Communications Assistant
The Organization:
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), founded in 1974, is a national New York-based nonprofit organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy, organizing, and community education. AALDEF is supported by foundation and corporate grants, individual contributions, and special events. For more information about AALDEF and its current activities, visit our website at www.aaldef.org.
Job Description:
The Communications Assistant is responsible for supporting the communications strategies that advance AALDEF’s mission. The Communications Assistant reports to the Communications Director and the Executive Director.
Responsibilities include:
- Maintain AALDEF’s website and online communications, including email updates to engage constituencies and key audiences.
- Conduct research for various communications products, including media releases, letters to the editor, op-eds, print/online newsletters, fact sheets, backgrounders, and position papers on cases and campaigns in which AALDEF is currently engaged.
- Curate and potentially create content for AALDEF’s social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
- Organize database and maintain relationships with mainstream and ethnic media, including reporters, editors, producers, and publishers.
- Track the news cycle and social media trends, looking out for key voices, moments, and opportunities for AALDEF.
- Provide communications support to development efforts, including annual campaigns, publications, and events to help achieve development goals.
- Support Communications Director with story gathering and storytelling efforts.
Qualifications:
A degree in journalism, public relations, communications, or related field, or a minimum of one year experience in journalism or public relations at a nonprofit organization.
A track record, including education and professional or volunteer work, in social justice, advocacy or civil rights issues. A demonstrated familiarity with Asian American civil rights issues is preferred.
Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with attention to details and a commitment to quality control.
Demonstrated ability to operate in high-pressure situations with quick turnaround for written products.
Experience with social media and website management.
Compensation:
Salary range: $55,000 to $65,000. Excellent health and vacation benefits package.
Starting date:
As soon as possible.
How to Apply:
Please send a cover letter (including any salary requirements), resume, names of three references, and two unedited writing samples to:
Jennifer Weng AALDEF 99 Hudson Street-12/F New York, NY 10013-2815 jweng@aaldef.org
(for email, insert “Communications Assistant” in subject line)
AALDEF is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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Community Advocate – Economic Justice & Anti-Displacement
The Organization:
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), founded in 1974, is a national New York-based nonprofit organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy, organizing, and community education. AALDEF is supported by foundation and corporate grants, individual contributions, and special events. For more information about AALDEF and its current activities, visit our website at www.aaldef.org.
Job Description:
The Community Advocate will work with program attorneys to advocate for and enforce the legal rights of immigrant communities in fighting for economic justice and equitable neighborhoods. The Community Advocate will collaborate with tenants, small businesses, and community groups to fight displacement and sustain neighborhoods where immigrants live and work; collaborate with workers’ centers to develop strategies to improve standards and conditions in industries with low-wage workers; and develop community legal education activities with several Asian ethnic communities on economic justice and anti-displacement issues.
Responsibilities include:
- Conducting intakes, needs assessments, and surveys with community members and community groups
- Interviewing clients, preparing detailed interview notes, and obtaining documentation and information from clients
- Serving as interpreter for client intakes and representation, and assisting in translation of legal rights materials
- Organizing, promoting, and conducting community outreach
- Providing Know Your Rights information and legal referrals to community partners in collaboration with program staff
- Representing AALDEF at community meetings and other events
- Designing tools to empower and inspire community residents and groups to get involved in advocacy campaigns
- Engaging community partners and stakeholders on AALDEF’s advocacy goals
- Building partnerships in existing and new areas
- Performing administrative tasks to support programmatic work
Qualifications:
- Detail-oriented, independent, and focused
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Experience in community organizing, community advocacy, or community education
- Knowledge of immigrant justice, economic justice, and housing and environmental justice issues
- Familiarity with Asian American communities and issues
- Ability to speak an Asian language, with preference for Cantonese and/or Mandarin
- Ability to travel and work on occasional evenings and weekends
Compensation:
Salary range: $55,000 to $65,000. Excellent health and vacation benefits package.
Deadline
Applicants will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
How to Apply:
Email a cover letter, resume, and three references in one PDF document to jweng@aaldef.org
(insert “Community Advocate – Economic Justice & Anti-Displacement” in the subject line.)
Or Mail: Jennifer Weng, AALDEF, 99 Hudson Street-12F, New York, NY 10013-2815
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SOUTH ASIAN LEGAL IMPACT FELLOW
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), founded in 1974, is a New York-based national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans. By combining litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing, AALDEF works with Asian American communities across the country to secure human rights for all.
The South Asian Legal Impact Fellow is being funded in partnership with the South Asian Bar Association of North America Foundation (SABA Foundation), with the objective of deepening our collaboration with South Asian communities throughout the United States.
AALDEF has a long history of representing South Asian communities, including immigrant communities, in the U.S. in a range of civil rights issues—including countering hate violence, opposing post-9/11 surveillance tactics, ensuring access to mosques, and advocating for fair voting representation, fighting for fair wages, and resisting deportations. For more information about AALDEF and our programs, visit our website at http://www.aaldef.org.
