Location: Los Angeles, CA
Reporting To: Board of Directors
Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000 plus benefits 
Application Deadline: Friday, July 17 (Priority Application Deadline: Friday, July 10)
Start Date: September 2026

About LABWC: The Los Angeles Black Worker Center’s (LABWC) mission is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ Black workers through action and unionization. 

Founded in 2011, LABWC was the first worker center in California dedicated to tackling the Black jobs crisis head-on. Since then, it has grown into a nationally recognized organization at the forefront of advancing Black worker power, economic justice, and workplace democracy. Through leadership development, worker organizing, policy advocacy, and movement-building, LABWC equips Black workers to challenge systemic inequities and build collective power in their workplaces and communities.

KEY PRIORITIES DURING YOUR FIRST YEAR

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

​WHO YOU ARE:

• Mission & Values Alignment. You believe in building a world where Black workers thrive in an equitable economy. You are committed to increasing access to quality jobs, reducing employment discrimination, and advancing Black worker power through organizing, advocacy, and collective action.
• Organizer & Political Strategist. You bring deep knowledge of the LA political landscape and experience in Black-led organizing, building campaigns that center Black voices, develop leaders, and grow collective power. You leverage data, community feedback, and lived experiences to understand what is happening on the ground, inform strategy, and advance campaigns that build collective power.
• Commitment to Political Education. You bring a deep understanding of labor rights, Black worker history, and the structural conditions shaping workers’ lives. You are committed to your own ongoing political learning and growth, and design and lead educational programs that equip organizers with the analysis, skills, and tools needed to expand their impact, deepen their leadership, and advance LABWC’s mission.
• Resource Mobilization & Donor Stewardship. You lead resource mobilization and donor stewardship, building trust-based relationships with partners and funders rooted in LABWC’s mission and the dignity of Black workers, while using data and insight to diversify funding streams and respond to shifting political and funding landscapes.
• Narrative Stewardship & Storytelling. You lead narrative strategy as a core power-building function, centering the lived experiences of Black workers to strengthen organizing campaigns, influence policy debates, shift public discourse, and advance collective action toward liberation.
• Principled Struggle In-Action. You create a culture where disagreement, feedback, and accountability are embraced as essential to growth, collective leadership, and Black worker liberation. You hold staff, members, and partners with care, dignity, and high expectations, navigating conflict directly and constructively while strengthening trust, alignment, and shared responsibility across the organization.
• Adaptive Leadership. You navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities with flexibility and sound judgment, responding to evolving community conditions, political contexts, and organizing needs in financial decision-making and resource allocation.
• Cultural Humility & Empathy. You operate with deep respect for communities of color, bringing equity, lived experience, and cultural humility into Co-ED leadership, collaboration, and decision-making.
• Change Management. You help stabilize and strengthen systems during periods of leadership transition, translating new direction into clear, workable processes while supporting teams to adapt with confidence and continuity.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT: This is an in-person position, located in Los Angeles, CA

COMPENSATION: $130,000 – $150,000 annually, plus benefits. 

BENEFITS: LABWC provides a comprehensive benefits package including 100% medical, vision, and dental coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan annually, with an increased accrual rate based on the number of years of employment, 10 sick days, and additional paid holiday time off.

About Our Selection Process: Before you decide to apply, please review our Frequently Asked Questions (here). Our process includes three rounds, each offering opportunities for us to get to know one another:

• Round 1: Application submission and a one-way video interview (take your interview) due by Tuesday, July 17, 2026. The Priority Deadline is Friday, July 10. This stage includes four interview questions, which candidates complete on their own time.
• Round 2: A live, 60-minute interview via Zoom with the hiring committee. 
• Round 3: Final interviews with the two finalists, scheduled for August 11 & 14, at the LABWC office in Los Angeles.  

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Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and Black, indigenous, people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Uproot Talent, we are committed to partnering with organizations who are intentional about building diverse, inclusive and authentic workplaces – so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.