JOIN EMERGENT FUND’S TEAM

You’ll be joining an incredible nimble team of movement organizers who lead with tremendous heart, courage, and love of the people within philanthropy. As a rapid response fund, you’ll have a unique vantage point to the frontlines of social change. Every month’s grantmaking is driven by the leadership of directly impacted communities through our 100% people of color and Indigenous-led Advisory Council who are committed to building movement and transforming sociopolitical catalysts into lasting social change. Our model demonstrates that people-powered philanthropy can move at the speed of trust and at a pace that meets movements’ needs.

The need to build capacity for our work is clear. In just seven years since our inception, the Emergent Fund has mobilized $12 Million directly into the hands of frontline organizers and thousands of movement organizations across the US and its colonized territories. This role will be a part of an inaugural co-leadership cohort that will transform our small, two person operation into the movement resourcing infrastructure our frontline organizers deserve and are asking of us. With creativity, collaboration, support, and resources, this inaugural core leadership team will build their dream infrastructure and processes that will set the foundation for Emergent Fund to sustainably lead liberation work in liberatory ways. We anticipate that each Director may likely hire and manage additional staff and/or consultants as needed to sustainably executive their vision.

We are seeking a brilliant, kind, and experienced leader who shares our values, moves with integrity, and is committed to doing “just work in just ways”. As a rapid response fund, we need someone who can move with grace, nimbleness, quick thinking, and deep care for communities who come to us under extraordinary organizing conditions. You’ll bring to our team your full self alongside your deep connections and experience within grassroots organizations and movements led by and for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, women, transgender, and gender-expansive people, and LGBQTIA2S+ folks. Our explicit orientation within Philanthropy will be to dismantle systems of oppression. Our team is deeply rooted in Black feminist, queer liberation, and abolitionist traditions, which includes an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist analysis within our intersectional lens. If solidarity and care are your love languages, you’ll fit right in.

As a queer women of color-led team deeply grounded in Black feminist, abolitionist, and anti-capitalist praxis, we aim to create a values-aligned, sustainable, and effective movement organization that balances transparent, collective power with the autonomy and trust that allows you to show up in your full power for movement and to own your work. As critical movement infrastructure, our highest work accountability is to deliver real material change and resources that our frontline movement partners need to protect our communities and build a thriving world.

HERE’S WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE

• Proactive, not Reactive: We sustain emergent strategy, not urgency and emergencies, to stay in our power and value community over crisis to meet the needs of organizers facing extraordinary conditions

• 4-Day Work Week, working hours between 10am-4pm EST, completely remote work, and flexible leave policies which gives you the ability to shape a sustainable work schedule. This is helpful in balancing the occasional unconventional work times needed to meet the needs of frontline organizers, for organizational strategic retreats, partnerships/critical relational organizing opportunities, or for work travel that may happen outside of business hours and on weekends

• Highly Iterative: We are not afraid to take risks, experiment with new ideas and shift when needed

• Generative Accountability: We commit to principles of transformative justice and being in right relationship to address conflict and tensions directly both internally and with partners

• Highly Collaborative: We collaborate with clarity about our specific roles and responsibilities, and meet weekly to discuss organizational updates and development

LOCATION & TRAVEL
We are a primarily remote workplace. While applicants can be based in any of the fifty United States or its occupied territories, they should anticipate that the core team operates largely on East Coast Time. For in-person work travel, the utmost care and regard for access needs, childcare needs, and covid safety will be prioritized. In 2024, this estimate is roughly two-four trips each.

COMMITMENT TO EQUITY
The Emergent Fund is a fiscally sponsored project of the Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization. We value a diverse, inclusive workforce and we provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to an individual’s race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. Women, people of color, LGBTQ+ community members, and people from working-class backgrounds and/or with lived experiences are strongly encouraged to apply.

Research indicates members of marginalized groups tend to underestimate their qualifications which deters them from applying. If you are an experienced movement organizer and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role, even if you don't check all the boxes, please apply! As a team of two Virgos with moons in Aquarius, all sun, moon, and rising signs welcome :) We can’t wait for the opportunity to consider your application.

To apply, please fill this short application form and attach your resume and a cover letter directly through the JazzHR platform by March 25, 2024 (window closes at 11:59pm EST).

Only candidates who are considered a strong fit for this role will be contacted. Applicants can submit your materials directly through the JazzHR links below.

We will only review applications submitted through the JazzHR portal as received and will invite a short list of candidates to schedule a video screening. All submitted inquiries and materials will be for the purposes of interviewing and hiring only, kept strictly confidential, and will not be used in Emergent Fund’s work. We anticipate a high volume of applicants so please note that the below hiring timeline may be subject to change.

What Contacted Candidates Can Expect:

You will be followed up with an interview request and additional opportunities to illustrate your skills through sharing an existing work example or responding to a work scenario. Work Examples are meant to be an easy, low-lift way for you to “show you in action” that you feel may not be conveyed through cover letter or resume. Please do not create anything new.

Examples: Twitter thread, LinkedIn Profile, Media interview Clip, Instagram Live Webinar, Facilitation Guide, Grant proposal…sky’s the limit!

TIMELINE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

Application Window: March 11, 2024 – March 25, 2024 (closes 11:59pm EST)
First Round Interviews: April 29, 2024 – May 3, 2024
Final Interviews: May 13, 2024 – May 17, 2024
Offer Notification: May 28, 2024
Start Date: June 3, 2024

Job postings will be listed below when available. We kindly request that individuals do not call, email or message the Emergent Fund team about any open roles or to pitch consulting opportunities.