Position:
CO-DIRECTOR
Location: Berkeley, California
Application Deadline: March 30, 2001
Position Open Until Filled
Organizational Overview:
Project Underground is a non-profit human rights organization dedicated to
working in support of communities resisting mining and oil exploitation. We
focus specifically on gold mining and oil extraction and our campaigns are a
combination of on the ground support of community-based organizations, legal,
technical, corporate and scientific information, direct corporate campaigning,
coalition and movement building and broader outreach and public education.
Project Underground is a strong, closely-knit team that takes a collaborative
approach to program and organizational development instead of top-down
decision-making. We a position managed jointly with the Indigenous
Environmental Network. We are a staff of 10 and we are people of color, women,
transgender, lesbian, and bisexual people and we strongly encourage those of
you from these communities to apply. For more information about Project
Underground, please explore our website at www.moles.org.
Job
Concept:
Project Underground is looking to fill the second position of Co-Director this
year. Our decision to have Co-Directors is driven by the organization's desire
to model equitable distribution of workload, responsibility and power. We
believe that by having Co-Directors, we will build a stronger, more cohesive
organization that achieves true, lasting social change and presents a positive
model in the fight for social justice.
We are searching for someone who has a commitment to community and as an
organization we encourage this commitment and will support your needs around
maintaining it. Project Underground does explicit internal and external work on
ending racism, sexism and all forms of oppression synthesizes that work and
analysis into our work with communities resisting oil and mining exploitation.
Each Co-Director will participate in program planning, administrative and
financial management of the organization, fundraising, organizational
development and public outreach. Each co-director will have a specific job
description as well as shared responsibilities, and these responsibilities will
be apportioned equally according to each Co-Director's skills, experience,
interests and abilities.
Responsibilities include:
· Working with staff to create annual workplans and budgets
· Working with staff to plan campaign strategies
· Supervision and support of staff, including quarterly
reviews and annual evaluations
· Fundraising, including liaison with major donors and
foundation program staff
· Management of the overall financial health of the
organization
· Maintaining relationships with the board, partners, allies,
media and the public
· Representing our work to communities, policy makers, the
public and media
· Guiding the organization's internal culture and supporting
organizational development in line with our goals to addressing and ending all
forms of oppression.
Skills and Experience:
Supervision and human resource management; fundraising; financial management of
a small non-profit; leadership and political knowledge based in relevant social
change movements; strong communication skills, both written and oral; strategic
planning and organizational visioning; experience working with organizations
committed to ending all forms of oppression both internally and externally.
The Co-Directors will also be involved in office and administrative support
work, as are all staff. This includes sharing duties such as answering the
phones, filing and other office tasks.
The position
is full time with a competitive salary, plus excellent medical and dental
benefits and four weeks vacation per year.
How to apply:
We will review all resumes received before March 30 in the first week of April
and then contact those people we wish to invite back for an interview.
Please send a cover letter, resume, writing samples and contact information for
three references to:
Project
Underground
Attn: Co-Director Search Committee
1916A Martin Luther King Jr. Way,
Berkeley, CA 94704
Or by fax: +1 510 705 8983, or email to project_underground@moles.org