[Hiring] Managing Director @Justice Democrats

Role Description

Justice Democrats seeks a talented, committed leader to serve as Managing Director. This position is responsible for managing our staff and organizational structure; supporting the Executive Director; building and maintaining coordination and alignment across departments, projects and areas of work; and problem-solving major gaps in our organizational capacity to achieve our goals.

The Managing Director will remain grounded in day-to-day operations while also driving forward our long-term vision by supporting staff at all levels and ensuring that our resources are properly aligned to achieve our outcomes. They will optimize our work across the organization to keep us as healthy and effective as possible.

The Managing Director reports to Hodari Williams, the Executive Director. This position will begin in January 2027, the application deadline is November 19th, 2026.

Qualifications

• Strategic planning and goal-setting: Depth of experience facilitating organizational goal-setting and translating vision into measurable departmental work plans.
• Executive advisory and support: Proven track record acting as a trusted advisor to an Executive Director or leadership team.
• Cross-functional leadership: Demonstrated ability to align a full team and drive cohesive organizational collaboration.
• Hiring & Onboarding Experience: Experience designing and executing full-cycle hiring processes, structured onboarding programs, and organizational staffing workflows.
• Performance management: Hands-on experience overseeing performance review cycles, progressive discipline policies, and management support interventions.
• Management coaching and training: Background in coaching, training, and mentoring people managers.
• Project management: Experience leading cross-team projects from conception to completion.
• Strong written and verbal communication: Exceptional communication skills with proven ability to draft executive correspondence, and synthesize organizational updates.
• Risk assessment and critical decision-making: Comfort with analyzing organizational risk with strong judgment and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Budgeting and financial stewardship: Experience collaborating on annual budget development, resource allocation, and operational expense tracking.
• Discretion and emotional intelligence: High emotional intelligence, sound instincts, and demonstrated maturity handling sensitive personnel, operational, and executive matters.
• Ability to operate well in a high-pressure environment.

Requirements

• Drive long-term vision.
• Work with the Executive Director and Directors team to ensure clear short and long-term goals.
• Ensure alignment between different departments in long-term strategy and daily operations.
• Identify short or long-term strategic gaps or problems.
• Lead the planning and implementation of the annual staff retreat.
• Provide executive-level support to the Executive Director.
• Maintain the macro view of our organizational management structure.
• Manage onboarding of new staff.
• Provide management training and/or support for everyone with management responsibilities.
• Convene, coordinate, and manage agendas for directors and all staff meetings and retreats.
• Manage staff to execute hiring processes.
• Work with relevant Managers to evaluate and implement performance management as needed.
• Ensure the organization is operating in compliance with our handbook.
• Manage the annual/biannual performance review process across the organization.
• Work in collaboration with our operations consultant to ensure all organizational operations and compliance needs are being met.
• Work with legal counsel to ensure that all programming is operating in a compliant manner.

Benefits

• The salary for this position is $90,500.
• This is a fully remote position, with some travel.
• Unlimited vacation with a 2-week minimum, all federal holidays off, and the organization is closed the final week of the year.
• Unlimited sick days.
• Fully paid Health, Vision, Dental (including dependents).
• 401K and 4% employer match.
• Raise every two years.

Company Description

JD/OFJ is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.