Human Rights Jobs in Seattle, WA (NOW HIRING)

Employment Type: Full-Time; Exempt, Temporary

Duration: 18 months (anticipated end date of February 2028)
Program Area: Policy
Reports To: Chief of Staff
Full Time Salary Band: $82,000 - $100,000
Location: Flex/remote and in-person in either Seattle, Vancouver, or Yakima Office

ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND

OneAmerica (OA) organizes immigrant and refugee leaders and our allies in Washington State to build power in our communities and run campaigns that ensure immigrants are not only protected and can survive, but that immigrants can thrive and are equal, valued, and loved.

Established in 2001 by U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, we have since grown to become a locally and nationally recognized leader in advancing immigrant, civil, and human rights. Our family of organizations consists of OneAmerica (OA) (501(c)3), OneAmerica Votes (OAV) (501(c)4), OneAmerica Votes Justice Fund (State PAC), OneAmerica Votes Justice for All Fund (Federal PAC).

OA envisions a peaceful world where every person's human rights and dignity are respected, where communities appreciate differences and stand together for justice and equality, and where each person contributes to the common good. All of our work is grounded in our Theory of Change and guided by the conviction that people directly impacted should lead our movement for justice because they are best equipped to create real solutions that build lasting power. Grassroots immigrant leaders-our base-drive priorities across our organization.

You will be stepping into an organization in a strong position: 25 years of relationship-building and political credibility, stable and growing funding, and deeply committed leadership and staff. But what makes this position truly exceptional is the nature of the fight itself. Immigrants are under attack nationally, and Washington State is where we push back, where we win, and where we're actively modeling for the rest of the country what it looks like to fully include immigrants as part of the fabric of our communities.

This is a chance to be at the center of that fight: to lead a resistance movement inside an organization committed to long-term power-building and real wins for immigrants in Washington State. For the right person, there is no more exciting or meaningful place to work.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Washington for All (WA4ALL) Coalition Lead is a hands-on senior coalition role responsible for leading and operationalizing the WA4ALL coalition strategy, partner engagement, and external alignment across advocacy, policy, organizing, electoral, corporate accountability, and narrative campaigns.

Under the direction of the Chief of Staff, this role translates organizational priorities into a disciplined coalition strategy and the day-to-day systems needed to move partners toward shared action. The Coalition Lead will recruit, engage, and organize a broad-based, big-tent table that makes space for organizations across the movement spectrum, including labor, business, faith, service, nonprofit, community, elected, and advocacy sectors.

This role requires both strategic leadership and strong execution: the ability to hold complex relationships, manage political dynamics, facilitate alignment, track commitments, support mobilization, coordinate communications, and move work forward through influence, clarity, and follow-through.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Coalition Organizing & Leadership (30%)

• Recruit, engage, and organize a broad-based, big-tent table across labor, business, faith, service, nonprofit, community, elected, advocacy, and other aligned sectors.
• Develop and maintain coalition strategy in alignment with organizational goals, campaign priorities, movement-building objectives, and power analysis.
• Assess coalition health, political alignment, risks, opportunities, and capacity gaps; elevate issues early and recommend course corrections.
• Represent the organization in coalition spaces, campaign tables, partner conversations, and external meetings as appropriate.
• Manage complex partner dynamics with transparency, diplomacy, strategic clarity, and a commitment to directly impacted communities.

Mass Base Mobilization and Collective Action (30%)

• Partner with organizing leaders and coalition partners to define mobilization goals, participation ladders, geographic priorities, turnout targets, and escalation calendars.
• Coordinate and track partner commitments for public actions, advocacy days, trainings, community forums, rapid response, and other collective action opportunities.
• Ensure partners have the tools, scripts, training materials, accessibility supports, and culturally responsive engagement resources needed to mobilize effectively.

Narrative and Communications Alignment (15%)

• Ensure coalition partners are aligned around core messages, spokespeople, stories, timing, calls to action, and rapid-response protocols.
• Identify opportunities for credible messengers across faith, labor, business, community, youth, immigrant, elected, and other constituencies.
• Coordinate distribution of partner updates, meeting summaries, toolkits, talking points, advocacy alerts, graphics, and campaign materials.
• Collect partner stories, community examples, local messengers, field intelligence, and feedback that can strengthen narrative strategy.

