Organization Overview
Families In Schools (FIS) imagines a public education system where parents play a leadership role in their children’s learning and where students, particularly those farthest from opportunity, are set up to succeed in school and in life.
Founded in 2000, FIS is a nonprofit statewide organization based in Los Angeles, California, whose mission is to ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy. In 2024, FIS enters a new chapter, marked by new leadership and a clear, unflinching commitment to excellence and impact. In this new chapter, FIS delivers on its promise to more intentionally connect family engagement as a strategy for improving student outcomes by elevating and addressing an early and critical milestone of student success: reading proficiently by the end of third grade. Both through capacity building efforts and advocacy, FIS will develop and lead an effort in Los Angeles to address the early literacy crisis in Los Angeles and the state.
Position Overview
We are launching the search for an integral teammate to our organization’s early literacy advocacy work. The Senior Campaign Director will lead the design, execution, and evaluation of ReadLA!, FIS’ literacy campaign, geared toward addressing the literacy crisis in Los Angeles and across the state. This individual is a mission-focused, dynamic, self-directed, and results-oriented professional with expertise in community mobilization and organizing; is passionate about reading as a right; and is committed to family and community engagement as a key strategy for student success and educational equity. This is a full-time, exempt position reporting to the President & CEO.
The Campaign Director will focus on elevating early literacy as a top priority for the Los Angeles region, mobilizing school district leaders, parents, community organizations, city and county officials, business, media, philanthropy, and others. The Campaign Director will collaborate with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and others to help build the capacity of LAUSD parents as critical partners in the critical milestone of student success: reading proficiently by the end of third grade.
Key Responsibilities
The Campaign Director will work with a broad coalition of partners to develop and oversee a 4–5-year plan to help reverse the literacy crisis in Los Angeles and in California. Key responsibilities include:
Strategy Development & Implementation
Coalition Building & System Collaboration
About You
You have demonstrated experience in community organizing, movement building, and advocacy. You have a deep commitment to educational equity, family engagement, and parent power. You are passionate about the importance of early literacy and excited to lean into the exciting and hard work of launching a new strategic plan and set of goals.
Experience
Skills & Competencies
Mindsets
Additional Qualifications
Working at Families In Schools
Families In Schools fosters a mission-driven, collaborative work environment where teamwork, communication, excellence, quality, integrity, inquiry, and commitment to community are highly valued. We provide employees with ongoing professional development opportunities through structured learning and training coupled with project assignments that maximize a diverse and high-functioning skill set.
Location: Los Angeles, California with some statewide travel. Our organization works a hybrid schedule, one day in the office and four days virtually.
Salary & Benefits: The salary range for the Senior Campaign Director is $100,000-$115,000 commensurate with experience. In addition, we offer a competitive benefits package that includes:
Organization Overview
Families In Schools (FIS) imagines a public education system where parents play a leadership role in their children’s learning and where students, particularly those farthest from opportunity, are set up to succeed…
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes:
● Company-paid health insurance for employees and dependents after 3 months of employment.
● Vacation, sick and personal time.
● 401k with employer match.
● 10-paid holidays per year and a 5-day winter break during the last week of December.
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes:
● Company-paid health insurance for employees and dependents after 3 months of employment.
● Vacation, sick and personal time…
Bilingual in English and Spanish is desirable.
Bilingual in English and Spanish is desirable.