Executive Director-Missouri Progressive Vote

Position: Executive Director, Missouri Progressive Vote
Salary: $60,000
Benefits: Health Care, paid Vacation, and Holidays, optional IRA with
Employer 3% Match

Missouri Pro Vote:

Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition (Pro-Vote) is a statewide
coalition of forty labor unions and community groups founded in 1992
to give grassroots organizations the tools to engage their membership
in the public policy process. Pro-Vote has offices in St. Louis,
Kansas City, Springfield, and Mid Missouri. Pro-Vote is a member of US
Action, the nation's largest progressive activist organization with
affiliates in 23 states.
Pro-Vote and our member groups work on a wide variety of issues,
including quality public education, access to quality & affordable
health care access, workplace safety, environmental protection, living
wages, civil rights, gun safety, reproductive rights, lesbian / gay /
bisexual / transgender rights, and pay equity.
Pro-Vote and our member groups work to elect progressive candidates by
fostering grassroots political action. Specifically, we recruit &
train candidates, target progressive candidates in legislative
elections, provide technical assistance to candidates and coalition
partners, identify campaign staff, assist coalition partners in
campaigns to increase effectiveness, mobilize volunteers, & coordinate
campaign resources.

The Position:

An applicant for Executive Director must have a demonstrated
commitment to building a progressive society dedicated to social,
economic and environmental justice for all. He/she should have work
experience that includes at least three years experience in a labor,
community, faith-based or student organizing setting. The applicant
should also have administrative experience. Administrative tasks will
include fundraising, grant writing, supervising the Pro Vote offices,
working closely with the Board of Directors and with the member
organizations, funders, and national US Action staff.
Responsibilities and electoral and issue campaign development will be
in conjunction with full time Regional Organizers in each of the
Missouri Pro Vote offices. A critical responsibility is to ensure that
staff and leadership activities are focused in a balanced way that
fully includes all coalition components. The position also serves as
the executive director for Missouri Citizen Education Fund, a 501(c)3
organization. The Executive Director manages the relationship between
these two organizations.

Responsibilities:

Finances: The Executive Director, with the assistance of the
Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, is responsible for
designing and implementing an annual fundraising plan, including
organizational contributions, individual contributions, grants and
fundraising events, as well as developing new sources of funding for
the organization.

Administration: The Director has primary responsibility for all the
administrative functions of Missouri Pro Vote, including tracking
financial matters, maintaining a functioning office system, database
management, correspondence and record-keeping. In these matters, the
Director will be assisted by the Internal Director.

Outreach: The Director is responsible for representing Pro Vote in an
official capacity in cultivating and maintaining key relationships in
the outside world with funders, politicians, policy-makers, press,
opinion leaders. The Director is also responsible for outreach to
potential new coalition member organizations.

Staff Management: The Director is expected to oversee general
day-to-day operations of Missouri Pro Vote. The Director is
responsible for developing a staffing structure, including new
staffing positions that reflect the needs of Missouri Pro Vote. Such
structure or changes in structure require Board approval.

The Director will also be responsible for working in a collective and
collaborative manner with all Pro Vote staff to develop work plans
through staff meetings and evaluations of staff progress.
The Director, in consultation with leadership development specialists,
shall construct training opportunities for staff and leadership
development.

Oversight: The Director shall bring to the Executive Board for input,
review and approval annual goals, priorities, candidate targeting,
proposed budget and other major policy decisions.

Qualifications:

-Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
-Ability to be a self-starter and to work independently toward agreed
upon goals.
-A strong ability to motivate people, coordinate volunteer activity
and delegate responsibility. Supervisory / Leadership experience a plus.
-Ability to develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of
organizations and people.
-An understanding of the labor movement, religious organizations and
other social movements, especially within communities of color.
-Minimum of three years grassroots organizing experience. Union
experience is a plus.
-Demonstrated ability to raise funds.
-Willingness to work long hours, including nights and weekends.
-Proficient in computer skills, including database management, word
processing and desktop publishing.
-Own vehicle available for work (mileage is reimbursed).
-Understanding of the difference between 501(c)3, 501(c)4, PAC and 527
organizations
Also desired: Ability to speak languages other than English. .
Knowledge of, and/or participation in, US Action affiliates in other
cities.

Please send resume and at least two references by 5:00 p.m. on January
21, 2009

To: Personnel Committee, Missouri Pro Vote
Via E-Mail: joan@missouriprovote.org
Via USPS: c/o Joan Suarez. MPV,
5585 Pershing Avenue,
St. Louis MO. 63119

For more information on Missouri Pro Vote visit our website at
www.missouriprovote.org or call the office at 314-531-2288.