NSP Job

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Paid Employment: National Organizer for the NSP

Posted by: " Paul Ricketts " pjricketts pauljamesricketts

Thu Aug 2, 2007 12:14 pm (PST)

 

 

The Network of Spiritual Progressives A Project of the Tikkun Community

Work with meaning!

 

We are looking for an energetic person with proven organizing skills

to join our team at the national headquarters in Berkeley, CA, as a

full-time national organizer for the Network of Spiritual

Progressives. (NSP). Please forward this email to anyone you know who

might be interested.

 

The primary initial focus of the job will involve building a visible,

vibrant, and loving movement in the San Francisco Bay area to

 

 

promote and work toward implementation of our New Bottom Line

get national support for a Global Marshall Plan and its underlying

strategy of generosity to replace the strategy of domination currently

shaping American foreign policy

challenge current conceptions of what is “realistic†in politics and

to promote our Spiritual Covenant with America

grow our membership in the Bay Area and around the U.S. and Canada

The organizer will meet with clergy and their congregations, labor

union leaders, and progressive organizations, and lead a campaign to

get our ideas into public discourse in media and through ballot measures.

Learning from this local experience, the organizer will also support

local chapter leaders around the country, planning and writing

resource materials for local chapters, coordinating volunteers,

fundraising, and organizing national projects that will give the NSP

and its parent organization, Tikkun magazine, media and public attention.

 

This job is for a " people person " with excellent communication and

proven organizing and recruitment skills. You'll need a lot of energy,

the ability to speak publicly on difficult and contentious issues,

good organizational skills, a sense of humor, and a passionate

dedication to the NSP and Tikkun philosophy as outlined in the Core

Vision, available from www.spiritualprogre ssives.org. The position is

salaried and will require substantially more than 40 hours a week

including evenings and weekends; we are looking for someone passionate

about the vision and willing to pour a lot of energy into making it

come to life. The position will be based out of our Berkeley office.

If you have the talent, experience, energy-level and commitment to the

vision, this can be an extraordinarily rewarding job on every level.

 

Please read carefully all of the information on our website,

www.spiritualprogre ssives.org as well as The Left Hand of God: Taking

Our Country Back from the Religious Right by Rabbi Michael Lerner, and

then send to pete (AT) tikkun (DOT) org or fax to 510-644-1255 a resume and a

self-revealing letter indicating what draws you to this vision and how

your skills fit our needs.

 

Nichola Torbett of National Programs

Network of Spiritual Progressives