The SABA Foundation supports access to justice through grant making and educational programming, by fostering collaboration among nonprofit organizations serving South Asian communities in North America, and by advancing causes important to the communities it serves.
DESCRIPTION:
The South Asian Legal Impact Fellow will deepen our collaboration with South Asian communities throughout the United States. The Fellow will use litigation, legal counseling, and policy advocacy to advance and protect the rights of South Asians. In particular, the Fellow will engage in impact litigation on civil rights issues affecting South Asian communities and conduct outreach to bring awareness to the diverse South Asian communities in the U.S. The Fellow will also partner with community organizing groups on civil rights issues arising from the intersection of immigration status and low-wage working conditions.
Responsibilities include:
- Representing South Asian immigrants on civil rights issues;
- Litigating cases that defend and advance the rights of South Asian communities;
- Engaging in community outreach;
- Collaborating with South Asian community organizations to provide legal support in response to community needs; and
- Representing AALDEF in national coalitions and dialogues on policies that affect South Asian communities.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Demonstrated commitment to racial justice and public interest activities;
- Familiarity with South Asian communities and civil rights issues
- Admitted to the New York or other state bar, or willing to take the bar exam in 2023;
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to speak a South Asian language helpful, but not required.
SALARY RANGE
$70,000 - $90,000
HOW TO APPLY: Deadline to apply July 5, 2023.Send a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and three references to:
South Asian Legal Impact Fellow Search
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
99 Hudson Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10013-2815
Email: info@aaldef.org
(Please put “South Asian Legal Impact Fellow” in the subject line.)
–AALDEF encourages applicants from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.–
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Voting Rights Organizer
Description: The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), founded in 1974, is a New York-based national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans. By combining litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing, AALDEF works with Asian American communities across the country to secure human rights for all.
AALDEF’s Asian American Democracy Program promotes fairness in the electoral process and invigorates the civic participation of Asian Americans, especially new citizens and persons not yet fluent in English. By expanding access to the electoral process for Asian Americans, AALDEF improves the quality of democracy for all Americans.
The Voting Rights Organizer will be responsible for mobilizing Asian American community groups for a non-partisan exit poll of Asian American voters and overseeing volunteers for Election Day poll monitoring in several states for the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 presidential and congressional elections. The job includes recruiting, training, and supervising volunteers; working with community leaders; supervising the development, translation, and printing of materials; and giving educational presentations. The Organizer will also oversee post-election follow-up and assist in writing a report about Asian American voter participation in the 2022 midterm elections and expand outreach for the 2024 elections.
Qualifications
- Highly organized, detail oriented, and able to supervise volunteers and work with a wide variety of community leaders and organizations.
- Experience with community organizing and database systems.
- Bilingual ability in an Asian language is desirable.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to travel and work on occasional weekends.
Salary Range: $50,000 - $65,000
To Apply: Email a cover letter, resume, and three references to info@aaldef.org (put “voting rights organizer search” in the subject line).
Deadline: Applicants will be considered on a rolling basis until filled.
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Development Director
The Organization:
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), founded in 1974, is a New York-based national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy, and community education. AALDEF is supported by foundation and corporate grants, For more information about AALDEF and its activities, visit our website at http://www.aaldef.org.
Job Description:
The Development Director is responsible for organizing and implementing all fundraising activities to ensure the sustainability and future expansion of the organization. The Development Director reports to the Executive Director and Assistant Director.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Work with the executive director to design and implement an annual fundraising plan, in coordination with the board of directors
- Manage foundation relationships and grant submissions; maintain a calendar of grant proposal and report deadlines; prepare letters of intent and proposals with requisite documents; maintain ongoing correspondence with funders.
- Create and implement mail and online solicitations and plan year-end giving strategy; analyze current donor base and identify new individual prospects.
- Create and implement a cultivation program targeting law firms, corporations and businesses.
- Identify and implement strategies for new major gift prospects; provide background materials for board member solicitations; and write regular reports for the executive director and board of directors
- Supervise development assistant to maintain donor database, process gifts, acknowledge donors, and generate regular reports.
- Performs other tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Excellent writing and communications skills.
- Minimum five years’ experience in fundraising and projects management.
- Prior CRM database management experience preferred.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to details, and ability to work independently.
- Proven track record of working in a collaborative environment with demonstrated success in raising funds from individual donors, foundations, corporations, and law firms.
- Creative, strategic, and entrepreneurial.
- Familiar with Asian American communities and legal/civil rights issues.
Compensation: Commensurate with experience; excellent health and vacation benefits package.
Starting date: As soon as possible.
Please send a cover letter (including any salary requirements), resume, names of three references, and two unedited writing samples to:
Jennifer Weng Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund 99 Hudson Street-12/F New York, NY 10013-2815 jweng@aaldef.org
(for email, insert “Development Director” in subject line)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AALDEF is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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