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Visualizing Palestine (VP) is a project of Visualizing Impact, registered as a non-profit organization in Canada and fiscally sponsored in the U.S. VP uses data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences in order to provoke narrative change. Established in 2012, VP has become a credible source of information about the manifestations of injustice in Palestine. VP’s visuals and infographics are widely used by activists, students, and academics all over the world. (To learn more, visit our about and impact pages.)

This work is done by a caring, creative, and dedicated core team of seven members working remotely in different parts of the world. The team also relies on a network of designers, researchers, translators, and partners.

Visualizing Palestine is seeking a dedicated, strategic, and visionary leader to join VP’s team as an executive director, stewarding the organization’s overall work, guiding its strategic growth, and increasing its narrative impact at a time of increased authoritarianism and global repression of dissent. The executive director has the following responsibilities:

Strategy and Planning

• Oversee the periodic process of developing multi-year strategic plans, articulated in a participatory manner with the in-house team and the Board, advisors, members, and external consultants.
• Work closely with the team to translate strategic plans into annual plans.
• Guide and monitor plans with a view to the political environment, weighing risks and opportunities, and with safety in mind.

Creative Production

• Work with VP team members to ensure the high quality and consistency of VP’s production, exploring creative project development on an ongoing basis, including building on existing VP projects, picking up on project ideas seeded in the past, or initiating new projects.
• Lead creative thinking about effective dissemination of VP’s output, ensuring that research-based visual resources have an impact and are reaching strategic audiences, and engage with those audiences on how VP can support their work.

Governance and Board Relations

• Serving as ex-officio member, provide support for an active Board of Directors, including input on VP’s policies and procedures, helping to set quarterly meeting agendas, and providing narrative and financial updates for Board discussions.
• Assist the Board in recruiting and orienting new board members.
• Ensure VP’s organizational legal and financial structures fit the needs of the organization, with consideration to its remote structure and presence of team members in several countries.

Fundraising and Resource Development

• Advance VP’s overall fundraising strategies and their detailed implementation in collaboration with team members, VP’s fundraising committee, and the Board, in alignment with VP’s policy of maintaining 50%+ reliance on individual donations rather than grants.
• Cultivate and steward members (individuals who make recurring donations to VP), develop and implement strategies to maintain and increase support from member matchers (major donors) on an ongoing basis, and cultivate institutional donors whose missions are aligned with VP’s.
• Communicate progress and impact to funders, grassroots community members, movement partners, and other stakeholders as needed.

Financial Management

• Responsible for developing and maintaining sound financial practices.
• Manage VP’s fiscal health and development, including budget development, monitoring revenue and expenditure of an annual budget of more than $600,000, overseeing financial accounts, and ensuring financial sustainability.

Organizational Development and Team Management

• Oversee day-to-day activities of VP in line with organizational plans and priorities.
• Mentor and nurture a healthy and inspired team through weekly virtual team meetings, individual meetings and follow-ups, and a supportive environment.
• Implement and develop, as needed, all human resource policies, ensuring accurate and updated job descriptions and holding regular performance reviews. Maintain and update VP’s benefits package, compensation scales, engaging external consultants as needed, and ensuring that VP is integrating digital security best practices.
• Encourage team members to seek out professional development opportunities related to their positions at VP, staying abreast of best practices in leading virtual teams and other areas of mentorship.

Partnership Development and Engagement

• Engage with VP’s community of civil society partners in Palestine and the diaspora, cross-movement partners, educational institutions, the media, and others. Explore and expand partnership opportunities.
• Represent VP publicly at various meetings, conferences, panel discussions, events, the media, and elsewhere.

Qualifications

• Commitment to VP’s mission and to principles of freedom, justice, and equality for Palestinians and other oppressed communities.
• Deep knowledge of the root causes of oppression in Palestine, and a dedicated history of work with Palestinian communities and/or within other progressive movements.
• Executive leadership experience or very strong senior management experience with an interest in growing toward executive leadership.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-motivated, with the ability to multitask and keep abreast of internal and external developments, needs, challenges, and opportunities.
• Proven ability to inspire and manage a small, dispersed remote team, and a network of creative collaborators, including designers, researchers, and translators. Effective and compassionate collaborator, manager, and mentor who will nurture a healthy team while upholding clear expectations of team members.
• Proven track record in maintaining and developing partnerships within and across movements.
• Strategic thinker and the ability to adapt and shift strategies in a challenging, complex, and fast-changing global landscape.
• Strong financial management skills with the ability to manage VP’s fiscal health and development, as demonstrated by previous experience with organizational development, financial sustainability, and fundraising.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risks, challenges, and opportunities without compromising VP’s mission.
• Strong fundraising skills, with a track record of securing funding from individual donors, foundations, and partners. Experience in developing and executing fundraising strategies for organizations of a similar size.
• Strong understanding of what makes for compelling visual communication, and a strong desire to be part of a creative collaboration process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent command of English is required.
• Command of Arabic is not required, but a basic understanding of Arabic is highly desirable.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with a diverse range of stakeholders, including donors, community members, and partners.
• Ability to lead the VP team through tumultuous and uncertain times.

Location

We are a remote team. Location is not as important as finding the right fit. Based on the locations of current team members and time zones, collaboration will be easier if you are located somewhere between U.S. East Coast time and Palestine time.

Compensation

Compensation for this full-time role is set at an annual rate of $90,000–$92,000.

Benefits

As a remote organization, Visualizing Palestine offers team members flexible scheduling, 25 days of vacation/year, 13 public holidays/year, 14 days of sick leave, up to 5 days of bereavement leave each time the need arises, short-term disability leave, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and a technology and wellbeing subsidy. We are continuously working on expanding benefits and support for team members, pending available resources.

To Apply

If you think your profile might be a fit, please submit (1) a letter of interest and (2) a resume to [email protected]. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

Please apply before February 19. Interviews will be held in March, with an anticipated start date in May 2026. Please be patient with us, and do not call, e-mail, or send social media inquiries. All applicants will be notified of their application status by the end of the hiring process.

Visualizing Palestine is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or sexual orientation. To learn more about Visualizing Palestine, please visit: https://visualizingpalestine.org/