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CAIR San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a strategic, values-driven candidate for its new full-time Managing Director position. This role is essential to scaling the organization's impact, strengthening internal coordination, and supporting a high-performing, mission-aligned team. The ideal candidate will bring significant senior management experience across program oversight, staff supervision, and operational systems-along with a deep commitment to justice, equity, and the empowerment of American Muslim communities. This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned leader ready to help steer one of the nation's most impactful Muslim civil rights organizations through its next chapter of growth and transformation.

Location: Based in CAIR's Santa Clara office. CAIR staff are currently working a hybrid schedule, with three days in-person and two days remote

Schedule Type: Full-time. Exempt. Occasional evenings and weekends required

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Executive Director

Requirements: Ability to travel throughout the Bay Area (vehicle and driver's license required); must be authorized to work in the United States

Key Responsibilities

Organizational Leadership

• Serve as second-in-command and internal leader across all departments, ensuring alignment with the Executive Director's vision
• Lead weekly cross-departmental check-ins and ensure team accountability to org-wide priorities
• Facilitate day-to-day management of the organization and represent the Executive Director
  
  

• Directly supervise departmental leads, including legal, programs, development, and communications
• Ensure timely coordination and support for campaigns, reports, and grant deliverables
• Facilitate professional development planning and team performance review cycles
• Play a key role in developing annual staff strategic planning sessions; oversee staff training budgets and professional development goals
  
  

• Support development and implementation of CAIR-SFBA's strategic plan
• Track progress on goals, draft internal progress reports, and surface cross-team opportunities or risks
• Assist with external-facing projects and organizational partnerships as needed
  
  

• Partner with Operations Manager on internal systems improvements
• Collaborate with Executive Director and Development team to ensure budgetary alignment with program priorities
• Participate in financial planning processes and funding strategy development
  
  

• Help foster a high-performance, values-driven culture of trust, equity, and accountability
• Support transparent communication across the organization and between leadership and staff
• Collaborate with statewide leadership on shared initiatives, systems, and reporting
• Serve as a thought partner to senior leadership team members, including the CAIR-SFBA Executive Director, and the CAIR-CA Operations Team in developing internal processes and driving culture shifts as we grow
  
  

• At minimum five years of senior-level management experience, preferably in a nonprofit, social justice, advocacy, or public policy organization
• Alignment with CAIR's mission, knowledge of the realities facing the American Muslim community, and a deep desire to work in an organization whose mission and culture are rooted in Islamic values, including justice, courage, and collaboration
• Experience assessing and scaling an organization, building infrastructure and efficiency; and overseeing, developing, aligning and evaluating programs Experience creating, investing in, uplifting, and managing individual staff and teams; strong, inclusive facilitation skills; experience building the leadership capacity of team members to innovate and achieve high impact
• Strong relationship builder and communicator who values equity and justice, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including public speaking experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills both in person and by phone, with a high degree of professionalism and ability to interface with staff, community leaders, volunteers, legislators, government agencies, and other key stakeholders
• Emotionally intelligent with thoughtful and collaborative leadership style; an open mind and learning spirit
• Grounded while working in a fast-paced environment; track record of inspiring confidence internally and externally, excellent judgement, measured and operationally savvy
• Detail and process-oriented; willing to roll up their sleeves and do whatever it takes in a pinch; flexible. Can prioritize between and manage multiple demands Knowledge of cloud applications such as SharePoint, Office365, Quickbooks, and Asana;
• Basic computer proficiency including knowledge of MS Office, MS Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat Preferred Qualifications Experience working in Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, and/or South Asian communities
• Experience working with a political action committee and/or a grassroots campaign
  
  

• Compensation in the range of $128,000-$140,000, commensurate with experience
• Fully paid Kaiser Health Insurance and Blue Cross PPO Dental Plan for employee and dependents 3% retirement matching contribution
• 12 paid holidays, 10 sick days, and 12 vacation days
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Civic and Social Organizations

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