Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness

The Position The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) seeks a strategic, collaborative, data-driven and innovative Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness to serve as a key leader within the Office of the President and CEO and collaboratively across the organization. A new role reporting directly to the Vice President of Equity, Organizational Effectiveness, and Learning, the Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness will guide organization-wide planning and evaluation efforts and drive strategies for organizational effectiveness, equity, and inclusion. The Director will leverage their expertise in strategic planning and equitable research, evaluation, and organizational effectiveness to create and adapt tools to monitor progress and ensure alignment and shared accountability toward achieving the strategic plan at organizational, team, and individual levels. The Director of Equity and Org Effectiveness will play a critical role in measuring and communicating our impact to internal and external stakeholders. With a strong background in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, the Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness will also collect, analyze, and report data that will inform priorities for improvement every year. The Director of Equity and Organizational Effectiveness will ensure that we are asking the right questions, collecting the most essential data, conducting strong analysis, and using the insights gained to inform our organizational improvement planning, professional development offerings, workplace practices and policies. This Director will play a leadership role across the organization. They will bring best practices and emerging ideas in social justice organizational effectiveness principles to our staff, piloting and guiding a range of projects to support cross-team collaboration to ultimately help accelerate our impact. They will spend a significant portion of their time developing and refining ways to measure our impact and compellingly communicate it to internal and external stakeholders. This is a full-time exempt position of 37.5 hours per week. The Organization The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) fights for gender justice — in the courts, in public policy, and in our society — working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. We use the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions to the gender inequity that shapes our society and to break down the barriers that harm all of us — especially women of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and low-income women and families. The National Women’s Law Center Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) affiliate of NWLC, aiming to drive progressive change in our policies and laws so that all women and girls can live, learn, and work with safety, dignity, and equality. Another affiliate, the National Women’s Law Center Fund LLC, houses and administers the Legal Network for Gender Equity and the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund. For more than 50 years, we have been on the leading edge of every major legal and policy victory for women, and we need you with us to continue this fight. Find out more at NWLC.org . Responsibilities Strategic Planning and OKR leadership Support organization’s strategic planning process by providing project management, working groups facilitation, retreat agendas, and expert advice Lead the organization-wide OKR (Objectives & Key Results) process — facilitating goal-setting cycles, aligning team-level OKRs to organizational strategic priorities, and embedding regular check-ins across the organization Partner with senior leadership team to translate the strategic plan into actionable, measurable annual and quarterly goals Develop and maintain systems for tracking OKR progress; create accountability structures and cadence of analysis that supports continuous improvement Research and implement best practices in nonprofit effectiveness, equity-centered evaluation, and organizational development to cont