Chief Operating Officer

March 25

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $165k - $195k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Operations

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The Black Futures Lab

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The Black Futures Lab is an organization dedicated to transforming Black communities into powerful constituencies that influence power dynamics locally, statewide, and nationally. Through initiatives such as the Black Census Project, the largest survey of Black people in America, and the Black to the Future Public Policy Institute, a policy advocacy and leadership training fellowship, the lab provides the tools necessary to engage and activate Black communities. The organization focuses on experimentation and innovation in political power to create a government and policies that truly represent and improve the lives of Black people.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🤲 Charity

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• The Black Futures Lab (501c3) works to make Black communities powerful in politics. • The Black Futures Lab is hiring a Chief Operating Officer (COO) position. • We seek a visionary operations leader who loves organizational systems and problem-solving to serve in the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). • The COO will lead and manage all operations and administration functions for Black Futures Lab and Black to the Future Action Fund. • The COO will partner across departments to improve systems, processes, and policies to help the organization run smoothly. • The COO will hold the organizational strategy related to structure, priority setting, staffing, and capacity. • The COO will serve as a key thought-partner to the Principal and the Director’s team. • Experience working in Black communities and in a fully remote environment is a plus.

🎯 Requirements

• 10 years of executive-level operations experience, including IT, compliance, legal, risk management, contracting, events, and policy development, with 2-3 years in senior leadership at a non-profit and experience building departments or systems. • Experience leading amid transition, with demonstrated change management and organizational culture change experience • Experience as an operations and systems driver • Proven track record of designing, implementing, and maintaining strong team or organization-wide systems to maximize efficiency, transparency, equity, and usability • Ability to manage complexity and create order, bringing a diverse range of people along in the process - across lines of identity and skill • Deep experience in at least three or more of the following functional areas: recruiting and hiring; training and coaching; organizational and individual performance management; organizational risk management; IT, compliance, legal, contracting, team-wide/large-scale events, or policy development • Confidence with new technology and systems • Demonstrated highly organized, detail-oriented problem-solver • Experience effectively managing a high volume of work with efficiency • Strong judgment and discernment to identify practical solutions to complex problems • Strong interpersonal skills through excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building • Able to work with and influence people across entire organizations and beyond • Effectively develops and builds trusting, authentic, and reciprocal relationships across lines of identity and power • Can engage and navigate multiple stakeholders (often with differing points of view and opinions) • Communicates directly with clarity and kindness, particularly on tough or sensitive topics • Able to engage in constructive conflict, advocate for own perspective, and still seek convergence and alignment with other decision-makers, as needed • Coaching and training orientation • Effective manager of full-time staff and teams • Demonstrated commitment to effective management that is equitable, sustainable, and results-driven • Experience in effectively managing a high-performing and diverse (race, gender identity, ability status) team • Track record of coaching, developing and motivating a high-performance team. • Demonstrated track record of advancing racial and gender justice • Commitment to supporting racial justice and Black-led movements • Experience leading with a lens on the impact of systemic and implicit biases and inequities related to race, gender, and other identities that can play out in workplaces • Proactively spots issues of equity and inclusion in the work and can bring practical solutions by drawing on personal experience combating white supremacy, racism, and other interconnecting systems of oppression • Leads with passion for integrating and infusing social justice values into the fabric of operations

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • Life insurance • Employee assistance • Other resources to support a centered, healthy quality of life for staff and their families