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Job Opening: Community Organizer at The Workplace Project [English/Español]

Posted April 5, 2011 by Ted Hesson

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Earlier today, I posted about a job opening with the Long Island Civic Engagement Table.

Here’s another great vacancy, this one with the immigrant rights group The Workplace Project.

Here are the details in English (Lea más abajo para ver la información en español):

Job Announcement

Community Organizer
This position is for immediate hire.

About the Workplace Project
The Workplace Project is a non-profit organization founded in 1992. Our mission is to end the exploitation of Latin@ immigrant workers on Long Island and achieve social justice by promoting the complete political, economic and cultural participation of the workers in the communities in which they live. This participation is created through community organizing, legal support, education, leadership development, and building worker cooperatives.

Responsibilities:
• Inform Latin@ immigrant workers of their rights and lead presentations about basic workers’ rights
• Organize and carry out public campaigns for protecting workers’ rights
• Recover unpaid wages and organize workers against injustices in the workplace
• Participate in the organization’s community activities 
• Create strategies for leadership development among the workers
• Represent the organization at community coalitions and before government agencies and the media
• Maintain exact records and produce verbal and written reports
• Work collaboratively with the other organizers, director, and membership
• General office activities

Qualifications:
• A commitment to social, racial and economic justice
• Excellent writing skills, computer knowledge, and personal communication
• Minimum 2 years experience as community organizer and/or working within the labor movement
• Experience working with the Latin@ immigrant community
• Ability to work independently
• Bilingual English-Spanish (essential requirement)
• Availability to work flexible hours including some evenings and weekends
• Knowledge of the Long Island community, public and civil service institutions and their relationship to the community
• A good sense of humor

Salary & Benefits:
• Salary is commensurate with experience
• Health insurance
• Paid vacation, sick and personal days

How to Apply:
Send curriculum vitae and cover setter to Omar Angel Perez, 91 N. Franklin St., Suite 207, Hempstead, NY 11550; or e-mail to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). For more information call 516-565-5377.
 
The Workplace Project is an equal opportunity employer. We especially invite people of color, women, immigrants, and members of the LGBT community to apply.


Organizador Comunitario
Este puesto es para ser ocupado de manera inmediata.

Acerca del Centro de Derechos Laborales
El Centro de Derechos Laborales es una organización sin fines de lucro fundada en 1992. Nuestra misión es acabar con la explotación de los trabajadores inmigrantes Latinos en Long Island y lograr la justicia social, promoviendo la completa participación política, económica y cultural de los trabajadores en las comunidades en las que viven. Esta participación se logra a través de la organización comunitaria, apoyo legal, educación, desarrollo de liderazgo y creación de cooperativas de trabajadores.

Responsabilidades:
• Informar a los trabajadores inmigrantes latinos acerca de sus derechos, dar presentaciones de derechos laborales básicos
• Organizar y apoyar campañas públicas para proteger los derechos de los trabajadores
• Recuperar salarios no-pagados y organizar trabajadores contra injusticias en sus lugares de trabajo
• Participar en las actividades comunitarias de la organización
• Crear estrategias para desarrollar el liderazgo de los trabajadores
• Representar a la organización en coaliciones comunitarias y ante agencias del gobierno y medios de comunicación
• Mantener record exactos y producir reportes verbales y escritos
• Trabajar en coordinación con los demás organizadores, director y membresía
• Actividades generales de oficina

Requisitos:
• Compromiso con la justicia social, racial y económica
• Excelentes habilidades de escritura, computación y comunicación personal
• Dos años de experiencia mínima como organizador comunitario o en el movimiento laboral
• Experiencia trabajando con la comunidad inmigrante latina 
• Capacidad para trabajar de manera independiente
• Bilingüe Ingles-Español (requisito esencial)
• Disponibilidad para laborar en horario flexible incluyendo algunas tardes/noches y fines de semana
• Conocimiento de la comunidad de Long Island, instituciones de servicio público, civil y su relación con la comunidad
• Buen sentido del humor

Salario y Beneficios:
• Salario de acuerdo al nivel de experiencia
• Beneficios de salud
• Vacaciones, días de enfermedad, días personales pagados

Aplicación:
Enviar curriculum vitae y carta de presentación a Omar Angel Perez, 91 N Franklin St, Suite 207, Hempstead, NY 11550; .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Para mayor información, llamar a 516-565-5377.
 
El Centro de Derechos Laborales es una organización con igualdad de oportunidades. Invitamos especialmente a personas de color, mujeres, inmigrantes y miembros de la comunidad LGBT a aplicar.

91 N Franklin Street
Hempstead, New York 11550
(516) 565-5377



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