Program Director at Resource Generation

Resource Generation (RG) is recruiting for a full-time Program Director to lead our national conferences, webinars, and political education materials.

About us:

Resource Generation is a national, multi-racial, membership-based organization mobilizing young people (age 18-35) with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards equitable wealth, land, and power. The broader Resource Generation community includes people of all ages and class backgrounds who support young people with wealth's role in social change. RG has 19 chapters in cities around the U.S., and our chapters engage in base-building, political education programming, giving circles, engaging in local and national campaigns, and building local organizational relationships. Resource Generation is proud to have 950+ dues-paying members who collectively move over $100 million in pledges to social justice movements annually. RG is 95% funded by our members.

Resource Generation operates on a 32-hour work week (generally Monday through Thursday). We currently have 24 full-time staff and are a multi-class and multi-racial team. We especially encourage those who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color; trans, non-binary, femmes, and gender non-conforming people; and people from poor and working-class backgrounds to apply.

Overview of role:

The Program Director position is evolving. The key responsibilities include generating content to engage and activate Resource Generation’s base of young people with wealth and/or class privilege. This includes curating national in-person multi-day conferences and virtual programming such as webinars and supporting other staff who are leading program areas.

The Program Director leads the work to integrate, coordinate, and strengthen RG political ed and programming. The Program Director is also a core team member who focuses on organizing and politicizing RG's base locally and nationally through base-building and leadership development, resource mobilization, and campaigns serving RG's mission. These teams are where the majority of the long-term collaborations occur. This position will have rotating responsibilities on other teams in alignment with our shared power structure.

In 2025, the number one priority will be bottom-lining the flagship annual Making Money Make Change conference, which may account for a larger percentage of the workload. We will work collectively to prioritize the remaining responsibilities.

The Program Director will join a 16-person organizing team in a highly collaborative work environment. We use a decentralized leadership structure known as Collab.

Job Responsibilities:

Manage national conferences: (40%)

• Bottomline the planning and execution of our conferences, especially our flagship Making Money Make Change annual conference
• Integrate in-person conferences into organizing team plan
• Create schedule, goals, workshop topics, and registration rates for conferences
• Design curriculums and work with workshop presenters to create content
• Hire retreat consultant and provide regular supervision
• Evaluate the effectiveness of retreats based on evaluations and propose changes
• Fill or delegate all roles for multi-day in-person conferences in collaboration with the entire team. Some of the tasks may include:
  • Facilitate orientation calls for new presenters, consultants, and staff
  • Create registration forms
  • Act as primary contact for all presenters and facilitators; ensure payments and logistical needs are met
  • Identify program book designer and manage contractual relationship support editing of the program book
  • Determine supply and copy needs and work with staff to ensure timely production and delivery
  • Create a list of event accessibility resources

Lead on political education strategy: (20%)

• Develop and coordinate political education and skill-building goals and curriculum for the year for both existing and potential new members that support our campaigns, resource mobilization, base building, and leadership development goals, in collaboration with organizing team
• Develop and coordinate a training calendar for the year that includes conferences, webinars, and other national offerings in collaboration with other organizing team
• Coordinate shared learning and strategy for all staff who create and support programming as part of their role and facilitate the development of aligned political ideology
• Own Retreats and Programming budgets, including budget development
• Map out training arcs for members
• Hold training relationships with partners and coordinate pieces of training in collaboration
• Supervise 1 consultant with the possibility of 1-2 full-time members of the organizing team in the future

Lead on national political education content creation: (20%)

• Keep core curriculums (ex praxis) updated, effective, and aligned with our organizational goals
• Update political education print and digital materials
• Train and support staff who are leading local and national programming with tasks such as:
  • Creating templates for standardized programming
  • Reviewing agendas and offering feedback on national programming
• Write pieces for newsletter, website, and rapid response statements as possible

Manage national webinars: (10%)

• Manage schedule and overall budget of webinars, collaborating with organizing team and members to determine priorities and topics
• Lead on or assist with content of webinars
• Create a projected webinar schedule with room for emerging content to be added

Additional responsibilities required of all staff: (10%)

