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Accepting applications through April 12, 2021.

 

Desired start date: June 2, 2021

 

 

 Key Duties Summary: EMEAC is seeking a visionary, talented, and resourceful leader to serve as an interim co-director of the organization.  The position is a flexible, part-time position. The role of the co-director will be to advance the organization’s dual frameworks of locally rooted and nationally impactful community organizing and stewardship of the Cass Corridor Commons as a vibrant, viable space for grassroots political and cultural presence in 21st century Detroit.

 

This executive level position will contribute to organization’s fundraising, program development, staff supervision, relationship and coalition building, and building management. The position will be part of the EMEAC Leadership Team with the Financial Director and work for a transition period with the outgoing Co-Director. The position will report to the organization’s Board of Directors.

 

 

 To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume to Fred Vitale, EMEAC Board President freddetroit@gmail.com no later than Monday, April 12, 2021

 

 

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About the Interim Co-Director Role:

 

East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC) is seeking a visionary, talented, and resourceful leader to serve as an interim co-director of the organization. The position runs from 6/1/2021 through 12/31/2021.  The global pandemic resulted in the temporary closing of the Cass Commons, a vital community resource. The closure of the Commons also caused a precipitous drop in revenue. In spite of these obstacles, the EMEAC team put young activists going door to door in several neglected neighborhoods of Detroit’s Black community where they were trained, delivered important community education and worked to Get Out The Vote.  This dual foundation — the liberated space we call the Commons nurturing and creating community and outreach work — are critical additions to EMEAC’s environmental justice and educational projects, expanding and deepening EMEAC’s place in the struggle for community empowerment.

 

The role of the co-director will be to advance the organization’s dual frameworks of locally rooted and nationally impactful community organizing and stewardship of the Cass Corridor Commons as a vibrant, viable space for grassroots political and cultural presence in 21st century Detroit as we transition into a post pandemic world.  The organization was at a crucial transition point before the pandemic struck. We are looking for a special leader — one who can make a significant contribution to carrying on the powerful programmatic initiatives above, raise funds to maintain and grow EMEAC and the Commons, and, with our co-director Dee Collins, develop a plan and vision for the future of EMEAC and the Commons.  Such a plan might include the interim co-director staying on or not. We are looking for a strategic and dynamic leader who brings experience in institution building and grassroots political leadership. EMEAC is an organization with $250K annual budget and approximately $2M in property and assets.  Experience in Detroit is desired but not required, if the right person is willing to relocate.

 

The ideal co-director for EMEAC is confident in their leadership experience managing social justice programs and institution building.  They are ready to ask questions, jump in, and co-create new visions.  They listen well and work well in a variety of teams and collaboration.  They take care of their health and well-being in such a way that allows them to be fully present and encourage others to be at their best.  

 

While we appreciate all applications, experience in administrative leadership is a requirement of the position.

 

The salary ranger for this part time position is $40K-$42K annually.  We offer full health care benefits.

 

Below are the shared responsibilities of the Co-Director role  (current job position working closely with the current Financial Director) and the combined skills we are seeking. These may be divided between the two Directors as appropriate.

 

 To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume to Fred Vitale, EMEAC Board President freddetroit@gmail.com no later than Monday, April 12, 2021

 

Objectives:

The new interim co-Director will help 

·       Design EMEAC’s structure and programming for the next 3-5 years.

·       Advance EMEAC’s multi-dimensional resource generation strategies

·       Develop strategic relationships with the Detroit grassroots, national (and international) justice movements, funders and institutional supporters, and our wide membership base

 

Shared Responsibilities include:

·       Raise funds to maintain and grow EMEAC and the Commons

·       Communications & Community Relations & strategy

·       Promote use and understanding of the EMEAC Commons (and Commons University)

·       Promote use and understanding of the EMEAC Just Transition

·       Establishing and maintaining of good relationships with organizational and individual donors. Develop and nurture relationships with new and potential donors.

 

Ideal candidates will bring skills and capacity in some or all of these areas:

 

·       Membership engagement

·       Business incubation and/or grassroots fundraising

·       Funder development and relations

·       Budgeting

·       Strategic plan development

·       Political education development

·       Staff management and supervision

·       Volunteer recruitment and management

 

 

 

Qualifications

Required:

·       A desire to learn about EMEAC’s history in Detroit and Michigan and a passion to advance the legacy into the future.

·       Strong organizational abilities including planning, delegating, and program development

·       Knowledge of fundraising strategies and donor relations unique to social justice and environmental justice nonprofits. Knowledge of fundraising strategies for building maintenance and management is a major PLUS.

