Marco Lirio joined the SEEC staff in May 2022 as SEEC Outreach Coordinator. In May 2024, Mr. Lirio was promoted to SEEC Office Manager. He has extensive experience in computer skills.
David Benavides, Jr currently works as part-time Outreach Coordinator, working primarily on weekends. For seventeen years, Mr. Benavides worked for SEEC as its Office Manager.
Andres Tobar joined SEEC as its Executive Director in 2004. He is retired from the U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Postsecondary Education where he served for 23 years, and prior to joining the SEEC staff, he served as the Executive Director of the National Association of Hispanic Publications for five years.
Rosalia Fajardo has worked as SEEC’s Business Development Coordinator since 2014. Under her coordination more than 400 Latinas have been trained in how to start a business.
Juan Rostran has been contracted by SEEC to teach the Virginia Driver Education program in Spanish. He is a bilingual teacher in the Fairfax County Public Schools.
SEEC Services
Construction work
Painting
Carpeting
Tiling
Yard work
Handy-man
Drywall
Plumbing
Electrician
Landscaping
Moving in/out
Etcetera
For the past twenty years SEEC staff has been assisting day laborers who have congregated in Shirlington to find temporary employment and for local residents to find temporary help. The location where the day laborers have been congregating, located at the corner of Shirlington Road and South 27th Street will be closed in September 2020. The SEEC Office which was located nearby has been relocated to the Arlington Mill Community Center, Suite 422. SEEC will continue to serve Arlington’s day laborers at the new location.
Employers and local residents seeking temporary help with small jobs for moving, general clean up, painting and landscape, should call the SEEC office for assistance at 703-933-1101.
General guidelines for payment
For basic labor jobs, payment of $15 per hour with a four hour minimum is recommended. For more skilled jobs, $20 per jobs are recommended. It is also recommended that the workers be provided lunch if the work exceeds four hours. Please remember that these are not full time jobs. For most workers these jobs may be the only one they get for the day or the week, so please be generous.
Types of jobs
The work to be performed can vary from construction work to yard work and handy-man related jobs. If there is a need for work to be done, we will find a worker!
During this past fiscal year, the day laborers went out on a total of 2,133 jobs from the Pavilion and the SEEC office. Some of these jobs consisted of moving jobs, landscape and construction. Some of the jobs lasted a few hours, but many lasted several days, while a number of them became permanent hires.
