DC Immigrant Justice Organizer

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center is Hiring!

DC Immigrant Justice Organizer Washington, DC

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is seeking a full-time DC Immigrant Justice Organizer in our DC Office. This is an exempt position that reports to the Policy Director. Pending current labor negotiations this position may be recognized as a bargaining unit position represented by the National Legal Services Workers, Local 2320.

The ILRC currently has a hybrid work model requiring two in-office days per week.

The ILRC is a leading immigrant rights organization headquartered in San Francisco with staff in Washington, D.C., Texas, Southern California, the Central Valley of California, and Washington state. Since 1979, our mission has been to educate, support, and empower immigrants, community organizations, and legal practitioners to build a more just, inclusive, and democratic society. Our team is passionate, collaborative, and committed to equity and innovation in all we do.

Additional information about our organizational values is available here.

The ILRC supports local, state and federal campaigns to reduce the involvement of local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and reduce deportations,while building the capacity of organizations and coalitions to broadly address the criminalization of communities of color. We partner with criminal system reform advocates, grassroots organizations, and coalitions across the country, but with a deeper focus in California,Texasand Washington, D.C.

In Washington, DC our work historically has focused on federal advocacy. With this position, we will begin to more formally work, in partnership with a collective of DC-based local organizations, to advance, and support coordinated local campaigns that address the overcriminalization and incarceration of communities of color, with a particular focus on the impact on immigrants,toreducedeportations and policing, build power within immigrant communities, strengthen local intersectional alliances, hold elected officials accountable, and movecloser to a vision of immigrant justice.

We will also work with local partners to help build organizing infrastructure that results in the development of a sustainable long-term strategy to reduce immigration enforcement and the systems that lead to deportation, in addition to rapid response.

The
DC Immigrant Justice Organizer
, in deep collaboration with ILRC partners, will:

• Work with ILRC partners and immigrant justice organizations in DC to build organizing infrastructure that results in the development of a sustainable long-term strategy in addition to rapid response;
• Create defenses to arrest, prosecution, criminalization, incarceration, and deportation, and other forms of criminalization, in partnership with local DC groups organizing in collaboration for immigrant justice;
• Supporteducationeffortsfor elected officials,stakeholders and thepublicon themany waysthe arrest-to-deportation-pipelineharms our communities and hold local elected officials accountable to our communities when meaningful action is not taken;
• Advocate for and implement local policies and practices that strip away the ability of the criminal and immigrant enforcement systems to continue to criminalize, oppress, and banish immigrant communities; and
• Work to use all tools available, such as direct action, advocacy, civic engagement, and education.

• Co-lead strategy development with local partners,including goals,objectives, tactics, and timeline of the campaigns;
• Co-facilitatemeetings and support operations, as needed, for existing local collectives and support networks;
• Support thepolicy research andimplementationphasesof the campaigns;
• Mapthe local political and legal landscape, which includesparticipatinginongoing meetings with local elected officials, other city officials, advocates, and others;
• Build relationships and advocatewith key stakeholders and targets in the campaigns;
• Facilitate the implementationofpolicy advice through technicalassistanceand training from ILRC policy attorneys;
• Coordinate with ILRC staff, including organizers in other localities, toconduct…