Coach (Progressive Sector)

Note :

• We are not currently actively screening new applicants for this position, but if you’d like to be considered in the event that we re-open a search, please submit your resume, and we’ll let you know when we do.
• The Management Center (TMC) is seeking an experienced manager to work with our clients – primarily executive directors and other senior managers of progressive advocacy organizations.
• You will lead coaching engagements and serve as a teacher / coach / trainer / nudge / confidante / advisor / thought-partner to client executives, with the aim of helping them build their teams into high performing organizations that deliver great results.
• Ideal candidates won’t be lifelong consultants or necessarily have any consulting experience at all.
• Rather, we seek experienced senior managers (have held roles at senior levels of organizations, either as an executive director or second-in-command or as the head of a department) who have produced results and who have a passion for teaching other leaders from diverse backgrounds how to do the same.
• Who We Are Our mission is to help leaders working for social change build and run more equitable, sustainable, and results-driven organizations.  Founded in 2006, we’re now a 50-person, $11.5 million organization (and growing!).  W e have helped shape the practices of hundreds of influential organizations and thousands of individual managers, focusing in particular on leading progressive organizations working for social change.
• Our clients work on issues – like promoting immigration reform, fighting for racial, economic and gender justice, advocating for educational equity, and protecting voting rights – where they face an inherently uphill battle and so must fight more effectively than their opponents if they are going to win.
• We aim to help them do that by making their organizations as effective as possible.
• A great deal of our work involves direct coaching of clients, and we also offer publications and training to the broader field.

Along the way, we have built a strong reputation :

Your work with clients might include :

Who You Are To be successful in this job, you will excel in four areas :

Critical thinking skills :

Racial and gender equity commitment and skills :

You can proactively spot issues of equity and inclusion in the work and bring practical solutions.   Interpersonal and relational skills :

Prior experience in the nonprofit or progressive political arena is a plus, but not a requirement.   Finally, you need to contribute to our culture, which we sum up as “excellence with heart”, by living into our core values and helping to strengthen our organization.   What Else You Should Know We are an equal opportunity employer, are committed to racial and gender equity, and we make a particular effort to recruit candidates who identify as Black, Indigenous, people of color, and gender non-binary to apply for open positions.  We also strive to ensure our hiring process, including the submission of the application, meets your needs.

TMC uses our annual performance evaluation process at the end of each year to determine raises and promotions.     We also offer excellent benefits, including (but not limited to) :