KYR Empowerment Facilitator

Organizational Summary

The New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice (NJAIJ) is the state’s largest immigration coalition. Together with over 60 member organizations, NJAIJ fights for policies that empower and protect immigrants. We are seeking applications for a Know Your Rights (KYR) Empowerment Facilitator.

NJAIJ brings together the power and strength of our member organizations to ensure immigrant communities are leaders in campaigns that advance justice, inclusion, and belonging. NJAIJ is at the forefront of every major immigrant justice fight. We are the first to speak up and the last to stand down. Joining our staff means joining an active team of leaders who are compassionate as they are courageous and working in coalition with some of the state’s brightest minds.

NJAIJ is hiring a Know Your Rights (KYR) Empowerment Facilitator to draft, collect, and create KYR materials and facilitate workshops across New Jersey for immigrants, allies, and the public. The Facilitator will also seek out experts, trainers, and guest speakers in specialized topics in order to provide a rich catalog of KYR materials to the public.

This role supports our membership and allies supporting immigrant justice by providing accurate, accessible information on legal rights, available resources, and how to plug into advocacy campaigns. The Facilitator gathers needs and feedback from partners, adapts materials, and ensures workshops remain current, relevant, and responsive to conditions in community and at the federal level. NJAIJ uses a “popular education” model and embraces “train the trainer” practices so that all workshops are replicable by participants who take part.

By nature, this is a public facing role and will require travel throughout the state of New Jersey to meet the diverse needs of our membership, with a particular focus on areas that lack the nonprofit or advocacy infrastructure to access such training topics on their own. On days where the Facilitator isn’t delivering workshops in the community, hybrid work from home or our Newark office is allowed.

A significant amount of time will be spent building relationships and communicating across a variety of audiences: grassroots activists, direct service providers, impacted communities, and other stakeholders in our coalition and across New Jersey. The role will occasionally require periods of standing, walking, and light lifting (boxes with outreach materials, banners, etc), as well as stationary desk, sitting, phone, and screen time when not in the field.

Competitive candidates will have established experience in facilitation or community empowerment and be bi- or multi-lingual in reading and writing proficiency in Arabic, Haitian Creole, French, and/or other West African languages, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, or another Asian language the language capacity needs of our team.

This role is in NJAIJ’s Movement Building Team and reports to NJAIJ’s Deputy Director of Strategy.

In addition to supporting the overall mission of NJAIJ, the Know Your Rights Empowerment Facilitator will lead:

• Create, adapt, and maintain KYR curricula, presentations, and materials based on community needs and the legal updates from partners or NJAIJ’s Policy & Advocacy Team.
• Facilitate workshops in community centers, schools, places of faith, libraries, and other partner locations across New Jersey.
• Tailor workshops to different audiences, including immigrant communities, parents, youth, service providers, and allied activist organizations.

• Coordinate with NJAIJ’s Movement Building and Policy & Advocacy Team to identify training needs.
• Lead outreach to community partners and NJAIJ coalition members to deliver, at minimum, 3 workshops per month.
• Gather on-the-ground insights and community concerns to inform content updates and organizational advocacy priorities and opportunities.
• Serve as a point of contact for partners regarding training logistics, materials, and follow-up questions.

• Receive legal and policy changes that affect community rights…