Managing Director

We are looking for someone great to join the Workplace Justice Lab as Managing Director. We’re looking for someone with expertise in administrative management and familiarity with large bureaucracies. They should have staff management, project management, and fundraising experience, and comfort directing multiple projects across different geographies and time zones. This position is in-person two days a week and remote three days a week.

The Workplace Justice Lab exists to tackle inequality and worker exploitation through supporting, strengthening, and fostering innovation in government and building the membership and leadership bases of worker justice organizations and unions. WJL is a multi-institutional partnership that is anchored at Rutgers University with sister centers at Northwestern University and the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California.

Key Job Qualifications

This is a key senior leadership position that reports to the Faculty Director. We are looking for

someone:

• who has a proven track record in administrative management and wants to lead the day-to-day operations of a team of national experts in their fields.
• who has experience and comfort working within, and is not daunted by, universities or other large bureaucratic organizations.
• who has experience in fundraising/funder communications, financial oversight, and grant management.
• with a strong background in project management, staff hiring and supervision.
• who is an effective communicator, adept at external communications, and comfortable with technology.
• with experience in labor, community organizing, or other social justice work.
• who is ready to provide leadership, direction, and coordination to a dynamic and growing national worker justice resource.
• who lives, or is willing to live in, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania or Delaware in a commutable distance from Rutgers’ New Brunswick campus.

Key Job Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of the Managing Director include:

• Managing complex administrative functions across multiple entities.
• Manage pre and post activities for all grants and fee-for-service contracts.
• Oversee the Center’s multiple budgets, working with the Dean’s office to prepare and manage annual budgets, a 2-year budget, individual grant budgets, and programmatic budgets.
• Manage HR functions for WJL, including overseeing hiring processes and managing the culture of a team working mostly remotely and across different institutions.
• Provide daily leadership, direction, and coordination for the Center in partnership with the Faculty Director.
• Directly oversee a full-time support staff member, including performance evaluation, hiring, and firing.
• Lead work with the Faculty Director and professional staff on fundraising, grant writing activities, and building a strategic plan for growth including researching, mapping, monitoring, and evaluating funding opportunities.
• Manage external communications, in partnership with Faculty Director, school media director, and consultants.
• Manage and implement ongoing strategic planning, overseeing activities related to annual team planning, and in-person meetings with external partners.
• With Faculty Director, manage relationships within the School of Management and Labor Relations in addition to other relationships at Rutgers.

This is a full-time position. This position will be performed in-person in New Brunswick, NJ with

the opportunity to work up to three days a week remotely. The position will involve travel to

meetings beyond Rutgers 1-2 times a year, which will be reimbursed.