JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Part-time Workers' Rights Advocate

Grupo Mulher Brasileira (Grupo) is a 15-year-old community-based organization whose Mission is to promote political and cultural awareness, aiming at Brazilian immigrants’ development and self-sufficiency. Our main goal is community organizing aimed at empowering the community members to speak for themselves regardless of immigration status.

 

This 30 hours per week position will be devoted to Grupo's emerging workers' rights project, which is aimed at confronting workplace abuses in the Brazilian community in the Boston area. Grupo is spearheading the project with support from allies. You will be responsible for staffing Grupo's monthly workers' rights presentation and in-take session. Then you will meet with representatives from allied organizations and project board members in order to follow-up on cases, which will include contacting employers directly, being a liaison to attorneys, and supporting organizing work against abusive employers.  

 

This position may involve fundraising efforts to enable the project to expand and continue.

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

 

- Native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese.  (Must be fluent verbally, with sufficient reading and writing skills.)  (Ideally, able to communicate in both Portuguese and Spanish.)

- Cultural competency a plus

- Conversant in English.

- Familiarity with word processing and use of the internet.  (Ideally capable with Excel, Word, Gmail, and Googledocs.) 

- Energetic, independently motivated, with an ability to work in a team.

                           

Salary based on experience

Reports to the Director of the BWG.

Position to start in as soon as possible.  Two-week training required (paid). Please see the PDF below for the full description

workers-rights.pdf