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Part-Time Logistics Coordinator

Job Location: Tucson, AZ, with travel in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties, AZ, including regularly driving through Border Patrol interior checkpoints. 

Reports to: Desert Aid Working Group (DAWG)

Timing: Job application is open until November 12, start dates flexible between December and January

Job Structure: A 1-year part-time (15 hours per week) position without benefits is available. This part-time position works closely with and in support of the full-time Logistics Coordinator. Working hours and days may be flexible and decided in coordination with the other Logistics Coordinator and DAWG, with an expectation of some coverage and availability of at least one Coordinator during core hours of volunteer activity which sometimes falls outside of normal business hours (e.g. evening meetings, early morning trip logistics support, and emergencies).

About NMD

No More Deaths is a humanitarian organization based in southern Arizona since 2004 with a mission to end death and suffering in the Mexico–US borderlands through civil initiative: people of conscience working openly and in community to uphold fundamental human rights.  Our volunteer-based projects address different dimensions of the suffering caused by current policies toward migration, immigration, and border policing.  No More Deaths’ Desert Aid volunteer program maintains a year-round humanitarian presence in the deserts of southwestern Arizona. We provide humanitarian aid in the remote corridors where Prevention Through Deterrence has pushed migration routes, hiking the trails and leaving water, food, socks, blankets, and other supplies. Volunteers hike trails and leave water, food, socks, blankets, and other supplies. With support of our medical team, volunteers provide first-aid treatment to individuals in distress.

Job Summary

The Logistics Coordinators manage all logistical aspects of the No More Deaths Desert Aid volunteer program. The Logistics Coordinators are part mechanic, part administrator, part troubleshooter, and part community organizer. The Logistics Coordinators must be highly organized and able to manage many details and moving pieces, while also keeping a big-picture view of Desert Aid. The Logistics Coordinators work closely with the Volunteer Coordinators, as members of and reporting to the Desert Aid Working Group (DAWG). As the point people for desert aid operations, the Logistics Coordinators are expected to coordinate with each other and volunteers to ensure timely response to requests and needs, including in emergencies, and to delegate responsibilities effectively, making use of DAWG community resources, expertise, and volunteers. 

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

Support No More Deaths’ Desert Aid Volunteer Program:

  • Center safety of participants and visitors to NMD project sites, transportation, and activities, and model healthy boundaries and self-care.
  • Provide orientation and accompaniment to volunteers to support a welcoming, safe, efficient, and effective desert aid program
  • Visit field sites as needed 
  • Responsibly manage and use an organizational credit card for NMD expenses and provide all receipts to NMD’s Bookkeeper monthly
  • Monitor DAWG’s budget and proactively bring concerns to the Working Group.
  • Complete and/or coordinate to ensure that critical tasks are completed including timely grocery shopping, laundry, food bank, restocking of med packs, water orders, set up of rescue kits and supply inventory
  • With the Volunteer Coordinators and volunteer facilitators’ schedules, coordinate vehicle use, purchase of groceries and other supplies, transportation of facilitators and volunteers, and other events to support Desert Aid activities
  • Collect, sort, and distribute incoming material-aid donations and oversee NMD storage facilities, including the Gila Gear Lending Library
  • Respond to, troubleshoot, and pro-actively seek support to resolve emergencies and problems
  • Maintain, improve, and create systems across all No More Deaths logistics
  • Document and update processes including guidance, manuals, and resources
  • With DAWG, create and regularly update a work plan, clearly communicating time on/time off, coverage during absences, pro-actively solicit and incorporate feedback, and provide feedback to DAWG when systems or procedures aren’t working well.
  • Coordinate with the Volunteer Coordinators and/or DAWG members to represent DAWG at No More Deaths organizational meetings

Vehicle Maintenance, Repair and Coordination

  • Coordinate all vehicles coming in and out of the field and track the location, condition, and repair status of all vehicles
  • Work with the Vehicle Committee to ensure that vehicle maintenance and repairs occur promptly 
  • Make sure all volunteer drivers of NMD vehicles adhere to internal policy, procedure and practices and proactively address problems as they arise. 
  • Respond to any parking/traffic tickets, impounds, seizures, or vehicle citations
  • Support the Vehicle Committee with vehicle purchases and retirement.

Infrastructure Maintenance, Repair and Coordination

  • Monitor maintenance, repair, and condition of humanitarian aid facilities’ infrastructure including solar, water, internet, sanitation etc. 
  • Maintain grounds and interior of the volunteer spaces , including communication with landlord
  • Oversee NMD office/storeroom and office and ensure these spaces are kept clean, tidy, and accessible
  • Maintain working relationship with other facilities administrators

