About Land in Common
Land in Common is a nonprofit community land trust (CLT) and land justice advocacy organization based in occupied Wabanaki homelands (specifically “Maine”). In partnership with Wabanaki community, we permanently remove land from private markets and restore the use and care of this land to communities who have been dispossessed of land by capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy.
About the Position
We are hiring an Action Circle Lead– a position similar to an executive director, but with an emphasis on building and facilitating shared power and leadership across our sociocracy-based organizational structure. This new staff member will hold the big picture of the organization, helping us to hone our priorities, build capacity, and grow our collaborations. They will also hold leadership roles in areas of financial sustainability and land care, including land acquisition and access, Wabanaki land return, and land justice coalition-building.
We seek someone who is driven by values and practices of collective liberation, has experience working in multiracial and cross-cultural community to enact mutual care and build shared power, and is a strong communicator, facilitator, and organization-builder with a collaborative and creative spirit. Because our work is focused on land justice by and for Wabanaki and BIPOC/Global Majority communities, constituent leadership is crucial. Applicants that meet the requirements below and with lived experience are highly encouraged to apply.
Position Details
| Job type: |
Full-time (we define this as 30 hours/week on average), with flexible hours |
| Location: |
Wabanakik/”Maine.” Work is primarily remote, with regular in-person meetings. Full time residence in Wabanakik is required for ease of organizing and relationship-building. |
| Starts: |
As soon as possible (late summer/early fall 2026) |
| Duration: |
Ongoing, with 90 day onboarding period before full responsibilities are finalized. |
| Pay: |
We strive for an equitable pay system that considers the circumstances of each employee based on need. Pay for this position will range between $82k-92k. |
| Benefits: |
Full health insurance coverage (with dental and vision), including partners and dependents; 6 weeks time off; 12 weeks paid family care and emergency leave; home office stipend. |
Required + Recommended Experience
3+ years of experience in holding the big picture of an organization and its wider context, including but not limited to:
- Working closely with governance bodies/boards, and teams/circles to maintain organizational mission and develop needed priorities and goals
- Leading hiring processes for additional staff
- “Attending to the fit” (how well-matched people are with roles), offering feedback and support to enhance fit, and re-assigning roles to other team members when needed.
3+ years of experience in overseeing and ensuring the financial health of an organization, including but not limited to:
- Ability to guide finance teams to function effectively to meet goals in ways that align with core values and priorities.
- Ability to envision and implement fundraising in diverse ways, including but not limited to grant writing, building private donor revenue streams, monthly member contribution programming, event planning, peer-to-peer resource generating, etc.
3+ years of experience in community organizing/project management
- Supporting land care team to establish priorities and strategies, including facilitating the creation and implementation of an annual land plan for land care, acquisition, and redistribution of land with key partners
3+ years of experience working with multi-racial and diverse groups where equity was centered, including seasoned ability to:
- Thrive in nonhierarchical and emergent structures (experience with sociocracy/Holocracy is ideal, but not required), including excellent self-organization skills and self-motivation, comfort with giving and receiving feedback, commitment to self and community healing, and dedication to building trusting and honest relationships of care and community with all partners
- Organize and facilitate, including ability to see dynamics of power at work in groups and to engage with these in ways that reduce harm and encourage transformation through transformative justice practices.
- Participate authentically and comfortably in values and trust-building processes, including but not limited to talking circles and somatic workshops
Application Process
Please send the following to our team by August 1, 2026:
- a resume or something similar that describes your interests, your formal and informal educational experiences, and your paid and unpaid work experiences; and
- a brief written or recorded (audio or video) message sharing a little bit about yourself, why you’re interested in this work, and a sense of how you meet the primary qualifications listed above
Please email these materials and any questions you have about the position to: hiring@landincommon.org.
Our Hiring Working Group, made up of members of our leadership council, board, and staff, will review all submissions and invite people who we think may be the best matches for interviews. Stipends to honor time and labor will be offered to all applicants who are invited to interview for the position, and interview questions–along with more details about the interview and hiring process–will be shared ahead of time.
More About Land in Common
Challenging capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy, Land in Common seeks to create different systems for relating to the land and to each other: we decommodify land, permanently removing it from private markets and welcoming it into common stewardship; and we restore the use and care of this land to communities who have been dispossessed of land – by directly returning land to Wabanaki holdership, and by maintaining existing secure, lifelong land tenure for other Global Majority/BIPOC communities.
Our organization is deep into a many-year process of structural transformation to center Global Majority leadership, while building commitment from white/settler folks to show up in solidarity to advance this work. We operated for the past 5 years with a transitional structure–an all-Global Majority/BIPOC Leadership Council, which sets our organizational priorities, and a board and staff collective composed of white land justice activists committed to anti-racist and anti-colonial practice who carry out the priorities set by the Leadership Council. After years of relationship-building and collective learning, we are now implementing a new sociocracy-based structure that deepens our structural commitment to collective liberation and clarifies our roles, accountabilities, and practices of power change and redistribution. We are excited to welcome the vision, energy, and skill of a new Action Circle Lead into this process!
Learn more about Land in Common here.
Thank you for considering this position, and we hope to hear from you soon!
