​We seek a collaborative and strategic thinker to lead our team of grassroots campaigners to achieve policy and systems change across our programs and issue areas. The Director will lead efforts to translate EJUSA’s bold and transformative vision into concrete policy initiatives and strategies that leverage grassroots power and grasstops organizing, coalition building, and strategic communications to achieve change, primarily at the state and city levels. They should be an experienced manager with a grounding in racial equity and the skills to oversee teams that frequently work with communities of people who have been impacted by trauma, including those who have been harmed by violence or have harmed others. The ideal candidate will be both a visionary and a “chess master” strategist with an organizer’s sensibility, who can align the pursuit of short-term wins with long-term vision and values. A passion for and commitment to healing and transformational change in our nation’s justice system is essential.

​We seek an innovative, strategic, systems thinker to lead all of EJUSA’s programs, translating EJUSA’s bold vision of healing and transformation into concrete programmatic goals and impact. This seasoned leader will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for all program areas and will collaborate with program and executive staff to strengthen and grow current programs and foster new ideas. They will oversee a dynamic and passionate program team of 11 (soon 15) staff in multiple locations, including three direct reports (a Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, a Director of National Organizing, and a Director of Training and Capacity Building). EJUSA has a strong track record behind the scenes and is now emerging as a more visible force on the cutting edge of reimagining justice for communities that have long been harmed. This is an exciting opportunity to coalesce our work under one banner, build a robust and energetic program team, infuse racial equity more deeply across our programs, and work with some of the smartest organizers and strategists in the movement to take EJUSA to the next level.

​FRRC is looking for Fellows in each region where an Organizer is employed. The organizing team is responsible for increasing community awareness about the efforts of FRRC with a goal of creating active chapters of Returning Citizens, connecting Returning Citizens with the organization, and fostering relationships with faith communities. The Organizing Fellow will work directly with the Director of Programs. Fellows should be passionate about social justice work surrounding Returning Citizens and be able to perform grassroots community organizing.

​The Center on Sentencing and Corrections seeks a Senior Program Associate to support its work. You will be a part of the team focused on reducing the use of segregation/restrictive housing/solitary confinement. This position reports to the project director for the current Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative. Initially you will be assigned one agency to focus on, with an opportunity to expand to other systems as the project grows and evolves.

The project: Since the 1980s, U.S. prisons and jails have increasingly relied on the use of segregation—also known as restrictive housing, isolation, or solitary confinement—to maintain order and manage their populations. The use of segregation remains a mainstay of prison management and control despite evidence pointing to potentially devastating psychological effects, the increased expense of housing people in restrictive housing, and the lack of evidence that the use of restrictive housing leads to greater institutional safety or public safety of the communities to which those who have been held under such severe conditions will return. That said, the tide is turning and corrections officials across the country are motivated to reform this practice.

Vera has partnered with corrections agencies since 2010 to safely reduce their reliance on segregation and develop alternative strategies. Since that time, we have worked in 16 jurisdictions across the country, helping systems achieve segregation population reductions as high as 85 percent. Vera is moving into a new phase of the work, which will involve working intensively in states to implement reforms that will drive down the use of solitary even further than has already been achieved, engage external stakeholders to support reform efforts, and disseminate new promising practices being implemented in Vera’s jurisdictions and in other systems to the field. 

The FICPFM network is seeking a driven, inspired and energetic National Organizer to help launch an inaugural campaign designed to grow and strengthen the network by: (1) consolidating and interconnecting political power through civic engagement activities; (2) organize and mobilize network organizations for policy change and (3) shift American culture towards inclusive language regarding people and families with criminal records. We will do this by focusing on citizenship, democracy, and continuing the legacy of civil rights struggles with directly impacted people in the center of national leadership.

The National Organizer will work with FICPFM organizations to mobilize directly impacted communities across the country in support of civic engagement and advocacy campaigns to end mass incarceration policies. The ideal candidate is an experienced organizer who has led grassroots, policy and advocacy campaigns. This position will involve connecting organizations, campaign leaders, and organizing formerly incarcerated leaders from across the United States into a powerful force for change while assisting in the development and managing of innovative campaigns in cities across the country. This position will report to the FICPFM National Director and other staff as needed.

Facing Addiction with NCADD is a national non-profit organization dedicated to unifying the voices of the more than 45 million Americans and their families directly impacted by addiction by bringing together the best resources in the field in order to reduce the human and social costs of addiction, every year, until this public health crisis is eliminated. We are currently expanding our field team with a new work from home opportunity (no relocation necessary):

The Outreach Organizer will assist and report to the Director of Outreach & Engagement in the conception, execution, and delivery of key organizational programming.
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Job responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Working directly with local communities for organizing and training project
• Assist with the execution of follow-up gatherings post organizing training
• Coordinate local efforts in targeted communities to ensure that strategies are being utilized
• Help to troubleshoot challenges faced by local communities
• Deliver organizing training to communities over time
• Assist in the execution of grassroots calls to action
• Work with and develop relationships with local partnering organizations around the country
• Other responsibilities, including administrative duties, as they arise