Now hiring: Welcoming & Immigrant Inclusion Fellow
Join our growing team of rural storytellers and relationship builders as a Welcoming and Immigrant Inclusion Fellow.
Rural Assembly is currently recruiting for a position in partnership with Welcoming America, a nonprofit organization that supports communities in building a welcoming society where every person, including immigrants, can fully contribute and shape our shared prosperity.
This fellow will support the Rural Assembly and Welcoming America in a portfolio of work dedicated to rural welcoming and immigrant inclusion. The fellowship is hosted and overseen by Rural Assembly.
Responsibilities
The scope of the paid fellowship will include:
- Researching and exploring successful examples of rural welcoming and immigrant inclusion, in collaboration with rural members of the Welcoming America community.
- Spotlighting promising practices through creation of blog posts, podcasts, and other media, featuring the work of Welcoming America communities and leveraging the platforms of the Rural Assembly.
- Developing a campaign to support Welcoming Week activities for rural communities, offering an on-ramp and resources for those interested in getting started with welcoming work.
- Supporting outreach efforts by Welcoming America to uplift its Rural Welcoming Initiative and offer opportunities to participate for rural communities outside of the network.
- Attending relevant events, conferences, and sessions examining welcoming and immigrant inclusion in rural areas.
About Us
The Rural Assembly is a movement of rural leaders and organizations from across the country working toward creating a more inclusive nation.
For nearly 15 years, the Rural Assembly has created and curated events, activities, and multimedia in ways that amplify rural stories and voices with key audiences. We’ve sought out ways to build bridges with urban-based groups and coalitions, and we’ve participated in advocacy campaigns aimed at strengthening all kinds of rural infrastructure, including broadband, arts & culture, and health, to name a few.
We believe rural communities are places of innovation, compassionate leadership, and civic participation. There is an opportunity right now to draw the connections between rural and its counterparts, to name the roads, fibers, and futures that connect us. To craft a future of us and ours. The Rural Assembly exists in this space, tending relationships and changing perceptions in service to healing a divided nation.
How to Apply
Fill out our interest form online, then a member of our team will contact you.
Additional Information and Full Position Description
Our staff (and contractors) are located in numerous places across the country. Today and in the pre-Covid era we have relied on a distributed workforce. We are committed to building an inclusive team that reflects and champions the full diversity of rural communities and our nation at large.
The hiring organization is the Center for Rural Strategies, a national nonprofit that uses communications and media to improve conditions in the countryside. In addition to the Rural Assembly, Rural Strategies publishes the Daily Yonder, a digital media organization dedicated to telling the stories of rural communities and small towns across America (and beyond).