Senior Director, Economic Security & Mobility

Help Shape Economic Opportunity Across the South MDC seeks a strategic, collaborative, and equity-centered leader to serve as our next Senior Director of Economic Security & Mobility. This is an opportunity to guide a dynamic portfolio of work focused on strengthening household financial security, expanding access to quality jobs, and addressing the systems and policies that shape economic opportunity across the South. The Senior Director of Economic Security & Mobility provides strategic, equity-centered leadership for MDC ’s work to expand economic opportunity across the South. This role guides the focus area’s strategy, portfolio direction, staff leadership, partnerships, resource stewardship, and contribution to organizational influence and knowledge in the economic security and mobility realm. Working closely with the Vice President of Programs and cross-functional teams, the Senior Director is expected to align programs, policy, research, community engagement, and external partnerships in ways that advance financial stability, quality jobs, workforce and career mobility, and systems change for people and communities historically separated from opportunity. About MDC Founded in 1967, MDC is a Southern nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing equity and economic mobility. We work with leaders, institutions, and communities to address systemic barriers and create pathways to opportunity. Our work spans education, economic security & mobility, rural prosperity and investment, and equity-centered philanthropy. Through research, partnerships, policy advocacy, and community-informed strategies, we help organizations and communities turn evidence into action. We envision a South where all people thrive and where life outcomes are not determined by identity, background, or ZIP code. Primary Responsibilities and Expectations As Senior Director, you will provide: Strategy & Programmatic Leadership: Set the strategy, priorities, and direction for MDC ’s Economic Security & Mobility focus area. Operational & Systems Governance: Oversee Economic Security & Mobility portfolio operations, work plans, program performance, and guide adjustments to scope, staffing, or implementation in partnership with the Vice President of Programs. Financial & Resource Stewardship: Develop and manage program budgets, allocate approved resources, monitor financial and grant performance, and address funding or capacity gaps in collaboration with program, finance, and development...

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