Senior Organizer, Housing & Consumer Justice

Senior Organizer, Housing & Consumer Justice (Education) About the Legal Aid Justice Center:

The Legal Aid Justice Center is a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that partners with low-income clients and communities of color in Virginia to fight for racial, social, and economic justice. We understand that the harms our clients endure are inextricably linked to overarching systems of injustice. Together we are dismantling those systems through a combination of community organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, public relations, and individual legal services.

Founded in 1967, LAJC has offices in Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, and Falls Church and provides services under six key program areas:
Civil Rights & Racial Justice (focuses on the criminal legal system), Housing & Consumer Justice, Youth Justice, Health Justice & Public Benefits, Immigrant Justice, and Worker Justice. As examples of LAJCs recent work, our lawsuit and organizing against the state forced reform of Virginias unemployment insurance system, including advocacy that resulted in the distribution of over $1 billion in illegally withheld payments to over 160,000 Virginians.

During the pandemic, we demanded and secured a statewide eviction moratorium and emergency pandemic protections that helped hundreds of families avoid eviction. We reduced incarceration across the state, including reducing the population of a local immigration detention center down to historically low levels through a coordinated effort of organizing paired with impact and individual litigation. Our staff are on the front lines of some of the most important anti-poverty fights happening today.

With a staff of over 90, the past few years have been a time of exciting growth and opportunity for the organization. In addition to the growth of programmatic efforts including increased organizing capacity, LAJC has expanded its operations and administrative capacity, created new opportunities for professional growth and leadership among staff, engaged in ongoing race equity work, and explored changes to organizational structure to deepen its efforts to create long‑term, sustainable, community‑driven change.

LAJCs latest strategic plan is available at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

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This position reports to the Programs Senior Supervising Organizer, who reports to the Program Director of the Housing & Consumer Justice Program and will work or report closely with the Director of Organizing. This position will also work closely with attorneys and organizers and community organizers in the Richmond/Petersburg offices.

The LAJC organizer forges authentic relationships with directly impacted individuals in the communities we serve (namely, low‑income, low‑wealth people in Virginia) and continually comes back to these relationships for partnership and accountability in our campaigns. Our organizers listen deeply, learn from community members, and amplify the needs and expertise of the individuals and groups we work with. Campaigns are community-driven and the goal for the campaigns is to be community-led.

LAJC Senior organizers are expected to lead or support campaigns depending on the leadership development of the group or community. LAJC organizers lead and support various strategic campaigns, including expanding statewide efforts to defend tenants rights, fight mass eviction, dismantle legal and other barriers to safe and affordable housing, partner with tenants and community organizations to fight for affordable housing and equitable housing policies, support tenants facing eviction or unfair housing conditions, and protect consumers targeted by predatory merchants and lenders through legal services and systemic reform advocacy.

This is achieved through outreach legislative and policy change, working in coalition, and building power in directly impacted communities. As a senior organizer, the ideal candidate should have at least 3-4 years of experience organizing. The work addresses important intersections of race, immigration, and…