Vice President of Impact (Full Time, Remote)

Position: Vice President of Impact (Full Time, Remote)

Organization: Accelerate Change

Reports to: Chief Program Officer, Kim Hohman

Direct Reports: Impact Campaign Managers (to be hired)

Location: Full-time, 100% remote position (from home or co-working space) with occasional travel once every 2-3 months (post-COVID)

COVID-19: We take Covid-19 safety very seriously. Employees must follow our Covid safety protocols and be fully vaccinated and boosted. Accommodations are provided to the extent required by law. For employees based in the state of Florida and Texas, the COVID-19 vaccine is encouraged but not required due to Florida and Texas state laws.

About Accelerate Change

Founded in 2012, Accelerate Change is a nonprofit (c3/c4) digital media lab. We work to increase civic engagement with BIPOC and low-income communities through digital media. Our programs include:

• Scaling emerging cultural media properties
• Investing in established cultural media properties
• Building influencer networks
• Leading a digital media lab
• Driving civic engagement campaigns

Learn more about our theory of change, approach, and impact at https://acceleratechange.org/about/

Our team is made up of digital media innovators and operators who bring a mix of tech, business, civic engagement, and media backgrounds. Meet our team and learn more about our culture at https://acceleratechange.org/values-team/

About the Position

Accelerate Change is seeking our first Vice President of Impact to lead digital campaigns with the nation’s largest mission-driven media network. This is a new role to support an existing program, which has had tremendous impact in the past year, implementing narrative campaigns focused on economic opportunity, reproductive freedom, civic engagement, and criminal justice reform, and which will continue to expand its focus in the coming year. We’re looking for an adaptable leader who is eager to build the right team to manage and grow this work with our network of media partners.

The ideal candidate for this role is an experienced team leader with a track record of developing successful digital campaigns and/or creating highly engaging digital content that motivates audiences, alongside a personal passion for progressive issues. We’re doing innovative, experimental work and are seeking a savvy, social-first leader who is eager to bring their digital content talents to the social justice space to make an impact.

Here’s what you could expect to do as Vice President of Impact (key responsibilities):

Program Leadership & Strategy:

• Own and implement the vision for the Accelerate Change Impact Area
• Onboard and oversee the work of Impact Campaigns Managers to lead narrative campaigns with the Accelerate Change media network, across multiple progressive issue areas
• Serve as a liaison between our media and movement partners, helping media partners translate effective issue messaging into engaging and impactful digital campaign content
• Oversee content efficacy testing and data analysis, in collaboration with our data analytics team, identifying trends and learnings, and reporting and improving on digital campaign outcomes to media partners, team leadership, and external stakeholders
• Ensure the structures and processes for our impact program delivery are efficient and effective and that strategies and expectations for program delivery are clearly communicated to team members and media partners
• Maintain oversight of and accountability for the Impact Area priorities, requirements, and deliverables, and regularly report on the Impact Area’s work to the Executive Team
• Work closely with our operations and development teams to budget and monitor programmatic work funding, and ensure timely reporting on our work
• Represent the organization externally with key stakeholders and funders, clearly communicating the work, value, and successes of Accelerate Change’s Impact programs

Team Leadership & Organizational Strategy:

• Maintain a positive, high-performing team culture, providing regular feedback on individual performance, encouraging professional development, and leading in alignment with our organizational values
• Coach and support direct reports to build their skills and confidence so they feel connected, inspired, and motivated, with a clear understanding of their individual work and its impact on area and organizational goals
• Work collaboratively with other VPs across the organization, representing the Impact Area’s priorities and ensuring strong alignment between Impact and other areas of the organization
• Contribute to short- and long-term strategic organizational planning, setting quarterly and yearly goals, priorities, and outcomes
• Work with fellow VPs to shape and guide the work, convening leadership meetings, engaging in policy-setting and decision-making, and facilitating cross-team collaboration
• Actively contribute to Accelerate Change’s culture and engage deeply with our values work, which includes continuous work of being and becoming an anti-racist organization

We’ll also look for the Vice President of Impact to:

• TBD. As part of a rapidly growing organization, you’ll need to embrace change and that your responsibilities will shift over time. Pitching in to help with the needs of your department and the overall Central Team is an important part of your role.
• Help advance our goal of becoming an anti-racist organization. Within your role, apply equitable work practices, challenge white supremacy, and help make our programs more inclusive. Center our understanding that multiple systems of oppression intersect with racism and be an active part of our values work.
• Serve as a resource to our networks of partners. Help amplify partner successes, make connections between partners and facilitate learning sharing, and offer your expertise to partners in our networks wherever it makes sense.
• Take an entrepreneurial approach to their work and learning new skills. In our fast-paced, unstructured environment, we love it when staff first try to figure things out on their own and then ask for help if they’re stuck.
• Seek out opportunities to deepen their skills on current/emerging platforms and with lean startup methodology. We take an individualized approach to growth where staff have the chance to explore and propose development opportunities that align with their interests and the team’s priorities.

