Company description

The CIW is a Presidential Medal-winning, worker-led human rights organization based in Immokalee, Florida, recognized for its impact in combatting long-standing human rights abuses in the agricultural industry from wage theft and dangerous working conditions to sexual assault and forced labor. The CIW’s groundbreaking work — including the development of the Fair Food Program, launched in 2011 — has not only led the charge in remedying egregious human rights violations in agriculture, it has created an entirely new, proven path to prevention, to actually eradicating those abuses altogether.

Job description

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), the award-winning human rights organization, is hiring a Staff and Operations Coordinator with responsibilities encompassing its groundbreaking Fair Food Program (FFP) and broader work on the Campaign for Fair Food and community organizing. The position is based out of Immokalee, FL.

The Staff and Operations Coordinator works with a dynamic multi-lingual team of farmworker leaders who speak Spanish, English, Haitian Creole, and Mayan languages as well as other operations team staff and campaign organizers. The CIW’s expanding work spans a local, national, and international landscape, ranging from the ongoing community-based work in Immokalee and national consumer education to the implementation of the Fair Food Program nationwide and replication of the CIW’s model in a wide variety of countries and industries across the world. The role of the Staff and Operations Coordinator in Immokalee is to ensure that the multi-faceted, nimble, and highly innovative work of the CIW is streamlined and well-coordinated, providing operational support for a variety of teams within the organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Staff and Operations Coordinator would be the primary person responsible for:

• Ensuring smooth and well-organized communication and coordination between the Immokalee team and partner organizations in the Fair Food Program
• Coordinating CIW staff meetings and department meetings with core Immokalee staff
• Liaising with a variety of external partners including worker organizations, academic experts, agribusiness owners, corporate representatives, consumer allies, government officials, law enforcement, journalists, and others
• Interpreting and translating (Spanish/English) for in-person and virtual meetings as well as written materials
• Coordinating high-level delegations and visits to Immokalee
• Assisting with forced labor, sexual assault, and labor abuse cases and investigations, including regional travel and outreach to follow up on leads, accompanying survivors and witnesses, and research
• Providing support for ongoing Immokalee-based organizing efforts such as the CIW Women’s Group and the CIW’s local low-power FM station Radio Conciencia
• Providing ongoing technical, administrative, and operational support for the CIW Community Center

Investigative experience is a plus.

Periodic national and international travel is also required in support of the CIW’s broader work. These trips can involve presenting and public speaking, and interaction with students, corporate buyers, consumers, and faith-based organizations.

An ideal candidate would also have experience with video and photo production, and excellent writing skills.

The position involves:

• Highly-organized, multi-level coordination
• Facilitation
• Strategic thinking and excellent judgment
• Ability to work with a wide range of communities and partners
• Working in a rural agricultural context
• Collaborative work style

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This is a full-time position, sometimes including weekend hours, with a fair salary based on founding principles of the CIW, and very generous health care benefits, including dental. Further details upon inquiry.

The CIW is seeking a mission-driven individual who is comfortable speaking and writing in Spanish and English, additional languages a plus. Experience living and working in rural overseas or U.S. settings is recommended. Flexibility in relating to people from diverse nationalities, languages, different work and business cultures is a necessity. Nimble thinking, curiosity, creativity, and a sense of humor are also essential.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, varies DOE, $44,000.00 - $45,000.00

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline