Want to strengthen your leadership skills? Ready to inspire students across the United States to build a better world? Then we need you!
AIDemocracy is looking for applications from inspired, globally conscious students to join our Sex and Justice Campaign Team for the 2011-12 academic year. The Coordinator will recruit, support and inspire a team of 4-8 students working on this issue. Other team members will include Issue Analysts, a Communications Gurus and an Organizer.
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
- Familiarity with New and Print Media
- Strong set of leadership qualities
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.
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