Community Equity Initiative (CEI) Program Director

The CEI’s goals are to eliminate infrastructure inequity in disadvantaged, unincorporated communities (DUCs) and to elevate the role of these communities and local community leaders in local, county and state governmental decision making. Reporting to the Director of Community Planning, the Program Director will manage all aspects of the CEI locally and statewide and actively collaborate with CRLA staff to increase program reach and resources and to support CRLA’s management and greater mission. Program management includes program development, advocacy, administration, and supervision.

Responsibilities:

A. Program Development – to direct the program to a more advanced or effective state.

• Develop strategies, policies, protocols and tools for maximizing program

• effectiveness and sustainability including via coordination of periodic

• regional and statewide needs assessments and case reviews.

• Work with program staff to develop, update and continually improve

• techniques and presentations for community education and outreach and

• community leadership development.

• Promote, expand and facilitate national discussion of program issues,

• through workshops, moderating/participating on panels, writing

• professional/academic articles, cultivating and coordinating media, and

• through other opportunities and innovations to elevate awareness.

• Train CRLA staff about program issues, goals, and methods including by

• connecting them to other related professional development opportunities.

• Coordinate development of a CRLA library of program-related resources.

B. Advocacy – to manage and engage in program work.

• Supervise and direct all aspects of program advocacy via case reviews

• and use of CMS/data to monitor, coordinate, and consult/advise on all

• program activity; lead advocacy in discrete communities and in other

• limited circumstances, e.g. during development of new areas of service.

• Initiate and serve as lead or co-counsel in systemic litigation directed

• at furthering the goals and objectives of the initiative.

• Monitor community, county, regional and state level decisions related to

• the allocation of public resources and other areas of law and policy

• impacting DUCs, participate in and direct permitted legislative and

• regulatory advocacy.

• Collaborate with partner organizations to ensure coordination that

• effectively supports program goals; act as lead in program partnerships

• and other high-level collaborations.

• Collaborate with researchers to develop/conduct a research agenda that

• supports program goals and explore additional areas for expansion.

• Collaborate with and provide information for governmental agencies and

• other appropriate service providers about program issues and opportunities.

C. Administration – to assume control of and responsibility for program Operations

• Prepare, update and oversee work plans for the program and individual program staff.

• Collaborate with CRLA directing attorneys to identify and develop intersectional advocacy opportunities within office work plans.

• Collaborate with CRLA management to evaluate program effectiveness, via maintenance of statistics and metrics related to statewide efforts and program impacts.

• Collaborate with CRLA management to accomplish CRLA’s greater mission by: (1) implementing programmatic work in alignment with core expectations for programs, (2) ensuring team understanding of core expectations as they apply to program advocacy, and (3) ensuring staff/team advocacy advances organizational mission.

• Collaborate with CRLA Development Director to promote/secure program funding in line with program goals, including written reports and presentations of program successes and innovative practices for funders, via pitched media and through convenings of other social justice leaders.

• Perform other duties and responsibilities deemed appropriate.

D. Staff supervision – to direct staff performance of work duties and professional development.

• Supervise program staff, including recruiting, hiring, evaluating, and disciplining.

• Train and learn with and from program staff about program issues, goals and methods as well as CRLA policies and protocols; also direct program staff general professional development.

SUPERVISOR: Deputy Director of Programs and New Initiatives

SUPERVISES: Program Staff

SALARY: $46,700.00 ($42,000.00, plus $4,700.00 management bonus) to $75,600.00 ($67,500.00, plus $8,100.00 management bonus)

WOMEN AND MINORITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. CRLA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.