Dream Corps

Reports to:       National Director, Dream Corps JUSTICE

Location:          Remote

Salary Range:  $71k-91k, Depending on experience, and adjusted for location

Agency Overview

Dream Corps closes prison doors and opens doors of opportunity. We bring people together across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom and dignity for all. We are working to build a future wherein "we the people" means all of us.

Program Overview 

Dream Corps JUSTICE is a bipartisan effort to cut crime and incarceration across all 50 states. We bring together leaders impacted by the criminal justice system with unlikely allies spanning the political divide to push for criminal justice solutions.

Purpose

Our Campaign Director will help design and build the most dynamic national criminal justice organizing program in the country by engaging local communities, building leadership in others, and bringing innovative strategies to the criminal justice movement.  If you believe in building power with people to transform our criminal legal system and have a track record of doing so, this is the right opportunity for you. Our theory of change involves centering the leadership of directly impacted people, assembling diverse coalitions, and leading with people-first messaging. As Campaign Director, you will supervise at least one campaign associate (in addition to interns and volunteers), and report to the Dream Corps JUSTICE National Director.

This will be a remote position, and we welcome applicants from anywhere in the United States. We strongly encourage formerly incarcerated leaders with organizing experience to apply for this position. 

Responsibilities

• Design and build out dynamic state campaigns to keep people out of prison, improve prison conditions, and put people in a position to succeed when they come home. 
• Partner with the Senior Policy Manager to design and build innovative federal campaigns, including an innovative prison closure campaign.
• Engage the Dream Corps JUSTICE’s national “Empathy Network” - thousands of directly impacted people and allies across the country - to elevate local leadership and integrate the Empathy Network into our national campaigns. 
• Supervise small but growing campaign team within Dream Corps JUSTICE.
• Collaborate with Communications and Engagement departments to mobilize the large Dream Corps member base in furtherance of campaign goals using email, texting, social media and other forms of digital outreach. 
• Represent Dream Corps JUSTICE at public events, virtually for now, and in-person once COVID restrictions are lifted. (This position will require some travel in the future.)
• Support the Dream Corps JUSTICE National Director with ongoing priorities, including national coalition-building, development, and strategic planning. Skills and Attributes 

• Commitment to collaboration. At Dream Corps we are committed to using our established communication tools as a way to build relationships and create a future that is good for us all.
• The mindset of our staff impacts our work. Possession of the following attributes will help you be successful on our team: flexibility, honesty, humor, inclusivity, and open-mindedness. We work hard and are action oriented in our approach to solutions.
• Ability to connect with people from diverse backgrounds and life experience is essential.

Qualifications 

• Deep familiarity with the criminal justice system through lived and professional experience. 
• Experience in grassroots organizing and leadership development.
• Demonstrated track record of dynamic legislative advocacy, or similar history of leading dynamic criminal justice campaigns.  
• Sophistication around building coalitions of diverse stakeholders. 
• Strong work ethic and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment. 
• Management history is a plus. 
• Openness to creative campaign strategies and tactics. 

Dream Corps is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages applications from all qualified applicants regardless of race, sex, gender identity, age, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or record of arrest or conviction. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and strive for a workforce that reflects the populations that we serve.