Legal Director

The California Domestic Workers Coalition (CDWC) is a coalition of grassroots domestic worker-led organizations and solidarity partners. We are building a movement in California to demand respect for the majority women of color and immigrant women workforce and their work, value care work and interdependence, and change cultural norms about caregiving and women’s labor. Led by immigrant women workers, we build power and make our rights a reality through legislative advocacy, implementation, and enforcement to hold harmful systems accountable. We invest in collective healing and create more just communities through cultural work and leadership development, and we expand our reach and inspire our movement to grow by creating new grassroots organizing models and waging innovative campaigns.

About the Position : Legal Director

The Legal Director will serve as lead employment and labor law expert and advisor to CDWC on domestic worker enforcement and policy issues. They will demonstrate experience and alignment with CDWC vision and values, including a commitment to economic, racial and gender justice.

A strong candidate for this position will have a proven track record of success in developing policy and workplace protections for low-wage and immigrant workers as well as developing and implementing legal strategies for labor rights compliance and enforcement.

They will be rooted and have experience in movement building organizations, a highly relational, effective communicator – adept at building trust and partnership across lines of race, class, gender, and other identities. They will be deeply rooted in equity and justice, with the belief in the stake domestic workers have in creating a world that centers care and interdependence where all people live, work, and age with dignity and in their full humanity.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide sound legislative analysis and recommendations for policy development in state and municipal campaigns, including leading research, tracking legal developments via litigation, administrative and legislative advocacy that impact domestic workers; and monitoring and providing legal analysis for defensive efforts to combat the enactment of policies that adversely impact domestic worker rights.
• Write policies and research briefs that advance CDWC priorities and affirmative legislative employment / labor reforms.
• In collaboration with the CDWC Director, Deputy Director, Campaigns Manager, and lead affiliate organizations, develop and conduct state and municipal campaign strategies and advocacy.
• Develop strategic partnerships and alliances with other legal advocates to lift up the issues of domestic worker rights enforcement and expansion, and represent CDWC in coalitions, conferences and panels.

Legal Advocacy, Rights Implementation and Enforcement

Capacity Building, Education and Outreach

Requirements

Skills and Qualifications

Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this position is between $85,000 and $100,000 annually, DOE.

This is a full-time, salaried, exempt position. The CDWC team works a 40-hour work week.

Through our fiscal sponsor, the Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund, we offer a competitive benefits package, including generous paid holiday schedule, health, dental, vision and flex spending benefits; 401k retirement program; professional development opportunities; wellness reimbursement benefit and allowances for remote workspace.

Our central operations are based in San Francisco, Oakland and Downtown LA, and your primary residence may be located in Southern California or Northern California. This position is hybrid remote and in-person. Staff will be required to attend in-person meetings, gatherings, mobilizations and activities, and travel as necessary within California and to other parts of the country for speaking events, meetings, and conferences.

How to Apply

Send resume, 1-2 page cover letter as to why you are interested in the position and what experiences makes you a qualified candidate, 3 references, and three relevant work examples in PDF form to jobs@cadomesticworkers.org.

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity as central to our work serving underrepresented communities, and we encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

This position will be open until filled.

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