[Hiring] Chief Operating Officer @MoveOn.org

Role Description

This role oversees the organization’s finance, operations, legal, and people functions across its entities: C3, C4 and PAC. The Chief Operating Officer is responsible for MoveOn’s long-term core business functions and operational and financial strategy, ensuring that these systems are designed and implemented efficiently and effectively, in line with the organization’s strategy and values; and in compliance with donor, government and other standards and requirements. The Chief Operating Officer serves as Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Treasurer of MoveOn’s entities.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic, experienced, values-driven leader with the ability to drive highly complex systems that deliver impeccable results in a rapidly changing environment. The Chief Operating Officer is a member of the Senior Management Team, and is responsible for ensuring that our operational and financial strategy enables us to grow the power of our membership in service of our vision to build an America for all, including building excellent organizational culture, values and practices that are rooted in equity, and systems and structures that allow for ongoing learning, accountability, and growth.

Responsibilities

• Operating Strategy:
  • Lead the implementation of MoveOn’s vision, strategic direction and operating model, in alignment with organizational objectives.
  • Serve as a member of the Senior management team, reporting to the Executive Director, and partner effectively with other department heads to translate MoveOn’s strategic goals into Operations Department objectives, KPIs.
  • Lead and direct the Operations Department to advance MoveOn’s culture, and its overall goals and strategies.
  • Strengthen MoveOn’s culture rooted in equity, championing innovation and appropriate risk-taking in service of growing progressive political power.
  • Serve as a thought partner and sounding board to the Executive Director and other senior leaders, and as a resource for staff to raise ideas and concerns.
  • Lead a distributed, high-performing Operations Department, maintaining and improving the infrastructure, systems, and culture needed to manage staff across the United States.
• Financial & Fiscal Oversight:
  • Lead the development of strategies for a financially solvent and sustainable organization, directing MoveOn's combined annual budget and reserves strategy to safeguard long-term financial health.
  • Lead and direct the establishment of operational and fiscal management structures, standards, systems, and best practices that build financial stewardship and accountability across MoveOn's entities.
  • Oversee the annual budgeting process across all entities, guiding the Finance & Operations Team in monitoring progress and resolving challenges.
  • Oversee grant management, guiding the Finance & Operations Team in its administration, deliverables, reporting, compliance, and cross-organizational coordination.
  • Oversee all income reporting to boards, staff, and stakeholders.
  • Build and conduct financial forecasting and analysis for future planning.
  • Ensure the Senior Management Team, boards, budget holders, and other stakeholders receive accurate, relevant financial information, and articulate MoveOn's budget and accounting philosophy to internal and external audiences.
• Team & Talent:
  • Oversee human resources and organizational development, ensuring human capital strategies align with MoveOn’s overarching vision and goals, and that organizational culture drives collaboration, alignment, adaptability, and shared success.
  • Translate the organization’s overarching vision and goals into operational strategies, including structural talent requirements, to ensure the right staffing levels and skill sets are in place.
  • Oversee talent retention strategies to ensure MoveOn attracts and retains top-tier talent and maintains a competitive edge in the movement.
  • Direct and support effective succession planning to ensure organizational continuity and resilience.
  • Along with other senior leadership, shape MoveOn’s culture by overseeing initiatives that promote employee engagement, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA), and overall workforce well-being.
  • Direct the development and implementation of performance management frameworks, including performance evaluations, feedback systems, and leadership and management development programs.
  • Provide strategic leadership to future-proof MoveOn’s human resources and organizational development strategies and practices by ensuring people operations, talent strategies, and systems remain resilient, adaptable, and effective amid external disruptions.
  • Supervise the People Team to lead human resources and organizational development efforts, from talent planning and acquisition, talent management and development, total rewards, and offboarding to change management, culture-building, and team-building interventions that keep staff engaged.
• Risk, Compliance & Legal:
  • Lead the organization's enterprise risk management program, directing the development of strategies to assess and mitigate organizational financial, operational, employment, and reputational risks.
  • Safeguard MoveOn by promoting risk management standards, systems, and processes compliant with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Oversee MoveOn's legal operations, managing and addressing legal risks, issues, and board management.
  • Ensure MoveOn’s entities uphold best practices in board governance, fiduciary duty, compliance, and transparency.
  • Secure appropriate liability insurance across all entities and activities.
  • Oversee the Finance & Operations Team in successfully leading the annual audit process and reporting to MoveOn's boards of directors, and direct all state and federal campaign finance, lobbying, tax, and charitable registration reporting.
  • Maintain and enforce the resource separation agreement between MoveOn entities at every level of the organization.
  • Represent the organization publicly as needed, and take on other responsibilities as assigned by the Executive Director.

Qualifications

• 5+ years serving as the COO, CFO, or comparable role of a mid-sized multi-entity nonprofit.
• 10+ years of senior-level or executive leadership experience with a demonstrated track record of leading high-performing operational functions, preferably within political, nonprofit, advocacy, and/or social justice environments.
• Experience with multi-entity organizations; including C3, C4 and PAC entities.
• Strong track record of financial projections and forecasting, business modeling, etc.
• A deep experience in assessing and mitigating operational, financial, and reputational risks.
• A deep understanding of and commitment to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, and embedding equity-centered practices into communications, culture, and organizational strategy.
• Strong ability to think strategically and translate overarching goals and strategies into operational objectives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to translate complex organizational data into clear and simple messages for a wide range of audiences.
• Experience managing and leading high-performing staff across the Finance and People Teams.
• Ability to manage complex projects, deadlines, and work across departments, while prioritizing effectively across a wide range of responsibilities.
• Comfort and ease working in a fast-paced environment demonstrating grace under pressure.

Benefits

• Annual salary of $209,731.69.
• Monthly home office subsidy.
• Internet and phone subsidy of $2,100 annually.
• Health and wellness subsidy of $900 annually.
• Strong medical, dental, and vision benefits, free for employees and children of employees.
• Employer-paid premiums for life insurance.
• Four weeks accrued paid vacation time per year, prorated for the period that you work.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave (birth, adoption, foster care placement of a child).
• 10 days accrued paid sick time prorated for the period that you work.
• Paid family medical leave.
• Paid organizational holidays and 6 floating holidays throughout the year.
• 5% contribution to your 401(k) after six months of employment.
• $1,000 in professional development budget each year for each staff member.