Board of Directors (Volunteer Position)
On-site · Portland, Oregon, United States
Job Summary
Join the Board of Directors as a volunteer member, providing governance and strategic direction to Imagine Black. Responsibilities include guiding the organization's mission, ensuring effective planning, monitoring program effectiveness, and helping secure financial resources. Required qualifications include a strong commitment to the organization's vision, lived experience of Black community issues, and the ability to collaborate across diverse backgrounds. Board members must engage in fundraising efforts and actively participate in committee work while contributing approximately five hours per month.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated commitment to the Imagine Black/Imagine Black Futures’ vision, mission, and values
- Demonstrated commitment to self-determination and how radical Black imagination can directly influence policy and advocacy
- Lived experience with Black community issues, particularly in Oregon
- A commitment to a Black Queer Feminist lens
- Ability to work respectfully and collaboratively with people from all backgrounds and willingness to promote equity actively
- Availability to attend regular quarterly board, committee, and strategic planning meetings and events and contribute an average of five hours per month to fulfilling board member responsibilities
- A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Suite, as well as ability to work with online forms and systems
Desired Qualifications
- Proven skills working and communicating with communities within the African diaspora, especially with descendants of enslaved Africans, African immigrants and refugees, and Caribbean immigrants and refugees
- A large network of personal and/or professional connections and willingness to tap into those connections to support the organization’s mission and programs financially and/or in terms of donated goods or time
- Willingness to raise money and resources for the organization through personal asks, events, and other activities
- Experience serving on a nonprofit board of directors
- Familiarity with Asana, Slack, Zoom, or similar systems
- Lived experience with or intimate knowledge of Black community issues, particularly in Oregon
- Bi- or multi-lingual (Arabic, Amharic, Swahili, and Somali-speaking applicants are encouraged to apply)
- Professional expertise in one or more of the following areas: Advocacy, Civic Engagement, Electoral Justice, Strategic Planning, Fundraising, Marketing / Communications / Social media, Creative / Design/ Technology, Accounting / Financial management, Human Resources, Equity and Inclusion, Nonprofit Management, Event Design and Implementation, Employment Law, Acquisitions, Corporate / Nonprofit Law
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