Immigrant Justice Organizer

ONE Northside is seeking an Immigrant Justice Organizer to lead community-powered work dedicated to building ONE Northside’s base of directly impacted people – immigrants and children of immigrants – and allies in solidarity with the fight for immigrant justice, and drive strategy for this new area of our work. This individual will develop grassroots leadership, coordinate rapid response during periods of heightened immigration enforcement, and serve as a key organizer in city and statewide coalitions advancing immigrant rights.

Working closely with our partners – including the Illinois Coalition on Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), Protect Rogers Park, and Chicago Teachers' Union — the Immigrant Justice Organizer will strengthen ONE Northside’s community defense and mutual aid infrastructure. This is an opportunity to build lasting community power with and for immigrant communities on Chicago’s North Side and to connect immigrant justice work to long-term campaigns for structural change in housing, climate, and beyond.

This is a new position at ONE Northside, geared for an experienced organizer who will build ONE Northside’s base of directly impacted immigrants and their families, develop a new immigrant justice campaign, and hold critical infrastructure during periods of rapid response. Central to this role is building the cross-racial, multi-ethnic solidarity necessary to move our work forward – including doing the political education work to help community members understand the connections between immigration, housing, climate, and economic justice.

The Immigrant Justice Organizer will develop leaders who can drive campaigns, tell their own stories publicly, and sustain this work over time. They will work closely with the organizing team, ONE People's Campaign (OPC), and a robust ecosystem of local, statewide, and national partners.

• Build a base of people and institutions directly affected by immigration enforcement and immigrant justice issues, including immigrants, children of immigrants, mixed-status families, young people, and people of color. This will include independent canvassing and other outreach efforts. Mobilize base members to participate in immigrant justice campaigns and other organizational activities such as trainings, direct actions, large public meetings, and canvassing.
• Drive the strategy for this new area of our work by developing and leading a new campaign. This includes building a base, developing an issue cut, creating a power analysis, driving campaign strategies forward, cultivating leadership development, and growing the organization's power through these campaigns. Current areas of exploration include immigrant healthcare and immigrant housing.
• Develop and convene ONE Northside’s immigrant justice issue team — a standing body of directly impacted community members who set direction for ONE Northside’s immigrant justice campaigns and strategy, and who can serve as spokespeople and leaders across this work.
• Cultivate the leadership of community members to tell their own stories, build their own bases, and develop and execute strategies to win campaigns in our immigrant justice work. This will include using tactics such as meeting with elected officials, public education, direct action, strategic communications, and more.
• Do the political education work needed to build multiracial solidarity — helping community members understand the connections between immigration enforcement, housing displacement, climate crisis, and economic precarity — and to identify and cultivate people who want to move from rapid response into long‑term issue organizing.
• Organize and facilitate trainings to develop grassroots leadership, including Know Your Rights/Migra Watch trainings, Mutual Aid Nuts & Bolts trainings, and Non‑Violent Direct Action trainings, in partnership with allied organizations.
• Meet with grassroots and grasstops community members to understand their interests and move them to action with ONE Northside. Organizers are expected to conduct at least 5 one‑on‑one meetings per week.
• Work with grassroots leaders to participate in…