Job Announcement
Title: Grassroots Campaign Coordinator
Purpose: The BORDC Grassroots Coordinator provides technical assistance, including guidance, advice, networking, and other support to BORDC’s constituencies – civil liberties activists and organizations in the western half of the United States, usually via phone and email.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
- Proactive contact with existing and new communities to support local education and debate about the need to protect the civil liberties of U.S. citizens and non-citizens.
- Work closely with constituents to formulate local campaigns and strategies.
- Translate constituents’ needs and areas of interest into web-based materials and downloadable resources.
- Assist in keeping website materials up to date and easily accessible.
- Collaborate with East Region Organizer on action alerts, newsletter articles, and press releases.
- Work with East Region Organizer to organize and facilitate teleconference meetings and workshops among small and large groups of grassroots volunteers.
- Speak to small and large groups in person and on the radio, and do press interviews about current civil liberties issues and the work of the grassroots.
- Assist in various office tasks – writing and editing materials such as fundraising letters, creating and updating web pages, maintaining one’s own computer, and other tasks that arise in a small non-profit office.
To qualify, you must have:
- A minimum of one year of organizing experience
- Knowledge of current civil liberties and human rights issues
- Proven ability to quickly absorb and analyze information and to simplify complex issues for a broad audience
- Ability to establish, maintain and cultivate long-distance working relationships
- Excellent written and verbal skills, including telephone skills
- Experience working with the following or similar computer programs:
- Microsoft Word for Windows or other word processing program,
- Excel or other spreadsheet program,
- Ebase, Microsoft Access, or other database program,
- Macromedia Dreamweaver or other web editing program,
- Email and web browsing programs.
- Excellent skills at conducting Internet searches to retrieve reliable information
- Community networking and alliance-building experience
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work without direct supervision
To apply for this full-time position: Please send a cover letter and resume to Barbara Haugen, Administrator, via email (bhaugen (at) bordc (dot) org) or mail:
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
8 Bridge Street, Suite A
Northampton, MA 01060
Deadline is Monday, March 31, 2008. No telephone calls please. . No telephone calls please.
The BORDC's mission is to promote, organize, and support a diverse, effective, national grassroots movement to restore and protect civil rights and liberties guaranteed to all U.S residents by the Bill of Rights. Our purpose is to educate people about the significance of those rights in our lives; to encourage widespread participation; and to cultivate and share the organizing tools and strategies needed for people to convert their concern, outrage, and fear into debate and action to restore Bill of Rights protections.
The BORDC is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
BORDC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with
respect to recruitment, hiring, upgrades, training, promotion, and
other terms and conditions of employment. Further, BORDC takes affirmative
action in support of this policy to employ and advance in employment
individuals from under-represented populations, including individuals
over 40 years of age, people of color, women, the handicapped, and
Vietnam era veterans.