Too many people of color and working-class communities are working jobs with low pay and poor conditions. Wages remain stagnant, costs rise, and workplaces prioritize profit over people and the planet. For Black, Brown, Indigenous, and immigrant workers, these challenges deepen inequity.
At Beloved Community Incubator, we believe everyone deserves good wages, safe conditions, and meaningful work. That’s why we support workers in creating cooperatives—businesses they own and manage together. Cooperatives give workers control over pay, decision-making, and the future of their labor. A challenge to low-income workers accessing the benefits and possibility of cooperatives is the time investment it takes to build a business. So together, in partnership with Muslims for Just Futures, we’re taking the next step: launching an 18-month guaranteed income program in 2027 for 8–10 groups in the DC Metro Area. By pairing guaranteed income with cooperative incubation, participants will have the stability to build strong, sustainable worker-owned businesses. This is about more than jobs—it’s about building a solidarity economy where communities control resources and thrive together.
We are looking for someone to lead this work and collaborate across teams around strategy, design, implementation of the program, curriculum planning, administration, and assessment and evaluation, as well as sharing learnings and impact.
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Position Overview
The GIP Program Manager will steward the launch of an innovative guaranteed income program (GIP) and worker-owned business incubation project. Working in close collaboration with our program partner, Muslims for Just Futures, this program is envisioned as an 18-month cohort of 8-10 groups (~40 participants) in the DC Metro Area, with the expectation of launching in early 2027. By pairing the development of worker-owned businesses with guaranteed income, this program aims to generate more successful, sustainable creation of worker-owned businesses led by low-income people.
The GIP Program Manager will be supervised by the Program Director and work collaboratively across the team around strategy, design, and implementation of program and curriculum planning, administration, and assessment and evaluation, as well as sharing learnings and impact. This position is funded for 3 years, and BCI aspires to continue this position as funding and the organizational budget permits.
About Beloved Community Incubator
Beloved Community Incubator is a worker self-directed non-profit organization in Washington, DC. Worker self-directed nonprofits are organizations in which all workers influence the programs in which they work, the conditions of their workplace, their own career paths, and the direction of the organization as a whole.
BCI is a solidarity economy organization and cooperative incubator. We help workers create and maintain their own businesses, so that workers control their work, pay themselves living wages, and democratically steward resources together. We provide incubation support, including leadership development, ecosystem and resource organizing and legal, bookkeeping and administrative support for new cooperatives that create living wage work and that are led by poor and working class Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color.
Key Responsibilities:
Program Development and Management 70%
Convene and plan team and regular meetings with project partner, Muslims for Just Futures, coordinating internal staff and external partners to ensure seamless program operations
Project manage the full scope of the 18-month cohort, including laying the groundwork for project launch and leading the day-to-day management:
Coordinate with research partners around identifying the ideal industry for this cohort as well as preparing for program evaluation and assessment
Determine necessary systems/platforms for accessible and effective implementation
Identify and recruit program partners, develop and launch application process, and select participants
Work closely with Program Director to determine and finalize curriculum
Build and manage workplans, basic budgets, and report out (internally and externally) on program progress
Lead engagement efforts, serving as a trusted, responsive resource for participants and community partners
Provide diligent and thoughtful attention to the participant experience throughout the course of the program, from recruitment strategies to the selection process, ongoing communications, and offboarding
Coordinate regular touchpoints, including convening in-person gatherings (~1x month) for participants to make connections and share learning
Be responsive to participant inquiries and requests; provide encouragement, monitor progress, maintain records, and offer referrals to appropriate resources for each participant
Engage partner organizations to collect best practices; use shared learnings to help shape programmatic decisions
Steward programmatic outcome reporting, holding an eye for impact throughout the duration of the program
Collaborate with Legal & TA Director and research partner to create and execute program evaluation, capturing impact and supporting how findings are reported out
Collaborate with Co-Director team to leverage programmatic outcomes for future support and inform similar efforts, potentially offering a replicable model
Coalition Engagement 10%
Serve as BCI representative for local guaranteed income community of praxis (meetings ~1x month) as well as in relevant gatherings with economic development organizations
Maintain awareness of trends, news, outcomes, and reporting from other Guaranteed Income Pilots and understand the intersections of external pilots with our internal work.
