Job description
We’re looking for a Director of Corporate Campaigns!
Worth Rises seeks a dynamic Director of Corporate Campaigns (exempt) to work remotely to lead the national corporate campaign work of the organization. This individual should have experience with corporate finance and capital markets as well as boycott, divestiture, and other corporate tactics. They should be a high-level thinker, strategist, and doer able to navigate a variety of environments skillfully and with integrity. The Director of Corporate Campaigns will report to the Executive Director and work with her to develop and implement corporate campaign strategy. The Director of Corporate Campaigns will manage the corporate campaigns team and work with corporate campaign staff to build a broad base of directly impacted people and allies, convene and coordinate coalitions, and advocate to stakeholders and decisionmakers.
Worth Rises is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches. Partnering with directly impacted people, we work to expose the commercialization of the criminal legal system and advocate and organize to protect the economic resources extracted from affected communities and strip the industry of its power. Through our work, we strive to pave a road toward a safe and just world free of police and prisons.
Key Results (Year One)
- Prevent the prison telecom sector from recovering from its current distressed state and instead further driving it down.
- Secure public commitments from at least one financial institution in the E.U. to divest from private prisons and one financial institution in the U.S. to prohibit business in the broader prison industry or aspects of it.
- Launch a strategic corporate campaign against corporations involved in electronic monitoring.
Major Responsibilities
- Co-develop and execute the organization’s corporate campaign strategy with the Executive Director, Director of Policy Campaigns, Chief of Staff, Director of Research & Popular Education, and Director of Communications.
- Manage the corporate campaigns team, providing oversight and thought partnership to campaigns staff to keep work on track and meet campaign goals.
- Deepen and expand relationships with partner organizations working at the intersection of criminal and economic injustice on an international, national, state, and local level.
- Advocate to key decisionmakers, including board members, executives, investors, regulators, and others, to persuade them to take recommended actions.
- Develop and execute base building strategies with communitiesdirectly impacted by incarceration that elevate their voices and center their leadership, analysis, and stories.
- Be an organizational spokesperson to communities, coalitions, partners, decisionmakers, and media through interviews, hearings, rallies, conferences, and op-eds, persuasively communicating the organization’s mission and goals.
- Work closely with the popular education and communications teams in service of campaigns.
- Track and assess corporate campaign progress and needs and manage internal and external resources.
Critical Factors for Success
A strong candidate would be a strategic-minded and motivated self-starter who consistently delivers high-quality work, is an excellent project manager, is a proactive and innovative problem-solver, appreciates direct feedback, and has the following:
- At least five years of experience developing, running, and winning corporate campaigns that includes leading strategic planning, large coalitions, direct actions, and digital advocacy.
- At least two years of management experience, preferably the management and development of staff directly impacted by incarceration.
- Very strong oral and written communication skills with professional experience drafting materials for different audiences, including fact sheets, demand letters, petitions, and op-eds.
- Strong relationships across the divestment and economic justice movements and the demonstrated ability to build trusted working relationships with staff, partners, and community members.
- Ability to productively engage in and defuse conflicts, as necessary.
- Working understanding of the prison industry and corporate finance and a strong, demonstrated interest in learning more.
- Willingness to travel as required.
- Genuine commitment to our organizational values: act with integrity, focus on impact, deliver excellence, get it done, and operate with intellectual curiosity (visit worthrises.org/jointhefight).
Compensation and Benefits
Worth Rises offers a generous compensation package, including full medical, vision, and dental coverage, 20 days vacation time, ten days personal/sick leave, and three days bereavement leave. Employees also receive a generous 401k contribution match, $75 monthly cellphone stipend, and dedicated budget line for professional development. We operate in a remote-first environment. The annual salary for Director of Corporate Campaigns is $130,000.
Worth Rises is an equal opportunity employer, and strongly encourages formerly incarcerated individuals, directly impacted individuals, people of color, members of the disabled community, gender-variant and non-binary individuals, and other members of the LGBTQIA+ community to apply.
