Job o’ the Day: Immigrant Justice Organizer with the New Orleans’ Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
http://nowcrj.org/
If mobilizing vulnerable populations through community lawyering sounds like a dream job to you, then consider this available position with the New Orleans’ Workers’ Center for Racial Justice! This worker’s rights organization is looking for applicants who can:
- Maintain, engage, and build the Congreso’s energized base, organize weekly membership assemblies, and work with Lead Organizer to engage members in outreach, organizing, and campaign work.
- Build grassroots leadership processes and schools to turn members into leaders, and leaders into organizers. This will include identifying daily leadership opportunities, devising and implementing curriculum, and expanding the Congreso’s shared analysis of the root causes of problems and collective structural solutions.
- Defend the bedrock constitutional, civil, and labor rights in a region where those rights are under attack. Member defense includes screening calls, running interviews, supporting crisis response – organizing, legal, and communications.
- Build broad alliances with African American community members, unions, civil rights and criminal justice organizations, womens’ organizations, LGBT community and organizations, clergy, and others who share our values.