NYC/NJ Organizer

Ideal Start Date: February 2024

Work Location: Approximately 70% remote with field work and NYC office

Schedule: Full Time 40 Hours / Week, exempt

Compensation: $73,638-$80,038, commensurate with experience

Supervised by: Lead Regional Organizer, NYC/NJ

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network is a national organization committed to building a more just and caring economy starting in our homes and communities.

Hand in Hand organizes people who employ domestic workers to make their homes fair and equitable workplaces, as well as to act in solidarity with domestic workers in their fight to win legal rights and protections.

Domestic employers are a multiracial and cross-class community of parents, people with disabilities, older adults, family caregivers and others who hire and manage nannies, homecare workers, house cleaners to provide care and support in the home.

Hand and Hand works closely with sister organizations such as the NYC Coalition for Domestic Work, New Jersey Coalition for Domestic Work, many domestic worker centers and organizations and National Domestic Workers Alliance that organize women of color domestic workers. We are committed to righting the historic wrongs, rooted in the legacy of slavery, that omitted domestic workers from our country’s labor and civil rights laws.

Hand in Hand also works on campaigns that demand public investment in care for families, people with disabilities and older adults. This includes expanded access to home care and childcare as well as family-sustaining wages for workers. Our work to win policy and culture change is rooted in our core values of workers’ rights, social justice, interdependence and collective power.

Hand in Hand is a fiscally sponsored project of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice.

About the NYC/NJ Organizer Position:

Hand in Hand is seeking an organizer to build our base of domestic employers and mobilize them towards a future where care work is recognized and valued.

Reporting to the Lead Regional Organizer (NYC), the NYC/NJ Organizer will play a key role in growing our membership and building members’ leadership skills to move our local, statewide, and national campaigns forward. You’ll support mass employer education to change conditions in workplaces that are also private homes. You'll be part of a team that is mobilizing grassroots members to advocate for domestic worker rights and affordable long-term care.

The ideal candidate is a dynamic organizer, passionate about building bridges and fostering grassroots leadership. You’re energized by the challenges and opportunities of organizing a multi-racial, cross-class, cross-ability base towards racial, gender, and disability justice and workers’ and immigrants’ rights.

Responsibilities:

Base building & leadership development (35%)

• Engage domestic employers through dynamic outreach efforts, including canvassing and phone banking, to deliver key educational materials and organizing opportunities.
• Recruit domestic employers and allies to join Hand in Hand through one-on-one meetings.
• Empower members by helping to develop their leadership skills, including through supporting political education and organizing skill training.
• Cultivate relationships with local and state organizations to reach new potential members and represent the organization in coalition work.
• Support programming, recruitment, and logistics for local meetings, workshops, actions, webinars, and events.

Employer Education (35%)

• Use organizing tactics, data collection and evaluation to create innovative employer education campaigns and programs to improve standards for domestic workers
• Work with Communications team to develop content related to employer education and implementation
• Conduct workshops and webinars, one-on-one meetings and follow-up with workshop participants.
• Develop organizational partnerships to present employer education to on a regular basis
• Work closely with NYC and NJ Agencies, including tracking participation and evaluation data for reporting, submitting regular contract reporting, and meeting with staff as needed
• Grow members’ workshop facilitation skills.

Local Campaigns (20%)

• Manage organizing and implementation campaigns:
  • Develops, implements and adapts plans to meet goals
  • Serve as an organizational partner with local and regional organizations and government agencies (and represent Hand in Hand in regular coalition meetings)
• Partners with Lead Regional Organizer on organizing strategy and lead regional campaigns
• Work with the Communications team to effectively leverage social media, digital tools, and earned media for regional campaigns
• Organize domestic employers and other supporters to mobilize for in-person and digital actions and work on campaigns to transform the domestic work industry and the care economy, including occasional travel.
• Coach members to create impactful testimonies.

