Application Guide
How to Apply for Senior Manager, Culture & People Experience
at Black Feminist Future
🏢 About Black Feminist Future
Black Feminist Future is a unique movement organization that centers Black feminist, queer, anti-capitalist, and leftist politics in its work for systemic change. It operates through coordinated c3 and c4 strategies, making it a rare space where radical theory meets practical organizing. Working here means contributing to a mission that prioritizes collective care, embodied praxis, and staff well-being as part of the fight for liberation.
About This Role
This role is about translating Black feminist values into daily organizational practices, from HR policies to staff well-being. As the steward of culture and people experience, you'll embed somatic practices and collective care into systems like onboarding and performance reviews. It's impactful because you're shaping how staff feel, grow, and sustain themselves in a movement space, directly modeling the anti-capitalist, queer, and embodied principles the organization advocates.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day might start with a brief somatic check-in during a team meeting, then shift to reviewing staff accommodation requests or updating a professional development tracking spreadsheet. You might facilitate a 1:1 with a staff member to discuss their experience and well-being, then collaborate with the leadership team to revise a policy to better reflect collective care. Afternoons could involve planning a virtual onboarding session or researching somatic practices to integrate into upcoming retreats.
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🎯 Who Black Feminist Future Is Looking For
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📝 Tips for Applying to Black Feminist Future
1. In your cover letter, explicitly name how your experience aligns with Black feminist, queer, and anti-capitalist politics—not just as buzzwords, but with specific examples of praxis. 2. Highlight any training or practice in somatics, nervous system regulation, or embodied facilitation; even a brief workshop or personal practice counts if you can articulate its relevance. 3. Show your operational chops: provide a concrete example of how you've managed a people operations process (onboarding, performance reviews) with attention to detail and follow-through. 4. Research Black Feminist Future's public materials (website, social media, reports) to reference their language and priorities, like 'collective care' or 'embodied praxis.' 5. In your resume, use bullet points that mirror the job description's language—e.g., 'stewarded organizational culture,' 'translated HR policies into culturally aligned practices.'
6. Avoid generic HR jargon; instead, frame your experience through a social justice lens (e.g., 'co-created equitable performance review processes with staff input').
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
- Emphasize your alignment with Black feminist, queer, and anti-capitalist values, and how you've embodied these in previous roles or community work. - Discuss your experience with or commitment to somatic practices and how they can support staff well-being and organizational culture. - Showcase your ability to operationalize values into systems: give a specific example of creating or improving a people process (e.g., onboarding, feedback) that reflected care and justice. - Mention your discretion and ability to hold sensitive information, especially in a movement context where staff trust is paramount.
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → 1. Read Black Feminist Future's website thoroughly, especially their 'About' and 'Values' pages, to understand their specific language and priorities. 2. Look at their public reports or blog posts to see how they discuss culture, care, and praxis in practice. 3. Research key figures or texts they reference, such as adrienne maree brown's work on emergent strategy or Black feminist writers on somatics (e.g., Resmaa Menakem). 4. Follow their social media channels to get a sense of current campaigns, language, and community engagement.
- → 5. Check if they have any recorded events or webinars to hear how staff talk about their work and values.
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- 1. Using generic HR language (e.g., 'talent management,' 'best practices') without connecting it to the organization's political framework—this signals a lack of alignment. 2. Ignoring the somatic/embodied aspect of the role; even if you're new to somatics, failing to address it suggests you didn't read the job description carefully. 3. Focusing too much on traditional corporate people ops experience without demonstrating how you'd adapt it to a movement context with limited resources and a political mission.
- 4. Not mentioning Black feminism, queerness, or anti-capitalism explicitly—these are core requirements, not optional.
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
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