Director of Corporate Campaigns

*The Director of Corporate Campaigns is not a marketing, communications or fundraising role, but a movement-building position focused on organizing and running campaigns that challenge and dismantle corporations profiting from the prison industry.*

Worth Rises seeks a dynamic Director of Corporate Campaigns (exempt) to work remotely to lead the national corporate campaign work of the organization. This individual should have experience with corporate finance and capital markets as well as boycott, divestiture, and other corporate tactics. They should be a high-level thinker, strategist, and doer able to navigate a variety of environments skillfully and with integrity. The Director of Corporate Campaigns will report to the Chief Advocacy Officer and collaborate closely with her to develop and execute corporate campaign strategies, which includes building broad coalitions of directly impacted individuals and allies, facilitating and coordinating coalitions, and engaging with stakeholders and decision-makers to drive advocacy efforts.

Worth Rises is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches. Partnering with directly impacted people, we work to expose the commercialization of the criminal legal system and advocate and organize to protect the economic resources extracted from affected communities and strip the industry of its power. Through our work, we strive to pave a road toward a safe and just world free of police and prisons.

Key Results (Year One)

• Prevent the prison telecom sector from recovering from its current distressed state and drive the organization’s desired outcomes from Securus’ debt default.
• Publish corporate report cards on prison labor and secure at least three corporate endorsements for our federal legislation to end the exception in the 13^th Amendment.
• Get 100 non-profit and foundation institutions to drop Vanguard as a retirement platform due to its outsized investments in private prisons.
• Stop corporate involvement in the development of new death penalty protocols and spaces.

Major Responsibilities

• Co-develop and execute the organization’s corporate campaign strategy with the Executive Director, Chief Advocacy Officer, Director of Policy Campaigns & Government Affairs, Director of Communications & Marketing.
• Manage the corporate campaigns team, providing oversight and thought partnership to staff to keep work on track and meet goals.
• Deepen and expand relationships with partner organizations working at the intersection of criminal and economic injustice on an international, national, state, and local level.
• Advocate to key decisionmakers, including board members, executives, investors, regulators, and others, to persuade them to take recommended actions.
• Develop and execute base building strategies with communitiesdirectly impacted by incarceration that elevate their voices and center their leadership, analysis, and stories.
• Be an organizational spokesperson to communities, coalitions, partners, decisionmakers, and media through interviews, hearings, rallies, conferences, and op-eds, persuasively communicating the organization’s mission and goals.
• Work closely with the popular education and communications teams.
• Track and assess corporate campaign progress and needs and manage internal and external resources.

Critical Factors for Success
A strong candidate would be a strategic-minded and motivated self-starter who consistently delivers high-quality work, is an excellent project manager, is a proactive and innovative problem-solver, appreciates direct feedback, and has the following:

• At least five years of experience developing, running, and winning corporate campaigns that includes leading strategic planning, large coalitions, direct actions, and digital advocacy.
• A baseline understanding of corporate finance and capital markets, including corporate credit ratings, debt structures, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy and restructurings, and passive and active investments. (Candidates with early-career experience in financial services, such as banking or research are especially encouraged to apply.)
• Very strong oral and written communication skills with professional experience drafting materials for different audiences, including fact sheets, demand letters, petitions, and op-eds.
• Strong relationships across the divestment and economic justice movements and the demonstrated ability to build trusted working relationships with staff, partners, and community members.
• Ability to productively engage in and defuse conflicts, as necessary.
• Working understanding of the prison industry and corporate finance and a strong, demonstrated interest in learning more.
• Willingness to travel as required.
• Genuine commitment to our organizational values: act with integrity, focus on impact, deliver excellence, get it done, and operate with intellectual curiosity (visit worthrises.org/jointhefight).

Compensation and Benefits
The annual salary for the Director of Corporate Campaigns is $135,000. Worth Rises offers a generous compensation package, including comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 20 days of vacation time, ten days of personal/sick leave, and three days of bereavement leave in addition to 11 holidays and winter break. Employees also receive a generous 401k contribution match, $75 monthly technology stipend, monthly wellness reimbursement, and dedicated budget for professional development. Finally, we offer retention benefits every five years. We currently operate in a remote-first environment with office options and an on-video culture.

Worth Rises is an equal opportunity employer, and strongly encourages formerly incarcerated individuals, directly impacted individuals, people of color, members of the disabled community, gender-variant and non-binary individuals, and other members of the LGBTQIA+ community to apply.