Job O’ the Day: Voting Rights Fellowship in Washington, DC!
The National Association of Latino Elected & Appointed Officials (NALEO) seeks a Voting Rights Fellow to lead and coordinate a broad range of voter protection related activities on behalf of the National Latino Civic Engagement Table (NLCET), a consortium of organizations that includes the NALEO Educational Fund, Center for Community Change, the Hispanic Federation, the Labor Council for Latin America Advancement (LCLAA), the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Mi Familia Vota, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Presente.org, and Voto Latino. Duties will include coordination with member organizations’ communications teams around earned media, and identifying strategic opportunities for opinion-shaping and community education on voting rights issues.
The Voting Rights Fellow will also work closely with members of the Table working on community-focused voter protection efforts, to ensure coordination and maximization of organizational resources, and provide updates on emerging relevant issues at the national, state, and local level. Lastly, the Voting Rights Fellow will serve as a liaison between the NLCET and the larger voter protection infrastructures in which the NALEO Educational Fund and its partners participate, including but not limited to the Election Protection Coalition and Voting Rights Taskforce. Regular tasks will require project visioning, management, and execution; composition and editing of external documents; coordination and leading of group meetings and presentations; and management of external relationships with a diverse array of partners and stakeholders.