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Upcoming Positions

FELLOWS FOR PEACE: 2008

International Fellowship in El Salvador
Dale Farm Fellowship in the United Kingdom




International Fellowship in El Salvador for The Advocacy Project

IMMEDIATE NEED TO FILL! Applicants will be interviewed and hired on a rolling basis. 

To apply, send a cover letter and resume to Natasha Chokhani at natasha@advocacynet.org.

Copy Executive Director, Iain Guest, on the email: iain@advocacynet.org.

Applicants do not need to be US citizens or attend US-based universities. 

The Advocacy Project (AP) is a DC-based non-profit dedicated to strengthening civil society around the world.  Using a grassroots approach, we support advocates who work in social justice and human rights at the community level.  Our mission is to help community partners to produce, use, and disseminate information about their advocacy work.  Each year, we recruit Peace Fellows to volunteer directly with our partner organizations.   

Currently, we have an immediate need to fill a Peace Fellowship in San Salvador, El Salvador, with CEMUJER.  The position is fulltime (~40 hours/weeks), unpaid, and for the duration of approximately ten to twelve weeks.  The Fellow will report to the director of CEMUJER as well as to the AP Fellowship Coordinator.   

Job Description:  

EL SALVADOR: Advocating for women’s human rights in post-conflict El Salvador

Based in: San Salvador 

** Note: This Fellowship is sponsored! The Peace Fellow will receive a $1000 stipend plus the cost of insurance.  

Host: CEMUJER of El Salvador. CEMUJER is a non-governmental organization dedicated to realizing the rights of women in post-conflict El Salvador.  Founded in 1990 as “The Institution of Women’s Human Rights,” CEMUJER advocates to end gender-based discrimination by mobilizing women, men, NGOs, and government entities to create policy that fosters equality among the sexes.  In addition to community organizing, CEMUJER also offers various services. These include: rights-based education, health clinics, domestic violence hotlines, legal council, etc.  Their vision is to create a culture that respects human rights without gender disparity. http://www.angelfire.com/nh/cemujer/ 

Responsibilities:

• Assist CEMUJER in disseminating their publications to a wider local and international audience (via networking and outreach)
• Continue developing and maintaining CEMUJER’s website (including written content, esthetic quality, pictures, etc.)
• Work with director and other CEMUJER members to further the development of CEMUJER’s advocacy and lobbying strategies (locally, regionally, and internationally)
• Collaborate with staff to creatively expand and develop their programming and information production (e.g., e-newsletter, photojournalism, video, blogging, etc.)
• Expand CEMUJER’s network of contacts, locally and internationally
• Produce information on CEMUJER’s work through blogs
• Develop and expand the CEMUJER partner page for the AP website

 

Qualifications:

• Advanced Spanish (written and oral)
• Website development skills preferred, with willingness to expand skill-set
• Understanding of and interest in advocating for gender equality
• Understanding of human rights, social justice, and development
• Self-reliance, flexibility, and a sense of improvisation & creativity
• Excellent writing, editing, and research (especially Internet research) skills - for information production and dissemination
• At least one year of graduate-level study in a relevant field
• Some ICT skills preferred, as well as an ability and willingness to expand skill-set
• Experience working in a cross-cultural context (specifically Latin America) highly valued

International Fellowship with the Dale Farm Community Association for The Advocacy Project

Job Description:


Responsibilities

• Produce information regularly about the case by: posting regular blogs on the AP site; producing material for news bulletins and press releases
• Help the Travelers to produce their own newsletter
• Manage a new ICT center at the Dale Farm site, and provide a series of ICT services in line with the AP model:
  • Training two or more Traveler women to take over running of the center
  • Providing basic training in ICT for up to 15 women and children (using AP modules)
  • Building a wiki page (basic website) for the Travelers, that can evolve into a website
  • Updating the DF partner page on the AP website
  • Working with AP to send out news bulletins
• Networking: help to develop an extensive network of civil society and other contacts, in the UK and abroad; build contacts with the local and other media
• Outreach: Help the Travellers take their case to European human rights bodies and the UN; support their campaigns; reach out to the local non-Traveller population
• Fundraising: working with AP‘s development department to raise funds for the Dale Farm campaign, as appropriate and needed

Qualifications

• Self-starter who is not afraid to plunge him/herself into the community and hit the ground running
• Knowledge of international human rights laws and norms, especially regarding housing and freedom of movement (knowledge of UK laws a plus)
• Awareness of issues facing severely marginalized groups (Roma, Gypsy, Traveller population a plus)
• Understanding of key elements of effective advocacy and activism (direct experience preferred)
• ICT savvy
• Attention to detail
• Effective communication skills (oral & written)
• Willingness to travel throughout region for reporting purposes
• Self-starter, energetic, confident

Application Instructions:

To apply for any of the positions listed below, please send your resume and cover letter by email to AP Fellowship Coordinator Amy Burrows at: aburrows@advocacynet.org. Also copy AP Fellowship Intern Natasha Chokhani at: natasha@advocacynet.org. Please list the position name in the subject of your email. Applicants do not need to be US citizens or attend US-based universities.
 
You may apply for up to two positions, but please indicate in your cover letter your order of preference, explain why you are interested in each, and why you would be a good fit for the Fellowship.
Please note: several of the positions also require a writing sample.

To gain a better understanding of each Fellowship experience, applicants are encouraged to:

• Read the blogs written by past Peace Fellows. (http://www.advocacynet.org/blogs/). Blogs are organized by Fellow, Year, and Country.
• Review the AP Partner Pages (http://www.advocacynet.org/page/communitiespartners).

PLEASE NOTE: Due to an overabundance of spam, messages sent to AP’s general email addresses sometimes get filtered out. To ensure that your application reaches us, please send it to the address listed (aburrows@advocacynet.org). If you do not receive notification of receipt within a week, please follow up.

APPLICANT RESTRICTION NOTICE: The Advocacy Project is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or other personal factors. However, given the highly sensitive nature of some of our positions, we must occasionally limit recruitment to women only. This may be due to cultural and security constraints or to psychological considerations for beneficiaries. We hope you understand.

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