Peacemaker Training Institute Program

Freeman Intern Job Description:

JobTitle: PTI Freeman Intern

Immediate Supervisor: PTI Coordinator

Supporting Co-workers: REJ Coordinator and Local Groups Coordinator

Compensation: Housing, Insurance, and Living Stipend

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 toward 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. Our mission is to replace violence, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice.

Definition

The PTI 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, Scope of Duties and Typical Work

The nature of the PTI Interns’ work will reflect the PTI programs 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.

The PTI intern’s scope of 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 with the support of FOR co-workers including the Local Groups Organizer and the Racial and Economic Justice Coordinator, are:

1) Drop Beats Not Bombs: Power of Nonviolence Tour (10/03)

2) Kirkridge Basic REJ PTI (1/05),

3) IREACH Local Activists Anti-Racist Organizing Training (3/05),

4) Stonehaven Basic REJ PTI (7/05)

Typical work toward the successful organization of these projects will include coordination of the project schedules, including negotiating contracts with community partners, core trainers and guest facilitators, securing housing and food, and arranging transportation and other logistics of the projects; recruitment of participants through relationship building with local groups, campus groups, Religious Peace Fellowships, and new outreach to organizations and communities of color, including publicity and advertising; and preparation for limited program facilitation related to one or more of the program areas of philosophy and strategy of nonviolence, principles of Gandhi and King, nonviolent communication skills/conflict resolution, interfaith work and religious roots of nonviolence, methods of popular education and anti-racist organizing, history of social change and nonviolent campaigns, and social issues such as racial and economic justice, disarmament, sexism, and war.

Additional responsibilities will include general office assistance with FOR work, including internal and external telephone, website and e-mail communications, document/mailings preparation, and involvement in all staff and program team meetings including regular participation in Youth Task Force, Local Groups, and Racial and Economic Justice Task Force teleconference calls and meetings at National Council.

Orientation will include scholarshiped participation in the summer 2004 basic PTI (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 their work in the FOR internship with past experiences and education in order to give insight to future career decisions.

I. Qualifications:

II. Terms of Internship:

PTI 2004-05 Freeman Intern "Measurable Projects"

Below is a chart of primary projects and corresponding responsibilities of both the PTI coordinator and the PTI intern for each project. The fall and winter projects in which the intern has lead responsibility (Campus Tour and Kirkridge PTI) are trainings with significant groundwork laid, which would allow the intern to begin their year with organizing success and move on to more responsibility and challenge as the year progresses.

Project Coordinator Responsibility Intern Responsibility

PTI Campus Tours Assist Lead

(fall)

Kirkridge REJ PTI Assist Lead

(fall/winter)

Advanced PTI Lead Assist

(fall/winter))

IREACH Local Youth Assist Lead

Anti-racist Organizing

Training (spring)

FOR Youth Task Force Lead Assist

Local Youth Activists

Gathering (summer)

Stonehaven REJ PTI Assist Lead

(summer)

Fundraising/ Lead Assist

Program Development

(ongoing)

Support of PTI Grads Lead Assist

And Local Organizers

(ongoing)