EpicWorks Deputy Director

About EpicWorks

EpicWorks provides movement organizations with the values-aligned infrastructure and services they need to fulfill their missions with confidence. We help strengthen the core of their operations by providing essential, dependable services related to people practices, financial management, legal compliance and organizational health. EpicWorks sets up organizations to achieve greater impact.

EpicWorks team members specialize in finance, human resources, compliance, legal services, organizational culture and labor relations. Each team member brings years—often decades—of experience supporting organizations fighting for justice.

This role will work directly for EpicWorks and will not be employed by Working Families Party or Working Families Power.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

The Deputy Director is a senior leader responsible for helping turn EpicWorks’ strategy and priorities into action. Working closely with the Executive Director and senior leadership team, the Deputy Director will lead major organizational initiatives, manage and develop staff, strengthen management and labor relations practices, and help ensure that teams and projects deliver on their commitments.

This role requires an exceptional people leader and project manager—someone who shapes culture, creates clarity, establishes accountability, drives work forward, and helps others succeed. The ideal candidate combines strong judgment and strategic thinking with a bias toward action and follow-through.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Organizational Leadership & Execution

• Translate organizational strategy into clear priorities, plans, and measurable outcomes to undergird the larger performance management process.

• Manage principals towards organizational and departmental goals, including holding members of the senior leadership team accountable.

• Lead major cross-entity projects like our process to onboard participating organizations or strategic risk mitigation efforts from planning through implementation, establishing clear ownership, timelines, deliverables, and accountability.

• Identify barriers to progress, facilitate decisions, and ensure commitments translate into action.

• Strengthen coordination across teams and improve systems and processes that support organizational effectiveness by developing a new structure for accountability that can be implemented by our two cross functional teams – Participating Organizational Services and Compliance.

• Support the EpicWorks Advisory Board and the Executive Director by planning and facilitating pieces of our quarterly meetings.

• Oversee risk mitigation strategy and crisis response protocols for the organization, including monitoring risk, leading process documentation and document retention efforts.

• Support business continuity planning through close partnership with the Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director and Controller.

• Ensure financial strategy is tightly aligned with organizational priorities and drives sustainable growth.

People Management & Organizational Effectiveness

• Partner with the Executive Director and department heads as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, providing candid feedback, honest counsel, and constructive challenges.

• Manage and develop staff through clear expectations, regular coaching and feedback, professional development, and accountability for results.

• Support Director of People and Process and Executive Director in performance management, goal-setting, and organizational planning.

• Lead internal staff learning and communication efforts, including all-staff and manager meetings.

• Develop and oversee a strong onboarding experience for EpicWorks staff.

Management & Labor-Relations Leadership

• Oversee labor and management relations.

• Serve as a senior advisor to executives of Participating Organizations on complex labor relations, collective bargaining, organizational change, partnership-building approaches, workforce impacts, and conflict.

• Help develop and advance EpicWorks’ approach to progressive, values-aligned management and labor relations.

• Develop training, coaching, tools, and shared resources that strengthen management capacity across EpicWorks and Participating Organizations.

• Advise EpicWorks’ leaders and Participating Organizational leads on management and labor-relations challenges, trends, risks, and opportunities.

• Build opportunities for shared learning and disseminate effective management practices across the EpicWorks network.

Program & Partner Leadership

• Ensure coordination across Finance, People & Culture, Legal, Technology, Operations, and key Participating Organization contacts so policy and process don't work at cross-purposes.

• Sponsor organization-wide initiatives requiring multi-functional coordination.

• Provide strategic oversight to assigned programs and initiatives, ensuring clear goals, strong execution, and alignment with organizational priorities.

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