TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER

The Tahirih Justice Center is a national, nonprofit organization that serves immigrant survivors fleeing gender-based violence. By amplifying the experiences of survivors in communities, courts, and Congress, Tahirih’s mission is to create a world in which all people share equal rights and live in safety and with dignity. Tahirih works to dismantle the laws, practices, and attitudes that leave immigrant survivors vulnerable to abuse. The organization provides each survivor with the resources needed to secure personal protection and support their agency in their healing journey. By working at both the systemic and individual levels, Tahirih seeks to have a truly transformative impact on our justice system. The organization takes an interdisciplinary approach to secure justice for survivors. Through free legal and social services, policy advocacy, and community outreach and training, Tahirih protects and expands legal rights for immigrant survivors of gender-based violence seeking safety in the U.S.

Community Justice Innovator

HOUSTON, TX
Supervisor: Houston Policy and Advocacy Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Tahirih Justice Center’s Houston Policy and Advocacy team works to transform local and state policies and practices and to help shape public perception by advocating for systemic change that impacts immigrant survivors of gender-based violence through creative advocacy projects and strategic campaigns. This team advocates for policies to increase investments into crime prevention, trauma recovery and rehabilitation that do not further criminalize immigrants across region.

The Houston Policy and Advocacy team is seeking a Community Justice Innovator to advocate for immigrant women, gender-nonconforming and trans people, and those most harmed by gender-violence and least helped by current justice priorities, and to advance new safety priorities rooted in prevention, trauma recovery, and community health. The Houston Community Justice Innovator will build upon the work Houston’s Policy and Advocacy team has done at the intersection of the immigration and criminal legal systems from a victim-advocate perspective. Tahirih is seeking a dynamic individual who cares deeply about the intersection of gender and immigrant rights to build upon and implement work steps identified through the planning process. The Innovator would work closely with Tahirih Houston’s Policy & Advocacy team as well as community partners.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Collaborate with the Houston Policy team and other staff to co-create and propose an impactful project within their first 90 days. A successful project is innovative, builds upon prior work, and is rooted in the team’s values especially centering impacted community in solutions to bring justice and safety for survivors.
  • Provide regular updates on current status of project as needed.
  • Develop new relationships with partner organizations, businesses, government officials, and individuals. Bring them onto the organization’s immigrant survivor justice efforts and keep them engaged throughout the duration of the program.
  • Attend and participate in regular program and campaign meetings.
  • Attend and facilitate coalition spaces and community events, representing Tahirih Houston and the priorities of its immigrant survivor community with partners, and bring back information and updates to the wider team.
  • Serve as spokesperson as needed for media efforts.
  • Track, compile, and manage lists of partners and points of contact for easy outreach.
  • Plan and execute outreach events, convenings and trainings as assigned by the Policy and Advocacy program manager.
  • Respond to and manage requests for collaboration and other joint projects.

DESIRED SKILLS

  • Experience in community organizing, engaging volunteers.
  • Strong cultural competence and experience working directly with constituents from diverse racial, ethnic, socio-economic, and geographic backgrounds.
  • Strong computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office Suite and web-based research.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills with attention to detail.
  • Ability to support moving projects from concept to completion.
  • Event planning experience.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to learn, sense of humor, and creativity.
  • Strong customer service orientation: patience, listening, and resourcefulness.
  • Strong writing and editing skills.
  • Ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively across teams.
  • Fluency in Spanish is preferred but not required; proficiency in another foreign language is a plus.
  • An interest or background in immigration policy, health care access, gender rights, and criminal justice issues.

Legal Tech Access Innovator

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
Supervisor: Managing Attorney


JOB DESCRIPTION

The Tahirih Justice Center San Francisco Office is seeking a Legal Tech Access Innovator to advocate for trauma-informed and better accessible services for immigrant women, gender-nonconforming and trans people, and those who are most harmed by gender-violence and least helped by current justice priorities. The SF Legal Tech Access Innovator will build upon the work established in the Tech Access Survey to better understand the types of technological equipment clients use, their technology literacy, concerns about privacy and technology, and relationship to technology. The goal will be to advance new safety priorities rooted in prevention, trauma recovery, and community health, ensuring that clients have accessible information at all times.

