Managing Director, Workplace Justice Lab

The workplace justice lab @ Rutgers University, which exists to tackle inequality and worker exploitation through supporting, strengthening, and fostering innovation in government and building the membership and leadership bases of worker justice organizations, is seeking a Managing Director. 

About Workplace Justice Lab @Rutgers University 

• We focus on actually ENFORCING progressive policy wins! Our Beyond the Bill program works with local, state, and federal labor agencies to significantly shift their approach to labor law enforcement. Our goal is to raise job quality across low wage, high exploitation sectors and promote co-enforcement and support for organizing as a central mechanism through which agencies can achieve compliance and workers can win just wages and conditions.
• We lead cutting edge research projects on labor violations by geographic area, race, ethnicity, gender and much more. We offer customized state and local strategic enforcement research, training, in-depth planning and technical assistance, and we design and facilitate strong collaborations between agencies and worker justice organizations.
• Our ground-breaking Build the Base, Grow the Movement training and coaching program supports learning and experimentation around a distributed organizing model for worker justice organizations to expand their membership bases and grow their leadership teams.
• We convene powerful communities of practice among government agencies interested in strategic enforcement and also among organizing groups interested in thinking together about how to leverage labor policy and enforcement structures at the local and state level to build worker power and organization. All of our work is in deep partnership with worker justice organizations on the ground and in coalition with other national organizations committed to this work.

Key Job Responsibilities 

This is a senior leadership position. We are looking for a key team leader who can manage the operations and growth of our two year old center. This is a full-time permanent position. 

The Managing Director will work with the Faculty Director to: 

• Lead strategic development, growth, and planning for the center
• Oversee the setting and implementation of goals 
• Provide daily leadership, direction, and coordination for the center
• Coordinate strategic communication, fundraising & training 
• Lead staff team building and management

Key Job Qualifications 

We are looking for someone:

• with experience in labor, community organizing, or other social justice work (including working in labor standards or civil rights enforcement).
• who has decided that their real passion is administrative management and wants to help lead strategic planning and implementation for growth.
• who is ready to provide leadership, direction, and coordination to a dynamic and growing national worker justice resource.
• who has experience in project management and grant management, staff hiring and supervision and who is comfortable with technology.
• who has experience in financial oversight, fundraising/funder communications, list management and external communications.
• who lives, or is willing to live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania or Delaware in a commutable distance from the physical Rutgers work location.