Open Positions
We are looking for talented, compassionate, and collaborative people to partner with us as we welcome refugees and immigrants with holistic services that will help them root and flourish in our community.
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Chicagoland Career Opportunities
Immigration Legal Serviced Administrative Assistant
POSITION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a unique and invigorating place to work. We are looking for talented, ambitious, and collaborative people to come alongside our mission, vision, and values as we partner with churches to empower the most vulnerable in the world. We hope these resources provide more insight into your hiring journey with us.
Is social justice important to you? Consider joining our immigrant serving agency by using your administrative gifts that will give you assurance that your work contributes to changing people's lives. This position is the first face and voice with whom immigrants in our community will interact and you can help make sure they are received with welcome and dignity. This position will offer administrative clerical support for the World Relief Chicagoland’s Immigration Legal Services (ILS) department. The position is based in the DuPage (Carol Stream) office mainly but might require travel to the two other locations sparingly. This position must be filled by someone who is completely bilingual in English and Spanish both spoken and written.
Grants Coordinator (Part-Time)
POSITION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a unique and invigorating place to work. We are looking for talented, ambitious, and collaborative people to come alongside our mission, vision, and values as we partner with churches to empower the most vulnerable in the world. We hope these resources provide more insight into your hiring journey with us.
Do you want to use your administrative skills to make an impact? Join our committed team to coordinate grant reporting & compliance for our largest grant contracts. This role is responsible for monthly reporting & monitoring including accuracy checks, data entry, and coordinating training & data management changes with program teams.
Assistant Donations Coordinator (Part-Time)
POSITION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a unique and invigorating place to work. We are looking for talented, ambitious, and collaborative people to come alongside our mission, vision, and values as we partner with churches to empower the most vulnerable in the world. We hope these resources provide more insight into your hiring journey with us.
This position is responsible for assisting refugee and immigrant families with the furnishing of their living space. This includes ensuring that apartments are appropriately furnished for new refugees prior to their arrival. The Apartment Set-Up & Donations Assistant will collaborate with church and volunteer partners to solicit, collect, and set up donated furniture and household items for this purpose.
After School Club Coordinator (Part-Time)
POSITION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a unique and invigorating place to work. We are looking for talented, ambitious and collaborative people to come alongside our mission, vision and values as we partner with churches to empower the most vulnerable in the world. We hope these resources provide more insight into your hiring journey with us.
Are you passionate about working with immigrant youth and helping to provide a safe environment to learn, play games and develop connections with other youth, staff and volunteers? Join our Children & Youth Services team in welcoming newly arriving refugees, asylum seekers and other immigrant youth, by coordinating, vision casting, providing structure, and leading all K-12 after-school clubs, summer programming and extra-curricular activities.
Aurora Administrative Associate
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position will offer administrative clerical support for the World Relief Chicagoland’s Immigration Legal Services (ILS) department with limited additional support provided to the other departments of World Relief Aurora. This position is based in the WR Chicagoland Aurora office but may require covering days in the DuPage (Carol Stream) office as well. English/Spanish bilingual fluency, both written and verbal, is non-negotiable.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Employment Counselor position provides critical services and counsel to refugees, asylees and other immigrants as they search for initial employment and to assist them with employment-related matters, including job re-placement as relevant. This position assists refugees and those granted asylum and other immigrants to become economically self-sufficient by preparing them for employment, utilizing employer contacts to place them in jobs, counseling on job upgrades and career pathway opportunities, and maintaining and expanding an employer network.
Apartment Set-up & Donations Associate
POSITION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a unique and invigorating place to work. We are looking for talented, ambitious and collaborative people to come alongside our mission, vision and values as we partner with churches to empower the most vulnerable in the world. We hope these resources provide more insight into your hiring journey with us.
This position is responsible for assisting immigrant families with the furnishing of their living space. This includes ensuring that apartments are appropriately furnished for new refugees prior to their arrival. The Apartment Set-Up & Donations Associate will collaborate with church and volunteer partners to solicit and collect donations for this purpose.
Refugee Arrivals Volunteer Coordinator
POSITION SUMMARY:
Are you passionate about creating communities that welcome? Are you gifted in mobilizing groups of people for service, experienced in implementing strategic systems, and passionate about meeting others’ tangible needs as they re-launch their life in America? World Relief mobilizes local churches and volunteers to serve immigrants and refugees in Chicagoland. Join our Volunteer Coordination team in welcoming newly arriving refugees, as well as asylum seekers and other immigrants, by coordinating our in-kind donations and mobilizing volunteers to serve. The goal of this position is to rebuild, coordinate, and support our donor and volunteer bases who provide these initial welcome items and reception support.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Are you interested in helping newly arrived refugees and immigrants establish health care and assist in providing education around the US health care system? Do you want to work alongside a team that is passionate and driven to provide excellent services to our immigrant neighbors? If so, then you may be a great fit for the family case management (FCM) team. This position will be responsible for assisting refugees and immigrants to obtain their Initial Health Screening, establish a primary care provider, and help with follow-up care with an additional focus on using every opportunity to orient clients to the U.S. health care system. This position will work closely with the transportation volunteers and the Family Health Specialist who provides ongoing health coordination for clients with intensive medical needs.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Are you interested in working with refugee and immigrant seniors? Do you want to work alongside a team that is passionate and driven to provide excellent services to our immigrant neighbors? If so, then you may be a great fit for the family case management (FCM) team.
This position provides case management and core services for refugee and other immigrant seniors in coordination with WR staff, local churches, and the broader community. This position will be responsible for providing ongoing client services, wellness group activities, and administrative tasks to refugee and immigrant seniors. The position is based in Carol Stream but requires client visits throughout DuPage and Kane Counties.
ESL Associate Instructor (Part-Time)
AmeriCorps
We will begin accepting applications in June 2021. For a list of open positions, click here.
We partner with AmeriCorps and Literacy Volunteers of Illinois (LVI) to offer full and part-time positins in both our Aurora and Carol Stream offices. See our open positions and how to apply below.
Internships
Interested in positions at our Chicagoland offices? Click here to view the available opportunities.
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