Co-Executive Director (Organizing & Programs)

About the role

The Los Angeles Black Worker Center (LABWC) seeks a Co-Executive Director (Organizing & Programs) to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in advancing LABWC’s mission to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ Black workers through action and unionization.

Key Priorities During Your First Year

• Lead LABWC’s organizing efforts, building campaigns that center Black voices, developing leaders, and growing collective power.
• Develop and implement strategic political education programs to equip organizers with the necessary analysis, skills, and tools.
• Mobilize resources and steward donors, building trust-based relationships and diversifying funding streams.
• Strategically shape narratives and storytelling to strengthen organizing campaigns, influence policy debates, shift public discourse, and advance collective action toward liberation.
• Create a culture of principled struggle, embracing disagreement, feedback, and accountability as essential to growth, collective leadership, and Black worker liberation.
• Navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities with flexibility and sound judgment, responding to evolving community conditions, political contexts, and organizing needs.
• Promote cultural humility and empathy in all aspects of Co-ED leadership, collaboration, and decision-making.
• Support systems stabilization and strengthening during leadership transitions, translating new direction into clear, workable processes while supporting teams to adapt with confidence and continuity.

Who You Are

• Mission & Values Alignment: Belief in building a world where Black workers thrive in an equitable economy, commitment to increasing access to quality jobs, reducing employment discrimination, and advancing Black worker power through organizing, advocacy, and collective action.
• Organizer & Political Strategist: Deep knowledge of the LA political landscape, experience in Black-led organizing, ability to develop campaigns that center Black voices, build leaders, and grow collective power, and skill in leveraging data, community feedback, and lived experiences to inform strategy.
• Commitment to Political Education: Understanding of labor rights, Black worker history, and structural conditions shaping workers’ lives, ongoing political learning and growth, and design and lead educational programs that equip organizers with the analysis, skills, and tools needed to expand impact, deepen leadership, and advance LABWC’s mission.
• Resource Mobilization & Donor Stewardship: Leadership in resource mobilization and donor stewardship, building trust-based relationships with partners and funders rooted in LABWC’s mission and the dignity of Black workers, and using data and insight to diversify funding streams and respond to shifting political and funding landscapes.
• Narrative Stewardship & Storytelling: Leadership in narrative strategy as a core power-building function, centering the lived experiences of Black workers to strengthen organizing campaigns, influence policy debates, shift public discourse, and advance collective action toward liberation.
• Principled Struggle In-Action: Creation of a culture where disagreement, feedback, and accountability are embraced as essential to growth, collective leadership, and Black worker liberation, holding staff, members, and partners with care, dignity, and high expectations, navigating conflict directly and constructively while strengthening trust, alignment, and shared responsibility across the organization.
• Adaptive Leadership: Navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities with flexibility and sound judgment, responding to evolving community conditions, political contexts, and organizing needs in financial decision-making and resource allocation.
• Cultural Humility & Empathy: Respect for communities of color, bringing equity, lived experience, and cultural humility into Co-ED leadership, collaboration, and decision-making.

Working Environment

This is an in-person position, located in Los Angeles, CA.

Compensation

$130,000 – $150,000 annually, plus benefits.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including 100% medical, vision, and dental coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan annually with an increased accrual rate based on the number of years of employment, 10 sick days, and additional paid holiday time off.

About Our Selection Process

Our selection process includes three rounds, each offering opportunities for us to get to know one another:

• Round 1: Application submission and a one-way video interview (due by Tuesday, July 17, 2026. The Priority Deadline is Friday, July 10). This stage includes four interview questions, which candidates complete on their own time.
• Round 2: A live, 60-minute interview via Zoom with the hiring committee.
• Round 3: Final interviews with the two finalists, scheduled for August 11 & 14, at the LABWC office in Los Angeles.