[Antiracism] Fw: Job Opening at War Resisters League

[Marty Nathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "frida berrigan" <frida.berrigan at gmail.com>
To: <admin at warresisters.org>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 10:21 AM
Subject: Job Opening at War Resisters League


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> Job Description:
> WRL Office Coordinator
>
> The War Resisters League seeks a self-directed, collaborative and
> motivated administrator to coordinate and maintain the office of our
> small but dynamic national organization. As one of the leading radical
> voices in the anti-war movement, our programs challenge military
> recruitment, organize nonviolent direct action, and offer
> on-the-ground education. Our current projects include the Not Your
> Soldier Project, the Stop the Merchants of Death Program, and a number
> of local and regional anti-war organizing projects.
>
> Position Overview:
> The full-time Office Coordinator will be responsible for a range of
> organizational and administrative activities in our National Office.
> Tasks include coordination, maintenance, and establishment of
> efficient and consistent office systems. This will be a challenging
> and exciting role for someone who is passionate about building both a
> strong organization and an effective antiwar movement, and is
> committed to the politics of revolutionary nonviolence. The ideal
> candidate will be responsible, show initiative, work well under
> pressure, can multitask, give attention to detail, and is adaptable to
> change.
>
> The position is accountable to the WRL Administrative Coordinating
> Committee, the Personnel Committee and to other members of the staff
> collective.
>
> Tasks:
>
> Office Coordination, including but not limited to:
> □ Recruitment, coordination and supervision of administrative volunteers
> □ Overhaul of antiquated filing systems
> □ Regular updates and maintenance to our website and database
>
> Administrative support for different departments and work areas,
> including but not limited to:
> □ Outreach support for organizing staff
> □ Point of contact for literature orders and general queries, online
> and by phone
> □ Ordering supplies and maintaining office equipment
> □ Helping to sort and distribute mail
>
> Work with Development Coordinator on:
> □ Fundraising systems, including our pledge/sustainer program
> □ Donor acknowledgement system
>
> Work with Bookkeeper on:
> Managing data entry
> Processing credit card payments and depositing checks
>
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>
> Qualifications
> • Strong ability to delegate tasks and responsibilities.
> • Commitment to grassroots organizing.
> • Demonstrated comfort with self-initiated work and managing multiple
> tasks simultaneously
> • Proven ability to work both independently and in close coordination
> with a team.
> • Computer proficiency, especially knowledge of database programs.
> • Basic knowledge of content management system software
> • Excellent communications skills.
> • Knowledge of, or commitment to learn, current software and databases.
> • Good facilitation skills.
> • Detail-oriented, responsible, and accountable. Familiarity with
> basic office operations assumed.
> • Familiarity with administrative work, comfortable in a
> non-hierarchical collaborative office setting.
> • Proven experience in directing a project from conception to completion.
> • Familiarity with the peace and social justice movements. Deep
> grounding in the history, philosophy and practice of nonviolence.
> • Commitment to nonviolent methods of social and political change.
> This is a full time salaried position. Yearly salary is $35,677, with
> full benefits, including health insurance, paid vacation and a pension
> contribution of five percent.
>
> The War Resisters League is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
> employer. The office, however, is located on the second floor and thus
> is not accessible to wheelchairs or people with ambulatory issues.
> There is an office cat.
>
> WRL is affiliated with War Resisters' International and International
> Peace Bureau.
>
> Deadline, April 1, 2007. How to Apply:
>
> Please send a cover letter, resume, and three references to
>
> Email: admin at warresisters.org
>
> Fax: 212.228.6193
>
> Post:
> Hiring Committee c/o War Resisters League
> 339 Lafayette
> New York, NY 10012
>
> Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters
> League, founded in 1923, advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method
> for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and
> human exploitation.
>
>
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> Frida Berrigan
> frida.berrigan at gmail.com
>