Overview:

The War Resisters League is seeking a part-time, temporary consultant to work on a variety of 100th Anniversary projects that need support, including coordination, outreach and promotion. They will work with the 100th Anniversary Committee and sub-committees, setting up and organizing systems to accomplish the tasks identified by the committee. The work averages 12 - 15 hours a week for one year. This is a fully-remote, contract position.

About WRL: Founded in 1923, the War Resisters League (WRL) affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war, including racism, sexism, and all forms of exploitation.

As a leading radical voice in the antiwar movement, WRL's revolutionary nonviolent strategy builds cross-movement analysis and international solidarity, supports conscientious objectors and GI resisters, challenges military recruitment, advocates for war tax resistance, against the use of teargas in prisons or against nonviolent demonstrators, and trains for and organizes nonviolent direct action.

WRL’s organizational culture highly values collaboration and consensus, working in small teams and committees. WRL is multi-generational and seeks to be accountable to a plurality of bases directly impacted by militarism. We work to sustain a culture rooted in our principle of revolutionary nonviolence.

Scope of Work

To support the work for various 100th anniversary events taking place over the next year, with four primary projects listed here:

Traveling Exhibit – Conduct outreach, promotion and coordination for groups hosting the exhibit. Facilitate the transfer of the exhibit from one site in the U.S. to the other.
Oral History Project – To do outreach, promotion and coordination of oral history interviews of and about WRL members and WRL campaigns, events, regional offices, and/or actions. Identify potential oral history project participants. Connect interviewers with those being interviewed, provide oral history tools, and facilitate virtual oral history trainings. Coordinate the process to ensure archiving of the interviews. Facilitate Blog posts based on interviews.
Blog Posts – Facilitate outreach to those identified as potential writers; Obtain commitments; coordinate scheduling.
Publicity for 100th Anniversary projects and events. Support for committees’ and local projects’ promotional needs, including social media posts, online promotion of events, and media outreach – to authors, media, podcasters, occasional press releases.

This work will be done virtually. The Project Coordinator will need to attend committee meetings that take place both during the day and evening, on Zoom, by phone, etc. and will be responsible for note-taking at some of the meetings. They must have internet access, their own computer, etc. in order to do this work. Most meetings occur in the Eastern time zone.

In addition to meeting with project teams, the Project Coordinator might need to present or meet with WRL’s Administrative Coordinating Committee and/or the National Committee.

Requirements:

Experience:

Experience with activist and movement groups.
Experience working with committees and autonomously, setting and keeping to goals and deadlines for multiple projects.

Skills & Qualifications:

Experience with project management; ability to balance multiple responsibilities well, to set priorities, and follow work plans.
Understanding of and commitment to antiwar/anti militarism and WRL’s mission of revolutionary nonviolence as a resistance and social change strategy.
Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
Ability to ask for and receive direction and input.
Comfort working with computers, including email groups and listservs, word processing; familiarity with Zoom, Google Workspace, etc.
Experience with communication on social media platforms.
Preferred, but not required:
Interest in history of radical pacifist movements and other movements for social change
Familiarity with oral history, public history, and/or social movement archives
Graphic design skills (Adobe products, Canva, etc)
Experience developing or supporting regular events (virtual and in-person)
Familiarity with NextCloud, OpenOffice and other FOSS platforms
Comfortable working as part of a small, non-hierarchical team.
Able to communicate with multi-generational audiences.

Compensation:

This job averages 12 - 15 hours a week for WR’s Centennial year. The WRL consultant rate is $32.25 an hour.

To Apply:

Please send a cover letter, resume, and a writing sample, along with contact information (email and phone number) for two references to jobs@warresisters.org with the subject line “WRL 100th Project Coordinator”

Applications will be taken on a rolling basis until the position is filled, ideally by the end of May.

WRL is actively committed to seeking the full representation and participation of all people, including people directly impacted by militarism, people of color, people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans, Queer, and Gender Non-Conforming (LGBTSTQGNC), and people with disabilities, as well as people representing various ages, classes, and cultural backgrounds. Such diversity is sought throughout WRL's staff and decision-making bodies.