Queer Mobilization Fund Power Building Coordinator

Please note: Applicants are encouraged to apply before the deadline as we will be interviewing on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Location: Applicants are required to live in the US Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). [For applicants living in NC this is a hybrid position requiring in-person office time (frequency TBD depending on proximity to Durham office). For applicants outside of NC, this is a remote position requiring travel for in-person organizational events and programmatic needs roughly 5-6 times per year].

About Southern Vision Alliance and Queer Mobilization Fund

Southern Vision Alliance (SVA) is a values-based “grassroots intermediary” organized to provide infrastructure, capacity-building, coaching, and technical assistance to groups and projects led by directly impacted communities. SVA supports emergent grassroots groups and efforts organizing for social, racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice in the U.S. South. We build movement infrastructure, mobilize resources, and incubate collaborative solidarity. SVA is headquartered in Durham, NC and supports a diverse cohort of fiscally sponsored projects, groups and funds across North Carolina. Please learn more about SVA via our website and our Strategic Direction for 2025 and beyond.

The Queer Mobilization Fund (QMF) is a grassroots capacity-building re-granting fund under SVA’s Frontline Funds program, prioritizing and supporting QTBIPOC on the frontlines to build power for and within queer communities in the US Southeast. As a base-building organization whose mission as a grassroots intermediary is to incubate organizations and initiatives and mobilize resources for long-term organizing, we prioritize funding groups who emphasize base-building, hold aligned values with SVA/QMF, and who are doing work to build power and organize for change in their communities.

QMF is in its fifth year of operation and has grown significantly over the past year. We have gone from a grantee cohort of roughly 20 organizations awarding an average of $100k annually to a cohort of 50 organizations awarding an average of $325k annually. We have also grown from 1 full-time staff member in the first year to 3 full-time staff and 4 contractors providing organizational development support to our grantee cohort in 2023. QMF makes its grantmaking decisions via a participatory community grantmaking panel of resource mobilizers. The QMF power building coordinator position will provide more capacity for our program to support power building in our grantee cohort more effectively. Power building is a strategy to support our grantee network in social justice movement building strategies, networking opportunities, and historically-successful organizing tactics with the purpose of supporting networking, skills sharing and base building.

This 40 hour per week position is responsible for co-coordinating QMF’s power building activities in collaboration with the QMF organizing and communications manager as well as providing organizational development coaching to individual grantee organizations.

The QMF power building coordinator will support all QMF power building activities, including but not limited to: virtual workshop series, virtual strategy calls, a discord channel for grantees to build and connect, a resource library for organizational development and base-building, and supporting our network of alumni grantees. The QMF power building coordinator will work with other coaches to lead group coaching as well as work with individual grantee organizations to support capacity building of grantees throughout the grant period (Jan-June). The position will also support QMF power building contractor coaches, including co-hosting regular/recurring zoom check-ins throughout the cohort cycle.

The power building coordinator’s work will be seasonal, with coaching and workshops only occurring when we have a grantee cohort (Jan- June) and other duties such as building our resource library and admin occurring outside of that time period (July- Dec).

The position works directly under the Queer Mobilization Fund director while also being accountable to the QMF team and the rest of the SVA staff and associate directors regarding organizational operations and compliance matters.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Grantee Power Building
  • Work with grantee organizations to provide both group and individual organizational development and capacity building coaching throughout the grant period
  • Work with grantee cohort to identify group organizing and base-building needs; coordinate virtual cohort events, activities and trainings, in partnership with the QMF organizing and communications manager and other SVA departments
  • Hone digital organizing strategies to effectively build active networks across QMF grantees and strengthen movements across the US Southeast via virtual platforms to prepare grantee organizations for movement and mobilization
  • Create and disseminate surveys to active grantees and hold collaborative feedback sessions to determine needs and priorities
  • Develop plans and programming to engage QMF alumni network
  • Support development and maintenance of digital power building resource library
  • Manage discord server; monitor channels, provide prompts and engage with grantees to make this a useful networking tool for grantees and alumni
• Administrative
  • Manage data, evaluations and forms for the power building program
  • Manage contracts for power building coaches
  • Establish and refine systems to track power building work
  • Write reports on our findings/learnings after each years cohort
• Fundraising and Development
  • Work in collaboration with QMF director to inform annual budget
  • Provides QMF director/team with qualitative and quantitative data and updates to support the creation of annual reports and blog posts
• Internal QMF and SVA
  • Attend bi-weekly check-in meetings with QMF director
  • Attend weekly QMF team meetings
  • Attend monthly SVA program meetings
  • Attend monthly SVA staff meetings
  • Support cross-pollination and cross-sector movement building within SVA’s ecosystem and the broader movement ecosystem by identifying opportunities for collaboration

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Applicants are required to live in the US Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). [Please note: for applicants living in NC this is a hybrid position requiring in-person office time (frequency TBD depending on proximity to Durham office). For applicants outside of NC, this is a remote position requiring travel for in-person organizational events and programmatic needs roughly 5-6 times per year].
• Experience and/or formal training as a coach (executive and/or organizational development focus preferred) or nonprofit organizational consulting
• Extensive knowledge of both nonprofit and organizational development best practices as well as experience with nontraditional organizational structures and processes
• Background in community organizing or other similar experience with movement building and/or base building
• Extensive experience with facilitation, both in person and virtual
• Deep understanding of and varied experience working with/in Southern QTBIPOC communities
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with QTBIPOC-led grassroots organizations
• Well versed in social justice issues, intersectionality and analysis/understanding of systems of oppression
• Sufficient technical/digital knowledge to facilitate virtual spaces, meetings, discussion forums
• Ability to work remotely
• Ability to travel for in-person team meetings and conferences across the US Southeast (frequency TBD and based on budget availability but likely not more than 6x/year)

Additional Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• 3+ years of direct experience with grantmaking or working within philanthropic spaces
• Bilingual English/Spanish
• BIPOC and Queer/Trans/GNC individuals are encouraged to apply

Even if you think you don’t meet every requirement listed above, we encourage you to apply! Studies show that marginalized communities are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. SVA is dedicated to building an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible workplace that fosters a sense of belonging, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, we still encourage you to consider applying. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another opening. All qualified applicants – including people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, women, protected veterans, individuals who have been involved in the justice system, and individuals with disabilities – are encouraged to apply.

SVA is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discriminatory employment actions and treatment against employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability, and/or past incarceration.