This position requires extensive travel, approximately 30 percent of the time.
The Director of Membership and Radical Collaboration will lead BLIS Collective's membership engagement, growth, and activation. This role is pivotal in facilitating solidarity and collaboration across the Collective, organizing collaborative projects, ensuring members are integrated into BLIS’ external campaigns and coalitions, and stewarding a member-focused fund called the Radical Collaboration Fund. The Director will work closely with other team members to design and implement programs to strengthen trust, relationships, and collective power among members. Please apply through this Typeform by November 15th.
ABOUT BLIS COLLECTIVE
The BLIS Collective is a membership-serving Solidarity and Action Hub that braids narratives and grows movements. Our mission is to spark radical collaboration and narrative alignment between and within Black, Indigenous, and transformative social movements to repair, decolonize, and reshape culture.
We implement a dual internal and external power-building strategy. The external power-building strategy is focused on supporting the growth of the movements represented in the Collective (reparations, Land Back, guaranteed income, baby bonds) through narrative research, local and national coalition building, cultural production, and capacity building. The internal power-building strategy fosters a strategic membership core of organizers, artists, and researchers oriented toward today’s most transformative social movements to practice the art of solidarity. Together with Collective members, BLIS will develop a long-term cultural strategy for liberation and decolonization.
The BLIS Collective was founded in 2022 by Savannah Romero and Trevor Smith, and is a fiscally-sponsored project of Possibility Labs.
ABOUT POSSIBILITY LABS
Possibility Labs’ mission is to accelerate and empower community-driven solutions built, led, and governed by and for low-income and BIPOC communities by providing the essential financial and legal infrastructure to manage and move integrated capital to BIPOC-led movement groups. We aim to advance racial, gender, and climate justice and a new economy where everyone thrives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Membership Growth and Engagement
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Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy to recruit, retain, and engage a diverse membership core, connecting movements for Black reparations, Indigenous Land Back, guaranteed income, and baby bonds.
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Design and lead an onboarding process that immerses Collective members in each other’s movements and communities and fosters stronger relationships, collaboration, and solidarity.
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Facilitate deeper relationships between Collective members, highlight synergies between their strategies, and foster radical collaboration and collective power from the outset, setting the stage for ongoing transformative impact.
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Maintain strong relationships with Collective members, regularly gathering feedback and identifying ways to enhance their experience and participation in activities forwarding narratives of liberation and decolonization.
Radical Collaboration
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Lead the development and execution of cross-movement collaboration initiatives to foster deeper and stronger relationships between members and partner organizations.
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Organize and lead the Solidarity Sphere, the BLIS Collective’s core internal program, dedicated to healing, practicing the art of solidarity, and co-creating narrative and cultural strategies in partnership with Collective members.
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Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships with organizations and leaders aligned with Collective members' vision for the world to enhance collective impact.
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Co-develop the strategic vision for the Radical Collaboration Fund, which will support and scale cross-collective solidarity projects, stories, campaigns, and initiatives.
Program Development and Implementation
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Work across teams to design and deliver programs that support member-led initiatives, cultural production, and capacity building.
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Support the execution of member-driven campaigns and projects, ensuring they are aligned with the Collective’s broader goals and strategies.
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Collaborate with the Cultural Production and Communications Team to amplify members’ voices and stories through various media and communication channels.
Strategic Planning and Evaluation
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Contribute to developing the organization-wide strategic plan, ensuring that membership and collaboration goals are aligned with the organization’s vision and mission.
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Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of membership, collaborative initiatives, the Solidarity Sphere, and the Radical Collaboration Fund.
Supervisory Responsibility
The Director of Membership and Radical Collaboration has no supervisory responsibility at this time. They will actively participate in organizational decision-making and governance through sociocratic principles, ensuring shared leadership and collective accountability within the BLIS Collective.
EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK
This is a full-time, fully remote position. Standard BLIS Collective office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., based on your region's time zone. While we prioritize work-life balance, some flexibility in hours may be required to accommodate meetings or deadlines across different time zones.
TRAVEL
This position requires extensive travel, approximately 30 percent of the time.
WHY JOIN US?
As the Director of Membership and Radical Collaboration at the BLIS Collective, you can contribute to a growing organization dedicated to increasing solidarity, collaboration, and alignment across Black, Indigenous, and transformative social movements. You will play a pivotal role in a dynamic team actively shifting culture, mindsets, and policy in profound and significant ways. You will have the opportunity to work alongside a passionate and committed team, help shape and execute initiatives, and have the power to create lasting change in our communities and beyond.
Possibility Labs is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, disability, gender, nationality, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or any other status protected by law.