Type: Regular, Exempt, Full-time

Location: San Francisco or Oakland, Hybrid, 2 days in the office. Remote work will be considered, domestic travel required.

Deadline: Applications are due by February 28, 2025. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until filled.

Compensation and Benefits:

This is a Full-time and Exempt position. The salary range for this position is $95,000-$127,762. The compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience.

ALC’s comprehensive benefits package includes the following: generous vacation and paid holidays; medical, dental, disability, and life insurance coverage (ALC pays 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for qualified dependents); a flexible spending account (FSA); commuter benefits; and 401(k) retirement plan with employer non-elective contribution and match.

The Opportunity

The Community Advocacy Manager will be responsible for coordinating community partnerships across California, community education, and outreach across the organization and providing a co-mentorship space for a team of community advocates who are embedded in ALC’s five program areas. This role will work closely with and provide direct support to the Managing Director of Programs in advancing organizational priorities and implementing program initiatives.

The ideal candidate has significant advocacy, organizing, and/or project management experience and a track record of taking concepts from idea to implementation. A strong mentoring and empowerment orientation, as well as a commitment to respecting the lived experiences of marginalized communities and authentically implementing a movement lawyering model are essential. An understanding of Asian American, Pacific Islander, Arab, and Muslim communities and organizations is highly desired. This position reports to the Managing Director of Programs.

The Organization

Founded in 1972, the Asian Law Caucus is the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving low-income Asian and Pacific Islander communities. We bring together legal services, community empowerment, and policy advocacy to fight for immigrant justice, economic security, and a stronger, multiracial democracy. We are committed to serving the vast diversity of communities of Asian descent, including Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim communities. Our fights for justice and equity are deeply informed by and in solidarity with fights for liberation by and for Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities.

Our growing staff works collaboratively across six issue areas. Our work is rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area and California and expands to states across the country, including places where immigrant, Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander communities are rapidly growing.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic vision and direction for building ALC’s community-centered empowerment and advocacy strategies.
• Track and assess external relationships, focusing on grassroots organizations and coalitions and identify opportunities for cross-program collaboration.
• Lead organization-wide community education and outreach projects and coordinate program-based efforts to maximize community impact.
• Work with program directors and the Managing Director of Programs to train and support community advocates to identify emerging issues, patterns, policy, organizing and advocacy opportunities and develop and execute projects including but not limited to: outreach, direct engagement with impacted community members and clients, community education, developing relationships with grassroots partners, coalition building, campaigns, and mobilization.
• Supervise, train, and support community advocates and fellows, as needed
• Support development of a movement lawyering culture, including planning and executing training series and developing infrastructure to connect community education and empowerment work with legal and policy advocacy.
• Assist in development activities such as grant proposals, reporting, funder meetings, and fundraising events.

All ALC staff are expected to participate in regular check-in meetings with their supervisor/supervisees, staff meetings, team meetings, and other organization meetings, as required.

Desired Qualifications

• Strong passion for and commitment to social justice

• Minimum 5 (five) years experience with grassroots organizing, coalition building, campaigning, policy advocacy, and/or project management
• Minimum two (2) years’ experience supervising staff or interns.
• Thorough knowledge of the landscape of grassroots organizing, service and community organizations working with low-income Asian, Pacific Islander, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in the Bay Area highly desirable
• Experience working with low-income Asian, Pacific Islander, Arab and Middle Eastern and/or other immigrant communities.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to work independently and in collaboration with others
• Demonstrated commitment to building power for and with grassroots, directly impacted communities
• A trusted colleague who works effectively within a nonprofit management team towards organizational goals and objectives
• Willingness to take risks and innovate
• Ability to do long-term visioning and planning, and ability to grow a team while maintaining culture
• Excellent verbal, analytical, writing, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
• Non-English language skills (Spanish, Arabic, or Asian languages) a plus but not required

Salary : $95,000 - $127,762