People and Equity Associate

About Supermajority
Women are on the cusp of becoming the most powerful force in America. But to fundamentally transform this country, we need to pull together the millions of women who are already engaged and amplify and expand their civic engagement. Supermajority Education Fund is building women’s power across the country by training and mobilizing a multiracial, intergenerational community who will lead the fight for women’s equality. We provide women with the tools, resources, and information they need to channel the energy and activism of this moment and build it into a long-term movement for change.

Since our founding in April 2019, Supermajority Education Fund and our related 501(c)(4) organization, Supermajority, have reached millions of women through in-person conversations and online outreach. In August 2019, more than 75,000 people from all 50 states completed our Women’s Poll, which led to the creation of the Majority Rules, a set of values to help us build the country we deserve. 

In 2020, we ran the country’s largest woman-to-woman voter engagement program by offering strategic digital tools, training, and information to women and allies around the country. In 2021, we continued the work of engaging and mobilizing women across the country, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and its disproportionate impact on women, specifically women of color. Then, in 2022, the organization supported the mobilization of millions of women in the midterms, helping to shift the course of the election.
 

About the role - People and Equity Associate
Supermajority Education Fund seeks a People and Equity Associate to play an invaluable role in ensuring a people-centered employee experience and a smooth infrastructure.  The ideal candidate is someone who embodies our values, works from an anti-racist framework, thrives on coordinating many moving pieces at once, takes initiative to address challenges, has high emotional intelligence and empathy, and supports colleagues and candidates with dignity and respect. They will coordinate and maintain our core people and operations systems and processes and strive to foster a just and inclusive culture for all SMEF staff. This position reports to the Deputy Director of People and Equity.

Responsibilities and Tasks

• Coordinate and execute people processes throughout the full employee lifecycle, maintaining strong data accuracy and confidentiality.
• Maintain and update all people policies, SOPs, and Employee Handbook.
• Surface, contribute, and co-create opportunities to streamline and improve current processes.

• Incorporate equity and justice into day-to-day decisions and work product, and play an important role in helping us to live our values.
• Coordinate scheduling, communications, and content for meetings, events, and updates that give employees visibility into our work and invite their perspectives.
• Continuously revisit our values and use them as a guide to improve our operations and day-to-day work.

• Provide timely responses to employee requests and concerns with care and respect, demonstrating strong discernment and integrity to address sensitive matters in an appropriate and confidential way.
• Make time to support SMEF’s goals and programming across teams, attend and support member events when possible, and embrace our all-hands-on-deck approach to our work.

The successful candidate must have the following skills and qualities:

• Commitment to gender and racial equity: Demonstrated commitment to advancing justice for all women and ensuring those closest to the problems are at the forefront of solutions. Centers people in work projects and interactions and addresses structural implications and disproportionate impacts of policies, activities, and decisions on race and on historically marginalized groups. 
• Organizational skills and attention to detail: Experienced in pivoting between competing priorities. Identifies and acts on opportunities to improve processes and practices or develop new processes where needed.
• Creativity, initiative, and self-teaching: Offers creative solutions and takes initiative to research solutions to challenges as they arise. Centers learning and enjoys using new technology or platforms.
• Collaborative: Enjoys working with a team, lifting up colleagues’ strengths, and supporting their gaps. Leads with curiosity while seeking to understand and respect every colleague and partner regardless of identity or position.
• High integrity and emotional intelligence: Communicates with colleagues and candidates with the utmost care and respect, draws important boundaries as needed, and holds confidential and sensitive information appropriately.

The strongest candidates will also have some of the following skills and experience:

• Experience working within the people, HR, or talent function of an organization and supporting the employee experience.
• Direct experience with project management tools like monday.com, maintaining business or human resources systems, especially applicant tracking systems.
• Experience facilitating conversations to gain input or consensus on implementing new ideas.

Compensation & Location

• The salary for this position is $70,000, with an annual tenure increase. We strive to maintain pay equity; therefore, rather than negotiate salaries, we provide a transparent, consistent, and competitive salary for each job posting based on job level. To ensure equity across all candidates, we will not negotiate with anyone.
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). Employees accrue 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health and caregiver leave, and 20 hours of volunteer leave annually. Employees will also receive 13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. 
• This is a full-time, fully-remote, exempt position.

Supermajority Education Fund has engaged Equitable Hiring Group to support this hiring process. To apply, please complete the short form to the right. 

Individuals who apply by Tuesday, May 14th, will be given priority; therefore, we encourage you to submit yours soon!

When you apply, we kindly ask you to remove your schools from your resume. There is no need to reformat your resume and leave your degree as is; simplify it to “B.A. Economics,” for example. Just remember to remove any undergraduate and graduate school name references where possible. This “bias-reduced” process is aimed at opening this opportunity to more candidates, reviewing applicants on performance assessments instead of resume proxies (e.g., where you went to school).

This evaluation process will follow practices shown to reduce bias in decision-making and may be different from other application processes you have experienced. 

• Mid-May: Selected candidates asked to complete short answer questions
• Late May: Phone interview with Supermajority Education Fund staff
• Early June: Finalist candidates will be asked to complete a paid, timed, trial assignment
• Mid-June: Finalists will participate in a multi-team member panel interview
  • Candidate references will also be checked at this step
• Late June: Offer extended

If you have any questions about the opportunity, please feel free to email [email protected].
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Covid-19 Policy
To center the safety and well-being of its employees, SMEF requires that any employee who is required to conduct in-person activities for their job, including our in-person gatherings, must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within four weeks of their start date. You should discuss with your supervisor how this policy applies to your role. If you believe that you need an exception from this policy as a reasonable accommodation for religious, medical, or other personal reasons, contact our people team.

Hiring Statement
Supermajority Education Fund is an equal opportunity employer with core values of radical inclusion and fighting for justice. We strive to build a staff team as diverse as the intergenerational and multiracial voters we organize.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin and ancestry, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, pregnancy, military and veteran status or medical condition.

Candidates can make a reasonable accommodations request for this job opportunity by emailing our people team at [email protected].

Supermajority Education Fund participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the United States. Job candidates and employees with the right to work may not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin or citizenship status.