Project Management, Governance, and Accountability (20%)

• Design and facilitate regular coalition meetings, partner briefings, working groups, campaign check-ins, rapid-response coordination spaces, and strategy sessions.
• Maintain coalition work plans, timelines, meeting agendas, notes, action trackers, shared documents, decision logs, partner databases, and communication systems.
• Ensure clear follow-up after coalition meetings, public actions, partner conversations, and internal coordination meetings.
• Support internal coordination across departments and ensure coalition activity is aligned with organizational strategy.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with executive leaders, organizers, advocates, community-based organizations, faith leaders, labor partners, business allies, service providers, nonprofit leaders, and other movement stakeholders.

OneAmerica staff responsibilities (5%)

• Attend internal meetings, including staff meetings and staff retreats.
• Support voter outreach events, OA's gala, and fundraising phonebanks.
• Support advocacy campaigns and organization-wide meetings.

QUALIFICATIONS & ATTRIBUTES

OneAmerica is seeking candidates who are passionate about our mission and are highly proactive. While no one candidate will embody all the qualifications below, our ideal candidate would bring:

REQUIRED

• 5-8 years of experience in coalition coordination or leadership, community organizing, advocacy, campaigns, public policy, corporate accountability, movement-building, nonprofit leadership, or related work; equivalent lived and professional experience welcome.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting, engaging, and coordinating diverse partners across labor, business, faith, service, nonprofit, community, advocacy, and/or elected-leader networks.
• Experience leading or managing coalitions, alliances, campaign tables, multi-stakeholder partnerships, or high-stakes collaborative efforts.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to track details, deadlines, commitments, decision points, and follow-up across multiple workstreams.
• Strong understanding of advocacy strategy, campaign planning, power-building, narrative change, legislative processes, civic engagement, and/or corporate pressure campaigns.
• Excellent facilitation, written communication, partner communication, negotiation, and conflict-navigation skills.
• Deep commitment to racial equity, social justice, community power, shared leadership, language justice, and inclusive coalition practice.

PREFERRED

• Strong political judgment, discretion, emotional intelligence, and ability to navigate sensitive political, interpersonal, and organizational dynamics.
• Comfort working in fast-paced, evolving environments with ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Experience supporting or leading mass mobilization, public action, escalation, or non-cooperation strategies preferred.
• Experience supervising staff, consultants, vendors, fellows, or cross-functional project teams preferred.
• Existing relationships with advocacy, organizing, labor, faith, business, community, policy, or movement partners are preferred.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Willingness to accommodate community-based scheduling needs such as evening and weekend meetings.
• Access to reliable transportation and willingness to travel throughout Washington State and nationally on occasion.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Ability to be on a computer for the majority of the day.
• Travel within the state (roughly 3-5 times a year if Seattle based. If located in other parts of Washington, roughly once a month).
• Ability to have multiple phone calls a day.
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• This is a hybrid position within the state of Washington and can be based out of our Seattle, Vancouver, or Yakima office. In-office twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays);
• Open to someone starting remotely and relocating to Washington state with the possibility of a relocation package
• Flexibility within Washington State
  

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage, including vision, dental, life insurance; long-term disability; 20 weeks of family and medical leave; and more;
• Other benefits include cell phone and transportation stipends, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), 403(b) retirement plan with 4% employer match
• Five weeks of PTO in years 0-3, six weeks for years 4-6, seven weeks of PTO after 7 years of service;
• 8 hours of PTO annually to honor staff birthdays to help them recharge and celebrate their special day
• Three months paid sabbatical after every five years of service;
• OneAmerica is committed to work/life balance and encourages meeting-free Fridays, and Summer-free Fridays (3-day weekends for two months in the summer);
• We have a transparent compensation philosophy and offer cost-of-living and annual merit-based raises;
• We are committed to employee growth and advancement, including professional development investments

INTERVIEW PROCESS ORDER

• Phone screen interview
• Virtual first panel interview
• Virtual second panel interview with a performance task. All candidates who submit performance task and attend the second interview will receive a $100 e-gift card for compensation of their time.
• Virtual or in-person final interview with the Hiring Manager and Director

Desired start date: October 19, 2026

Apply by: August 30, 2026

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OneAmerica is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.