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Bilingual Organizer

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  • Details

    Job Type:
    Full Time
    Start Date:
    June 1, 2025
    Application Deadline:
    May 16, 2025
    Experience Level:
    Mid-level
    Salary:
    USD $55,000 - $60,000 / ano
    Cause Areas:
    Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Job & Workplace, Race & Ethnicity, Civic Engagement, Immigrants or Refugees

    Description

    The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice seeks a highly talented and experienced Bilingual Organizer to build strategic grassroots organizing campaigns, expand membership participation, create and implement leadership development programs for members, and build and sustain alliances and coalitions. The organizer will report to the organizing director of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice and will work collaboratively with a team of organizers, staff, and members within the Center.

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Grow the membership:

    • Actively recruit new members from diverse cultural backgrounds through canvassing, one-on-one conversations, and other organizing methods to expand worker participation in targeted low-wage, non-unionized sectors.
    • Identify existing leaders in the community and workplaces where you are organizing and actively involve them and their fellow workers and/or neighbors in ongoing and new campaigns.
    • Build relationships with members through cross-cultural organizing conversations and empathy that meet people where they are and allow them space to develop their political and cultural consciousness.
    • Create a clear, shared understanding of the organization, its values, and larger mission with new members, and how we aim to sustain a cross-cultural, multi-lingual, labor movement in New Orleans and Louisiana.

    Deepen member participation and develop member leadership

    • With each member you recruit, work to develop their participation and voice on their experiences, and give them active, meaningful roles.
    • Identify members’ strengths and motivations, and support them in putting those in the service of the collective goals
    • Develop the skills, analysis, and advocacy of members you recruit and of existing members to better carry out the organization's collective goals.
    • Support member participation in organizational and campaign decision-making when appropriate.
    • Facilitate and/or participate in energizing membership meetings that build members’ political analysis and commitment, through creating a more equitable space with increased cultural competence and language access.

    Contribute to creating strategic campaigns and programming that build worker power

    • This may include direct actions like workplace interventions or confronting government actors or employers, as well as community-building events like holiday parties, story circles, and attending national conferences with member leaders.
    • Participating in strategy discussions, power mapping, action planning, and supporting members in executing campaign fights

    Documentation

    • Manage lists, charts, and databases, and ensure that all of your fieldwork is clearly and systematically recorded.

    Support the NOWCRJ Team

    • Actively participate in and support the overall work of NOWCRJ, including organization-wide activities, events, and campaigns.
    • Support specific organizing campaigns of other programs in the organization as appropriate.

    Other duties as needed

    KEY QUALIFICATIONS

    The job requires a high degree of motivation and the ability to take initiative. A successful applicant will have the following qualities:

    • Deep dedication to the leadership of directly affected people. You have a deep commitment to and respect for the expertise and ability of poor people to change the world. You are committed to racial justice and have the skills to effectively organize across race. You are committed to building grassroots power in the South.
    • Love of teamwork and a respectful team player.
    • Creativity, patience, and a positive, constructive approach
    • Bilingual and able to use multiple languages to execute the above tasks and responsibilities.
    • The ability to work under pressure
    • Familiarity and experience in the immigrant rights, pro-black or labor movements.

    This is not a 9-to-5 job—long and varied hours, with morning, evening, and weekend work, are required.

    The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice seeks a highly talented and experienced Bilingual Organizer to build strategic grassroots organizing campaigns, expand membership participation, create and implement leadership development programs for members, and build and sustain alliances and coalitions. The organizer will report to the organizing director of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice and will work collaboratively with a team of organizers, staff, and members within the Center.

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Grow the membership:

    • Actively recruit new members from diverse cultural backgrounds through canvassing, one-on-one conversations, and other organizing methods to expand worker participation in targeted low-wage, non-unionized sectors.
    • Identify existing leaders in the community and workplaces where you are organizing and actively involve them and their fellow workers and/or neighbors in ongoing and new…

    Benefits

    • Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
    • Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Term Life Insurance
    • Retirement Plan (403b)
    • Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
    • Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Term Life Insurance
    • Retirement Plan (403b)

    Level of Language Proficiency

    Bilingual English/Spanish communicator

    Bilingual English/Spanish communicator

    Location

    On-site
    3500 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA

    Apply to This Job

    Instructions:

    Applications will only be accepted electronically. Please thoroughly answer the four (4) questions below and submit as an attachment, along with your cover letter and resume as a separate document.

    1. What about NOWCRJ’s work most excites or interests you?
    2. Have you ever been involved in any of the organization's campaigns, events, or membership? If so, please share when and how.
    3. What is the biggest strength you bring to a team setting?
    4. What does liberation look like for your community?
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