Deputy Director, Civil, Human, and Womens Rights

DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIVIL, HUMAN, AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS

CIVIL, HUMAN

AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS

WASHINGTON, DC [

HEADQUARTERS

] Are you passionate about economic fairness and social justice? Do you want to improve the lives of working people and strengthen the labor movement? If you answered, "Yes!" then the AFL-CIO may be the right place for you. We are the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, and our team of dynamic professionals is dedicated to growing worker power and ensuring every working person has a voice on the job. When you work at the AFL-CIO, you're more than just an individual employee—you're helping to lead a movement with a proud history and a bright future ahead. The AFL-CIO works to ensure that all workers experience fairness and equality in the workplace. It seeks to uplift the lives of workers of color, women, the LGBTQ community, and other underrepresented communities in partnership with the AFL-CIO's affiliate unions, State Federations, Central and Area Labor Councils, constituency groups, and community partners. The Deputy Director for Civil, Human, and Women's Rights serves as a key partner to the Director in developing and implementing AFL-CIO programs and activities to secure civil and human rights for all. This position supports campaigns and programs to promote workers' rights, voting rights, racial equality, immigration rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and more. The Deputy Director helps coordinate civil rights meetings and programs, including the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Conference, and serves as a senior liaison to affiliate unions, constituency groups, and community partners, including staffing executive committees.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as a strategic partner to the Director in managing the Civil, Human, and Women's Rights Department staff team and executing its priorities related to civil and human rights, racial justice, women's rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, and young workers.
• Supervise staff, providing guidance, performance feedback and ensuring alignment with departmental goals, timelines and organizational priorities.
• Support the Director in working with AFL-CIO executive officers to establish and maintain the Federation's internal and external presence in the civil rights arena.
• Assist in convening meetings of the federation's affiliate civil rights directors and constituency groups, and represent the federation at external tables and convenings as assigned.
• Help manage and cultivate relationships with AFL-CIO affiliates, labor constituencies, and progressive community groups to identify areas of collaboration and strengthen partnerships.
• Support the development and implementation of community labor outreach plans around civil, human, and women's rights and justice issues, ensuring clear strategies, realistic metrics, operational plans, and adherence to budgets and timelines.
• Help conceptualize and project-manage the creation of workshops, tools, reports, written materials, and other related materials for members and partners.
• Serve as lead staff coordinator for AFL-CIO Executive Committees as assigned, such as the Committee on Working Women.
• Provide project management support for the AFL-CIO's annual Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Conference and other convenings, including coordination, logistics, programming, outreach, and