Seeds of Resistance Coordinator

Description

The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker religious organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, we nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems.

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TITLE: Seeds of Resistance Coordinator

JOB CATEGORY: Exempt (Salary)

STATUS: Full-Time

TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT: Regular

DIRECT SUPERVISOR: Florida Program Director

REGION/UNIT: US South Region

LOCATION: Miami, FL Hybrid

Final date to receive applications: March 6, 2026

Seeds of Resistance is a program for immigrant youth in south Florida that engages youth using trauma informed approaches. We provide immigrant youth and their families with political education, community organizing skills, and an understanding of immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights. We also provide education on environmental issues that rebuild ancestral connection to the earth and increase collective power and self‑determination. We engage in “artivism,” and healing modalities necessary to become effective leaders in our local immigrant rights movement.

Our strategy is for staff to accompany youth to help to increase their understanding of systemic inequalities while envisioning and organizing local projects, policies, and practices that build personal and community healing. The program also collaborates with local and state organizations and coalitions to address human rights issues, farm worker justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and environmental justice issues across our county and state.

Our program builds power among these communities to respond to and gain control over the social, political, economic, workplace, health, and environmental justice issues that impact their lives.

The Seeds of Resistance Coordinator bears ultimate responsibility for the outcomes of the project; leads participants, fellows/interns and volunteers in program planning and reporting processes; and guides the program with leadership and vision. This position also serves as a conduit to the interface between the local community and the larger organization.

• Supervise 1-5 fellows and interns. Meet regularly with fellows and interns to create a sense of community, develop workplans, and monitor progress on the program’s work with team and community members to determine the priorities for local work.
• Work with the AFSC Florida Director to help raise funds to maintain and expand the Seeds of Resistance project, this may include grant‑writing, developing requests for major donors and collecting data and stories to report back to donors and foundations along with monitoring and tracking budget expenses for the SOR youth program.
• Provide community organizing, political education, and grassroots fundraising training for interns and fellows.
• Participate in all weekly or monthly program meetings of the Youth Network, Just Migration Hub and Healing Justice Hub calls.

• Create and facilitate curriculum based on the mission, vision and methodology of Seeds of Resistance.
• Work with community members to create a framework for the vision of the program and develop work plans; utilize the AFSC Youth Network program planning tools; and maintain program vision and effectively communicate it to the AFSC FL Director.
• Continually monitor and evaluate the success and effectiveness of program activities with the assistance of interns and fellows and prepare shareable annual reports, based on program goals, with the AFSC FL Director.
• Collect regular program activity information and data and prepare quarterly summaries of program work for the AFSC FL Program Committee and Director.

• Carry out advocacy, organizing or other campaigns as identified by the needs of immigrant youth. This could include identifying campaign targets; coordinating large‑scale public events; developing…