Campus-Community Outreach Coordinator
STAND, the student-led division of the Genocide Intervention Network, envisions a world in which the international community protects civilians from genocidal violence. At its core, our mission is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide.
To do so, STAND’s Leadership Team recruits, trains, organizes and mobilizes students around the world by providing materials, educational information, online resources, policy expertise, and a network of concerned and active peers.
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The following job description offers a brief overview of a particular position on the STAND Managing Committee, followed by four categories:
1. Management Duties:
These are the essential tasks that each Coordinator will be responsible for completing.
2. Coordination Duties:
Communication and teamwork are key to an effective Managing Committee; therefore, this section outlines the ways in which each Coordinator will work with other members of the Managing Committee (MC).
3. Accountability Obligations:
Coordinators will be held accountable for their duties through the relationships and measures described in this section.
4. Required Skills:
This section outlines the abilities and experience necessary for each position.
If you have further questions about any of these positions, please e-mail jobs@standnow.org.
The Campus-Community Outreach Coordinator
The CCOC serves two very important and evolving purposes on the STAND Leadership Team. The overall aim of the position is to ensure that STAND groups are reaching beyond the STAND network to form effective partnerships with other organizations, both on and off campus. The CCOC will encourage and oversee collaboration and coordination with community organizations (i.e. Save Darfur Coalition chapters). The CCOC would also be given the exciting task of encouraging diversity in the STAND movement by creating strategies to encourage and empower both the STAND SLT and STAND chapters to incorporate a diverse collection of non-STAND student organizations to join in anti-genocide efforts. This is a relatively new position, and the Coordinator will be given the opportunity to develop a short-term and long-term strategy to expand and diversify the student movement; a key component and priority for STAND’s future.
Materials/Communication Duties:
* Create materials to empower STAND chapters to reach out to, coordinate with, and form effective partnerships with non-STAND organizations
* Maintain and update database of Community Partner organizations. A database may also be formed consisting of non-STAND student organizations, including human rights groups, faith-based organizations, and other potentially interested student groups.
* Produce weekly updates on the student movement to be distributed to non-STAND partners
Coordination Duties:
* Work with the Managing Committee to ensure that diversity and community coordination remains a priority and is included in all STAND campaigns
* Work with Outreach Team to ensure that they are empowered to encourage their chapters to reach out to non-STAND organizations both on and off campus
* Serve as a liaison between community organizations and appropriate Outreach Team members to share events and campaigns
* Effectively communicate STAND campaigns and priorities to non-STAND partners
* Work with Programming Team to develop community and diversity efforts into all our programming
* Seeks advice and guidance from Save Darfur Coalition’s Inter-faith Outreach Coordinator.
* Communicate with strong non-STAND partners and Student Director to develop long-term plans to expand the diversity of the movement.
Required Skills:
* Strong communication skills
* Extensive knowledge of the movement to be able to represent STAND to non-STAND groups
* Self-motivation, innovation, and patience as this job will entail developing a new area of the movement
* Organization and being able to handle nation-wide contacts
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