Deputy Director of Operations

Posted on October 11, 2018

Forward Together is thrilled to be expanding our senior staff team and recruiting for aDeputy Director of Operations and Growth.This is an opportunity for a highly skilled senior level leaders to help shape the next phase of impact of a dynamic organization whose budget and staff have grown three-fold in recent years, and whose programs continue to grow in complexity, scale, and reach.

ABOUT US:Founded in 1989, Forward Together has grown from organizing local and statewide API communities to becoming a national leader in the reproductive justice movement. In 2010, we became a multi-racial and multi-issue organization, embracing the opportunity to expand our focus to POC and gender non-conforming families nationwide. This expansion reflects two core beliefs:
1) The oppression and liberation of all people are inextricably linked, and
2) Our strength lies in our ability to work and move together.

Our mission is to unite communities, build courage, and deepen connection among our community of change makers to secure rights, recognition, and resources for our families. We believe that all people deserve the economic, political, and culture power to have self-determination over our bodies, gender, sexualities, and family formation. Our organization amplifies the leadership and power of women and non-binary people of color and Indigenous people.

Over the coming years, Forward Together is doubling down to build a country where we are all at home, take care of each other, and respect each other, and where everyone is better off.

Led by our visionary Executive Director, Eveline Shen, and our highly accomplished staff, we have developed innovative programs, frameworks, campaigns, and initiatives for the movement:
our state-based power building work is changing policies through year-round civic engagement; the
Strong Families Initiative brings together over 200 organizations across the country to change policy and culture so that all families can thrive;
Echoing Ida amplifies the leadership of Black women and non-binary writers; the
Trans Day of Resilience campaign brings together non-binary artists and trans-led organizations to shift power and culture to support trans justice; and
Stepping Into Power , our movement building fellowship, centers race, gender, and sexuality.

Our annual revenue has increased significantly, from $1.8 million in 2013 and is projected to be $5.1 million in 2019. This has allowed us to expand our staffing to 28 and extend our presence: we now have staff in 10 cities, and offices in Oakland, Portland, and Albuquerque.

At Forward Together, we play to win, AND we know thatthe waywe achieve our goals andwithwhomare just as important as our outcomes. We harness the individual strengths within our staff and our network to foster a leader-full organization and movement. Our team members are high performers and high collaborators, and we encourage creativity and failing forward. We are driven not by ego, but by the opportunity to learn and grow together, while achieving impact and advancing our mission collectively.This

is not an aspirational vision: this is how we live and breathe into our work together.

EXPANDING OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM:The time is right for Forward Together to bring on two new Deputy Directors fora)Operations and Growth, and b) Programs and Organizational Development.Together, they will embody the values at the heart of our work and bring the range of skills and experience needed to achieve our three-year Roadmap and continued growth. The search process for both positions is occurring concurrently.

In close partnership with our Executive Director and senior management team and with input from leaders throughout the organization, our two Deputy Directors will lead Forward Together in building out the strategy, infrastructure, and systems to accommodate recent and anticipated expansion. This includes providing the guidance and resources needed for us to achieve impact at the highest level internally and externally;

creating opportunities to continue contributing innovative solutions to the movement; identifying…