Are you, or someone you know, looking for an opportunity to work with a union or worker justice organization? Are you a leader in your workplace, a graduating student activist, or economic justice organizer wanting to work in the labor movement?

Apply for the inaugural Apprenticeship Program, a new program designed to identify and recruit activists who are passionate about economic justice. If selected, paid apprentices will be placed with a union or worker organization for three to twelve months.

The WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program seeks to address a clear need for early career training and on-ramps to jobs with economic justice organizations. Apprentices may work in a variety of capacities, including organizing, research, communications, politics, mobilization, and policy.  They will meet as a cohort for a formal orientation and each will benefit from ongoing mentorship, with mentors both within and outside of the host organization.

The first group of apprentices will be placed with organizations across the country and will begin work in the fall of 2018. WILL Empower staff work with program graduates on job identification and recommendation.

Applications are due June 15, 2018. We have also provided a guide with more information about the Apprenticeship.

Note that this is not an internship for full-time students.  Rather, the apprenticeship is a full-time job training experience.

WILL Empower (Women Innovating Labor Leadership) is a newly-launched, multipronged initiative designed to identify, nurture, and train a new generation of women’s labor leadership. It is a joint project of Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and Rutgers University’s Center for Innovation in Working Organization.

For more information contact us at willempower.labor@gmail.com.