IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR: Nonviolent Youth Collective National Coordinator

COMPENSATION: $650/month, housing subsidy, medical insurance

HOURS PER WEEK: 35+

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The Fellowship of Reconciliation, begun in 1914, is an interfaith peace organization composed of women and men who have joined together to explore the power of love and truth for resolving human conflict. While it has always been vigorous in its opposition to war and nuclear weapons, the FOR has insisted equally that this effort must be based on a commitment to the achieving of a just and peaceful world community, with full dignity and freedom for every human being. "The FOR seeks to replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace and justice. We are in an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means or radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally and globally."

Job Description: 

The Freeman Intern will assist the Peacemaker Training Institute Program Coordinator in developing a network of young activists through the youth task force, building on the PTI youth nonviolence training program as a vehicle for replacing racism, war, and poverty with justice and peace through nonviolence.

Nature and Scope of Work:

• The PTI Intern's work will reflect the PTI program's belief that racial and economic justice is a prerequisite to peace, in the sense of personal, national and international security, and a critical part of the culture of active nonviolence central to the FOR’s vision of a beloved world community.

• Duties include organizing four substantive projects through which the FOR mission to replace violence, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice will be served through popular education, nonviolence training, and cross-movement relationship building. These projects, all of which will be coordinated in cooperation with the PTI Coordinator and other Nonviolent Youth Collective members, are:

• Interfaith/SOA gathering (11/05)
• Kirkridge Basi REK PTI (1/06)
• Drop Beats Not Bombs or other campus arts tour (3/06)
• Stonehaven Basic REJ PTI (6/06)

The Freeman intern will coordinate the project schedules for these events, including negotiating contracts with community partners, core trainers and guest facilitators; securing housing and food, arranging transportation and other logistics; recruiting participants through relationship-building with local groups, campus groups, and Religious Peace Fellowships; as well as new outreach to organizations and communities of color; publicity and advertising.

• The intern will prepare for limited role in facilitating one or more of these program areas: Philosophy and strategy of nonviolence; principles of Gandhi and King; nonviolent communication skills/conflict resolution; interfaith work and religious roots of nonviolence; history of social change and nonviolent campaigns; social issues such as racial, economic, & gender justice; international conflicts; disarmament; methods of popular education and anti-racist organizing.

• Intern will include assist the program with ongoing projects and administration, as well as general office assistance including internal and external telephone, website and e-mail communications, documents and mailings. Intern will be involved in all-staff and program team meetings, and participate regularly in Youth Task Force teleconference calls and meetings at National Council.

• Orientation will include scholarship-funded participation in one of the summer 2005 basic Peacemaker Training Institutes (required); group internship orientation in the Nyack, NY office, and program orientation in the first two weeks on site and on an ongoing basis.

• Mentoring and supervision will include an initial mini-retreat to set professional growth goals and establish relationship with supervisor/s, regular weekly feedback/planning conversations with supervisor/s, quarterly two-way performance feedback/evaluation process (~11/29, 2/28, 5/30, & 7/15), and one 360 degree evaluation near the end of the internship year. 

• Training and Professional Development will include participation in an Advanced PTI Training for Trainers, and participation in at least two of the following:

  From Violence to Wholeness Facilitators Training; the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (or other anti-racist organizing training); United for a Fair Economy (or other economic justice training); Training for Change Facilitators Training, and/or other trainings in organizing and facilitating. The intern will also be encouraged through reflective processes to synthesis his or her work in the FOR internship with past experiences and education in order to lend insight to future career decisions.

Qualifications: 

• Commitment to faith-based nonviolence, anti-racist organizing processes and the mission and vision of FOR
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple programs and organizations
• Desire to contribute to overall program development of the FOR
• Willingness to travel throughout year, including weekends and evenings
• General computer skills required; Database skills are desirable
• Capacity to work sustainably and balance work with other parts of life
• Good sense of humor is an extra plus

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