• Support national organizing priorities and collaborative staff leadership structure regularly
• Fundraising:
  • Do transformative fundraising with RG leaders to become dues-paying members.
  • Manage individual major donor lists and consistently develop members to become major donors, pushing members to give more boldly to movements through our Redistribution Pledge.
• Admin: Responsible for owning the accuracy and regular input of data for assigned donors in our EveryAction database, as well as core administrative functions such as uploading and tagging receipts for expenses and filling out timesheets.
• Participate in staff caucuses, political education, staff retreats, our participatory budgeting process, and other team-building & collective decision-making processes.
• Support staff training in collaboration with the Director of People and Culture and Senior Organizing Director

Core qualifications and required skills:

• Popular Education Scholar. At least four years of experience designing and facilitating trainings, workshops, and conferences through a popular education approach.
• Transformation Oriented. Someone who will put in the care required to make a learning experience transformative and thus is deeply familiar with healing justice and disability justice frameworks.
• Develops others’ leadership. Understands how to help people move into greater levels of leadership with at least two years of leading people or teams to achieve results.
• Strong project manager who can build trust across differences. Someone with experience successfully managing teams on complex projects with many moving parts. Collective-oriented. Skills in working and building trust with people across class, race, gender, etc.
• Self-directed and able to work remotely. Persistent, creative, and solutions-oriented. Can work plan effectively to meet goals, communicate in a timely and responsive way, and can spend 32 hours a week on video calls and on a computer.
• Desire to transformatively organize a multiracial base of young wealthy people. Demonstrated commitment to racial and economic justice. Believes in the stake young wealthy folks have in collective liberation and the possibility and necessity of building cross-class and multiracial movements. Committed to own transformation and healing from oppressive systems.

The ideal candidate is someone who:

• Has a solid understanding of class, classism, and own class experience
• Is a lifelong learner with a demonstrated commitment to collective liberation
• Cares about and has experience with shared power and decision-making
• Can work in a highly collaborative organization while still managing individual short-term and long-term projects
• Competent in working with CRMs (RG uses EveryAction), digital organizing tools (e.g., Hustle), and project management tools (e.g., Asana).
• Experience with individual major donor ($5k+ annually) fundraising

If you are excited by this position but don’t meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply. We recognize that not all candidates may be strong in all areas listed. We also welcome learning about your strengths and talents to bring to this role that may not be fully captured in our list.

Compensation, benefits, and the application process:

Salary: $69,000-79,000 depending upon experience and regional cost of living.

Benefits: RG offers excellent benefits, including 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance; majority employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance for partners, spouses, and families. We offer 100% employer-paid short-term and long-term disability and life insurance; medical and transit flexible spending account with a $500 employer contribution; 403(b) retirement plan with a 5% employer contribution after one year of employment, parental leave (up to 6 months within the first year after birth, adoption, or fostering), as well as an 8-week paid sabbatical after 4 years of employment. We also offer 15 vacation days, 15 sick days, 5 personal days, and a minimum of 1 week office closure in late December. RG provides professional development funds, initial home office tech set-up (shipment of computer, laptop), and a monthly office supply/co-working allowance.

Location & Travel: The Program Director can work remotely from anywhere in the continental US and is expected to be available between 1 and 4 p.m. EST to accommodate staff across time zones. Travel is expected approximately 4-6 times.

Staff Culture: RG is grounded in feminist and social justice principles. We engage in revolving identity-based caucuses and bi-monthly political education sessions. RG is a highly dynamic and fast-paced organization. Our working culture is highly collaborative, and we spend considerable time goal setting and planning to ensure that staff members are empowered and supported to succeed in their positions. Staff collaborate to support hiring processes, annual budgeting, and event programming. We engage in group wellness practices every quarter and support one another to counter a culture of overwork. We recognize that paid work is only one aspect of our lives and encourage each other to take breaks and paid time off.

Timeline and hiring process:

Approximate Timeline:

Dec 12th - Jan 20th: Accepting resumes. The last day to apply is Jan 20 at midnight

January 27th - Feb 28th: First and second round interviews, with the possibility of additional requests.

March 24th : Start date

Resource Generation is an equal opportunity employer and promotes equal opportunity in recruitment, employment, training, development, transfer, and promotion. Our employment practices are without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or medical condition, national origin or ancestry, marital and veteran status, and all other categories protected by anti-discrimination laws.