Basic Qualifications

  • Current drivers licence and ability to drive big trucks in urban and highway contexts is required. 4WD dirt road driving and trailering skills are a plus. 
  • Ability to lift large volumes of groceries, bulky donations, and 50 lb crates of water is required, or a strong commitment and capacity to organize volunteer support on a frequent and ongoing basis
  • Familiarity with No More Deaths Desert Aid Volunteer Program is strongly preferred, with current and former DAWG members, local volunteers, former Month-Long Volunteers, and other Desert Aid volunteer experience encouraged to apply
  • Knowledge of vehicle and infrastructure maintenance is a plus, but humility, curiosity, and willingness to learn and collaborate on troubleshooting is required 🙂
  • Community and people organizing, facilitation, training, and mentorship skills with ability to balance teaching others and completion of time-sensitive tasks
  • Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented, and maybe a little “camp counselor energy”
  • Familiarity with immigrant justice organizing and the specific context of militarized border policing in the Mexico–US borderlands 
  • Familiarity with mutual aid, social justice, and community organizing, including consensus decision-making and horizontal organizing preferred

Required Languages – English proficiency required, with Spanish knowledge a plus

Travel – The role requires frequent driving within Tucson and Southern Arizona, including regularly driving through Border Patrol interior checkpoints. 

Compensation: All positions in No More Deaths are paid $25 per hour. There is one part-time position available that does not include any benefits.

No More Deaths is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ applicants. Individuals with personal ties to the border or who identify as coming from an affected community are especially encouraged to apply. Thanks for your interest in this position!

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News coverage

Monthly Border Patrol encounters rise by more than 50% while remaining lower than 2024

David Ulloa Jr. – Arizona Republic – 28 October 2025

The recent CBP data measures “enforcement outcomes, not migration flows,” Mónica Ruiz House, a spokesperson for No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, said in a written statement regarding the recent CBP data.

“Decades of border militarization have shown that intensified enforcement pushes migrants to cross through increasingly remote and dangerous areas to avoid detection,” Ruiz House said. “As a result, official apprehensions may decline even as crossings persist and become less visible in official datasets like this one.”

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Abuse documentation

US-Mexico Border Death Map and Database

August 4 2025

No More Deaths releases database of migrant mortalities along US-Mexico Border

Today, No More Deaths released a comprehensive database and map of recovered migrant remains for the entire southern land border. This data will not bring anyone back or undo the decades of suffering and death caused by US border policy and perpetrated by the United States Border Patrol (USBP), and it does not account for the tens of thousands lost or missing in the borderlands—but it does provide the most comprehensive statistical record to date of people who died on their journey into the United States. Through this data we find the following:

  • Depending on the sector, we document anywhere  from 20% to 40% more migrant deaths than CBP’s official count. We also found that USBP makes regular errors when  recording basic information such as name, age, nationality, and date of death.
  • We show that CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has failed to record the vast majority of BP-related deaths (including deaths in custody, by pursuit, falls from the border barrier, use of force, and medical distress). Wall fall deaths are especially underreported and have increased drastically since the first Trump administration.
  • Our database confirms cases of people seeking asylum when they died, and hints towards many more. Since the erosion of asylum protections under the first Trump administration, and increasing under Biden, there has been a massive increase in the deaths of migrants of nationalities more likely to be seeking asylum.
  • Many cases were individuals who resided in the United States. These ranged from people who had travelled to Mexico to visit family and had to make a difficult crossing to return home, to people who were returning after a very recent deportation to a place where they likely had few or no connections. With the new administration’s push for mass deportation, we will likely see more of our neighbors killed by violent US border policy.

Map: https://nomoredeaths.org/migrant-death-mapping/ 

Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRVeemioXDJKhz6II5RBxPwWwSEr7tWp4gtAO0M7CL2vS45O1LU6sEiE0bEWTdDlFRj-6CHLutuDwkk/pub?output=xlsx
Findings: https://nomoredeaths.org/us-mexico-border-death-map/ 

Methodology: https://nomoredeaths.org/methodology/ 

Recommendations
The death toll from thirty years of Prevention Through Deterrence border policy is staggering. The death of each person listed in the database here, as well as the thousands more who died in Mexico or in a place where data was unavailable or difficult to access, and the likely tens of thousands more whose remains were never found, who disappeared in remote areas of the border, is a tragedy directly caused by increasingly violent US border enforcement and immigration policies, and by the actions of Border Patrol, an agency that has proved time and again that it cannot be reformed. 

  • We call for the end of Prevention Through Deterrence and the abolition of the United States Border Patrol, an agency directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
  • We also call for the abolition of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been empowered and emboldened to create and invisibilize more and more of the harms described here.
  • To ensure that human rights and international law are respected, we echo our open letter of December 2023 in calling for ports of entry to be reopened to asylum seekers. We must also reopen legal asylum pathways which are our responsibility under international law and decades of precedent.
  • We urge medical examiners, justices of the peace, and coroner’s offices to follow the lead of the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, and the El Paso Office of the Medical Examiner in recording migrant deaths. This would go a long way towards creating an alternative to the highly flawed CBP database, and toward ensuring accountability and promoting better understanding of individual causes of death, and of the crisis of mass border death more broadly. 

We’ve pointed at just a few preliminary findings from the large amount of data collected in this database. We hope others can use the database as a resource for continued research, advocacy, and direct aid.