Job Title: PA Chapter Labor Enforcement Program Manager
Employee Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Reports To: PA Chapter Director
Entity: NDWA
Hours per week: 40
Salary: $81,689-85,421
Work Location: Philadelphia, PA

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the leading national voice for dignity, respect, and recognition for domestic workers in the United States. NDWA was founded in 2007 by organizers and worker leaders in six cities representing nannies, house cleaners, and care workers, and now represents an alliance of more than 76 organizations across 22 states and 395,000 domestic workers nationally.

We envision a society where domestic work is valued as essential to our collective well-being, domestic workers are leaders in shaping the care sector, and domestic work jobs are good, economically secure jobs.

For over 15 years, we’ve worked to advance our mission by making domestic work visible. We’ve worked to pass policies that enable rights and higher wages for domestic workers across the country, changed public awareness and opinion about the dignity and value of care work, and built the capacity and leadership of domestic workers to organize and advocate for their rights.

We see the next era of our organization as an opportunity to move domestic work from newfound visibility towards transformation, and we’re ready to elevate care workers to the essential workers of the 21st-century economy.

We’re a multi-racial, multi-lingual organization building a powerful movement rooted in the human rights, dignity, and equality of domestic workers, care workers, immigrant women, and women of color.

The PA Chapter is a multiracial, multilingual organization of Black and Latinx house cleaners, caregivers, and nannies currently primarily organizing Philadelphia’s 16,000 domestic workers. The PA Chapter is a member-led organization with leadership structures to ensure worker voice and decision making at every level of our work. Our primary program areas include member-led organizing to win new labor legislation to protect against retaliation and improve labor enforcement for all low wage workers in the city; enforcement of our Domestic Workers Bill of Rights victory through outreach, education, and filing claims to the Department of Labor; organizing Black workers from across the diaspora through our We Dream in Black Program; and paid worker leader program (Organize, Lead, and Amplify, or “OLA”) to develop the leadership skills and conduct extensive new worker outreach, amongst other organizing, leadership development, and skill building work.

The PA Chapter aims to be the state and local experts on domestic worker organizing, policy, and movement building. Our members campaign for better working conditions, changes in laws, and building power to change their sector at the local, state, and national levels. We are part of local and national coalitions of domestic worker organizations and allies in labor, care, immigrant rights, and other movements. Overall the PA Chapter works to build a voice for domestic workers in Pennsylvania, while also playing a leading role in NDWA’s national work to make domestic work good work and win a more just economy and democracy that will work for us all.

The overarching goals of our PA Chapter include:

• Grow a robust base of domestic worker members who lead the movement for safe, dignified, and life sustaining jobs;

• Develop the leadership and increase the skill set of members to lead legislative and organizing campaigns to address challenges faced by domestic workers;

• Enforce our existing labor victories, including the Philadelphia Domestic Workers Bill of Rights;

• Win new Philadelphia legislation to expand anti-retaliation protections and improve strategic labor enforcement for all low wage workers in Philadelphia;

• Win and enforce new rights, protections, and recognition for domestic workers;

• Build a thriving community across our multiracial, multilingual base of workers who support inside and outside our organization.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Policy

• Analyze trends in labor violations and ensure that informs Chapter legislative and worksite agenda and campaigns

• Lead NDWA participation in the City Hall Domestic Worker Task Force and organize to ensure it’s an effective governmental space to build power for domestic workers

• Work with the Office of Worker Protections to raise the priority of domestic workers with their efforts; train OWP inspectors on domestic worker issues; interface regularly with investigators

• Alongside PA Chapter staff, organize to win new policies that support labor justice such as the current anti-retaliation legislative campaign

Awareness and Education

• Conduct worker and member surveys to identify the biggest gaps in worker labor rights knowledge

• Develop, create, and conduct engaging, grassroots, and multilingual education and curriculum on labor rights for domestic workers

• Alongside worker leaders, conduct grassroots education in the field, at membership meetings, through public workshops, and 1-1 conversations with workers

• In collaboration with worker leaders, develop engaging, multilingual resources for domestic workers to learn their rights

• Connect labor rights education to other critical areas, particularly immigrant rights

• Develop employer-facing labor materials that domestic workers can use to further workplace safety and respect for their rights

Compliance

• Develop and lead strategic enforcement strategy including identifying egregious employers and high impact cases that can shift industry standards

• Alongside PA Chapter Organizers, develop sectoral and neighborhood based strategies to raise workplace standards beyond legal minimums

• Collaborate with PA Chapter organizers to convert workers with labor violations claims into active members

• Create and retain a cohort of workers who have experienced labor abuses to support one another and build community

• Train and support domestic workers to negotiate with their employers on written contracts, pay, and more

• Identify and initiate employer compliance strategies, if capacity permits

Enforcement

• Identify labor rights violations and support workers to take legal and/or public action against those employers

• Work with all domestic workers across language, race, and immigration status to take action against abusive employers

• Conduct intake and make formal referrals to legal service providers; meet with legal service providers at least quarterly to check on cases; and support with any materials or worker organizing necessary

• Support domestic workers to file cases to the Philadelphia Office of Worker Protections when appropriate

• Track all labor violation cases via database, maintain careful watch on timelines, and engage with workers regularly to support positive case filing outcomes

• Refer workers to other organizations based on identified non-labor issues

• Collaborate with PA Chapter organizers on public actions against egregious and strategic employers

Collaboration with Organizers and NDWA Staff

• Support the developmental needs of other PA Chapter staff to integrate enforcement into our organizing program

• Collaborate with NDWA National staff on enforcement priorities and best practices, including participating in cohorts and other spaces to collaborate with other organizers across the NDWA field

QUALIFICATIONS

• Fluent in spoken and written Spanish and English

• Highly motivated individual with a passion for engaging and building domestic worker power

• 3-5 years experience in organizing and developing grassroots education and programs in collaboration with impacted communities

• Deep knowledge and understanding of the domestic worker sector and the issues the workforce faces;

• Passion for educating workers on their rights; moving them through fear; and use labor claims to build power for workers

• Strong relational skills and ability to connect, engage, and inspire community members

• Ability to work well with community partners such as other organizing groups, city government agencies and officials, and legal service providers

• Proven ability to learn quickly, work independently, meet multiple deadlines with a keen attention to detail

• Strong and effective communicator

• Demonstrated leadership experience

• Hard-working and self-disciplined

• Ability to work well with a team and motivate others to take action

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures

• Ability to work well under pressure and manage time efficiently

• Intermediate computer skills: (i.e. PowerPoint, Google Suite)

• Ability to work some nights and weekends

How to Apply: Please apply directly to the job posting and send resume, cover letter, and writing sample. Applications will only be accepted electronically, and solicitations to individual staff are unlikely to be responded to.

We value a truly diverse workforce and a culture of inclusivity and belonging. People from historically disadvantaged communities, such as Women, People of Color, People with Disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people, are strongly urged to apply. NDWA is a union employer; this position is a bargaining unit position.

NDWA participates in the E-Verify program and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.