Ready to inspire students across the United States to build a better world? Interested in playing a key leadership role in a national youth campaign? Then we need you!
AIDemocracy is looking for applications from inspired, globally conscious students to join our Climate Change Campaign Team for the 2011-12 academic year. The Coordinator is a critical component of a small student team leading AIDemocracy education and campaign activities around the issue. Other team members will include Issue Analysts, Communications Gurus and Organizers.
AIDemocracy is a national student network that mobilizes young people around global issues. Our vision is that young people in the United States exercise their power to bring about a peaceful, healthy, just and sustainable world.
Coordinator responsibilities include:
• Helping set strategy for the campaign, identifying key conversations and opportunities for action.
• Ensuring campaign objectives are clear and measurable.
• Tracking campaign progress, and leading strategy shifts throughout the year as necessary.
• Helping recruit, support and motivate other team members.
Skills and qualifications:
• Excellent communications and writing skills.
• Excellent new media skills.
• Experience working with students / campaigns seeking social change.
• Great sense of youth culture, and conversations / trends that resonate with youth.
• Ability to work both independently and in teams.
• Prior strategic planning experience is not necessary; a desire to learn and lead is.
You’ll like this position if you:
• Want to learn to be an effective and inspiring leader.
• Want to improve your communications and writing skills.
• Believe that students have the power to affect change.
• Enjoy coming up with creative ways to communicate information.
Skills you’ll gain:
• Strategic Planning
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Communications
• New and Print Media
• Leadership
This is a part time volunteer position based anywhere. Coordinator will work between 8-10 hours/month, potentially more in the early months. Term is summer 2011-May 2012. The Coordinator will work on a student team, and have access to ongoing training opportunities and support from AIDemocracy staff.
To apply: Please send a resume and cover letter to opportunities@aidemocracy.org. Put the title of the position you are applying for in the email subject line. Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Find out more at www.aidemocracy.org.
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