Establish community connections and build relationships with other pilot providers whose work aligns with our own
Prepare updates and represent BCI at quarterly partner meetings convened by project funder
Publicly share learnings via presentations, panels, and other external-facing opportunities
BCI Internal Team Responsibilities 20%
Attend weekly staff meeting and monthly all staff meeting
Lead weekly internal team meeting on GIP program to share updates and gather feedback
Participate in organizational strategic planning, including goal-setting, and annual budgeting process, leading budget recommendations for this area of work
Qualifications
Proven experience in program management (2-3 years) within a nonprofit or mission-driven organization.
Familiarity with principals and practices of solidarity economy.
Excellent project management skills, with ability to plan backwards, adapt to challenges and roadblocks, and work collaboratively across teams.
Strong communicator, comfortable working with multiple audiences and serving as a bridge across individuals, participants, and organizations.
Demonstrated commitment to values-based leadership. Bonus for experience working in a worker self directed organization and/or collective.
Preferred but not required:
Prior experience administering, developing, or working with a guaranteed income pilot
Fluency in a language other than English
At Beloved Community Incubator, we have a culture that we’ve collectively worked hard to build. We are a worker-self directed organization that centers workers and our wellness, while building a culture of excellence and integrity.
Things that make BCI a distinct place to work –
We combine organizing skills with economic development work. So we’re not a typical organizing shop nor are we a typical Economic Development Institution.
We have a very relational culture, both internally and with our leaders and cooperatives.
We have an extremely collaborative work environment – our norm is that you share ideas, proposals, and work product early and often, and expect to receive and incorporate feedback
We have a hybrid work culture – while the vast majority of our work can be done remotely, we try to meet once a month in person.
Some organizing work has field work components that require more in-person work.
We try to be on camera with each other at our weekly staff meeting.
We have a shared decision-making structure. We expect workers to see and identify problems, and be able to think through structural solutions.
We have a deep commitment to language justice and disability justice, through interpretation, covid planning, and other practices. It shows up in every meeting and gathering.
What would make you a good fit -
Ability to give and receive feedback from a teamwork approach
Commitment to excellence & integrity - timeliness, accountability to members, and producing high-quality work
Willingness to learn from and be mentored by other staff, while also be willing to share your expertise with others
Comfort with consensus based decision making, and familiarity working in collectives or other non-hierarchical structures.
Self motivated, with strong project management skills
Location, Salary, and Benefits
Location: This is a full-time, exempt 40 hours a week hybrid position. Work is currently hybrid (in-person and remote) with required residency in the greater Washington, DC area. Must be available to work from the office location and meet with participants in person as needed, including occasional evenings and weekends.
Salary: The base salary for this position is $81,000 to $93,792.77. Within the entire organization, BCI has a formal allowable pay ratio of 1:1.33. The salary range listed for this position is reflective of BCI’s policy of salary adjustments commensurate with years of experience. This is a predetermined scale. BCI uses the experience range as a substitute for negotiations in order to produce equitable outcomes in hiring.
Benefits: Employer covered health care premiums for staff and dependents. All FTE workers have the month of August off, 10 federal holidays, a week off between Christmas and New Years, and have access to generous leave policies.
How to Apply:
Please email jobs@belovedcommunityincubator.org your resume and a Word document or PDF with brief (about 1-2 paragraphs per question is sufficient) answers to the following questions:
Share about your experience in more participatory organizations or organizations/teams with collective decisionmaking. What do you enjoy about it? What do you find challenging?
Please share more about your specific experience with a Guaranteed Income Pilot, including your role in the project. If none, instead please share more about your experience (in volunteer or paid capacity) with cooperatives, solidarity economy projects, and/or community organizing.
Looking at the portion of the job post that describes BCI’s culture, what makes BCI a good fit for you?
Are you currently based in the DC metro area? (If no, are you open to relocation? Please note: BCI does not currently offer relocation assistance.)
We anticipate a start date of January 2026. The stages of this hiring process are:
Submit your resume and brief answers to a few questions
An initial screening interview with the BCI team
A brief written work assignment
A final interview with the BCI team
Reference checks
Frequently cited statistics show that people of color, women, trans, and non-binary people, as well as other structurally marginalized groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. BCI encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. No one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We strongly encourage people of color, native Washingtonians and generally, DMV residents, graduates of DC public schools, LGBTQ, and disabled people to apply.