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United Students Against Sweatshops is hiring for 3 positions at our national office in Washington, DC. Descriptions of each position as well as information on qualifications, compensation, and the application procedure follow....
3 Positions: Program Coordinator, Fundraising & Communications Coordinator, and Field Organizer.
1. The Program Coordinator will work with USAS students to develop, maintain, and coordinate the programmatic work of United Students Against Sweatshops. In effect, this staff person will be the ultimate point-person for USAS' international solidarity programs and other campaign-related or organization-building programs such as student-organizer trainings and educational workshops.
*Responsibilities* ·Developing and distributing campaign manuals, skills training materials, brochures, educational literature, and other resources for students. ·Working with students to research and analyze developments in the anti-sweatshop movement, background on targeted corporations, independent monitoring, union organizing, and corporate-university relationships for campaigns and educational resources. ·Enabling the effective functioning and follow-through of program-related committees and working groups initiated by USAS such as the International Solidarity Committee and the Alliance-Building Committee. ·Assisting students-in cooperation with the Fundraising & Communications Coordinator-in developing annual fundraising/finance plans and writing program-specific proposals to foundations. ·Facilitating discussions among USAS political leadership about long-term planning, goals, and strategies for the organization. ·Assisting students and other staff in the planning of national meetings, conferences, and retreats. ·Sharing responsibility of office and organizational maintenance-checking in with relevant student committees; writing regular work plans, program reports, and self-evaluations; answering phones; updating files and materials, etc.
*Qualifications* Must have student/labor organizing experience and strong skills for communicating with students. Experience working under a 'board-of-directors' system is a major plus as staff base their day-to-day activities off of self-created work plans guided by student decision-making yet met by self-motivation . Proficiency with word processing, database, e-mail and presentation software preferred; web-design skills are an added bonus. Previous office management and/or self-directed work experience also preferred.
2. The Fundraising & Communications Coordinator will work with USAS students to develop, maintain, and coordinate the organization's fundraising and communications networks as well as manage USAS' finances on day-to-day basis.
Essentially, this staff person will be the ultimate point-person to raise funds for the organization's general budget and projects, to handle USAS bookkeeping, to maintain the USAS website, database, and other means of internal communication and to coordinate external communication both with media and allied organizations.
*Responsibilities* ·Working with USAS students to develop an annual fundraising & finance plan and monitoring that plan to ensure fiscal responsibility within the organization ·Preparing quarterly fiscal reports on fundraising & finance matters for students, donors, and USAS' fiscal sponsor ·Writing grant proposals and soliciting donations to fulfill the general budget; overseeing and working in coordination with students and other staff to set fundraising plans for specific programmatic needs and projects ·Vision-setting with students to create a long-term finance plan which will develop sustainable alternative sources of funding (from sources such as USAS alumni, parents, professors; labor; wealthy progressive community and concerned citizens) ·Handling USAS bookkeeping, payroll, and insurance matters and thus keeping regular contact with USAS' fiscal sponsor, donors, and other financial folk ·Updating the USAS website and general e-mail listservs regularly ·Coordinating general communication within and without the organization-i.e. conference calls among various USAS working groups and committees, responding to student queries by listserv, individual e-mail, phone, or mailing, etc. ·Assisting students with media relations-i.e. passing media queries on appropriately, drafting or finalizing press releases as needed, developing media strategies around campaigns or programs, etc. ·Assisting students and other staff in the planning of national meetings, conferences, and retreats. ·Sharing responsibility of office and organizational maintenance-checking in with relevant student committees; writing regular work plans, program reports, and self-evaluations; answering phones; updating files, etc.
*Qualifications* Must have fundraising experience for progressive organizations and strong skills for communicating with students. Knowledge of progressive foundations and the labor movement is a plus as is experience working with media. Bookkeeping and basic web-design skills required, but may train great candidate on necessary web skills. Experience working under a 'board-of-directors' system is a major plus as staff base their day-to-day activities off of self-created work plans guided by student decision-making yet met by self-motivation . Previous office management and/or self-directed work experience also preferred.
3. The Field Organizer will work with USAS students to network and coordinate the campaigns of local USAS groups and will focus on building strong youth organizers and political leadership within the organization.
*Responsibilities* ·Working with local USAS affiliate campuses, through regular check-in phone calls and campus visits prioritized in each semester's 'field work organizational plan', to develop strong campaigns and encourage solid campus organizing models that value: ·changing the power dynamics on campus and within our movement ·focusing on the development of new student leaders, especially women, students of color, and LGBTQ students ·prioritizing coalition-building with and showing solidarity for social and economic justice organizations at a local level. ·Creating a field work organizational plan each semester which tiers and targets schools-whether for staff attention, for resources, for leadership development, for direct action-in order to prioritize and organize field work from the semester outset. ·Networking between member campuses and between USAS groups and other allied organizations within and outside of the anti-sweatshop and student movements. ·Promoting and/or developing organizing and leadership trainings on both a national and local level. ·Helping to create and supervise a student internship program based on the 'regional organizer' model which would generate a small network of "extended staff" to be focused on field organizing within their region to supplement the work of national staff. ·Vision-setting with students to create a recruitment plan for base organizations and new political leaderships and then pounding pavement to attract and develop new USAS affiliates and leaders in accordance with plan
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