·       Adept collaboration skills to support working with a wide array of participants, partners, tenants, and customers of EMEAC/ Cass Corridor Commons.

·       In-depth familiarity with Google applications (forms, drive, docs, sheets) and Microsoft Office.

·       An extensive understanding and commitment to learn and practice Social Justice values (Including Environmental/ Climate Justice, Racial Justice, Gender Justice, Disability Justice, Decolonization, etc.)

 

Ideal:

·       A working knowledge of Detroit, and a great love for Detroit communities!

·       Strong written and oral communication skills.

·       Ability to convey a vision of EMEAC’s strategic future to staff, Advisory Board, volunteers, partners, community members, and donors.

·       A passion to steward the Environmental Justice principles.

·       Familiarity with grant-writing and administration of grants.

·       Demonstrated experience with organizing systems, practices and processes that make a healthy work culture and production of excellence possible.

·       Good facilitation, group skills and comfort with public speaking.

·       Solid, hands-on, budget management skills, including budget preparation, analysis, decision-making, data management, both qualitative and quantitative and reporting for maintaining organizational fiscal health.

·       Experience with designing and facilitating effective workshops and meetings.

 

Length of assignment: a part-time position from June 2, 2021 through December 31, 2021

 

Salary: $20K - $21K for the 6 months period

 

 

Ideal Start Date: June 2, 2021

 

 To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume to Fred Vitale, EMEAC Board President freddetroit@gmail.com no later than Monday, April 12, 2021

 

• Design EMEAC’s structure and programming for the next 3-5 years.
• Advance EMEAC’s multi-dimensional resource generation strategies
• Develop strategic relationships with the Detroit grassroots, national (and international) justice movements, funders and institutional supporters, and our wide membership base

• Raise funds to maintain and grow EMEAC and the Commons
• Communications & Community Relations & strategy
• Promote use and understanding of the EMEAC Commons (and Commons University)
• Promote use and understanding of the EMEAC Just Transition
• Establishing and maintaining of good relationships with organizational and individual donors. Develop and nurture relationships with new and potential donors.

• Membership engagement
• Business incubation and/or grassroots fundraising
• Funder development and relations
• Budgeting
• Strategic plan development
• Political education development
• Staff management and supervision
• Volunteer recruitment and management

• A desire to learn about EMEAC’s history in Detroit and Michigan and a passion to advance the legacy into the future.
• Strong organizational abilities including planning, delegating, and program development
• Knowledge of fundraising strategies and donor relations unique to social justice and environmental justice nonprofits. Knowledge of fundraising strategies for building maintenance and management is a major PLUS.
• Adept collaboration skills to support working with a wide array of participants, partners, tenants, and customers of EMEAC/ Cass Corridor Commons.
• In-depth familiarity with Google applications (forms, drive, docs, sheets) and Microsoft Office.
• An extensive understanding and commitment to learn and practice Social Justice values (Including Environmental/ Climate Justice, Racial Justice, Gender Justice, Disability Justice, Decolonization, etc.)

• A working knowledge of Detroit, and a great love for Detroit communities!
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with grant-writing and administration of grants.
• Demonstrated experience with organizing systems, practices and processes that make a healthy work culture and production of excellence possible.
• Good facilitation, group skills and comfort with public speaking.
• Solid, hands-on, budget management skills, including budget preparation, analysis, decision-making, data management, both qualitative and quantitative and reporting for maintaining organizational fiscal health.
• Ability to convey a vision of EMEAC’s strategic future to staff, Advisory Board, volunteers, partners, community members, and donors.
• Experience with designing and facilitating effective workshops and meetings.
• A passion to steward the Environmental Justice principles.

Does this election season have you feeling sad, isolated, angry, or hopeless? Join us for a night of celebrating community, movement, and struggle at the Cass Corridor Commons!


Instead of spending the election disappointed, frustrated, and alone we will come together to remind each other of why we fight and will continue to fight. This event is open to all those who believe in justice, liberation, freedom, and love. 

There will be a separate space for election monitoring, an org fair with food vendors and ways to get involved, and an open mic followed by a dance party featuring local DJs. Come for part or stay all night.

We're asking for a $5 donation at the door, but no one will be turned away! This is a fundraiser for the Cass Commons, a space where movement work never ends.

See you at the Cass Corridor Commons November 8th 7.30 pm - 11.30 pm

Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/648755775301310/

Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.

Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. Join us on May 26 to watch the film as a community and then join us in ongoing actions to make #JustTransition here at home!