Capacity Building Director

Capacity Building Director

The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) seeks an experienced ballot measure practitioner with expertise in scaling high impact training and capacity building programs to join the program leadership team. The Capacity Building Director will lead programs and develop tools and resources that build and enhance the skills and capacity of local, state, and national partners in order to strengthen the expertise and leadership in the ballot measure field.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated their ability to create training and leadership programs which take into account varying skill levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced), coaching needs, and develop training curriculum that equips our partners and campaigns with the skills to create change in their own communities. Given the times, it is also important to equip leaders with tools to protect themselves against rising authoritarianism. This person will also lead BISC's work with partners and campaigns to develop their measurement and evaluation tools to ensure best practices, indicators, and metrics are applied throughout the ballot measure campaign lifecycle.

As a member of the program leadership team, the Capacity Building Director will co-strategize with other program directors to support campaigns in our primary areas of focus : bodily autonomy, democracy, and economic justice. They will ensure a full integration of skill-building, policy development, research, legal advocacy, and implementation work into the lifecycle of ballot measure campaigns when advising state-based partners that result in long-term wins that build sustainable independent political power in states.

Additionally, they will serve as an advisor and active thought-partner to the Director of Programs & Strategy, particularly in matters related to enhancing the skills and civic education of our partners that empower them to transform the material conditions of their daily lives. Further, this person will help to curate our external convenings and enhance the experience of our partners in those spaces with the Senior Manager of Convenings. This person will also serve as an ambassador for organizational culture and reinforce our values of racial equity, accountability, transparency, integrity, innovation, and collaboration. The successful candidates will do this through their work, their engagement with colleagues, and external stakeholders.

Primary Job Responsibilities

Training & Capacity Building

• Serve as a strategic guide and thought partner to the Senior Capacity Building Manager in the ongoing development and scaling of BISC's training program, contributing to curriculum innovation and program expansion that meet the evolving needs of the field amid rising authoritarianism;
• Work collaboratively to drive innovation in evaluation tools, techniques, and practices that enhance learning outcomes and assess BISC's broader impact in the ballot measure field;
• Work in partnership with the Senior Capacity Building Manager and external partners to devise strategies that will increase the number of training offerings we provide both virtually and in-person and;
• Co-develop and sustain processes for ongoing engagement with BISC training alumni, to foster continued learning and community within the ballot measure field.

Strategic Assistance & Culture Shifting

Convenings & Program Leadership

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Required Qualifications :

Education, Knowledge and Experience Requirements :

Position requires experience with scaling existing and developing new training programs. The successful candidate will have leadership experience with ballot measure and / or issue-based campaigns and seven years of related professional experience. The successful candidate will have at least two state-based ballot measure campaign work in a state with citizen initiative process; familiarity with citizen initiative process (coordinated campaign or statewide preferred).

Notice of Exempt Position :

This is a full-time position and in accordance with the provisions of Federal and DC wage and hour laws, this position is classified as Exempt, which means that you will not be eligible for overtime for hours worked in excess of forty (40) during a work week.

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