Job Description: Director of Local Organizing Programs

Position: full time

FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports To: NDWA Organizing Director

Salary: $90,000-$94,111

Start Date: April, 2023

Work Location: Remote with some travel required

Position Summary:

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (www.domesticworkers.org) organizes domestic workers in the United States for respect, recognition and labor standards. We work to guarantee labor protections for domestic workers by winning legislation at the municipal, state, and national level; pushing for regulatory changes and ensuring enforcement of domestic worker rights; through culture change work; and by elevating domestic workers as key leaders in building a powerful movement for social and economic justice. The Alliance formed in 2007 at the US Social Forum and currently represents 65 local affiliate organizations, 7 local NDWA-run chapters, and a growing number of domestic workers in our national membership association.

The primary focus of the Director of Local Organizing Programs will be to support and coordinate the participation and leadership of a group of NDWA’s local organizations in campaigns, actions and events, and capacity building programs. NDWA chapters, affiliates, and members are involved in numerous municipal, state, and national campaigns related to raising standards for domestic workers, winning public investment in the care sector, immigrant rights, civic engagement, and other issues that are priorities for NDWA. In particular, this position will focus on supporting local affiliates and chapters that have already won state or local legislative campaigns to strengthen rights for domestic workers and are now focused on implementing and enforcing these rights.

This position will be part of the Field Team that includes NDWA’s affiliates, chapters, workers’ association, digital and distributed organizing projects. The position is supervised by the NDWA Organizing Director, while working in close coordination with other national Field Team staff, and campaigns and policy staff as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate between NDWA national and a group of local affiliates and chapters. Each Director of Local Organizing Programs is the point person for around 20 local organizations grouped into cohorts based on the main focus of their domestic worker campaigns and organizing, and/or similar political conditions:

  • Serve as the main contact for their cohort for national campaigns and initiatives: calls to action, mobilizations, consultations on strategy, etc.

  • Keep NDWA national staff up to date on affiliate’s local work and campaigns, share their input on strategic questions, and identify training or support needed.

• Convene affiliates and local chapters in their cohort that are working on strategic implementation/enforcement of domestic worker rights, for peer support spaces, trainings, and sharing best practices / learnings:

  • Facilitate regular trainings and peer learning on organizing strategies that are relevant to their cohort

  • Support shared experimentation across chapters and affiliates

  • Document and synthesize best practices and models for NDWA work to raise standards for domestic workers, and share these across the field

  • Support other Field Team staff with national trainings for affiliate and chapter organizers and directors

  • Provide 1-on-1 coaching and support to affiliates in their cohort as needed

• Represent NDWA in relevant local or national coalitions with partner organizations.

• Work with the rest of the NDWA field team and national campaign staff to plan and execute in person and digital actions and engagement of domestic workers and organizations in their cohort to advance campaigns.

• Contribute content for the weekly bilingual NDWA newsletter and support with facilitation of the monthly domestic worker webinars.

• Identify and recruit new potential affiliate organizations to NDWA.

• Work with NDWA’s 501c4 sister organization - Care in Action - to identify and coordinate domestic worker volunteers from the affiliates in their cohort for civic engagement opportunities like candidate forums.

• Additional responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as an organizer in a social justice organization or union

• Experience with coalitions, coordination between different groups, managing disagreement, and building alignment and shared goals

• Experience with worksite or legislative campaign development

• Experience with implementation and enforcement of legislative victories

• Experience with training and facilitation

• Experience supervising and developing organizers

• Bilingual English/Spanish

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both languages

• Proficiency with technology for project management, remote communications, and member engagement tools

• Detail-oriented, excellent time and project management skills

• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team

• Familiarity with organizing strategies with low wage workers and knowledge of the domestic worker sector preferred

Women, People of Color, People with Disabilities and LGBTQ people strongly urged to apply. Applications will only be accepted electronically. Please submit a cover letter, resume, and short writing sample. This position will remain open until filled. This position is included in a collective bargaining unit represented by a labor union, and specific employment terms and wages are subject to a Collective Bargaining Agreement.