

To learn more about the Center's commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), please visit Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Center for Reproductive Rights

Learn more about the Center for Reproductive Rights, go to www.reproductiverights.org

FLSA Exempt Status: This is an exempt position.

Union Status: This role will not be covered by the Center's Collective Bargaining Unit.

How to Apply: Please complete the application below to apply. A cover letter and resume must be included in your application. Please include these application materials as attachments.

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Our hiring processes and our work culture offer support and flexibility for staff with a variety of needs. Should you face an accessibility barrier in the application and interview process please let us know by contacting talent@reprorights.org. We will work with you to provide the accommodation that works best for you.

Deadline for applications: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Center policy on visa sponsorship for US based positions: Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by The Center for Reproductive Rights.