Description

Position Summary

The National Organizer for Capital Strategies will oversee capital deployment including loan diligence and underwriting, provide member support and accompaniment, co-facilitate our community-led governance process, and take lead on the deployment of the RTTC Loan Fund for the alliance and the growing movement for dignified, affordable and safe homes for all.   We are looking for someone to join our energetic, visionary and solutions-oriented national staff team to help build the powerful movement we need to win the right to the city and liberation for our people.  The ideal candidate will be someone who is multifaceted, able to adapt to changing conditions, believes deeply in self-determination and community power, and who embodies a commitment to both personal and systemic transformation.  

Training Program Requirement for this Role

Please note that the selected candidate for this job role would be required to go through a 6-month training program prior to employment, with a monthly stipend during the training portion. This training program precedes full-time employment with RTTC and is conducted by our recruitment and training agency partner, Venture Partners, in partnership with Boston Impact Initiative. Candidates are not expected to be full-time during the training period. The selected candidate should expect to spend approximately 10-15 hours per week during the training period both synchronous and asynchronously with Venture Partners and the associated training material. 

*Timeline & Important Dates*
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August 31, 2026 at 11:59pm PT: Application portal closes

Sept 2026: Interview rounds conducted by VP x RTTC to select final candidate

October 1, 2026 - March 31, 2027: 6-month training program completed by selected candidate. This training program precedes full-time employment with RTTC and is conducted by recruitment and training agency partner, Venture Partners. Candidates are not expected to be full-time during this training period and should expect to spend approximately 10-15 hours per week during this time

April 1, 2027: Candidates start full-time role with RTTC

**Please note that the training program is provided free of cost to all selected fellows. The employment following training is salaried with employee benefits including healthcare.

Who Are We Looking For?
Are you ready to be in a role that drives capital and innovation in a more sustainable and just way? RTTC and the Venture Partners training program was designed to identify and grow change makers all over the country. We are looking for everyday people who want to change the way capital circulates and is used in their communities. The six-month training program creates opportunities for participants to learn new skills, obtain resources, and connect with a network to accelerate change in the communities they wish to serve. We are looking for individuals who have a keen interest in understanding our shared economic logic, in learning new concepts and skills, and applying these experiences to build economic models based in equity, sustainability, and repair.

You do not need to have financial experience to be part of the training program or be selected for employment at RTTC. However, you will need to demonstrate an aptitude for learning and the ability to receive and incorporate feedback quickly.

If selected by RTTC, you will enter our training program preceeding your employment and be exposed to various models of decentralized finance that challenge the status quo of money movement. The curriculum is both intellectually, and introspectively challenging and intended to facilitate personal and subsequently professional transformation in the way graduates interact with systems of capital.

Overview: 
Our training program consists of four components. Beyond the didactic education parts listed below, candidates should expect to also receive onboarding support prior to starting full-time with RTTC, and mentorship from Venture Partners through their first year of employment. 

