Position Summary  

NEC is seeking a full-time (32 hours / week) Resource Mobilization Director for its Resource Organizing circle. The ideal candidate will have a deep commitment to racial, economic, and environmental justice, and will have skill sets at the intersections of organizing, individual giving, major donor giving, campaign management, and communications.

The RMD’s main objective is to grow a cross-class, multi-racial network of people moving resources towards both the New Economy Coalition and the broader solidarity economy movement. Primary responsibilities are two-fold: 

1. Develop and execute NEC’s resource mobilization strategy through managing our philanthropic partnerships, major donor relationships, and grassroots giving campaigns. Additional key roles include managing gift processing, donor acknowledgment, and maintaining donor records in our database. NEC currently has an annual budget of just over $2M and this role is responsible for securing the vast majority of those funds.
2. Grow the scale of resources moving towards NEC members and the broader solidarity economy movement through supporting NEC’s member-led Movement Resourcing working group, participating in / developing cross-coalitional funder organizing spaces, hosting office hours, and maintaining the Funding Solidarity Roundup. 

In short, we’re not just looking for a fundraiser. We’re looking for a network-builder, an organizer, and a development strategist. At NEC, these responsibilities fall under a wider objective of resource organizing; the work of growing a politically-activated, cross-class, multi-racial base to resource the solidarity economy movement. 

As our friends at Grassroots International recently wrote: “By choosing organizing beyond fundraising, donor identities shift from being primarily wealth holders, to becoming trusted partners to movements, as an aligned and organized political ally constituency” (Solidarity Philanthropy, page 48). More examples of resource organizing that inspire us can be found here, here & here.

This is a full-time (32 hrs/week), salaried position, and can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S. This position requires someone to be able to perform tasks on a computer for up to 8 hours a day, inclusive of paid breaks. Our work is rigorous, but we prioritize space for joy, for healing, and connection. The ideal candidate is excited to contribute time towards maintaining our democratic workplace and moving towards a liberatory work culture. 

Responsibilities (100%)

PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERSHIPS (25%)

• Lead and support staff to cultivate relationships with philanthropic partners.
• Research prospects, develop talking points, draft correspondence & gratitude letters, and consistently update CRM records.
• Co-create an annual revenue plan & revenue projections that meets the annual budgetary needs of the organization as well as strengthening the foundation for long-term sustainability. 
• Serve as the Resource Organizing Circle coordinator: prepare meeting agendas and ensure the circle follows through with the annual program plan.
• Correspond with Accounting Manager regarding gift processing. 
• Responsible for assisting with intermediary fundraising campaigns. (e.g. reaching out to philanthropic partners for donors briefings)

DONOR ENGAGEMENT & RESOURCE MOBILIZATION CAMPAIGNS (35%)

• Build & roll out a strategy to grow our network of individual donors, with a focus on major donors. This includes researching prospects, developing talking points, building relationships, segmenting donors, drafting correspondence, & leading donor meetings. This also includes supporting NEC staff in cultivating relationships with donors.
• Build out new avenues for donor organizing (e.g. political education, peer-fundraising, etc.) alongside NEC’s Train Our People circle.
• Coordinate acknowledgement of gifts and pledges in collaboration with Member Network Organizing Circles and Communications Circle
• Collect, maintain, and update donor and prospect information in NEC’s CRM software (Powerbase).
• Lead the design and coordination of two fundraising campaigns per year. This includes an end-of-year appeal, and a summer appeal for the Solidarity Circle monthly giving campaign. 
• Support a team of 2-3 staff to execute the campaign, while taking lead on crafting compelling appeal language, integrating political education via a public webinar, and developing segmented mailing lists.
• Track and report results of appeals and special campaigns, adjusting strategies as needed with support from the Resource Organizing team.

RESOURCING NEC MEMBERS & THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY MOVEMENT (15%)

• Serve as staff liaison to NEC’s Movement Resourcing Working Group  
• Represent NEC in and co-create cross-coalitional funder organizing spaces (e.g. Movement Finance Forum, Rising Majority’s Resource Mobilization Sector, etc.)

FINANCE CIRCLE(10%)

• Sit on the Finance Circle to support cash flow, financial management & budgeting of the organization. 
• Co-develop annual revenue projections as a part of the budgeting process.

COLLECTIVE GOVERNANCE (15%)

This is the same for all staff unless elected for a term on General Circle

• Participating in weekly staff meetings, quarterly board meetings, member meetings, and applicable circle meetings.
• Responsiveness to Slack, Loomio proposals, and topics related to our WSD model and sociocracy 
• Offering to support with all-hands-on-deck projects in staff circle and other governance projects 
• Ad hoc committees like hiring committees, retreat planning, program planning, etc. 

