Job Description
General Job Description
The Deportation Defense Organizer leads TRP’s community protection and defense work. In coordination with the IJ team and partner organizations, the Deportation Defense Organizer designs and implements TRP’s rapid response work, organizes participatory deportation defense campaigns, and participates in all immigrant justice campaigns.
Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Serves as first point of contact for immigration enforcement actions threatening families and communities, including deportation or ICE raid alerts and determines course of action following alert
- Works in partnership with other organizations to build deportation defense rapid response infrastructure to protect families and communities
- Convenes community and organizational partners
- Attends and represents TRP at interagency and community meetings and roundtables
- Builds relationships with local schools, churches, and neighborhood institutions to support deportation defense work
- Develops and leads participatory deportation defense campaigns including for individual deportation cases.
- Actively participate in public education workshops regarding important immigration issues facing the community.
- Assist with implementation of communications and media strategy related to deportation defense
- Must keep current of changes in immigration law and procedures.
- Cultivate, manage, and expand relationships with participants, leaders and TRP partner institutions to promote and further TRP’s organizational mission.
- Maintain required job skills and core professional competencies.
- Attend and participate in required educational programs and staff meetings.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Performance Measures
- Successful development and implementation of rapid response strategy
- Successful development and implementation of deportation defense campaigns and actions including rapid response, ICE check-ins, court hearings, press conferences and other public events
- Number of community and inter-organizational convenings
- Attendance and activeparticipation at partnermeetings