Chief Programs Officer

Core responsibilities:

• Lead, design, and develop programs and initiatives for the Center for Cultural Power, overseeing three primary programmatic strategies: Movement Building, Field Building, and the Cultural Engagement Lab (c4 organization).
• Build and supervise a team including Senior Program Director and their direct reports, ensuring best practices in team management and implementation fidelity.
• Design overall strategy for artists disruptors and culture bearers to move through the organization's portfolio, with focus on impact, values, creativity, and culture change.
• Oversee program design, pedagogy development, and tools that build organizing power of artists and help them be effective in their artistic practice.

This role creates positive change by empowering artists and culture makers to build cultural power and drive social change through programs that advance narrative strategy, movement building, and field development, ultimately working toward a more just and inclusive future.

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years in program management and implementation with organizations serving diverse communities.
• 5+ years managing teams with track record of creating collaborative, high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• 2+ years collaborating to design and implement narrative and cultural strategy programs with demonstrable experience implementing narrative vision and strategy.
• Strong project management skills, exceptional written/verbal/interpersonal/presentation skills, and cultural fluency with direct experience working with diverse communities.

Compensation and benefits:

• Salary range: $165,000 - $175,500/year
• Full medical, dental, vision (100% company paid for employee & 70% contribution toward dependent premiums)
• Life insurance, long-term disability, flex spending accounts
• $50 monthly stipend for cell phone/wifi expenses
• 401k plan with 3% employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)
• Generous vacation, office closures, sick leave, bereavement leave, Covid leave, sabbatical policy, and paid holidays
• Ample flexibility as a permanently remote workplace

The Center for Cultural Power is a women of color, artist-led organization that inspires artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature, supporting artists through fellowships, training, and opportunities for activation while creating intersectional stories addressing immigration, climate, gender and racial justice.