Applications due by: September 9, 2026

About the Grassroots Justice Network

The Grassroots Justice Network is a global community of over 21,100 members from 175 countries convened by Namati. We are justice defenders, activists and organizers, educators, public servants, students, and people with a passion for justice. We tackle a wide range of justice issues, from gender equality to land rights, housing discrimination, statelessness, pretrial detention, and much more. We live and work in solidarity with communities facing injustice. The Grassroots Justice Network brings justice defenders together to connect, learn, and act. We make grassroots justice a reality by putting the power of law in the hands of people. While we come from different places, we are united by a common approach – a process known as legal empowerment. Through this process, we help communities to know, use, and shape the law, so that the people most impacted by injustice can exercise their rights and take part in decisions that affect their lives. This year, our globally distributed team launched the Grassroots Justice Network Academy to equip grassroots justice defenders with field-tested legal empowerment tools, deepening the impact of 1,000 organizations and 75,000 grassroots justice defenders across 100 countries.

About the Position

The Senior Associate, Grassroots Justice Network will provide administrative, programmatic, and operational support to the global Grassroots Justice Network Academy and the Network’s activities across Latin America.

The Senior Associate will be responsible for the following:

Academy Global Learning Support (50%)

• Support the design, implementation, promotion, and assessment of Academy offerings. This includes facilitation, community-building, and logistical support for courses, workshops, working groups, labs, incubators, and action grants.
• Execute logistics and planning for global learning activities such as webinars, live sessions, workshops, and/or labs (including virtual and in-person components).
• Upload content to build out lessons, courses and learning paths in the Academy’s learning platform, following instructional design principles and standard operating procedures.
• Support the curation and refining of audiovisual pedagogical materials for the Academy, including suggesting adjustments to maximize engagement, reviewing captions, and ensuring changes are made in a timely manner.
• Support backend processes in the Academy’s learning platform, including user and group management.
• Provide support to members on our discussion boards by answering questions, acting as a moderator, and encouraging platform engagement.
• Research, test, and advise on new learning tools, features, or platforms.
• Develop member profiles, quarterly interviews and impact interviews, and programmatic write ups in coordination with the Strategic Engagement team.
• Support Academy-related procurement and agreements with vendors, consultants, faculty, and partners including drafting requests and RFPs, submitting payments, tracking expenses, and maintaining documentation.

Latin America Regional Work Support (30%)

• Execute logistics and planning for regional Latin America activities and events, both virtual and in-person.
• Coordinate and attend calls with the Strategic Regional Council in Latin America and other regional members, and follow up on activities, commitments, and documentation timely.
• Support community-building initiatives to strengthen learning and deepen connections for Latin America based members, including managing the regional email and regional group in the Academy’s learning platform, and supporting WhatsApp communications and social media.
• Onboard new GJN members, and act as the first point of contact for member inquiries, requests, and referrals through our GJN contact email.
• Support relevant procurement and contracts in the region.

General Network Support (20%)

• Coordinate the provision of interpretation and translation services for GJN activities, including fielding requests internally, coordinating externally with vendors, and tracking expenses.
• Review professionally or automatically-generated English <> Spanish translations (and possibly French or Portuguese), as well as undertake any necessary translations of short texts, emails, learning platform pages, or communications pieces.
• Participate in regular coordination meetings and team check-ins across the GJN.
• Assist with tracking quarterly and annual engagement data on GJN activities.

Here’s what you might have tackled this month –

• Managed breakout sessions during a 250-person Zoom meeting, ensuring the right participants entered and exited the appropriate rooms at the right time;
• Reviewed the Spanish translation of a quarterly newsletter, a checklist, and a 3-page explainer, ensuring they are in line with our language and tone;
• Attended a call with the Strategic Regional Council in Latin America, taking detailed notes and providing takeaways and action steps to your supervisor.
• Welcomed several new learners to our learning platform, responded to comments from current learners, helped troubleshoot access or navigation issues from learners, and updated platform content with new opportunities and events in the coming weeks.
• Built out three modules in our learning platform for a new self-paced course on legal empowerment for health justice, curating text, videos and interactive activities to accompany content created by the subject matter experts.

About You

Fluency in Spanish and English: You can communicate fluently, and are able to participate in meetings and write notes and reports, in both Spanish and English. Portuguese and/or French fluency is a plus.

Track record of excellence: You have demonstrable experience (at least two years) of operational support to program implementation. You epitomize reliability, and you’ve always been recognized as the person whom others trust to get the job done quickly and accurately. You genuinely enjoy behind-the-scenes work because you know the value it brings to the success of any team.

Resourceful problem-solving skills: You know how to find answers and can figure out how to solve problems when they arise. You possess the personal initiative needed to improve processes without prompting. You feel comfortable working independently.

An eye for detail: You are able to multitask and juggle competing priorities using sound judgment while remaining detail-oriented. You’re extremely thorough and will follow through on complicated, multi-step processes. You’re known for producing high quality content on deadline.

Collaborative and service-oriented: You greet everyone you encounter with a collaborative spirit, kindness, and empathy. You are known as a team-player who brings an “all hands on deck” mindset to all projects -- you’re happy to contribute however you can to advance Namati’s mission.

Growth oriented: You’re always seeking to better yourself and your work, and you will push yourself to the peak of performance to help fulfill our mission. In service of that growth, you welcome and delight in feedback from supervisors, peers, and anyone else.

Location

This position is open to candidates in Mexico. Please note that you must be a Mexican citizen to be considered for the position.

The successful candidate will be expected to occasionally work non-standard hours to accommodate the various time zones represented in the Grassroots Justice Network team. We expect this role to involve some occasional regional or international travel.

Salary and Benefits

Namati's staff position bands range from 1 (entry level / assistant) to 8 (Director). This position is at band 3. We base our compensation on the markets where our staff operate. The offer range for this position is 310,000 - 355,000 MXN pesos. Throughout the hiring process we will seek to understand your specific skills, experience, and abilities as they will fit into our team and our job levels. We will finalize pay and responsibilities based on the qualifications and experience of the person joining.

Namati utilizes an employer of record which acts as the legal employer in Mexico. In addition to the base salary stated in the job description, employees in Mexico also receive the following based on legal requirements in Mexico:

• Christmas bonus
• Vacation premium in accordance with Mexican labor legislation
• Teleworking subsidy
• 12 days of sick leave per year; 3 days of bereavement leave per year
• 12 days of vacation in accordance with Mexican labor laws during the first year of service
• Employees also have the option to enroll in a supplemental health insurance plan provided through the employer of record. Namati pays the insurance premium.

To Apply

Please complete our online application form and submit your CV in English. Applications that are not submitted in English will not be reviewed. Applications are due by EOD Wednesday, September 9; no applications will be accepted after this date. Application review will begin at the conclusion of the application window.

No phone calls, please. Namati is an Equal Opportunity Employer.