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Racial Justice Investing Coalition, Program Coordinator


The Racial Justice Investing (RJI) Program Coordinator is a brand-new role that will serve as RJI’s first-ever staff position. This position is with the RJI Investing Coalition, for which Investor Advocates for Social Justice serves as the fiscal sponsor. The RJI Program Coordinator will be focused on developing leadership within the RJI network, building solidarity with social justice movement groups, assessing needs, and helping to shape and implement programming for RJI alongside the RJI Advisory Board. This is an opportunity for someone seeking to serve in a key leadership development function to help define, support, and grow RJI’s capacity to take action for racial justice within the impact investing field.

For the past five years, the RJI network has been led primarily by the RJI Advisory Board, a group of investment professionals working in different areas of the field, including faith-based investing, socially responsible investing, asset management, philanthropy and nonprofit. Current RJI programming includes a monthly call for RJI members focused on education, networking and learning about the harms of racial capitalism, including by connecting to BIPOC-led racial and economic justice groups. The Coordinator will help to shape and expand RJI programming, with the goal of creating structures for RJI members to work in greater accountability to racial justice movement groups.

Key Responsibilities

The Program Coordinator will help develop the structure, programming, resources, and work to advance the RJI coalition work on the identified shared values and goals.  The RJI coalition seeks to be both a place where RJI members can garner support for their relevant  ongoing work as well as a space to initiate and advance transformative racial justice work aligned with our values. Key responsibilities include:

Develop Leadership within the RJI Network:       

  • Organize monthly calls, maintain listerve of membership 
  • Support the launch of 1-2 RJI working groups in 2021
  • Participate in monthly RJI leadership team meetings
  • Contribute to formation and refining of strategic direction of RJI coalition

Identify and Compile Resources / Education for the RJI Network:

  • Identify and share relevant resources and compile on RJI website, Slack, and email listserve 
  • Identify opportunities for anti-racist education among RJI coalition participants
  • Facilitate membership information sharing and coordinate process for membership reporting on accomplishments, challenges, and needs

In conjunction with the leadership team: build and strengthen relationships between Racial Justice Movement Groups and RJI, fundraise to expand capacity of RJI, and support monitoring of grant requirements. 

Skills & Qualifications        

  • Demonstrated commitment to racial justice and strong critical analysis of racial capitalism.
  • Demonstrated commitment to working in accountability to BIPOC community leaders on racial justice efforts.
  • Strong commitment to racial justice and the values of RJI (Racial Justice; Education; Vulnerability, Humility and Bravery; Accountability and Transparency; and Undoing Harm (Reparations)).
  • Experience convening, building or shaping the growth of a network or coalition, ideally in a leadership role. 
  • At least 3 years experience working on community organizing, racial justice or coordinating. Understanding of capital markets related to social movements a plus.  
  • Possess strong analytical skills, vision, strategic thinking, and program design skills to further define the strategic direction and work of the RJI coalition. 
  • Experience creating and/or facilitating structures for group decision-making preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently.
  • Effective program management and time management skills, including prioritizing and managing multiple tasks. Ability to move at a pace of organizing that prioritizes the well-being of the relationships and the people involved. 
  • Working knowledge of MS office and familiarity with tools like Zoom, Slack, Google Drive. 

About Racial Justice Investing Coalition

Racial Justice Investing (RJI) [1]is a group of impact investing stakeholders, including asset managers, asset owners, activists, academics, people working in nonprofits and philanthropy, and business leaders. The network began in 2016 and has grown to a community of practice of over 350 individuals that provides shared space for individuals and institutions to take action for racial justice within our own organizations and in our engagements with portfolio companies. As shareholders committed to racial justice, we aim to:

●      Build a coalition of investors working in solidarity with, and accountable to, racial justice activists and organizers;

●      Elevate understanding of the harmful relationship between the systems of racism and capitalism in the United States;

●      Identify the role of socially responsible investors in working for racial justice both in our own institutions and firms, and at the companies we engage;

●      Advocate for policies which promote racial justice and address the role of wealth and capital in ongoing injustice;

●      Hold companies accountable for how their policies and practices impact people of color, including via shareholder proposals, company dialogues, interactions with asset managers, and more; and

●      Center the perspectives and expertise of people of color, especially Black people.

Supervision: RJI is an unaffiliated coalition. Investor Advocates for Social Justice is the fiscal sponsor for the RJI coalition. The Program Coordinator will report to the Executive Director of the Investor Advocates for Social Justice and will work closely alongside the RJI Leadership team, which meets monthly.

Tech: If possible, Program Coordinator, will provide their own computer, phone and internet connection.  


  1. https://www.racialjusticeinvesting.org/about

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