Program Associate, Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). Toronto, Canada.
Closing date: November 8, 2012.
Background:
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international feminist organization working to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women's rights advocates, organizations and movements internationally.
Recognizing that religious fundamentalisms are gaining ground all over the world with particularly negative consequences for women’s rights, the Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms (CF) initiative aims to contribute to greater strategic thinking, dialogue and advocacy on religious fundamentalisms by women’s rights and other progressive social justice organizations and movements.
Overview of Position:
The Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms (CF) – Program Associate is a full-time position, reporting to the CF Manager, that contributes to the programmatic and research outputs of the initiative, coordinates the production and dissemination of CF materials, and provides content, and logistical support for initiative activities, events and meetings.
Experience:
- 2 to 4 years experience:
- working for a non-profit organization in a related role
- with research, writing and managing content related to women’s rights and religious fundamentalisms
- with facilitating and presenting in meetings related to women’s rights and religious fundamentalisms
- with project design, management and evaluation
- participating in related research and/or advocacy initiatives
- working in a multi-cultural team and/or one located in diverse locations
- Familiarity with the key issues and themes related to religious fundamentalisms and women’s rights (including sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTQI rights, economic rights etc.) from a cross religion/regional perspective
- Experience working with organizations based in the Global South and/or Central and Eastern Europe
Requirements:
- We are looking for an individual who is committed to the principles and values of feminism, anti-discrimination, and anti-racism.
- The ideal candidate will have excellent editing/proofreading skills, ability to analyze information across a range of disciplines and able to extract relevant analyses, demonstrated capacity to think strategically and analytically, and be proficient in the use of ICTs, web 2.0 and web utilities.
- If you are able to work independently with minimal supervision and have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish and/or French, we would love to hear from you!
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To Apply:
Please send:
- Cover letter and current CV (addressing how you meet the necessary qualifications and outlines why you want to work for AWID)
- The exact source/location you saw the advertisement for this position
Fax: +416 594 0330
E-mail: jobs@awid.org (please include “CF – Program Associate” in the subject line of the email)
No phone calls please - Only email and faxed applications will be accepted. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret we will not be able to respond to every applicant personally. If you have not heard from us within two weeks from the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We thank all who apply, but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The application closing date is Sunday, November 8, 2012. AWID encourages, promotes and supports diversity in all aspects of its work.
To learn more about AWID and our programs, please visit our website at www.awid.org.
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