Position: Director, Workers Rights
Department: Programs
FLSA Status: Full-time, Exempt
Reports to: Chief Program Officer
Direct Reports: Associate Director, Worker Rights; Program Manager, Worker Rights
Date Issued: March 2015
Date Revised: March 2024
About Polaris
Polaris is leading a data-driven social justice movement to fight sex and labor trafficking at the massive scale of the problem – 25 million people worldwide deprived of the freedom to choose how they live and work. For more than a decade, Polaris has assisted thousands of victims and survivors through the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, helped ensure countless traffickers were held accountable and built the largest known U.S. data set on actual trafficking experiences. With the guidance of survivors, we use that data to improve the way trafficking is identified, how victims and survivors are assisted, and how communities, businesses and governments can prevent human trafficking by transforming the underlying inequities and oppressions that make it possible.
About Opportunity
The Director of Worker Rights spearheads Polaris’s efforts to end labor trafficking in the United States and Mexico by transforming systems that enable trafficking to occur, closing loopholes that are exploited by traffickers, and increasing consequences for trafficking behavior. The Director will join an outstanding team and provide day to day management of program staff who work together to deliver high quality, impactful programs.
The successful candidate must be an expert on migrant workers’ rights, forced labor, or related field. They must excel in a fast-paced and evolving environment that values innovation, collaboration, and service, and is committed to achieving exceptional results. They will be a creative and strategic thinker who is adept at developing systemic strategies and robust program plans in complex environments. They must have a keen eye for the “bigger picture”, must be effective at building a wide variety of relationships across backgrounds, industries, and cultures, and have experience working with or alongside trafficking survivors and migrant workers. This candidate will be passionate and energetic, and bring creativity and resiliency to the goal of eradicating labor trafficking.
Responsibilities:
This job description provides a summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by individuals in this position. Incumbents may be asked to perform other tasks not specifically written in this job description.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Communication
Internal: Ability to communicate effectively with executives, peers, and direct reports; and
External: Ability to build trusted relationships with partner organizations, build consensus across a broad range of actors, and respond quickly and calmly in a variety of situations. Frequent contact with survivors, donors, partner organizations, advocacy coalitions, law enforcement, the business community, and the media.
Working Conditions
Physical Requirements
Grant Funding Status
This position is grant funded and is subject to modification or termination in accordance with grant agreement or suspension of funding. Polaris reserves the right to maintain the position and personnel based on organizational needs. Polaris Project is an at-will employer, and neither you nor Polaris Project is bound to continue the employment relationship if either chooses, at its will, to end the relationship at any time once your employment has begun.
Values Statement
The work of Polaris is grounded in a set of values and organizational beliefs that provide a common starting point for all of our activities. At Polaris, we look for talented individuals who are passionate about combating all forms of human trafficking and who will strive to embody and model these values within the Polaris community and in the anti-trafficking field. Please take a moment to make yourself familiar with these values and our mission statement before submitting your application. You can find a full description of our values here.
Diversity Statement
Polaris designs and implements data-driven strategies to prevent and disrupt human trafficking and restore freedom to survivors. Achieving this ambitious goal requires both trafficking-specific systemic interventions and broader cultural and structural shifts that reduce the inequities that lead to human trafficking. While Polaris alone cannot build a more diverse, just, equitable, and inclusive society, both the success of our work and our organizational values require modeling in the workplace the change we want to see in the world.
This means cultivating a workforce, organizational culture, and priorities that respect and celebrate a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team made up of individuals with different identities, lived experiences, and backgrounds. Within both our team and across every part of our work, we strive to integrate and elevate the full range of survivor voices.
This is a living commitment. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are values to be manifested daily, in the work we do, the decisions we make, and the way that we treat each other and the people we seek to serve. This means creating a space where staff can be included, heard, valued, and set up for success, and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, best selves to work. We will not check boxes and consider it done. We will push innovations and different ways of thinking, and treasure the community built and strengthened by each of our contributions.
Position: Director, Workers Rights
Department: Programs
FLSA Status: Full-time, Exempt
Reports to: Chief Program Officer
Direct Reports: Associate Director, Worker Rights; Program Manager, Worker Rights
Date Issued: March 2015
Date Revised…
Polaris, offers a robust benefit package that includes health, dental and vision along with 403B, STD, LTD AD&D and other staff benefits to support a trauma informed workplace
Polaris, offers a robust benefit package that includes health, dental and vision along with 403B, STD, LTD AD&D and other staff benefits to support a trauma informed workplace