Director, Programs

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Providing equitable and accessible abortion care remains an ongoing challenge in the volatile U.S. abortion service delivery system. Low-income abortion seekers, those in ban-states, and those with complex medical and social needs face greater barriers to care. Meanwhile, structural inefficiencies and vulnerabilities threaten the system’s financial health and sustainability. Resources for Abortion Delivery (RAD) works to strengthen the system from within, partnering with independent providers and field leaders to address critical gaps, invest in solutions, and build the capacity and infrastructure needed to deliver high-quality care.

With a team of 13, RAD serves as a critical funding intermediary and sector partner, connecting independent abortion providers nationwide with resources to adapt and thrive. Since its inception, RAD has facilitated more than $92 million in support to providers, directing resources where they are most needed and offering tailored technical assistance to strengthen the field.

As RAD enters a pivotal new chapter, it invites nominations and applications for a Director, Programs. Following a successful leadership transition and the appointment of Co-Executive Directors, RAD has completed a strategic roadmap to guide its work. Reporting to Co-Executive Director Meg Cavanaugh, the Director will align programs and staff around these priorities, strengthen systems and team capacity, and serve as a key thought partner in advancing RAD’s vision in a dynamic and evolving landscape.

RAD is a fiscally sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

ABOUT RESOURCES FOR ABORTION DELIVERY

Founded in 2016, Resources for Abortion Delivery (RAD) exists to ensure that individuals seeking abortions have timely and equitable access to high-quality care. RAD focuses on strengthening the U.S. abortion delivery sector, particularly independent providers, who make up a majority of clinics in the country and face significant challenges in an increasingly hostile and rapidly shifting landscape.

With a dedicated team of 13 staff members and an annual core operating budget of approximately $8 million, RAD serves as a critical funding intermediary and strategic partner to abortion providers and funders. RAD connects independent providers with essential financial resources and sector expertise, offering grantmaking services and collaborating with donors to address emergent and longer-term sector needs through informational resources and convening spaces.

Since its founding, RAD has facilitated over $92 million in grants and loans; supported 240+ independent abortion providers with funding, legal support, and technical assistance; and engaged over 55 foundations through convenings and briefings, significantly enhancing patient access and bridging gaps between independent abortion delivery and funding sources.

As RAD embarks on its next strategic chapter, the RAD team has identified primary goals for the organization’s work moving forward:

Fund and support the system to provide a better patient experience. RAD believes that a better patient experience means abortion seekers can easily and affordably access care, information, and providers to meet their needs, especially needs shaped by societal inequities.

Improve the abortion service delivery system’s financial health. RAD sees financial health as the most critical component of system sustainability.

Equip funders to make sustained, systemic impact. RAD recognizes that philanthropy’s investment decisions shape the service delivery system.

As a fiscally sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity incubating innovative public-interest projects and grantmaking programs, RAD is committed to fostering a dynamic, equity-driven work environment while advancing its work to sustain and strengthen abortion access.

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS

The Director, Programs will provide critical support and direction to the Programs Team as they navigate programmatic decisions and priorities aligned with RAD’s strategic roadmap. The Director will ensure cohesion across RAD’s program areas:

• Funding, in the form of grants and loans, to independent abortion providers across the United States (both 501c3 and taxable business) to help them protect or expand abortion access.
• Business operational support to abortion providers as they adapt to new realities of service provision, in areas such as Medicaid implementation and online appointment scheduling. This includes consulting support on project development, project management, business operations, and financial health, to help maximize patients’ access to abortion care.
• Legal Programs and Partnerships for providers delivering care in a post-Roe landscape, including coverage of legal defense costs for independent healthcare providers facing legal action. RAD also connects providers and supporters with values-aligned attorneys and other legal defense funds for legal advice, representation, funding, and other legal resources.

Across RAD’s program areas, the Director will ensure that the team driving these programs has the systems, supports and resources needed to execute. This leader will bring a spirit of innovation, iteration and wayfinding to RAD programmatic work. They will thrive in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment and serve as a trusted thought partner, sounding board and advisor to the leadership team and staff.

Programmatic Strategy & Leadership

• Provide clear direction and leadership across RAD’s program areas, ensuring day-to-day decisions, priorities, and activities are aligned with the organization’s strategic roadmap.
• Serve as a pace-setter and thought partner for programs staff, providing clarity and direction, navigating ambiguity, and helping resolve questions or challenges to move work forward.
• Develop a deep understanding of RAD’s programmatic work and the issues it addresses, bringing critical thinking and perspective to the organization’s work.
• Foster collaboration and connect dots so that RAD’s programmatic work and teams operate as an integrated whole.
• Lead and contribute to the development of new program areas through thought partnership, substantive input and ensuring compliance with RAD’s charitability requirements and strategic priorities.
• Partner with Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation colleagues to shape how RAD understands and measures the impact of its programs.

Program Operations & Staff Capacity

• Ensure program work plans include clear priorities, responsibilities and timelines, and that programmatic work progresses smoothly in alignment with broader organizational goals and strategy.
• Provide substantive review and approval of program budgets and monitor financial reports.
• Partner with the Chief of Staff to ensure the program team has access to organizational systems and are utilizing tools and resources that support programmatic goals.
• Balance new ideas and opportunities to innovate with a thoughtful assessment of feasibility, pacing, workload, and staff capacity.

Management & Supervision

• Manage and nurture a diverse, motivated, and collaborative 5-person Programs team by providing clear expectations, regular feedback, and support for professional growth and development.
• Foster a dynamic and rewarding work environment aligned with RAD’s values and grounded in healthy leadership practices, effective communication, accountability, collaboration, shared learning and resilience.
• Participate in a three-person Department Head cohort to provide organizational leadership and ensure bi-lateral communication within and across RAD.

Field Knowledge

• Maintain deep and current substantive knowledge of the issues central to RAD’s work and use that knowledge to inform program strategy and decision-making.
• Build and sustain trusting relationships with individuals and organizations across the field of abortion service delivery, serving as both a representative of RAD and a source of insight into emerging needs, opportunities, and dynamics.

Strategic Thought Partner to the Co-Executive Directors

• Provide informed perspectives and recommendations to Co-Executive Directors to strengthen organizational and programmatic decision-making.
• Manage up effectively, keeping the Co-Executive Directors informed of progress, challenges, emerging issues, and priorities.
• Lead relevant portions of quarterly Advisory Board meetings, presenting critical programmatic developments, recommendations, and facilitating discussion and decision-making.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

• Sustain momentum on RAD’s commitment to equity and a culture of care, where everyone is given the tools and supports they need to thrive and do their best work. Ensure these commitments are consistently reflected in our internal practices.
• Demonstrate leadership on RAD’s programmatic equity efforts to encourage decisions that advance solutions to financial, informational, and logistical barriers to accessing care.
• Model and reinforce a program culture grounded in collaboration, learning, inclusion, and shared accountability.
• Support RAD staff and direct reports to show up as their full, authentic selves and lead in a way that genuinely allows for that.

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Expirationdate

2026-11-16 00:00:00

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