Highlander Research and Education Center seeks a HR Coordinator (internally titled as People & Culture Coordinator) to provide indispensable and radical support to our visitors and employees. As one of the organization’s primary points of contact, the People & Culture Coordinator plays a key role in fostering an inclusive, welcoming environment and cultivating a culture of engagement across the organization. This position supports the People & Culture team by assisting with recruiting, onboarding, benefits administration, compliance, and office administration tasks. In a typical week, you can expect to: Serve as Highlander’s receptionist and the People & Culture department’s first point of contact and assist with the processing of employee life cycle tasks from recruitment to offboarding. Support the planning and execution of organization-wide events, such as open enrollment, new hire orientation, staff celebrations, and Homecoming. Support employee benefits enrollment during open enrollment periods and qualifying life events. Support the Technology Manager in providing basic technical support to staff. Compensation & Benefits In addition to offering the HR Specialist an annual salary of $70,798.52, we encourage employees, their spouse/domestic partner, and their dependent(s) to take advantage of our 100% employer-paid healthcare plan offered through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee a vision and dental plan offered through Guardian, and a Health Reimbursement Account to help cover eligible out-of-pocket expenses. Our benefits package includes an employer-sponsored life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, and a traditional 403b retirement plan. About Highlander Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justice, equality, and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their destiny. If you would like to be a part of this movement for change, we'd encourage you to apply today! Please visit our job board at: https://highlandercenter.org/job-board/ to find the complete listing with application instructions. (fb)

VIA: @blackwomenradicals 📣TOMORROW: “Black Feminist Marronage in London: The Enduring Legacy of Amy Ashwood Garvey by Dr. Nydia A. Swaby @nydiaswaby 📆 Saturday, May 10 ⏰ 12:30 PM EST/5:30 GMT +1 BST 📍Zoom 🔗 Link in bio to register. 🌀 The event will be recorded. ASL interpretation will be provided. 🌀About the teach-in: “Black Feminist Marronage in London: The Enduring Legacy of Amy Ashwood Garvey” explores Amy Ashwood Garvey’s creation of diasporic social spaces in London as acts of Black feminist marronage. Centering on the Florence Mills Social Parlour and the Afro Women’s Centre and Residential Club, it situates Ashwood Garvey’s activism within the broader history of Black women’s claims to home, safe space, and community-building. In a city structured to exclude Black belonging, Ashwood Garvey enacted urban marronage, creating spaces that transcended their roles as shelters or meeting places to become sites of diasporic refuge and self-determination. The Florence Mills Social Parlour and Restaurant served as a critical hub for Pan-African activism and intellectual exchange, while the Afro Women’s Centre—Britain’s first Black women’s center—offered radical hospitality, mutual aid, and a base for collective empowerment for newly arrived African and Caribbean women. By theorizing Ashwood Garvey’s efforts through the lens of marronage, this teach-in highlights how her spatial interventions prefigured contemporary Pan-African and Black feminist organizing in London, positioning Black women as architects of survival, safety, and liberation within the heart of empire. 📣About the teach-in curator: Nydia A. Swaby is a Black feminist artist-researcher, writer, and curator. Her practice engages archives, autoethnography, photography, the moving image and the imagination to explore the gendered, diasporic and affective dimensions of black being and becoming. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her book, “Amy Ashwood Garvey & the Future of Black Feminist Archives” was published by @lawrencewishart_ in October 2024 as part of LW’s Radical Black Women series. (fb)