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Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) is an equal opportunity employer looking for committed individuals willing to work with people of every faith to bring about positive change for workers.

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Last updated May 28, 2008

Employment Oppportunies

Organizing Director
The Organizing Director is responsible for leading the development of new affiliates and providing technical assistant for existing affiliates, coordinating IWJ's dynamic economic justice campaigns, and supervising and training a growing department of staff and interns.

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Internships

Seminary Summer/Islamic Internship for Worker Justice
A paid, 10-week summer internship program for future religious leaders of all faiths.See more information here
IWJ Summer Internship
A paid, 10-week summer internship program for undergraduate students of all faiths.See more information here
Catholic Social Teaching Internship
A paid, 10-week summer internship program with a Catholic social teaching component for undergraduate students.See more information here
Development Intern
The Intern provides support for the Development Department, including donor research. The position is directly accountable to the Associate Development Director and reports to the Executive Director on personnel work.See full description in PDF format
For more information on all of our internship opportunities please visit our Student Opportunities page.

Other Volunteer Opportunities Volunteers are asked to commit to working with IWJ on a regular basis. If you are interested in these or other volunteer opportunities, please contact Cathy Junia at (773) 728-8400 ext. 13.

Communications Volunteer
IWJ is looking to strengthen our outreach to the media by working with religious clergy around the country to place op-ed pieces in publications and write statements from various faith traditions on economic justice issues.Volunteers would help with a variety of communications and media-related tasks, including writing Op-ed pieces for submission by board members, monitoring media regarding our issues, writing articles for denominational publications, contacting publications about publishing articles about IWJ, ayout publications (under supervision of Graphic Designer on IWJ staff), and writing stories about local group work for Faith Works newsletter.

Development Volunteer–Administrative
IWJ is looking for a volunteer to assist the Development Department in various ongoing administrative tasks including data entry maintenance and calling contacts and leads about IWJ’s new building search.

Development Volunteer–Special Projects
IWJ is looking for a volunteer to assist the Development Department in various special projects to help in the fundraising efforts of a national non-profit organization.Volunteers would assist in a variety of tasks, including managing IWJ’s Community Shares Projects, mailing Welcome Packets to new people on IWJ’s mailing list, collecting achievements from IWJ’s local affiliates for IWJ’s annual report, and identifying training needs for local affiliates related to fundraising.

Public Policy Volunteer
IWJ is looking for a volunteer to assist the Public Policy Department in various tasks to increase IWJ’s capacity to do national public policy work. Volunteers would assist in a variety of tasks, including making calls and sending emails to religious leaders and lay activists in online database system in targeted congressional districts to set up federal minimum wage delegations, data entry for marking people by congressional district in online database system in targeted districts, writing background material on particular campaigns, and researching denominational positions on key issues.