SOA Watch
News & Updates | www.SOAW.org | 02-13-2008 |
![]() SOA Watch is Hiring!
Are you passionate about the struggle for human rights? Do you think our government should be held accountable for its deeply flawed and oppressive foreign policy towards Latin America? Do you believe that change and a better world are possible?
Then we need YOU at SOA Watch.
WORK AT SOA WATCH: School of the Americas Watch is hiring for the Development & Operations Coordinator and Communications Coordinator positions to be based in Washington, DC. The positions are full-time with health benefits, paid vacation and holiday time. Salary is negotiable, and there are opportunities for skills development. Our staff is made up of paid, unpaid, full-time, and part-time activists who are all dedicated to this work.
Development & Operations Coordinator
Some of the responsibilities are:
- Produce donor appeals; grant applications, and other fundraising materials
- Develop and pursue new ways to raise money
- Maintaining database
- Process donations and maintain records on donors
- Stock, promote, sell and distribute SOA Watch books and video resources
- General office management functions
- Manage daily operation of computers; providing information on problems to consultants for repairs
- Recruit and coordinate interns and office volunteers
- Directly coordinate some logistics for all national SOA Watch events
Click here to view the complete job description, requirements and instructions on how to apply
Communications Coordinator
Some of the responsibilities are:
- Develop a proactive media campaign
- Update and maintain a database of Spanish- and English-language media outlets and reporters
- Monitor news and respond to stories with an SOA/ WHINSEC connection
- Send out news releases; host press conferences; develop messaging strategies
- Coordinate a volunteer media working group to assist with events and other ongoing media work
- Compose and send out mass emails to grassroots base
- Maintain and update the SOA Watch website
Click here to view the complete job description, requirements and instructions on how to apply
Internships at SOA Watch: SOA Watch is accepting applications for full-time Spring Internships. These positions can be focused on a particular area of work or more general in nature.
Click here for more information on internships and volunteer opportunities at SOA Watch. You can also contact SOA Watch at info(at)soaw(dot)org or 202-234-3440.
School of the Americas Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America, to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA, now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC), and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents. We are grateful to our sisters and brothers throughout Latin America for their inspiration and the invitation to accompany them in their struggle for economic and social justice.
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