Senior Grassroots Organizer, Immigrant Rights (Remote)

HIAS Inc; Silver Spring, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HIAS Inc. is seeking a Senior Grassroots Organizer to strengthen state and local advocacy for immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees.

You will lead a portfolio of priority states, developing strategies and mobilizing Jewish, multi-faith, and immigrant-rights coalitions. The role collaborates across Advocacy and Communications to shape messaging, trainings, and tools, while tracking outcomes and funding metrics.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in grassroots/grasstops organizing, advocacy campaigns, coalition-building, community engagement or related work.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement advocacy or organizing strategies with clear goals, timelines, metrics, and partner engagement plans.
• Experience building trusted relationships with diverse partners, including advocacy coalitions, faith communities, immigrant-rights organizations and community leaders.
• Experience working with Jewish communities, synagogues, Jewish social justice organizations, or broader Jewish communal engagement networks strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of immigration, refugee, asylum, detention, or immigration enforcement policy issues preferred.
• Experience working at the state or local level, particularly in one or more priority states, preferred.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and public communication skills, including the ability to translate complex policy issues into accessible advocacy materials.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to identify field gaps, synthesize learning, and recommend practical campaign adjustments.
• Highly organized, collaborative, and self-directed, with sound judgment, discretion, cultural humility, and the ability to navigate complex community and coalition dynamics.
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends and to travel domestically as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develops and manages HIAS’ state/local grassroots advocacy strategy for an assigned portfolio of priority states, ensuring alignment with national policy priorities, Community Engagement objectives, and available grant outcomes.
• Identifies state and local policy opportunities related to immigrant rights, immigration enforcement, detention, and related protection issues, and translates those opportunities into actionable grassroots campaign strategies.
• Builds, strengthens, and sustains partnerships with Jewish community institutions, multi-faith partners, immigrant-rights coalitions, and local/state advocacy networks to expand HIAS’ impact.
• Mobilizes HIAS’ community base and partner networks to participate in local and state advocacy campaigns, including campaign education, partner outreach, public engagement, and in-district advocacy opportunities.
• Designs and delivers advocacy trainings, briefings, campaign tools, and educational resources that equip partners and community stakeholders to take informed and coordinated action.
• Serves as a HIAS representative in relevant local, state, faith-based, and coalition spaces, ensuring external engagement is consistent with HIAS’ mission, values, and policy priorities.
• Collaborates with Advocacy, Communications, Revenue, and Community Engagement colleagues to develop campaign messaging, action alerts, toolkits, talking points, website content, and funder-facing materials.
• Tracks campaign progress, partner engagement, advocacy activities, and grant-related metrics; uses data and learning to inform strategy adjustments and contribute to donor reports and proposals.
• Monitors developments in assigned states and provides timely analysis and recommendations to inform HIAS’ broader advocacy and community engagement strategy.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Grassroots organizing

Coalition-building

Advocacy campaigns

Community engagement

Public communication

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent

Job description

HIAS Inc. is seeking a Senior Grassroots Organizer to strengthen state and local advocacy for immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees.

You will lead a portfolio of priority states, developing strategies and mobilizing Jewish, multi-faith, and immigrant-rights coalitions. The role collaborates across Advocacy and Communications to shape messaging, trainings, and tools, while tracking outcomes and funding metrics.