The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is excited to announce – We are Hiring a Director of People & Resources and a Director of Communications!
Read more about our mission, the positions, work, compensation, and qualifications below.
Our Mission
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. SRLP is a collective organization founded on the understanding that gender self-determination is inextricably intertwined with racial, social and economic justice. Therefore, we seek to increase the political voice and visibility of low-income people of color who are transgender, intersex, or gender non-conforming. SRLP works to improve access to respectful and affirming social, health, and legal services for our communities. We believe that in order to create meaningful political participation and leadership, we must have access to basic means of survival and safety from violence.
Director of People & Resources
The Director of People & Resources will work to ensure SRLP Staff and Collective have the resources and support they need to achieve the organization’s mission. The Director coordinates recruitment and hiring processes, benefits enrollment and administration, and oversees evaluation processes across the organization with an eye for staff professional growth. This position directs the provision of Human Resources services, policies, and programs for SRLP. The Director of People & Resources is part of the SRLP Collective, the leadership body of the organization, and participates in all decision making processes, staff meetings, retreats, and shared organizational responsibilities.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage human resources systems and work with all staff to ensure efficient, accurate, timely, and compliant administration.
- Lead the recruitment, hiring, orientation, and offboarding of staff, consultants and Collective members.
- Design a comprehensive onboarding and offboarding process for staff, consultants, and Collective members to ensure that individuals and SRLP have the necessary resources for success.
- Administer and process benefits.
- Tracking timesheets and accruals.
- Manage regular Collective Member supervision and evaluations.
- Work with the Collective to coordinate conflict mediation processes, transformative justice policies, such as anti-oppression trainings.
- Coordinate company-wide learning opportunities, such as sexual harassment trainings.
- Create professional development pathways and recommendations that enhance the staff and Collective experience.
- Ensure legal compliance, reporting, and practices are in place and remain current in local, state, and federal laws.
- Manage all labor and employment compliance issues, working closely with outside legal counsel as necessary.
- Help ensure a healthy, supportive, and sustainable work environment by updating organizational policies that adheres to SRLP’s values.
Areas of Shared Responsibility and Staff Coordination
- Participate in the Collective Development Team’s work, including:
- Organizing board meetings and annual collective retreats.
- Improving and maintaining our infrastructure and capacity for work to continue in a sustainable and non-hierarchical way.
- Increase the participation, decision-making, and leadership of low-income trans people and trans people of color in organizational governance.
- Contribute to short- and long-term organizational planning and strategy.
- Participate in Collective-wide responsibilities including attending monthly meetings, annual retreats, co-supervision, and team meetings.
- Coordinate staff and collective training to increase skills and address growth areas.
- Coordinate development and communication of emergency and safety planning protocols.
- Coordinate office cleaning (shared responsibility among all staff).
Skills and Qualifications:
- 5 years experience in the small non-profit sector.
- Experience with building and managing human resource processes and policies.
- Experience with health expense reimbursement for gender affirming and inclusive care.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational development skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and respond quickly to new opportunities.
- Proficiency in tools such as Microsoft Excel and JustWorks.
- Proficiency with insurance platforms for benefits administration.
- Attention to detail and strong ability to work independently.
- Commitment to gender self-determination centered in racial and economic justice.
- Ability to work in a non-hierarchical collective organization.
Hours and Compensation:
This position is a full-time, salaried position with medical, dental and optical benefits as well as three weeks paid vacation. SRLP works in a hybrid working environment. 40 hours/week, some evenings and weekends as necessary. $125,000/year. Consistent with our values as a collective, all staff receive salaries based on the same hourly rate.
How to Apply:
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and three references to the Hiring Committee, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, 147 W. 24th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011 or to hiring@srlp.org.
Applications should be submitted by September 30, 2024. they will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
No phone calls please. We will only contact applicants we intend to interview.
SRLP is an equal opportunity employer. Trans, gender non-conforming and intersex people and people of color, people with disabilities, formerly incarcerated people, and people from low-income backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
SRLP Seeks Director of Communications
Our Mission
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. SRLP is a collective organization founded on the understanding that gender self-determination is inextricably intertwined with racial, social and economic justice. Therefore, we seek to increase the political voice and visibility of low-income people of color who are transgender, gender non-conforming, or intersex (TGNCI). SRLP works to improve access to respectful and affirming social, health, and legal services for our communities. We believe that in order to create meaningful political participation and leadership, we must have access to basic means of survival and safety from violence.
Director of Communications
SRLP is seeking a passionate and dedicated Director of Communications to lead the organization’s communications strategy, amplify the voices of TGNCI communities, and strengthen SRLP’s public presence. This role is pivotal in shaping SRLP’s messaging, advocacy, and organizing efforts. The Director of Communications will work closely with SRLP’s collective, staff, and member base to support the organization’s mission, raise public awareness, and mobilize supporters around key issues affecting TGNCI individuals. The Director of Communications is part of the SRLP Collective and will participate in Collective decision making processes, staff meetings, retreats, and will share administrative and organizational responsibilities with other Collective members.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop, execute, and track a comprehensive communication strategy aligned with SRLP’s mission, values, goals and organizational needs.
- Manage SRLP’s digital presence by creating and distributing op-eds, blog posts, newsletters, reports, direct mail, and public education materials to increase organizational reach and following.
- Coordinate media responses and serve as a spokesperson when appropriate.
