Kindred, Inc. seeks Director, Online Community - $70k to $110k
In today’s segregated society, there are few opportunities for parents to connect meaningfully with one another across racial and socioeconomic difference, and this leads to families having connections with different networks of people and resources that provide inequitable access to educational opportunities, cultural knowledge and economic advancement. Washington, DC is home to more than 45 elementary schools with diverse student bodies where developing connections across difference is possible, but does not tend to happen on its own. Parents need brave, safe spaces and skilled facilitation to build trust and relationships with one another. Kindred establishes these spaces by facilitating dialogues among families of diverse backgrounds that culminate in their taking collective action to benefit all students.
Kindred’s vision is a society where communities care for all children as if they were their own, with parents leading this change. Grounded in participatory action, Kindred is on the cutting edge of a new approach to organizing and engaging families. We seek individuals to join our organization who are captivated and driven by our mission and thrive in work environments with big goals and a scrappy team to accomplish them.
About this Role
Kindred strives to create an active network of parents who connect with one another in a vibrant online community to share ideas, resources, and drive each other’s belief and motivation to eliminate educational inequity in the communities where they reside in our lifetime. In service of building this digital community, Kindred must carve out and source the tributaries to fuel and grow its base of users while engaging and energizing the users already poised to do and engage more. As such, we are seeking an individual who exhibits a track record of success and passion in three core competencies in network building and communications: vision creation, strategy development and implementation. As a new role in uncharted territory, the responsibilities will evolve as we learn from the families we serve.