NAKASEC hiring: National Organizing & Policy Coordinator

[Sookyung Oh]

Description: National Organizing & Policy Coordinator

Full-time, in Chicago, IL

Website: http://nakasec.org/7663

Description: Founded by local community-based organizations in 1994, NAKASEC’s mission is to organize Korean and Asian Americans to achieve social, racial and economic justice. NAKASEC’s affiliates: Korean Resource Center in Los Angeles and Orange County, Hana Center in Chicago and NAKASEC Virginia in Annandale empower the most vulnerable community members including the low-income, recent immigrant, limited English proficient, undocumented, youth, women and seniors. Through education, social service, community organizing, public policy advocacy and civic participation, NAKASEC & Affiliates ensure that these community members can impact progressive change at the local and national levels.

Key Responsibilities: 

Organizing 

• Immigrant Rights & Civic Engagement Campaigns: Working with NAKASEC’s Chicago affiliate HANA Center to implement campaigns at the local level towards national campaign goals. 
  
• Adoptee Rights Campaign: Work in close collaboration with the Adoptee Rights Campaign to support campaign development, implementation and evaluation. 
• New Affiliates & Partners: Coordinate NAKASEC’s efforts to build new affiliates and partners in strategic cities/states including conducting listening sessions, meeting with local community-based organizations and state coalitions and researching the local political landscape. 

Public Policy 

• Monitoring public policy developments related to NAKASEC’s campaigns and programs.
• Providing policy updates and briefings for NAKASEC affiliates as needed.
• Communicating and building relationships with government and elected officials’ offices. 

Coalition and Community building 

• Participate in, develop and lead coalition efforts with NAKASEC’s current national and local partners for its current campaigns and programs including the DREAM Act and Adoptee Citizenship Act.
• Develop and grow relationships with new and non-traditional partners. 

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Sookyung Oh

(pronouns: she/her/hers)

D.C. Area Director, NAKASEC

Organizing Korean and Asian Americans to achieve racial, economic, and social justice.

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4304 Evergreen Lane, Suite 104, Annandale, VA 22003

(t) 703-256-2208

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Affiliated with Korean Resource Center (Los Angeles & Orange County) and Hana Center (Chicago)