Popular Education & Culture Director

Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation • Detroit, MI

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About The Position

The Popular Education & Culture Director leads the organization's popular education work with and alongside Latinx working-class and immigrant communities. This role develops curriculum, train-the-trainer materials, and participatory learning tools that help people share their stories, build political understanding, grow leadership, and support organizing strategies for power-building and transformative change in Michigan.
Grounded in servant leadership principles-including empathy, humility, stewardship, and commitment to the growth of others-the Director uses participatory action research (PAR), popular education, and story of self as core conscientization methodologies. This body of work informs organizing strategies led by DHDC's Community Organizing & Advocacy team, by ensuring that learning, reflection, and leadership development are central to how the organization plans and moves for transformative justice.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in popular education, community organizing, adult learning, and curriculum development.
• Strong connection to or experience working with Latinx working-class and immigrant communities.
• Experience designing participatory curriculum and facilitation tools for grassroots or community-based work.
• Deep understanding of popular education, PAR, and train-the-trainer models.
• Skill in facilitation, communication, and relationship-building.
• Commitment to immigrant justice, racial equity, and collective power.
• Bilingual Spanish–English skills is a must.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in grassroots organizing, labor, or immigrant rights work.
• Experience training community leaders and staff.

Responsibilities

• Design and adapt popular education curriculum and facilitation tools rooted in the realities of Latinx working-class and immigrant communities in Michigan.
• Develop and facilitate train-the-trainer programs so staff, members, and community leaders can lead popular education, PAR processes and other key organizing methodologies.
• Support base-building, leadership development, and campaign planning by aligning conscientization methodologies with organizing priorities.
• Use participatory tools to help people analyze root causes of injustice, reflect on their experiences, and develop organizing strategies focused on supporting the COA teams build local campaigns.
• Maintain a culture of learning and reflection that honors immigrant families' knowledge, worker experience, and community wisdom.
• Lead internal strategies, trainings and practices that ensures the organization is grounded in the values and principals of a people-centered popular education framework.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed