Director of Resource Strategies

About The Right To The City Alliance (RTTC)

Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) emerged in 2007 with a strong and powerful vision to 1) halt the displacement of low-income people, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQ communities, and youth of color, and 2) protect and expand affordable housing in tandem with a broader movement to build democratic and just healthy communities for the 21st century.

Since its inception, RTTC has quickly grown to encompass over 70 community-based racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice organizations located in 26 states and 45 cities. Representing true grassroots power and leadership of the most impacted, RTTC’s member organizations weave together local on-the-ground organizing, policy, and advocacy campaigns to build a robust and unstoppable national movement for inclusive, healthy housing and community development.

Organizational Work Culture

We take the work seriously, but not ourselves: Right to the City is committed to a work culture of care and balance. We understand that rigor and rest are compatible and both are necessary to reach our movement building goals. Principled struggle and generative conflict are core commitments and we take a transformative approach to resolving harm. While we take our commitments seriously, our work environment commonly includes jokes, laughter, celebration and all other manner of enjoyable human experiences.

Position Summary

The RTTC Director of Resource Strategies will advance resource development, non-extractive capital strategies, and financial management as an integrated movement-building strategy for the RTTC ecosystem. This position develops and coordinates resource strategies from individuals, foundations, and federal funding sources to advance the decommodification and democratization of land and housing on a mass scale.

The Director will be responsible for overseeing an organizational budget of just under 30 million and raising approximately 16 to 18 million annually in combined c3, c4 and capital investment dollars.

The Resource Strategies Department encompasses three main work areas:

• Resource Development
• Capital Strategies
• Financial Management

Ideal candidate will be someone who is multifaceted, able to adapt to changing conditions, believes deeply in self-determination and community power, and who embodies a commitment to both personal and systemic transformation.

Job Responsibilities

1. Advance Organizing of Philanthropic Sector

2. Direct Resource Strategies Department

3. Co-Direct Organizational Strategy & Sustainability

Common Expectations for all positions:

RTTC intentionally builds collaborative and transformative culture through:

• Organizational participation: This includes team planning, staff meetings and training, national convenings, collaborative projects across teams, and HR/administrative tasks common to all positions.
• Evolution of the work: Areas of work may change over time based on organization and movement needs, and always in consultation with the organizer.
• Transformative Praxis: Participate in RTTC’s transformative justice program to align our practice with our values and principles. Build staff unity and cohesion, and principled struggle amongst all team/staff members.

Location & Travel: Location is negotiable but all RTTC staff are required to live in the United States. RTTC has staff in the following areas: Atlanta, Boston, New York (physical office), and the SF Bay Area (satellite office). Travel is required. On average, this position will be expected to travel 1-2 times per month for a total of 5-10 days per month, year round.

Qualities We Are Looking For

• Bold Vision. You bring fierce imagination and deep commitment that we can and will create the world our communities need. You can share that vision in ways that inspire and compel.
• Swiss Army Knife. You are resourceful and creative, willing to do what it takes to make a project succeed. You can handle a lot in a fast-paced work environment.
• Interdependent. You are able to work independently, self-managing your time, while maintaining close communication with remote teams . You know that changing the world doesn't always happen between 9am and 5pm.
• Low ego, high impact. You are disciplined, rigorous, and more group-centered than self-centered. You have an excellent attention to detail and keep your eyes on the big picture.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Must have at least 10 years direct fundraising experience, and 5 years of management experience with at least 3 years in a senior management capacity
• Deep grounding in the national social justice movement and the national basebuilding sector
• Demonstrated record of transformative leadership within social movements and/or philanthropic sector with a proven record of developing successful partnerships, training and mentoring colleagues or supervisees, as well as embodying a feminist approach and orientation
• Strong grounding in leftist tools of analysis including dialectical materialism, conjunctural analysis and strategy development as well as the ability to apply these tools and frameworks to the day to day work
• Strong interpersonal skills with the intellectual and emotional depth, maturity and collaborative skills to work effectively across all levels of the organization as well as with movement allies and philanthropic partners
• A strong work ethic, ability to maintain and model high personal, political and professional standards

Position-specific skills:

• A deep understanding of the national philanthropic sector including -
• An assessment of the various forces (individuals and institutions) in the sector
• Developed and generative relationships with key individuals and institutions in the sector
• An assessment of the current and future opportunities and threats
• An ability to provide the Executive Director and the Directors’ Team with timely assessments of developments in the philanthropic sector impacts the work of the Alliance and an ability to make recommendations on potential interventions that the Alliance should pursue to maintain financial health
• An ability to bring a dialectical approach towards thinking about the ways in which the Alliance strategy and work can and should impact or inform our resource strategy as well as how our resource development work can and should impact or inform our broader Alliance strategy and work
• Excellent writing skills including the ability to write analytical pieces
• Strong budget management experience including literacy with financial terms, organizational financial reports, ability to draw conclusions based on financial models
• An ability to engage a variety of collaborators around resource development and financial management; as a means to strengthen the internal capacity of the Alliance around this aspect of work
• Strong verbal skills including an ability to effectively address and connect with a range of audiences on all aspects of the Alliance strategy and work

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write and or speak a second language, preferably Spanish, Mandarin or Cantonese
• Experience as a community organizer and or being part of a local basebuilding organization
• Participation in popular movement mobilizations and or formations
• Experience with integrated capital fundraising, project-related and mission-related investment capital development

General Requirements

• Experience and familiarity with housing justice, gentrification, displacement and anti-eviction work and/or grassroots base-building organizations and transformative organizing
• Experience in multi-racial, multicultural, multilingual settings
• Knowledge of common computer applications: MS Office, Google Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Dropbox, Mac environment, and Zoom
• Access to reliable internet, phone and remote office arrangements.
• Drivers license and auto insurance

Right To The City Alliance is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Applicants from communities heavily impacted by gentrification, displacement and housing insecurity are strongly encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.