Responsibilities and Duties

Vision & Strategy Development

• Work closely with the Executive Director and program department directors to operationalize the current strategic plan to execute the organization’s vision.
• Lead the program teams in developing shared, ambitious short- and long-term goals for integrated advocacy campaigns, engaging them in creative and transformative visualization of programs to strengthen the reach, impact, and effectiveness of the ACLU of Idaho’s work.
• Collaborate with the Executive Director and other senior leaders to develop new initiatives, long-term goals, and operating plans to advance civil liberties, equity, and racial justice.

Leadership & Team Management

• Assist the Executive Director in developing and implementing key performance indicators and methods to monitor impact and evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s programs. Regularly report on progress and challenges, suggest solutions, and identify innovative methods to share that impact with a variety of audiences.
• Oversee all integrated advocacy by working with directors to develop coordinated work plans, tracking progress, managing collaboration between departments, holding staff accountable, and evaluating and measuring success.
• Provide support, guidance, mentorship, and coaching to programmatic staff.
• Foster a culture that promotes teamwork, accountability, and professional growth characterized by excellence along with anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.
• Work with the Executive Director and the leadership team to assess programmatic capacity gaps and collaborate to identify external partnerships, consultants, and resources to help build organizational capacity that increases our programmatic effectiveness and sustainability.
• Partner with programmatic department directors and the Director of Finance and Administration in providing feedback and monitoring annual budgets.
• Manage compliance by programmatic departments with legal, regulatory, ethical and internal policy requirements as well as consistency with ACLU values.
• Collaborate with the Director of Philanthropy to organize and manage program activities that maximize opportunities for philanthropic support; this includes collaborating closely with organization leadership on drafting grant proposals and grant reporting and joining periodic meetings with major donors.
• Collaborate with the ACLU National office, and other affiliates as needed, on nationwide and statewide issues.
• Although serving primarily in an internal facing role, act as a spokesperson and public face for the ACLU of Idaho, as appropriate.

Building Long-term Political Power and Influence

• Maintain a deep analytical understanding of the electoral and political landscape and work to better position the ACLU of Idaho to influence policymakers, government agencies and voters.
• Collaborate with Executive Director and affiliate staff to understand partnerships, shared goals and strategies across coalitions of partner organizations in the civil rights, faith, business and other sectors to advance values and priorities related to constitutional rights and develop strategies to strengthen these relationships.