The Innovator will work closely with Tahirih SF’s Legal and Social Service team as well as community partners.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Shaping client demographic policies and best practices regarding use of remote tools, particularly in the realms of e-signatures, videoconferencing, screen sharing, digitizing, sharing of documents, as well as discussing and implementing technological safety precautions.
  • Creating a series of client video tutorials, with the assistance of volunteers and Tahirih’s pro bono partner, LinkedIn, on working remotely with advocates. The first video covers how to take good photos of documents with a phone camera. The Innovator will continue to explore the scope of these tutorials to ease access to legal services.
  • Researching and developing ideas for a web, app, or other platforms, to feature video tutorials and disseminate information about digital literacy and resources for accessing essential legal and social services in the Bay Area through a Geo mapping tool.
  • Building out a database of client-centered and linguistically accessible educational videos, building a resources guide for language access – including a pool of interpreters – and other projects that the legal team may deem fit.
  • Providing regular updates on current status of project as needed.
  • Attending and participating in regular program and campaign meetings.

DESIRED SKILLS

  • Must be an action-oriented self-starter, who will take initiative, dream up creative ideas, engage with staff to incorporate feedback and cultivate support, develop action plans, and problem solve.
  • Must be a committed collaborator who values collective processes, enjoys sharing information, and thrives in a team environment where there is an opportunity to learn and work closely with others.
  • Must have a systems mindset in approaching problems and understand the inter-connectedness of issues that could arise in a project.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex concepts in simple terms.
  • Strong customer service orientation: patience, listening, and resourcefulness.
  • Commitment to learning and applying equity-centered design and trauma-informed approach in tech access.
  • Experience in community organizing, engaging volunteers.
  • Strong cultural competence and experience working directly with indigent and immigrant communities and other constituents from diverse racial, ethnic, socio-economic, and geographic backgrounds.
  • Strong computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office Suite and web-based research.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills with attention to detail.
  • Ability to support moving projects from concept to completion.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to learn, sense of humor, and creativity.
  • Strong writing and editing skills.
  • Ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively across teams.
  • Fluency in Spanish is preferred but not required; proficiency in another foreign language is a plus.
  • An interest or background in immigration policy, health care access, gender rights, and criminal justice issues.
  • Experience with User Experience (UX) design is a plus.

Public Policy Innovator

WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA
Supervisor: Interim Public Policy Director and Forced Marriage Initiative Project Manager


JOB DESCRIPTION

The Public Policy team seeks to amplify the experiences of survivors and to pursue systemic change with nonpartisan federal, state, and local policy advocacy, strategic thought leadership, and impact litigation that supports survivors. Public policy advocacy is an integral and fast-growing element of Tahirih’s mission and national leadership, as it works to pass legislation, develop regulations, and transform policies that results in systemic change which will ensure long-term protection from gender-based violence. All advocacy initiatives are inspired and informed by the real-life needs of clients, and through extensive consultation with other service-providers and advocates around the country.

Tahirih is seeking a passionate, engaged, and energetic individual to enable the organization to expand its public policy capacity. The Public Policy Innovator will support advocacy efforts by Tahirih’s dynamic and innovative policy staff, including the 6th Ground Campaign to add gender as a protected ground of asylum, the organization’s federal and state-based forced marriage advocacy, as well as other initiatives.

Duties will include (but not be limited to):

  • Coordinating stakeholder testimony in support of the Maryland campaign to end child marriage (2022 legislative session).
  • Assisting in the coordination and facilitation of high-level stakeholder consultations and strategy meetings on policy issues.
  • Gathering survivor testimony and supporting survivors of gender-based violence to guide and participate directly in advocacy efforts.
  • Legal research and memo writing on laws and policies to inform legislative and regulatory approaches to policy advocacy.
  • Drafting advocacy packets, letters, memos, reports, and other outward facing publications in support of campaigns.
  • Planning and execution of outreach and education events.
  • Support with coalition building and management.

DESIRED SKILLS

The Innovator must be a self-starter who is capable of managing multiple urgent priorities simultaneously across Tahirih’s policy work, including with regard to ending forced and child marriage in the U.S. and ensuring that immigrant survivors of all forms of abuse have access to critical legal protections and social services.

Required skills and competencies include:

  • An interest or background in immigration policy, anti-violence work, social and racial justice movements.
  • Experience in community organizing, engaging volunteers and/or supporting survivors of gender-based violence.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to learn, sense of humor, and creativity.
  • Record of cultural competence and cross-cultural communication skills; experience working effectively with people of diverse backgrounds.
  • Commitment to learning and promoting the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Exceptional writing and editing skills.
  • Strong computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office Suite and web-based research.
  • Exceptional organizational and time management skills with attention to detail.
  • Ability to support moving projects from concept to completion.
  • Event planning experience.
  • Responsible, self-initiating, and focused, with proven ability to work independently and also collaboratively in a team-based decision-making environment.
  • Strong customer service orientation: patience, listening, and resourcefulness.
  • Fluency in Spanish is preferred but not required; proficiency in another foreign language is a plus.

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