Work At NIWRC

The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center is dedicated to ending violence against Native women and children by providing culturally specific technical assistance, training, and policy development for Tribal Nations and grassroots advocates to help establish and strengthen their responses to violence. Our work is centered on restoring the safety and status of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women, addressing the rights and related needs of children and LGBTQ2S+ and male victims and survivors, and ensuring offender and abuser accountability by upholding Tribal sovereignty.

 

NIWRC staff take a culturally grounded and highly specialized advocacy approach to the areas of domestic violence, sexual violence, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, stalking, and sex trafficking, among other forms of gender-based violence and intersecting issues. 

 

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Current Job Openings:

NIWRC is searching for candidates to fill the position of an IT Support Tech. This is a remote position. It will focus on documentation development, controls, and training of processes and procedures to strengthen the support functions of the organization. Additionally, this position will assume management of our paperless file store system, develop clear processes, provide training and support to staff. The Support Tech provides support functions on organization-wide systems used by all staff. See the complete job description for details. This is a temporary position that will end in September 2025. Compensation range is $24-$28/hour, DOE. This position will remain open until filled.

Please read the full job posting here.

To apply, please email careers@niwrc.org with a completed application, cover letter, resume, and 3 technical writing samples.

The Research Assistant is a remote position. This position will be responsible for helping to develop an internal process for identifying annual priority issues, analyzing survey data, writing reports on various survey results, gathering resources and drafting literature reviews on various topics as assigned, and assisting in the development of internal evaluations of NIWRC events, training, etc. This position is temporary with ARP funding that will end on September 29, 2025, but it could develop into a permanent position. The compensation range is $42,000 - $47,000/annual salary, DOE. This position will remain open until filled.

Please read the full job posting here.

To apply, email careers@niwrc.org with a completed application, cover letter, resume, and two writing samples relevant to your previous research work.

The STTARS Housing Specialist is responsible for assisting in developing and managing STTARS’ Training and Technical Assistance initiatives, its policy efforts, and promotional activities. This is a remote position. The position monitors ARP-funded sub-awardees and helps to guide the overall growth of the Center. This position will ensure that STTARS’ training/technical assistance and resource development is culturally, historically, and legally relevant and supports governmental, nonprofit, and community responses to the immediate crisis needs of Native women victimized by violence who experience housing insecurity and homelessness. They will work with STTARS and NIWRC staff, consultants, and external partners to identify promising practices, engage in advocacy efforts, and advance the work of the Center. This individual should have a deep cultural understanding of violence against Native women, the unique traditional values of Indigenous peoples, and an understanding of the intersection of gender-based violence and housing insecurity/homelessness. Extra consideration will be given to candidates who have demonstrated employment working on shelter development/advocacy shelter policy and public health policy. Extensive travel is required for this position. The compensation range is $60,000 - $70,000/annual salary. This position will remain open until filled.

Please read the full job posting here.

To apply, email careers@niwrc.org with a completed application, cover letter, resume, and two writing samples relevant to the essential functions of the position.