Director of Operations & Culture

Position Title

Director of Operations & Culture

Deputy Director of Operations & Culture

Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is a new, time‑limited entity that will deepen and expand the capacity, impact, and sustainability of California’s grassroots movements for racial justice and social transformation. Through offerings that are additive and synergistic with existing movement efforts, MIC will support changemakers and organizations in catalyzing innovations in movement strategy, power‑building, intergenerational leadership development, and collective long‑term sustainability and resilience.

MIC will maintain a network of physical and virtual “centers,” becoming a key piece of infrastructure to fuel transformative structural change across California. MIC will focus on six core strategies:
Organizing Strategy and Innovation (OS&I), Healing, Sustainability and Culture (HSC), Network of Centers (NoC), Regional Ecosystems (RE), Movement Strategy & Innovation (MS&I), and Learning & Impact (L&I).

The Inaugural Director of Operations and Culture will play a critical role in shaping and cementing the organization’s culture and operations systems while ensuring smooth daily operations. This position provides strategic leadership to align people and culture strategies, organizational outcomes, operational capacity, and long‑term financial sustainability. The role is housed within the Ops & Culture Team, a highly collaborative, fast‑paced team responsible for HR/Personnel, Tech, Security, some Administrative and Legal Compliance, and Staff Development & Cohesion.

The Director reports to the Deputy Director of Operations & Culture and supervises the Operations Manager.

As a seasoned movement leader with strong operational and people‑management skills, the Director will oversee, lead, manage, and enhance organizational systems, policies, and procedures, fostering an internal culture of care, discipline, resilience, and innovation. Responsibilities include operationalizing a wide range of program initiatives and ensuring that MIC’s infrastructure, systems, internal culture, and policies reflect its values.

• Management and implementation support to establish building blocks for a positive, values‑aligned, and cohesive organizational culture.
• Manage and implement clear, values‑driven expectations and practices for staff conduct, communication, decision‑making, and accountability.
• Support transformative, holistic HR practices for onboarding, supervision, evaluation, staff development, political education, employee engagement, and talent management.
• Collaborate with the Deputy Director to lead the development of the monthly all‑staff meeting container, staff trainings, and biannual staff retreats, including agenda development and facilitation.

• Complete and implement HR systems and procedures, managing their implementation.
• Ensure legal compliance and risk management in all HR systems and procedures.
• Oversee management of MIC’s PEO (Insperity) and offer strategic leadership to ensure the PEO respects MIC’s values and approach.
• Oversee management of MIC’s hiring processes; 10–12 new hires in 2026.

• Work with program teams to assess operational needs and design and execute plans to operationalize a wide range of program initiatives.
• Deliver senior leadership and strategic organizational oversight to ensure that MIC’s infrastructure, systems, internal culture, and policies reflect our values.
• Understand MIC’s integration needs and offer analysis and thought leadership to identify points of interconnectedness and co‑create supporting practices and processes.
• Oversee the implementation of Asana protocols and support staff in gaining the skills and practice to use Asana as MIC’s primary project management tool.
• Oversee the implementation of Filing Protocols in Google Drive and support staff in gaining the necessary skills and practices for compliance.
• Develop further protocols and practices to maintain ease‑of‑use and security of MIC’s operational and programmatic…