Other Organizational Duties (10%)

• Participate in biweekly Hand in Hand staff meetings, grassroots fundraising, and organizational evaluation and planning.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 3+ years of community and/or labor organizing experience (volunteer or paid)
• Strategic thinker who can apply a sharp understanding of organizing and power to your work
• Excellent communication skills including active listening and the ability to receive and give feedback
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and the ability to work independently, follow through on projects, and ask for help when needed in a remote work environment
• Excellent relational skills: works well with others and builds authentic relationships across lines of difference such as race, disability, gender, class, citizenship status, and sexual orientation
• Agreement and alignment with Hand in Hand’s mission and modeling of organizational values, and commitment to learn and operate within our norms and organizational culture
• Understanding of systemic oppression, with an emphasis on racism, ableism, and privilege
• Experience with facilitating meetings and leading workshops
• Good time management skills and ability to prioritize competing demands
• Proficiency with Google Suite, Dropbox, Slack, and Zoom.

Preferred Experience

• Connection to the domestic work industry, either through family members, or as an employer, worker, caregiver, or recipient of care.
• Familiarity with the long-term care system
• Experience building partnerships and/or working in coalition
• Experience with EveryAction CRM
• Proficient in Spanish

Working Conditions:

Bend the Arc and Hand in Hand are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the application and interview process and perform essential job functions. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Must be able: to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time; operate a computer, video conferencing, and other office machinery throughout working hours; observe and discern numbers and calculations; and communicate via phone, Slack or Zoom. This position requires the ability to travel for occasional in-person meetings, including an annual planning retreat for all staff, periodic work sessions, in-person workshops, and other team meetings. Any work related travel would be paid for by Hand in Hand.

To Apply:

Please submit your resume and cover letter stating why you think you are a good match for this position, and why you want to work with Hand in Hand specifically. Submit materials to nycnjorganizer@domesticemployers.org with NYC/NJ Community Organizer in the subject line of your message. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis through December 19th, with priority given to those submitted by December 10th. We sincerely regret that we will not be able to respond to all applicants. Only those considered for the position will be contacted to interview.

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network is a project of and fiscally sponsored by Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice.

Bend the Arc and Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. Hand in Hand endorses and supports the intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are applicants or employees who need accommodations.

Bend the Arc provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, record of arrest or conviction, or any other legally protected status. Women, people of color, disabled people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender non-conforming individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Research suggests that women and structurally marginalized and/or underrepresented groups of people believe they need to meet 100% of the requirements in job postings to even apply. We encourage anyone who believes they have the skills and motivation necessary to succeed here to apply for this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, as no one applicant ever does. We look forward to hearing from you.

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understand the scope of the position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of skills, efforts, duties, or responsibilities associated with the position.

Compensation, Benefits and Work Schedule: This is an exempt, 40 hours a week position with paid time off, including vacation, sick leave and holidays. The salary range is $73,638-$80,038. Salary is calculated based on the years of experience over the minimum requirement. Three years of experience is the starting salary, and the top end is compensation for people with 18+ years of experience.

The candidate should be able to work evenings as needed to support virtual events, and occasionally weekend hours.

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network is a project of and fiscally sponsored by Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. Bend the Arc offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits are fully paid for by Bend the Arc for individual coverage and generous employer contribution of 80% toward monthly premiums for dependent and family coverage;
• Long and short-term disability benefits fully paid for by Bend the Arc;
• Paid time off including:
  • 20 vacation days
  • 24 sick days per year
  • 18+ paid holidays/office closures each year
  • 5 paid floating holidays
  • Parental leave paid up to 14 weeks and Family, Medical and Emergency Leave paid up to 12 weeks
  • Fully paid Sabbatical of up to 12 weeks for long-term employees;
• 401K effective start day; employer contribution of 2% of salary after one year of employment
• Adoption Assistance Program providing reimbursement of up to $1,500 for qualified adoption expenses;
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account;
• Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account for eligible health-related expenses
• Commuter Benefits;
• Employee Assistance Program;
• Life Insurance is fully paid for by Bend the Arc
• For permanent staff, Hand in Hand also offers:
  • A 4-day work week for 12 weeks each summer paid at full compensation
  • Up to $100/month reimbursement for utilities (electric, gas, water and wifi) and reimburses half the monthly personal cell phone bill.