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.
The New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice is a multi-racial membership-based organization dedicated to building the power and participation of low-income people in order to expand democracy and transform the economy. We organize directly affected people, and couple their courage with strategic policy, research, legal, and communications work to build campaigns that advance racial justice, immigrant rights, and a fair economy. Our members are primarily Black and immigrant workers and families across Louisiana. Since its founding in 2007, the Center’s organizing and policy victories have achieved dramatic and long-lasting systemic change for vulnerable low-wage workers and their families in our region. For more information see www.nowcrj.org.
Position Title: Bilingual Organizer (Spanish-English)
Work Location:
This position is based in New Orleans but requires occasional travel across the state and other US states.
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 meets people where they are and allows 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 collective goals of the organization.
● 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 builds worker power
● May include direct actions like workplace interventions, 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 support members in executing campaign fights
Documentation
● Manage lists, charts, and databases, and ensure that all of your fieldwork is clearly and systematically recorded.
Support 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
Salary Range: 55,000.00-60,000.00; commensurate with experience.
BENEFITS:
● Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
● Paid Time Off
● Paid Holidays
● Short-Term Disability
● Term Life Insurance
● Retirement Plan (403b)
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 is required.
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.
Applications received by May 7, 2025 (5/7/2025) will be given priority review; application open until position is filled.
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 before? If
so, please share when/how.
3. What is the biggest strength you bring to a team setting?
4. What does liberation look like for your community?
NOWCRJ is an equal-opportunity employer. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.