Position: State Repro Hub Director

About State Alignment Lab 

The State Alignment Lab (SAL) is a new, behind-the-scenes nonprofit supporting a vibrant and diverse ecosystem of state coalitions and organizations advancing reproductive health, rights, and justice in the United States. SAL focuses on providing state organizations with the infrastructure and backbone support they need to thrive by working to:

1. Connect state partners with colleagues, experts, and resources to ensure states have access to the best our field has to offer.
2. Make it easier for state partners to collaborate by providing hands-on support, tools, and expertise.
3. Convene advocates to create opportunities for shared learning and coordination within and across states.

Together, these efforts strengthen state-based reproductive health, rights, and justice movements regardless of geography or environment. The State Alignment Lab is a non-branded, fiscally-sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy. While SAL does not yet have a website, more information will be provided to candidates who advance to interviews.

The Opportunity

SAL is hiring its fourth and fifth team members to be a part of envisioning and building its core programs and networks. The new State Repro Hub Director will work collaboratively with the Executive Director and a new State Partnerships Director to help transform how support is provided to state-based organizations actively advocating and building toward reproductive health, rights, and justice across the US. The Director will lead the development of SAL’s State Repro Hub, a collection of resources, consultants, and partners providing prompt and effective support and technical assistance to state partners. The Director will both oversee the technical development of the Hub and curate resources and connections to ensure the Hub’s value as a technical assistance platform and helpdesk for advocates.

Outcomes and Efforts

In the next two years, the State Repro Hub Director will:

1. Lead the development of a resource hub where state-based reproductive health, rights, and justice advocates are directed to resources useful to advancing their mission. The Director will set strategy, develop processes, and test models for knitting together technical assistance, thought partnership, connections, and resources to meet evolving and diverse needs of state advocates. They will gather, develop, and organize technical resources, toolkits, best practices, and relationships and determine what solutions, resources, or support SAL can provide. They will ensure resources are accessible, culturally responsive, and relevant to diverse contexts and environments. 

1. Lead implementation and oversee hub services. The Director will manage the experience of advocates from intake to solutions with creativity, resourcefulness, and compassion. They will grow the team and manage a network of contacts, ensuring timely responses and clear outcomes. They will collaborate effectively to identify and provide solutions or next steps to ensure advocates have better resources, improved connections, and a clear path toward solving a problem or improving their work.

1. Build a national network of contacts to serve as resources to advocates. The Director will connect with leaders across the country, building bridges across geographic boundaries and strategic approaches to increase accessibility to high quality information, practices, and resources. These connections may include representatives from national organizations, consultants, technical assistance providers, trainers, or others whose knowledge and efforts could be lifted up to support the strength and connections of state-based movements.

1. Gather and share learnings and reflections to inform the hub’s resources, SAL’s offerings, and state strategies. The Director will create metrics and evaluation frameworks to assess impact of the hub and continue to improve the offerings and resources to advocates by collecting and analyzing user feedback and data, ensuring SAL meets the emerging needs of the ecosystem.

1. Contribute to SAL’s ability to support state repro ecosystems as a thought partner, connector, and builder. The Director will serve as a leader within SAL, participating in planning and organizational development activities and contributing to knowledge, learning, and strategic growth. They will support programming across SAL on an ad hoc basis, including convening design and facilitation, and represent SAL to stakeholders and at conferences and retreats. They will strive to bring SAL’s values into practice in all interactions.

Who You Are

The best person for this role is someone who thrives when solving problems or acting in an advisory capacity to peers and partners. You enjoy building your professional network and leveraging those connections for advice and support to help solve challenges beyond your own expertise. You are curious and ask informative, helpful questions. You are detail oriented and an effective project manager and willing to wear many hats, from leading large scale program design and management to responding to intake emails and staffing a virtual helpdesk while growing your team.

What Experience and Expertise You Bring

1. At least five (5) years of experience in a senior leadership or executive role in a reproductive health, rights, or justice or aligned organization.
2. Expertise in designing, executing, and refining programs, content or training, resulting in clear outcomes and sustained work.
3. Experience with programs that provide support and assistance to individuals or groups by finding creative solutions, stewarding resources, or making connections.
4. Proven track record of successfully strategizing in collaboration with state advocates.
5. Relationship builder and manager with the ability to hold both state and national relationships with trust, care, and intention.
6. Experience managing contractors and consultants.
7. Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.

Core Competencies for all SAL staff

1. Deep commitment to and enthusiasm for a collaborative, equitable, and effective reproductive health, rights, and justice movement led by state advocates.
2. Familiarity and comfort with reproductive health, rights, and justice values and those of fellow movement partners.
3. Builder with the ability to succeed in a start-up environment and help develop structures; someone who can both dream big and bring that dream into reality.
4. Resourceful problem solver who is skilled at utilizing any type of information system.
5. Experience working remotely and building remote teams.
6. Willingness to pitch in as needed; SAL is a small nonprofit and everyone contributes to necessary administrative work.

Compensation & Benefits

This is a full-time (40hrs/week), exempt, position. The salary range for this position is $160,000-170,000, with a target starting salary in the middle of the range and depending on the experience of the candidate.  The State Repro Hub Director is employed by SAL’s fiscal sponsor, NEO Philanthropy. Through NEO Philanthropy, this position is offered a full benefits package, including 100% medical coverage for the employee and 90% medical coverage for dependents; 100% coverage for vision, dental, life/AD&D, long-term disability. NEO also offers a 401K retirement savings plan, Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA), Medical FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter benefits, Employee Assistance Program, other supplemental benefits and paid time off.

Application Process

SAL is partnering with Callie Carroll of CLC Endeavors. To apply, please submit a resume to

SAL-SRHD@clcendeavors.com. In the body of your email, please provide brief (3-4 sentence) answers to the following prompts:

1. What core experience(s) would guide how you support state-based reproductive health, rights, and justice movement advocates?

2. Tell us about your experience building something from the ground up.

3. Why are you drawn to this work?

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. We encourage interested candidates to apply by September 15th as we hope to move through the following virtual process in the Fall:

1. Preliminary screening interview with Callie of CLC Endeavors.

2. Narrative in-depth interview with Callie following feedback by SAL.

3. Panel interview with SAL team members.

4. Final interview with SAL Executive Director (may include a brief exercise).

5. Reference checks.

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SAL at NEO Philanthropy is an equal opportunity employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status. Women, people of color, LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people in order to create a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding, and enables each of us to realize our potential.