Job Description

The Community Engagement Coordinator builds connections between NMCLP and the communities we serve by organizing in-person and virtual events, gathering community feedback and stories, nurturing new and ongoing relationships, and driving targeted digital outreach.  This role blends hands-on community engagement with strategic digital tools to strengthen relationships and mobilize communities around policies and issues that matter most to them.

NMCLP is a nationally recognized nonprofit law firm that engages in systemic advocacy and impact litigation to advance the health, economic, and educational wellbeing of New Mexico’s families. We partner with communities across New Mexico, including immigrant and Native American communities, to provide advocacy and representation through the courts, the legislature and administrative agencies, community education, and media.  NMCLP prioritizes education, housing, food and health justice, public benefits and workers’ rights, among other issues.  To learn more about NMCLP, please visit our website at .

Responsibilities

• Community Outreach: Builds relationships and engages community members in trainings, hearings, storytelling opportunities and needs assessments.  Grows NMCLP networks through in-person and digital outreach, and works with the Communications Team to integrate messaging, materials, and storytelling opportunities into ongoing campaigns.
• Maps organizations statewide for outreach, know-your-rights trainings and materials distribution.
• Event Coordination: Plans and manages event logistics.  Tracks attendance, gathers feedback, and manages follow-up.
• Database and Contact Management: Develops and maintains a centralized contact/engagement database.  Tracks participation, history, and campaign involvement.
• Community Leadership and Mobilization: Supports and develops community leaders to take active roles in advocacy and public engagement. Shares updates and action alerts to mobilize participation. Connects community members with stories and quotes to the Communications Team and helps prepare and equip community members to lead, speak, and advocate in public forums and events. 
• Staff Support: Builds team capacity with event planning templates, outreach tools, database training, multilingual access at events, and other supports as identified. 

The position reports to the Communications Director. The position will primarily conduct outreach for 1-2 issue areas at a time while building organization wide capacities for community engagement.  The typical salary range for this position is $60,104 to $85,000, commensurate with experience.  

Qualifications and Experience:

• Demonstrates a deep understanding of and relentless commitment to NMCLP’s mission, and economic and racial justice for New Mexico’s communities.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) with strong verbal and written communication skills in both languages. 
• Outreach experience and familiarity with community organizing strategies, with the ability to design and implement a range of outreach strategies to support advocacy.
• Event and project management skills, including excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work closely and collaboratively with a diverse community, and strong organizational skills. 
• Comfort with technology, including databases, online platforms, and digital engagement tools to track, manage, and strengthen community connections.
• Ability to work autonomously and in a team environment.  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with communications, such as drafting outreach emails, designing flyers, creating social media contact and/or developing event materials. 
• Strong roots in New Mexico through personal and/or professional history. 
• Experience in a nonprofit setting. 

Things to know about the job: 

• Full-time (40 hours).
• Position is based in Albuquerque, NM and offers hybrid flexibility, while requiring some physical presence at the office and ability to attend in-person meetings. 
• We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a healthy, collaborative, and inclusive work environment for a diverse staff. We strongly encourage applications from Black, Native, and indigenous people, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+, and New Mexicans and individuals of multiple backgrounds and identities.
• We offer a competitive salary and a healthy benefits package: paid vacation, sick, and other leave (13 holidays including Juneteenth, Indigenous People’s Day and your birthday), paid parental leave, 401k retirement plan, and opportunities for professional development.

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