o Cultivating a strong relationship with the Michigan United/Michigan People’s Campaign Boards and developing a strategic vision to support all organizational activities from management team to staff. o Setting priorities, delegating responsibilities, and allocating resources to meet organizational goals. o Managing a highly accomplished and successful staff with a focus on collaborative leadership, racial justice, economic justice, and social equity. o Assuring the fiscal integrity of the organization including: submission of an annual budget, grant oversight, fundraising, and revenue generating activities to accurately reflect the financial condition of the organization and its programs. o Facilitating relationships with media, donors, partner organizations, and constituents.o Supporting and managing the vision, goals, and objectives of the organization to support the community and reflect the organizational values of dignity, fairness, equity, and opportunity.

o Established the largest, most complex and successful political program and endorsement process in organizational history and the largest and most effective relational organizing program in the countryo Facilitated winning back control of state house seat in three straight cycles.o 2020 program accomplishments: 2.5 million phone attempts, 225,000 phone contacts, 3 million text messages, 109,000 text responses, 3,000 volunteers.o Expanded and oversaw Movement Politics Academy conversion to remote learning.o Awarded largest grant ever of $1.2 million (pre-COVID) for statewide voter registration ( $500,000 post-COVID-19 grants). o Coordinated rapid response AV count challenging in Detroit post-election.o Trained nationally for People’s Action’s Movement Politics Academy.o Oversaw a massive and ongoing electoral hiring and onboarding process; Managed up to 75 staff across Voter Registration, Deep Canvass/GOTV, Relational Organizing, Staff/Member Development, and Post Election Democracy Defense.

Also previously served: 7/2016-11/2016; 8/2014-11/2014; 3/2014-7/2014 (and as Statewide Data Director of Raise the Wage Campaign)

Also previously served as: Movement Politics DirectorSoutheast Michigan Organizing DirectorMovement Politics Organizer Movement Politics Fellowship Manager

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