Education Manager, East Coast

Start Date: December 1, 2026

Timeframe: December 2026 - July 2027 with possibility of extension

Position: Full-time, temporary, exempt at 0.8FTE (32 hours/week)

Work Location: hybrid, New York City or NJ preferred

Supervised by: Senior Organizing Director

ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network (HIH) is a national organization committed to building a more just and caring economy starting in our homes and communities. Since our founding, our base of supporters, members and leaders has been multigenerational, multiracial, and cross-class, including people with disabilities.

HIH organizes people who employ domestic workers—nannies, house cleaners, home attendants, and home care workers— to make their homes fair and equitable workplaces, as well as to stand in solidarity with domestic workers in their fight to win labor rights and protections. HIH works closely with our sister organization, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and is committed to righting the historic wrongs, rooted in the legacy of slavery, that excluded domestic workers from our country’s labor and civil rights laws.

HIH also works on campaigns that fight for public investment in care for families, people with disabilities and older adults. This includes expanded access to home care as well as family-sustaining wages for workers. Our work is led and powered by people most affected by the invisibility of care - people with disabilities, older adults and families in solidarity with workers.

CORE VALUES

• Workers’ rights and dignity
• Social justice and intersectionality
• Interdependence
• Collective power

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Education Manager will carry out employer education in Hand in Hand’s target geographic areas including New York City, New Jersey and Washington DC to expand protections for domestic workers and ensure employers understand the guidance provided to them by pertinent laws as well as best practices recommended by Hand in Hand.

This includes managing and leading workshops and presentations about fair employment responsibilities in New York City, New Jersey and Washington DC as well as conducting other types of outreach to employers and collaboration with other Hand in Hand team members including from the digital and communications.

The Education Manager reports directly to the Senior Organizing Director who oversees HIH programming across the country. The Education Manager will collaborate with the Lead National Organizer, Social Media Manager, Email Communications Manager and other team members. All staff participate in fundraising efforts including membership drives and ongoing cultivation of members and donors.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Domestic Employer Education and Outreach

• Workshops
  • Identify partners for workshops, set up collaborative and stand alone workshops to deliver Hand in Hand’s education content
  • Lead workshops, and support HIH leaders to co-lead or present.
  • Collect workshop feedback for learning and reporting purposes
  • Adapt Hand in Hand materials for workshops and outreach events (slideshows, handouts, pre-post surveys)
  • Follow up with workshop participants to provide additional support and toward future engagement with Hand in Hand
• Outreach, Tabling and Dissemination of Information
  • Identify partners and opportunities for Hand in Hand outreach events to domestic employers and family caregivers (fairs, farmers markets, mobilizations)
  • Prepare materials for in person outreach
  • Identify and recruit Hand in Hand Leaders for outreach support
  • Manage outreach activities and collect data for reporting
  • Follow up with new contacts to provide additional support and toward future engagement
• One to one employer support
  • Explain pertinent regional laws to provide targeted regional support and to answer questions and help employers to identify practices to change
  • Gain knowledge of Hand in Hand’s wide range of resource offerings to be able to provide 1:1 support to employers as needed
• Communications
  • Work with Communications team on email follow up and event registration

Base building

• Recruit new members and donors to HIH across the region

Additional Responsibilities:

• Attend Hand in Hand staff meetings and gathering as advised by supervisor
• Attend other meetings with staff as needed
• Complete HiH administrative tasks such as filling out report related documents; timesheets; other administrative forms
• Receive and utilize trainings either in groups or asynchronously to learn supportive technologies and programs to carry out the above programmatic tasks

DESIRED SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience leading workshops in popular education or other training sessions
• Strong public speaking skills, ability to inspire and connect with diverse audiences across race and class
• Ability to write clearly and concisely
• Experience working independently, meeting internal and external deadlines
• Experience working in partnership with other organizations through coalition or other ongoing collaborative structures, experience partnering with government agencies is a plus
• Excellent relational skills; builds authentic relationships across lines of difference such as race, disability, gender, class, citizenship status, sexual orientation
• Able to work independently in a remote work environment, highly organized
• Comfort with managing up and sideways
• Excellent attention to detail
• Skilled proficiency with technology and computer operations and programs, specifically: Google applications
• Ability to connect with people one to one
• Ability to learn new technology platforms quickly

WORKING CONDITIONS

Bend the Arc is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the application and interview process and to perform essential job functions. Please advise in writing of any needs at the time of application by emailing hr@bendthearc.us. Must be able to operate a computer, video platforms, and other office machinery throughout working hours. Must be able to identify, discern, and communicate across different platforms (chat, email, phone and video conferencing), and collect and analyze information in databases and spreadsheets. Must occasionally travel by air and ground transportation and move about to attend conferences, events, and an annual staff retreat in accordance with organizational guidelines on travel due to COVID. Any work related travel would be paid for by Bend the Arc.

COMPENSATION, BENEFITS, & WORK SCHEDULE

This is an exempt, FTE .8 (32 hours per week) position. The annual salary will be $81,000 to $87,000, depending on years of experience. Work schedules may include evening or weekend hours based on need. Occasional travel (2-3x year) to HIH staff locations (California, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington) for staff retreat and planning meetings is expected.

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network is a project of and fiscally sponsored by Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. Bend the Arc offers a substantial benefits package to temporary employees including:

• Medical, dental and vision benefits with plans that are fully paid for by Bend the Arc for individual coverage and generous employer contribution of 80% toward monthly premiums for dependent and family coverage;
• Flexible Spending Account eligibility;
• Life Insurance;
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance;
• Paid time off including:
• 19.2 sick days accrued per year
• 16 vacation days accrued per year
• 23 paid holidays each year