About the Role
This position is based in New Orleans but requires travel across the state and potential travel to other US states.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
● Grow the membership:
o Actively recruit new members from different cultural backgrounds, through outreach, one on one conversation, follow up with existing members, and use other means to grow the base.
o Identify existing leaders in the community and workplaces you are organizing and actively recruit them to support the growth of the base.
o Build deep relationships with members through cross-cultral organizing conversations and through offering new members roles.
o Create a clear, shared understanding of the organization and correct expectations with new members so that they understand what NOWCRJ is and what it is not, 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
o With each member you recruit work to develop their participation and give them roles.
o Identify members’ strengths and motivations and support them in putting those in the service of the collective goals
o Develop the skills, analysis and experience of members that you recruit and existing members to better carry out the collective goals of the organization.
o Support member participation in organizational decision making when appropriate and Facilitate and support energetic membership meetings that build members political analysis and engagement, through creating more availiable and equitable space with increased clutura competence and language access.
● Support and Participate in strategic campaigns and programming that build member power and community.
- This may include workplace fights, fights with government actors, holiday parties, story circles, attending national conferences with member-leaders, and more.
- Participating in strategy discussions, power mapping, action planning and support members in executing campaign fights
● Documentation
- Manage lists, charts, and databases and assure that all of your fieldwork is clearly and systematically recorded.
● Support NOWCRJ Team
o Actively participate in and support the overall work of NOWCRJ including organization wide activates, events and campaigns.
o Support specific organizing campaigns of other programs in the organization as appropriate.
Other duties as needed
Salary Range: 55,000.00-60,000.00 Competitive, commensurate with experience.
Benefits:
● Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
● Paid Time Off
● Paid Holidays
● Short-Term Disability
● Term Life Insurane
● Flexible Spending Account
TO APPLY: Applications will only be accepted electronically. Please thoroughly answer the four (4) questions below and submit as an attachment, along with your resume as a separate document, in an email and send to careers@nowcrj.org. Type your first name, last name, and the position you are applying for in the subject line of your email. Please include a daytime phone number where we can contact you. The application process will be open until the position is filled.
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The New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice is a multi-racial membership-based organization dedicated to building the power and participation of poor people in order to expand democracy and transform the economy. We organize directly affected people, and couple their courage with strategic legal, policy, and communications work to build campaigns that advance racial justice, immigrant rights, and a fair economy. Our members are African American and immigrant workers and families in New Orleans and the Gulf South. The Workers’ Center anchors three grassroots membership organizations: Congress of Day Laborers, Stand With Dignity, and the Seafood Workers Alliance. Over the last thirteen years, the Center’s organizing and policy victories have substantially improved the material conditions for poor people in the South. Together with our allies, we are building a new freedom movement to fight for dignified work, racial justice, liberation that transcends borders, and our full participation in every decision that affects our lives. NOWCRJ is an equal-opportunity employer. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.