What We’re Looking For

• Commitment to social change. Accelerate Change is a progressive workplace focused on civic engagement with BIPOC and low-income communities. You have a demonstrated commitment to this work and you’d like to be part of a team of people who do, too.
• Very online. You can explain why #GRWM content engages audiences, you understand the value of authentic relationships with followers, you can spot a viral trend two days before it hits the FYP, and you have 101 ideas for creative content we haven’t seen yet.
• Player/coach. You’re willing to roll up your sleeves and pitch in to deliver on area outcomes—whether it’s because someone is out or because a pressing deadline requires all hands on deck—and you have a deep enough understanding of your team’s work to do it.
• Expert communicator. You have a gift for translating complicated strategies and processes into easily digestible, executable pieces, to whomever needs to understand it. You’re clear in your delivery of goals, expectations, critical feedback, and praise, and you provide ample opportunity for reiteration, to ensure everyone is on the same page.
• Stakeholder management skills. You know the importance of prioritizing clear communication and doing everything you can to ensure that stakeholders have all the information they need. You’re a savvy relationship manager and can see situations from each vantage point to gracefully navigate complex situations.
• Adaptability. You are someone who prefers (not just tolerates) working in a fast-paced environment. In this role, that means you’re invigorated and motivated by new opportunities and challenges that result from a shifting progressive landscape, and you can support your team when unexpected pivots affect your work.
• Remote first. You have experience managing geographically distributed teams and know how to keep a team connected and engaged through screens. You recognize the importance of prioritizing your team’s humanity and always make space for ‘real talk’ connections alongside getting to work.

Benefits

• $106,000 - $132,000 salary range, with exact salary depending on experience and new staff rarely starting at the top of the range.
• Flexibility for work and life: Unlike a lot of places, we actually believe that people should only work 40 hours each week, except for occasional sprints that require more time in a week. We also trust everyone to make a schedule that works for them, as long as you’re able to join all necessary meetings. Want to work more one day and less the next? Fine by us. Work better in the middle of the night than during the afternoon? Go for it. Need to shift your hours to be able to pick up your kid from school? All good.
• Health care at the beginning of your employment with individual premiums fully covered and cost-share for dependents. Vision and dental plans are available at-cost to the individual.
• 15 paid vacation days, 6 paid holidays, 3 paid floating holidays each year and 7.5 paid sick days each year
• Professional development funds, with renewal of funds each fiscal year
• Cell phone and internet reimbursement (or co-working reimbursement): We acknowledge that working from home requires using your own internet and phone for work purposes so we offer a set reimbursement amount for cell phone and internet usage. If working from home isn’t for you, we also have the option for folks to rent a co-working space and get reimbursed for their monthly costs.
• Need-based educational loan assistance after 3 months
• 401K contributions and matching program available at the beginning of your employment
• Annual office closure during the last week in December

Apply

To apply, please upload your resume and tell us more about your experience on the application on our website.

Accelerate Change is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQIA+ people must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

Benefits

• $106,000 - $132,000 salary range, with exact salary depending on experience and new staff rarely starting at the top of the range.
• Flexibility for work and life: Unlike a lot of places, we actually believe that people should only work 40 hours each week, except for occasional sprints that require more time in a week. We also trust everyone to make a schedule that works for them, as long as you’re able to join all necessary meetings. Want to work more one day and less the next? Fine by us. Work better in the middle of the night than during the afternoon? Go for it. Need to shift your hours to be able to pick up your kid from school? All good.
• Health care at the beginning of your employment with individual premiums fully covered and cost-share for dependents. Vision and dental plans are available at-cost to the individual.
• 15 paid vacation days, 6 paid holidays, 3 paid floating holidays each year and 7.5 paid sick days each year
• Professional development funds, with renewal of funds each fiscal year
• Cell phone and internet reimbursement (or co-working reimbursement): We acknowledge that working from home requires using your own internet and phone for work purposes so we offer a set reimbursement amount for cell phone and internet usage. If working from home isn’t for you, we also have the option for folks to rent a co-working space and get reimbursed for their monthly costs.
• Need-based educational loan assistance after 3 months
• 401K contributions and matching program available at the beginning of your employment
• Annual office closure during the last week in December