- Manage SRLP’s social media platforms, website, and digital outreach, ensuring consistent and inclusive messaging across all channels.
- Manage the production of multimedia content (videos, infographics, etc.) to support advocacy and fundraising efforts.
- Work with SRLP’s Movement Building Team and Direct Service Team to craft compelling narratives that highlight the experiences of SRLP’s clients and community members, amplifying their voices through publications and campaigns.
- Collaborate with development and Collective on communications strategies that enhance fundraising efforts, including campaigns and donor engagement.
- Build the social media and public speaking skills of Collective and community members through skill-shares and trainings.
- Work collectively with staff and community members to ensure the health and sustainability of the organization.
Areas of Shared Responsibility and Staff Coordination:
- Participate in the Collective Development Team’s work, including:
- Organizing board meetings and annual collective retreats.
- Improving and maintaining our infrastructure and capacity for work to continue in a sustainable and non-hierarchical way.
- Increase the participation, decision-making, and leadership of low-income trans people and trans people of color in organizational governance.
- Contribute to short- and long-term organizational planning and strategy.
- Participate in Collective-wide responsibilities including attending monthly meetings, annual retreats, co-supervision, and team meetings.
- Coordinate staff and collective training to increase skills and address growth areas.
- Coordinate development and communication of emergency and safety planning protocols.
- Coordinate office cleaning (shared responsibility among all staff).
Skills and Qualifications:
- Deep commitment to SRLP’s mission and values, with a strong understanding of the challenges faced by TGNCI communities, especially those who are low-income, incarcerated, and people of color.
- At least 5 years of demonstrated success with managing a portfolio that spans communications, digital campaigns, and media relations, preferably in the nonprofit or social justice sectors.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain relationships with media contacts and community partners.
- Proven success in implementing digital strategies and campaigns that raised at least $25k.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and respond quickly to new opportunities.
- Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex issues in clear, accessible language.
- Tech savvy with preferred proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, social media, graphic design, video editing, or other multimedia tools.
- Excellent project management and time management abilities, demonstrated ability juggling multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Quick thinker and ability to make decisions under pressure.
- Ability to work in a non-hierarchical collective.
- Familiarity with issues related to prison abolition, racial justice, and gender liberation is highly desirable.
- Bi-lingual (Spanish/English) preferred.
Hours and Compensation:
This position is a full-time, salaried position with medical, dental and optical benefits as well as three weeks paid vacation and professional development opportunities. SRLP works in a hybrid working environment. 40 hours/week, some evenings and weekends as necessary. $125,000/year. Consistent with our values as a collective, all staff receive salaries based on the same hourly rate.
How to Apply:
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, three references and two writing samples that demonstrate alignment to SRLP’s values, your experience with storytelling in advocacy, and how you support the voices of marginalized communities. Applications should be sent to the Hiring Committee at hiring@srlp.org.
Applications should be submitted by October 15, 2024 and will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled. No phone calls please. We will only contact applicants we intend to interview.
SRLP is an equal opportunity employer. Transgender folks and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
SRLP is Seeking Interns
Intern with the Movement Building Team!
The Movement Building Team is a collaboration of SRLP members who identify as low income trans, intersex, gender non-conforming folks and trans, intersex, gender non-conforming people of color along with SRLP staff. The MBT was designed to build and grow the leadership skills while developing and coordinating community workshops, discussions, celebrations and events for low income trans, intersex, gender non-conforming folks and trans, intersex, gender non-conforming people of color. Interns at SRLP work on a range of issues affecting low-income transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming people of color.
Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC)
Interns with MBT would primarily be supporting the work of the Prisoner Advisory Committee. Learning and engaging with SRLP’s prison work to help advance the work of PAC, working closely with the Director of Outreach and Community Engagement and other staff in assisting with tasks related to the Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC), including but not limited to;
- Participating in outreach, coordination and logistics related to PAC card writing events and other MBT related events.
- Review and update publication materials.
- Co-facilitate, skill shares and participating in workshops around abolition and SRLP’s PIC work.
- Conducting research and building workshop materials around the impact that trans and gender non-conforming folks experience within the prison industrial complex.
- Supporting the development and production of our bi-annually newsletter “In Solidarity” that goes out to PAC members on the inside.
- Design and layout production and design of our annual calendar.
- Distribution of correspondence, mailing updates and member certificates to PAC members.
- Responding to PAC member correspondence submissions.
- Processing new PAC member forms, support with legal and non-legal volunteer mailing parties, envelope stuffing, other required tasks to support the program.
- Maintaining addresses and release dates for all PAC members and tracking them in excel and other databases.
- Processing new PAC member forms, supporting with legal and non-legal volunteer mailing parties, evelope stuffing, and other required tasks to support the program.
Internship skills needed
Applicants must have a commitment to working towards self-determination for gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence as SRLP is a collective organization founded on the understanding that gender self-determination is inextricably intertwined with racial, social and economic justice. People of color, trans people, gender non-conforming people and people with intersex conditions are strongly encouraged to apply. Must be willing to work individually and in a team setting. Fluency in Spanish is preferred but not at all a requirement. Microsoft Publisher, InDesign and other graphic design platforms preferred.
Work hours:
Internships are 15-20 hours/week during the summer and usually last twelve weeks. Internships are unpaid. Please indicate hours of availability and date available to start in the cover letter. The office is open from 10-6pm M-F. Dress code; Casual
How to Apply:
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to kimberly@srlp.org