• Identity, Relationship to Community & Capital, IKIGAI | Candidates begin by examining something most finance training skips entirely: themselves. This section explores each fellow's personal history with money, wealth, and scarcity — what Venture Partners calls the "trauma of money" — and how those experiences shape the way practitioners approach capital allocation decisions. Candidates map their 8 facets of identity and examine how race, class, gender, culture, and lived experience show up in professional contexts, including inside the organizations they'll be working in. They study community, power-building, and solidarity as foundations for financial practice, and use the IKIGAI framework alongside the Two Loops model of change to identify their optimal role in moving capital differently — not just as employees, but as practitioners with a specific vantage point and a specific kind of contribution to make. By the time this section concludes, candidates know why they're doing this work, not just how
• Macro-Economic Theory Candidates | receive what Venture Partners calls "Not Your Average Econ 101" — a historical and comparative survey of economic systems that mainstream finance training rarely touches. Beginning with indigenous and pre-colonial economies and moving through mercantilism, industrial capitalism, and post-capitalist frameworks, fellows develop a working understanding of how economies are constructed, who they have served, and what alternatives have existed and continue to exist. Candidates study the building blocks of different economic systems — how capital flows, who controls it, how credit and lending markets emerged, and where wealth concentration comes from — and are tasked with understanding these systems on their own terms before critiquing them. The goal is not ideological: it's analytical. Candidats who complete this section can situate any fund, investment thesis, or financial institution within a larger historical and structural context, which makes them sharper practitioners across every asset class and deployment strategy.
• Technical Underwriting for Grants, Debt & Equity Investments | This is the section where candidates build the technical toolkit. Venture Partners walks fellows through the full underwriting cycle — sourcing, screening, and due diligence — for three distinct capital types: philanthropic grants (including trust-based, PRIs, and MRIs), debt and lending instruments (including CDFI lending, revenue-based financing, and community loan funds), and equity investments. Critically, the curriculum doesn't just teach the mechanics — it teaches candidates to see the assumptions embedded in each process: what counts as creditworthiness and why, where implicit bias enters screening criteria, and how risk is defined differently depending on who's doing the defining. Candidates complete practical exercises modeling on real deal structures, producing investment memos and credit analyses that reflect both technical rigor and a justice-informed analytical lens. Candidates should expect to go into RTTC with the ability to sit in an investment committee meeting and engage substantively — not someone learning on the job from scratch.
• Solidarity Economy, Restorative Finance Frameworks & Local and Global Case Studies | In the final section, candidates study the solidarity economy not as a theory but as a living, documented reality. Through case studies drawn from local, national, and global contexts, they examine the organizations and models that are already redirecting capital toward shared ownership, community self-determination, and economic repair: cooperatives, community land trusts, PRECs, CDFIs, revenue-based financing vehicles, donor-advised funds structured for equity, and shifting-power grantmaking models, among others. Fellows engage with frameworks including Doughnut Economics, Circular Economy models, Just Transition theory, and Wellbeing Economy principles — understanding how each one reframes what an economy is for and what success looks like. The Restorative Finance thread runs throughout: what does it mean to deploy capital in ways that actively repair rather than replicate historical harm? Candidates leave this section with at least one concrete, actionable way to move capital differently from within their specific role — going into RTTC with analytical and strategic thinking.

Requirements

Common Expectations for all positions:

RTTC intentionally builds collaborative and transformative culture through:

• Organizational participation: (Approx. 10% of time)  team planning, staff meetings and training, national convenings, collaborative projects across teams, and HR/administrative tasks common to all positions.  
• Evolution of the work: Areas of work may change over time based on organization and movement needs, and always in consultation with the organizer.
   

Qualities We Are Looking For

• Bold Vision. You bring fierce imagination and deep commitment that we can and will create the world our communities need. You can share that vision in ways that inspire and compel.
• Swiss Army Knife. You are resourceful and creative, willing to do what it takes to make a project succeed. You can handle a lot in a fast-paced, multi-faceted work environment.
• Interdependent. You are able to work independently, self-managing your time, while maintaining close communication with remote teams . You are flexible and know that changing the world doesn't always happen between 9am and 5pm.
• Low ego, high impact. You are disciplined, rigorous, and more group-centered than self-centered. You have an excellent attention to detail and keep your eyes on the big picture. 

Required Experience & Qualifications

• An ideal candidate will have had a project management role (not necessarily finance/underwriting role) in a community-led real estate project
• At least 5 years experience in housing development, community organizing, cooperative business development, or social impact investment fields
• At least 5 years of facilitation experience, ideally leading groups through democratic decision-making processes
• US-based and authorized to work and travel in the US without restriction
• Ability to pass a background check
• Selected candidates would need to go through a training program for ~6 months, 10-15 hours/week, prior to starting full-time employment in April 2027.

Position-specific skills:

• Strong project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills including verbal and written communication
• Excellent organization, attention to detail and follow-through.
• Possess analytical skills and an interest in financial markets, public policy and social and health-related issues
• Willingness to continuously learn and adapt
• Resourceful, proactive, able to prioritize and navigate in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Some experience providing technical assistance for cooperative real estate or business
• Ability to write and speak a second language, preferably Spanish
• Familiarity with CRM systems and Database management (Every Action, Airtable)
• Some fundraising/grant-writing experience is helpful
• Project management experience or certification
  
  

General Requirements

• Support the mission, vision and goals of the Right To The City Alliance
• Experience and familiarity with housing justice, gentrification, displacement and anti-eviction work and/or grassroots base-building organizations and transformative organizing
• Experience in multi-racial, multicultural settings
• Knowledge of common computer applications: MS Office, Google docs, Adobe Acrobat, Dropbox, Mac environment, and Zoom video tele-conferencing systems
• Access to reliable internet, phone, and remote office arrangements. RTTC provides partial reimbursement for home office expenses.
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