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Managing Director, Deaf Initiatives
Activating ChangeUnited States - Remote, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Oct 2024
💰 $125,000/yr($120,000/yr – $125,000/yr)
About the role
About Activating Change
Activating Change’s mission is to end the widespread end victimization and mass incarceration of people with disabilities and Deaf people. We bring together people and organizations across the country working in disability, survivor advocacy, and criminal legal system reform movements. We foster alignment, build capacity, and support greater coordination across these social justice movements to realize our goals of freedom and healing – not harm and punishment - for people with disabilities and Deaf people. We collaborate with disability and Deaf communities across the country and work in close partnership with government and advocacy leaders to implement change.
Deaf people experience victimization at rates equal to our higher than hearing people, and they are arrested and incarcerated in the U.S. at disproportionately high rates. The rates of victimization and incarceration are higher for Deaf people from communities of color and other marginalized communities. Yet, Deaf people and communities have largely been excluded from survivor-centered and justice policymaking and advocacy. We believe we cannot end victimization and mass incarceration without ending audism and Deaf disparities in our country’s solutions to these problems. To that end, we:
About the Position
The Managing Director is a new position within Activating Change. The Managing Director reports to Activating Change’s Executive Director and serves on the organization’s leadership team. As a member of the leadership team, the Managing Director will help to set the strategic direction, make key decisions, and ensure Activating Change operates effectively while staying mission-focused. The Managing Director will also lead, oversee, and expand our programming in our Expanding Deaf Services area, which works to strengthen and sustain “for Deaf, by Deaf” victim services across the country and remove barriers in hearing victim services programs that Deaf survivors face. In this role, the Managing Director is responsible for strategic visioning, operational management, and programmatic leadership, ensuring that our Deaf-centered initiatives are impactful, sustainable, and aligned with our mission. The Managing Director will also work closely with Activating Change’s two other Managing Directors to ensure their work to improve services for survivors with disabilities and end criminalization and mass incarceration of people with disabilities and Deaf people, respectively, is responsive – in focus and strategy – to the lived experiences and needs of Deaf people and has maximum impact in Deaf communities.
ResponsibilitiesYou will:
Activating Change’s mission is to end the widespread end victimization and mass incarceration of people with disabilities and Deaf people. We bring together people and organizations across the country working in disability, survivor advocacy, and criminal legal system reform movements. We foster alignment, build capacity, and support greater coordination across these social justice movements to realize our goals of freedom and healing – not harm and punishment - for people with disabilities and Deaf people. We collaborate with disability and Deaf communities across the country and work in close partnership with government and advocacy leaders to implement change.
Deaf people experience victimization at rates equal to our higher than hearing people, and they are arrested and incarcerated in the U.S. at disproportionately high rates. The rates of victimization and incarceration are higher for Deaf people from communities of color and other marginalized communities. Yet, Deaf people and communities have largely been excluded from survivor-centered and justice policymaking and advocacy. We believe we cannot end victimization and mass incarceration without ending audism and Deaf disparities in our country’s solutions to these problems. To that end, we:
- Amplify the voices of Deaf people with lived experience to raise awareness, change narratives, and promote Deaf-centered, culturally-responsive solutions.
- Support the development and growth of Deaf-lead programs and solutions.
- Remove cultural and linguistic barriers in hearing programs, reform initiatives, and systems.
- Foster alignment and support partnerships between Deaf-serving organizations and hearing organizations from the criminal justice reform and survivor advocacy movements.
- Advocate for policies and practices that affirm Deaf culture and communities and promote culturally and linguistically responsive solutions.
About the Position
The Managing Director is a new position within Activating Change. The Managing Director reports to Activating Change’s Executive Director and serves on the organization’s leadership team. As a member of the leadership team, the Managing Director will help to set the strategic direction, make key decisions, and ensure Activating Change operates effectively while staying mission-focused. The Managing Director will also lead, oversee, and expand our programming in our Expanding Deaf Services area, which works to strengthen and sustain “for Deaf, by Deaf” victim services across the country and remove barriers in hearing victim services programs that Deaf survivors face. In this role, the Managing Director is responsible for strategic visioning, operational management, and programmatic leadership, ensuring that our Deaf-centered initiatives are impactful, sustainable, and aligned with our mission. The Managing Director will also work closely with Activating Change’s two other Managing Directors to ensure their work to improve services for survivors with disabilities and end criminalization and mass incarceration of people with disabilities and Deaf people, respectively, is responsive – in focus and strategy – to the lived experiences and needs of Deaf people and has maximum impact in Deaf communities.
ResponsibilitiesYou will:
- Serve on Activating Change’s senior leadership team and work collectively to establish the direction, priorities, strategies, impact, and culture of the organization. Participate in annual planning, budgeting, staffing plan development, and other activities.
- Lead the strategic direction and growth of Activating Change’s Expanding Deaf Services program area and other Deaf-related initiatives across the organization, ensuring they advance our mission and meet the needs of the communities we serve, and develop, oversee, and monitor projects’ annual plan
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