How to Apply

Please submit the following, as Word or PDF attachments, to Julie Wilson at Julie.Wilson@civilsurvival.org  by September 5, 2023, at 11:59 pm. The email subject line should clearly reference “Civil Survival Reentry Resource Coordinator.”

• Letter of interest: The letter of interest should include a description of any past experience, personal or professional, working with low income or other marginalized communities. We value lived experience in the criminal legal system and encourage applicants to share any lived experience in their letter of interest. 
• Resumé.
• Names and contact information for three professional references. Professional references will not be contacted until the conclusion of the interview process. 

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Civil Survival organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system. We envision a world without incarceration, where people are not limited by their past and are valued for their humanity. Civil Survival was founded by people harmed by the criminal legal system to advocate for each other. Our foundational commitment to build an organization made up of members of the communities remains at the core of our identity. Most of Civil Survival’s staff identify as people of color and most have been arrested or incarcerated. 

Civil Survival’s commitments to anti-racist and trauma-informed principles are centered in every aspect of our work. We offer regular race-equity and trauma-informed leadership training to all staff and ground all organizational decision-making in an anti-racist, equity-focused lens. Our leadership philosophy is rooted in the recognition that we all are continuing to grow and learn, and that can only be accomplished with regular feedback, especially from staff to leadership. We are deeply committed to transparent decision-making that centers the perspectives of all members of our team. 

These values and commitments have allowed us to increase access to opportunity for those harmed by the criminal legal system. We have done this by:

• Organizing mass assistance days that provide legal financial obligation relief to hundreds of clients in a single day. During Civil Survival’s mass assistance day in Pierce County, the courts waived over $2.3 million in criminal legal debt. 
• Leading systemic advocacy to make reentry legal relief accessible and automatic. Civil Survival recently led a coalition of organizations to improve Washington’s mandatory legal financial obligations (LFOs) motion, allowing the motion to provide relief to thousands of additional Washingtonians. Civil Survival also led the effort to pass HB 1412 and HB 1169, which allowed for restitution relief in over 100,000 cases and eliminated $600 in mandatory LFOs for every felony conviction.
• Hosting weekly Game Changer groups that provide justice-involved individuals a place to learn how to advocate for systemic change, overcome their own reentry barriers, and provide peer support. 
• Providing free criminal history reports for anyone with a criminal record in the state of Washington. 
• Supporting bills that expand legal rights for justice-involved individuals. Civil Survival was closely involved in securing the passage of the New Hope Act, which made significant improvements to Washington’s criminal record vacation process.