Director of Development and Communications; CL

Posted on February 24, 2020

Casa Latina is pleased to announce this unique opportunity to join our senior leadership team as Director of Development & Communications. We are a growing organization with a progressive approach to workers’ rights and social justice. We have an engaged board of directors, stable financial position and a robust contingent of volunteers.

We seek an experienced fundraising professional to become our next Director of Development & Communications. As a Director, you will work closely with the Executive Director and senior leadership, while leading a three-person team responsible for individual, foundation and corporate giving, events, marketing, and communications.

Our ideal candidate loves fundraising, is an excellent communicator, well-versed in print and digital communication, and is motivated to be part of an important social movement, empowering the Latino community to participate more fully in the economy and democracy of this country.

This may be an exciting opportunity if you are…

• Looking to match your fundraising skills with your passion for social justice;
• Wanting to get out from behind a desk to work more across departments and in the community;
• Excited to build your own team and help develop junior staff;
• Hoping to be engaged with program participants, staff, volunteers and donors, rather than working in isolation or separate from the people you serve;
• Eager to be part of a vibrant, Latino community;
• Experienced in fundraising, and looking to increase your responsibility and autonomy.

At Casa Latina, you will be part of a collaborative work environment and warm community atmosphere. The program participants and people you serve are on-site, where you can see the impact of your work every day. Many fundraising systems and processes are already in place, but there is a lot of room to build on our major gifts and workplace giving.

We own a three-building campus, conveniently located in Seattle’s historic Central District with excellent public transportation options and free parking. In 2020, we are completing a three-year, strategic plan and the new Director of Development & Communications will help shape our future planning and growth.

Casa Latina serves as a role model for Day Worker Centers and Latino organizations across the US, providing employment, education and community organizing. Since Casa Latina formed 25 years ago, we have worked to secure self-sufficiency through employment and English language classes. Today, these priorities are still relevant and we center our work on these three pillars: employment, education and community organizing.

• Employment: Our Day Worker Center dispatches day laborers and domestic workers to jobs with sustainable wages, and is recognized as a model Day Labor Program across the country, with a member-led, democratic process.
• Education:
  Today, we teach not only English classes, but also OSHA approved and funded health and safety trainings. We also teach green cleaning, basic gardening and moving.
• Community Organizing: Casa Latina also works at the intersection of immigrant rights and labor rights. We work for fair wages and working conditions for immigrants, laborers and domestic workers. We fight wage theft and recover stolen wages. We create leadership opportunities for workers and empower day laborers and domestic workers to stand up for their rights, gain confidence and more fully participate in the American democratic process.

Recent accomplishments include working with a broad coalition to help pass the $15 per hour minimum wage in Seattle in 2014, the creation of the Seattle Office of Labor Standards that same year and the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2018, making Seattle the first city in the country to offer such protections. Today we are working to pass a statewide Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and to support federal efforts.

Our future is bright. Casa Latina is at the forefront locally of a movement to protect immigrant and worker rights and to bolster self-sufficiency. Though our work is primarily in Seattle, we…