KYR Empowerment Facilitator

Organizational Summary:

The New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice (NJAIJ) is the state’s largest immigration coalition. Together with over 60 member organizations, NJAIJ fights for policies that empower and protect immigrants. We are seeking applications for a Know Your Rights (KYR) Empowerment Facilitator.

NJAIJ brings together the power and strength of our member organizations to ensure immigrant communities are leaders in campaigns that advance justice, inclusion, and belonging. NJAIJ is at the forefront of every major immigrant justice fight. We are the first to speak up and the last to stand down. Joining our staff means joining an active team of leaders who are compassionate as they are courageous and working in coalition with some of the state’s brightest minds.

The Role:

NJAIJ is hiring a Know Your Rights (KYR) Empowerment Facilitator to draft, collect, and create KYR materials and facilitate workshops across New Jersey for immigrants, allies, and the public. The Facilitator will also seek out experts, trainers, and guest speakers in specialized topics in order to provide a rich catalog of KYR materials to the public.

This role supports our membership and allies supporting immigrant justice by providing accurate, accessible information on legal rights, available resources, and how to plug into advocacy campaigns. The Facilitator gathers needs and feedback from partners, adapts materials, and ensures workshops remain current, relevant, and responsive to conditions in community and at the federal level. NJAIJ uses a “popular education” model and embraces “train the trainer” practices so that all workshops are replicable by participants who take part.

By nature, this is a public facing role and will require travel throughout the state of New Jersey to meet the diverse needs of our membership, with a particular focus on areas that lack the nonprofit or advocacy infrastructure to access such training topics on their own. On days where the Facilitator isn’t delivering workshops in the community, hybrid work from home or our Newark office is allowed. A significant amount of time will be spent building relationships and communicating across a variety of audiences: grassroots activists, direct service providers, impacted communities, and other stakeholders in our coalition and across New Jersey. The role will occasionally require periods of standing, walking, and light lifting (boxes with outreach materials, banners, etc), as well as stationary desk, sitting, phone, and screen time when not in the field.

Competitive candidates will have established experience in facilitation or community empowerment and be bi- or multi-lingual in reading and writing proficiency in Arabic, Haitian Creole, French, and/or other West African languages, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, or another Asian language the language capacity needs of our team.

This role is in NJAIJ’s Movement Building Team and reports to NJAIJ’s Deputy Director of Strategy.

Roles & Responsibilities

In addition to supporting the overall mission of NJAIJ, the Know Your Rights Empowerment Facilitator will lead:

Workshop Development and Delivery

• Create, adapt, and maintain KYR curricula, presentations, and materials based on community needs and the legal updates from partners or NJAIJ’s Policy & Advocacy Team.
• Facilitate workshops in community centers, schools, places of faith, libraries, and other partner locations across New Jersey.
• Tailor workshops to different audiences, including immigrant communities, parents, youth, service providers, and allied activist organizations.

Community Engagement and Outreach

• Coordinate with NJAIJ’s Movement Building and Policy & Advocacy Team to identify training needs.
• Lead outreach to community partners and NJAIJ coalition members to deliver, at minimum, 3 workshops per month.
• Gather on-the-ground insights and community concerns to inform content updates and organizational advocacy priorities and opportunities.
• Serve as a point of contact for partners regarding training logistics, materials, and follow-up questions.

Information Accuracy and Resource Management

• Receive legal and policy changes that affect community rights from the Policy & Advocacy Team and update training materials accordingly.
• Maintain training decks, resource sheets, handouts, and multilingual materials.
• Ensure information is vetted, up to date, and communicated clearly. Be able to neutralize and address questions about scams, fraudulent information, and disinformation.

Data and Reporting

• Record workshop attendance, locations, partner engagement, and participant feedback.
• Produce periodic reports to support grant requirements and program evaluation.

Internal Coordination

• Collaborate across NJAIJ’s teams to align messaging and ensure workshop content reflects organizational priorities.
• Share workshop insights internally to support advocacy campaigns, story telling, and community-responsive work.

As well as other organizational priorities aligned with our mission and scope of work.

Qualifications & Core Competencies

The selection process will consider a wide range of lived and earned experiences. Competitive applicants will possess a combination of the following:

• Ability to communicate complex ideas in concise, accessible language (verbal and written).
• Bi- and multilingual candidates who have reading and writing proficiency in Arabic, Haitian Creole, French, and/or other West African languages, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, and other Asian Languages are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively take initiative and assume ownership of tasks, consistently driving projects forward with a self-directed approach.
• Strong public speaking, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to simplify complex legal or policy information for diverse audiences.
• Reliable with follow-through, scheduling, and documentation.
• Impeccable project planning and prioritization skills, with extreme attention to detail, precision, and accuracy.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments that may require transitioning quickly between tasks.
• A strong track record of collaboration, organizing toward collective change, and demonstrated experience building deep, trusted relationships, even across diverse communities, backgrounds, and beliefs (we know this can mean many things, tell us how it manifests in your work!).
• Enthusiasm for snacks, cute pictures of animals, and building collective community power.

Compensation:

Full time NJAIJ staff receive a benefits package including health care, dental, vision, life insurance, commuter benefits, and more.

NJAIJ staff receive 15 vacation days per year in their first year and 20 days per year in all subsequent years. Annual leave also includes 4 personal days, 12 sick and health, and birthdays. Staff leave also includes 14 paid public holidays and 3 heritage days for staff who observe celebrations outside those 14 days. NJAIJ’s office is closed twice per year, during the first week of July and the last week of December.

This position has a salary range between $55,000-$65,000 annually. NJAIJ uses a fixed compensation structure to provide pay parity across similar roles in the organization. To preserve equity, salary range is not up for negotiation.

To Apply:

Interested applicants should submit PDF versions of their resume to jobs@njaij.org with the words, “Empowerment Facilitator: (First & Last Name)” in the subject line. Cover letters are encouraged and applicants that include past portfolios of previous work will receive priority consideration for interview.

Interview Process:

Applicants will be notified if they are invited to a first round screening. Following first-round screenings, applicants will be notified if they have proceeded to the next stage of the interview process and will be expected to complete a case exercise. Applicants will have a fixed time to complete the case exercise, for which all participating applicants will be compensated $100 for their labor, regardless of final selection for this position.

Following the completion of the case exercise, final applicants will be notified if they have been selected for final interview, during which we will request candidates provide 3-5 contacts for professional reference, one of which must be a prior supervisor.

NJAIJ is fiscally sponsored by NEO Philanthropy.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that fosters belonging and empowerment in our work.

We strongly encourage a diversity of identities and experiences to apply.

Full time NJAIJ staff receive a benefits package including health care, dental, vision, life insurance, commuter benefits, and more.

NJAIJ staff receive 15 vacation days per year in their first year and 20 days per year in all subsequent years. Annual leave also includes 4 personal days, 12 sick and health, and birthdays. Staff leave also includes 14 paid public holidays and 3 heritage days for staff who observe celebrations outside those 14 days. NJAIJ’s office is closed twice per year, during the first week of July and the last week of December.

Bi- and multilingual candidates who have reading and writing proficiency in Arabic, Haitian Creole, French, and/or other West African languages, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, and other Asian Languages are strongly encouraged to apply.