Values of the Ideal Candidate 

• Understanding of and commitment to solidarity economy values, such as racial, economic, and climate justice; cooperative ownership; democratic governance; and systems change.Deep commitment to anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices
• Desire to work in a Worker Self-Directed organization, including participation in collective governance and democratic decision-making, and taking on roles to support the overall health of the organization. 
• Has informal experience with the solidarity economy outside of work/activism (i.e. gift economy, time banking, mutual aid)
• Self-identifies with our North Star Communities, or has organized in deep partnership with North Star Communities
• Has a clear self-defined stake in building solidarity economies
• Excited to learn from mistakes, receive feedback, and give feedback to others. 
• Commitment to building a culture of self-direction, mutual accountability, liberation, respect, and joy.

Qualifications & Skills

Any combination of formal education, paid work experience, unpaid/volunteer experience, and life experience will be considered to meet the following:

• Strong relationship building skills; listening to and taking an interest in others. 
• Commitment to building a culture of self-direction, mutual accountability, liberation, respect, and joy.
• Tech savvy and proficient with Google Workspace, organizing platforms (NEC uses Action Network), CRMs (NEC uses Powerbase).
• Commitment to solidarity economy values, such as racial, economic, and climate justice; cooperative ownership; democratic governance; and systems change. 
• Strong time management skills: self-motivated with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Desire and ability to work in a remote environment.
• Willing to learn from mistakes, receive feedback, and give feedback to others. 
• Experience with fundraising, individual donor programs, community organizing, and/or annual giving programs.
• A strong sense of radical narrative strategy; an ability to build campaigns, appeals, and newsletters that represent NEC’s organizing strategy, narratives, and vision.
• Strong writing and editing experience.
• Demonstrated ability to encourage, train, and support people as collaborators, fundraisers, and donor organizers.
• Skilled at asking supporters, members, and others for donations of money and time.
• Experience in building networks, whether through fundraising or community organizing. 

Who is NEC?

New Economy Coalition (NEC) is a membership-based organization working to build the power and scale of the solidarity economy movement in the United States. Our network of 170+ member organizations is working to transform the extractive economy and build up community ownership and just transition solutions with a strong intersectional lens. NEC members work across regions and various solidarity economy sectors, including co-ops, community land trusts, participatory budgeting, public banks, credit unions, energy democracy, and more! 

NEC adopted a worker self-directed nonprofit model in 2020. This means we operate under a peer-management and collective governance framework. We are continuing to build our tools, including sociocratic models and we are growing ways to share collective governance. Prior experience in these areas is a plus, but not a requirement. The person who fills this role should be interested in learning about and building their collective governance muscles over time! 

NEC is a fully remote organization. The person in this position may be expected to travel within the United States several times a year to staff retreats or conferences. This role requires extended use of a computer & technical expertise. Working hours are flexible but everyone on staff is generally expected to be available between 12-4pm EST Monday through Thursday.

Compensation

NEC uses an Equitable Merit Compensation Policy with a self set salary. The organization empowers employees to be transparent with their needs and name them in our yearly salary setting process.At NEC, we use solidarity principles to determine some considerations for setting your salary that may include cost of living in the state in which you reside, the number of your dependents,your educational background, past leadership experiences. We believe that our Equitable Merit Compensation Policy ensures that all full-time employees receive compensation aligned with their actual needs, not constrained by traditional hierarchies, colonial-capitalistic systems or market-driven wage suppression. 

At NEC, our mission-aligned goals for salary setting is to ensure that we have a compensation system that embodies a compensation system that:

• Honors lived realities and cost of living in our current societal environment
• Supports economic dignity for all staff members differentiated circumstances
• Promotes transparency, participation, and collective accountability
• Ensures the financial sustainability of the organization through planning and development of the budget with NEC’s Board of Directors on an annual basis
• Follows all applicable IRS considerations for reasonable compensation for non-profits 

**Currently, our policy has a pay range of $78k – $150k**

Benefits

• Full healthcare, dental, and vision insurance – Company-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Short and long term disability
• 401K Retirement fund, with automatic 3% employer contributions
• Employer-provided laptop
• $200 Home Office monthly stipend
• Time off:
  • 20 Wellness days
  • 16 Vacation days
  • 3 Floating Holidays
  • Summer and Winter office closures (in addition to federal holidays).
  • Bereavement days 
  • $1,500 Professional Development yearly commitment 

How to Apply

Please submit this form by December 16, 2026. Be ready to include:

• A resume (PDF) and/or CV
• A short cover letter about why you are interested in the position, your skillsets, and your stake in the solidarity economy movement (PDF)
• A link to a work sample. Examples can include: policies, presentations, proposals. (instructions in the application form)

We will begin reviewing applications in January 2027, and hope to schedule first round interviews in late-January/early-February. The projected start date is April 1, 2027.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity 

NEC aspires to build an inclusive and liberatory organization. We value having a diversity of life experiences, identities and perspectives on our staff. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, disability, gender, nationality, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by law. People of color, women, working-class, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.