Campaign Director

Campaign Director

Are you an experienced organizer who’s passionate about protecting workers’ rights? Are you ready to lead our coalition’s efforts to build labor and community power to fight for working people in San Francisco and CA? We’d love you to join our dynamic, strategic and ambitious team making a difference for the long haul. Apply today for the Campaign Director position- $92-101k annual salary and excellent benefits.

Reports to: Communications & Operations Director
Compensation: $92-101k/year
Hybrid workplace, including weekly meetings in Oakland or SF, 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.

Job purpose

The Campaign Director will build the collective power and leadership of JWJSF’s member organizations and their rank & file members at the nexus of economic and racial justice issues, and  lead strategic campaigns to win rights for workers in San Francisco.

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, statewide and 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

Organizing and Coalition Building (15%)

Ensure the coalition at the center of the campaign remains actively engaged.

• Relationships: build and maintain relationships with leadership and staff of member and close ally organizations in service of joint campaign work and coordination. Engage with individuals in the bases of member organizations if and as requested by the organization.
• Mobilization: engage labor unions, worker centers and community groups to participate in JWJ campaigns and actions, including recruiting organizations to join JWJ committees.
• Coalition dynamics: build and support relationships within the coalition, including anticipating and flagging areas of potential conflict between close allies.

Strategy Development & Campaign Planning (15%)

Support the development of strategic campaigns.

• Together with leadership staff, drive campaign strategy & planning processes with campaign staff and close partner organizations.
• Support strategic planning processes, including organizing retreats etc.

Campaign Direction & Oversight (50%)

Oversee the implementation of the campaign’s strategic plan.

• Facilitate and bottomline the development of the San Francisco campaign strategy.

• Lead JWJ participation in regional and statewide campaigns.

• Manage and ensure progress towards the implementation of campaign strategy & goals, including deliverables to funders.

• Deepen the engagement of the organizations in our coalition via organizing member representatives and supporting member representatives in organizing within their organization to build the power of the coalition overall

• Provide updates on policy efforts to support campaign fundraising.

• Supervise campaign staff

General JWJ program, fundraising, governance & administration (20%)

Actively contribute to organization-wide events and projects, supporting JwJSF’s overall mission.

• E-board and Steering Committee: support the overall function and coordination of the Executive Board and Steering Committee, including relationship building, turnout, meeting presentations and facilitation
• Actively participate in organization-wide efforts, including facilitating staff meetings on rotation, and contributing to staff retreats and strategic planning processes
• Support grassroots fundraising efforts, including leading a Gala subcommittee, ensuring a well-organized and successful event
• Solidarity: coordinate requests for solidarity between JWJ coalition member organizations, including turnout
• In collaboration with Communications staff, support communication with partners and the public as needed

Other duties as assigned. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change over time.

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years previous work experience in labor and/or community organizing or associated field with experience directing campaigns/policy, ideally in a coalition setting
• Demonstrates a commitment to combating racial, gender, and class oppression in their organizational practice and participation
• Deep expertise in leading organizing and campaigning  efforts within a membership organization
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, confidentiality, and commitment to our mission
• 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
• Strong people skills; can function well within a team environment
• Flexible and able to multitask; can work within an ambiguous, fast-moving environment, while also driving toward clarity and solutions; demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities
• Capacity to juggle competing priorities and deadlines; organized and efficient

Physical requirements

• Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time; ability to communicate via phone and email
• Ability 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 conditions 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 annually 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.

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