Join our team! We are currently hiring for the following positions:
Workers’ Rights Organizing Fellowship
Adelante Alabama Worker Center is currently accepting applications for a Workers’ Rights Organizing Fellow. The Fellow will provide logistical and organizing support to Adelante’s lead Workers’ Rights Organizer and worker leadership committee to advance the goals and activities of the Workers’ Rights Defense Program through community outreach, education, strategy, and support on individual workplace rights defense cases within the framework of popular education, worker-led organizing and collective community action.
This is a six-month position, with the possibility of renewal for an additional six months based on an evaluation of the Fellow’s performance and available funds. The Organizing Fellow will receive a monthly stipend of $1,000, plus reimbursement for travel and other work-related expenses. The Fellow will be expected to commit an average of 15 hours per week to the program. The Fellow will be supervised by Adelante’s Workers’ Rights Organizer.
About Adelante: Adelante unites low-wage and immigrant workers and their families in the Birmingham area to defend our rights, promote our dignity, and pursue justice for all. Since our founding in 2014 with the support of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), Adelante has emerged as a strident voice for labor, immigrant and human rights in Alabama. Adelante merges community organizing, popular education, public and media advocacy, strategic litigation and legal representation, and arts and cultural celebration to realize a holistic vision for change from the bottom up. Our current work includes the campaign to make Birmingham the first sanctuary city in Alabama, wage theft and workers’ rights defense, community deportation defense, and the Shut Down Etowah campaign.
About the Workers’ Rights Defense Program: Adelante’s core program empowers individuals to learn how to defend their rights as workers and provides a platform for organizing with others who have been victims of labor rights violations such as workplace abuse and wage theft. Adelante hosts weekly labor rights workshops open to the community where low-wage and immigrant workers learn about their workplace rights and methods for seeking justice from abusive employers. Using methods of popular education, we develop community members’ leadership skills to help others combat labor rights abuses. Following the workshop, each attendee is welcome to seek assistance with their case, and together with the organizers, develop a plan to seek justice. This program is set to expand greatly with the support of the Workers’ Rights Fellow.
Position Description
The Workers’ Rights Organizing Fellow’s responsibilities will include:
- Organizing logistics for weekly workers’ rights workshops
- Facilitating meetings and workshops in the popular education style (training will be provided)
- Filling out detailed and accurate intake forms for workplace rights cases
- Investigating employers and other targets
- Scheduling meetings with workers and employers
- Working evenings and weekends as needed
- Identifying, recruiting, developing and mobilizing worker leaders
- Supporting Adelante’s organizing work at large
- Participating in Adelante staff meetings at least once a month, and attending monthly Asambleas, to keep Adelante staff and membership involved and up to date on program developments
Desired Qualifications:
- Understanding of and commitment to principles of popular education, campaign-based organizing, and developing leadership of directly affected people
- Understanding of organizing for power and commitment to defending the rights of immigrants and people of color
- Ability to work early and late hours and occasional weekends when necessary
- Highly organized and self-motivated
- Sound interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to establish and cultivate respectful relationships with people from diverse backgrounds
- Competency in online research, typing, MS Office, and file management
- A positive attitude towards challenging worker issues
- Ability to develop member leaders to deal with worksite issues.
- Ability to manage and prioritize work in a dynamic and changing environment, as an individual and as a member of a team
- Comfortable communicating in Spanish
- Bilingual skills highly desired but notrequired
- Driver license and vehicle notrequired
People of color and LGBTQIA folks encouraged to apply.
How to Apply:
Please email your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are interested in and qualified for this position to Victoria Siciliano (admin@adelantelabama.org) with the subject line “Workers’ Rights Organizing Fellowship”
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Organizing Fellowship: Shut Down Etowah Campaign
The Shut Down Etowah campaign (SDE), housed within Adelante Alabama Worker Center, is currently accepting applications for an Organizing Fellow. The Fellow will provide logistical, communications and organizing support to the SDE campaign leadership committee, member organizations, allies and community members to advance the campaign’s goals of exposing human rights abuses at the Etowah County Detention Center, securing the freedom of individual Etowah detainees, and terminating ICE’s contract with the center.
This is a six-month position, with the possibility of renewal for an additional six months based on an evaluation of the Fellow’s performance and available funds. The Organizing Fellow will receive a monthly stipend of $1000, plus reimbursement for travel expenses. The Fellow will be expected to commit an average of 15 hours per week to the campaign. The Fellow will be supervised by Adelante’s Enforcement & Detention Organizer, but will also be accountable to the SDE leadership committee, which follows a non-hierarchical, collective governance model.
About Shut Down Etowah: The Shut Down Etowah campaign is made up of individuals and civil, immigrant, and human rights organizations based in Alabama and across the country that are committed to ending the human rights abuses at the immigrant jail located inside the Etowah County Detention Center. We believe Etowah is far too broken to be fixed—the only adequate solution is to close it. For more information visitwww.shutdownetowah.org.
About Adelante: Adelante unites day laborers, domestic workers, and other low-wage and immigrant workers and their families in the Birmingham area to defend our rights, promote our dignity, and pursue justice for all. Since our founding in 2014 with the support of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), Adelante has emerged as a strident voice for labor, immigrant and human rights in Alabama. Adelante merges community organizing, popular education, public and media advocacy, strategic litigation and legal representation, and arts and cultural celebration to realize a holistic vision for change from the bottom up. Our current work includes the campaign to make Birmingham the first sanctuary city in Alabama, wage theft and workers’ rights defense, community deportation defense, and the Shut Down Etowah campaign.
Position Description
The Shut Down Etowah Organizing Fellow’s responsibilities will include:
- Masterminding campaign logistics, including sending meeting reminders to leadership group members via email, WhatsApp, and other communication platforms, taking and disseminating meeting notes, and regularly checking in with leadership committee members about commitments and responsibilities
- Regularly updating SDE social media sites and website
- Drafting press releases and conducting media outreach
- Maintaining campaign contact lists and growing our database of contacts
- Recruiting new campaign participants and volunteers
- Representing SDE campaign at community events, conferences, presentations, and other outreach opportunities
- Providing logistical support to the letter-writing program and other efforts to center the voices of detained persons within the campaign
- Traveling to Gadsden approximately once per month to support actions, conduct outreach, and visit detained persons
- Working with Adelante staff and campaign leadership committee to draft funding proposals, budgets, and grant reports in order to secure necessary resources for the campaign
- Tracking campaign income and expenses
- Participating in Adelante staff meetings at least once a month, and attending monthly Asambleas, to keep Adelante staff and membership involved and up to date on campaign activities
Desired Qualifications:
- Passion for social justice, prison abolition, and defending the rights of immigrants and people of color
- Excellent interpersonal skills, patience, and humility
- Background in immigrants’ rights, racial justice or anti-detention organizing strongly preferred
- Understanding of and commitment to principles of popular education, campaign-based organizing, and developing leadership of directly effected people
- Working knowledge of the laws, agencies, and processes that govern immigrant detention in the U.S.
- Ability to work early and late hours and occasional weekends when necessary; willingness to travel to Gadsden on a regular basis
- Comfortable communicating in Spanish
- Strong writing, editing and proofreading skills
- Highly organized and self-motivated
How to Apply:
Please email your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are interested in and qualified for this position to Victoria Siciliano (admin@adelantelabama.org) with the subject line “Shut Down Etowah Organizing Fellowship”