Job Locations US-MA-Amherst

Posted Date 6 days ago(9/6/2024 1:48 PM)

Job ID

2024-2479

# of Openings

2

Category

Civil Rights, Social Action, and Advocacy

Type

Fiscal Sponsorship Organizations

Location : Name

Collective Power for Reproductive Justice

Collective Power for Reproductive Justice (collectivepowerrj.org) is a national reproductive rights and justice organization dedicated to educating, mentoring, and inspiring new generations of advocates, leaders, and supporters. Combining activism, organizing, leadership training, and reproductive rights movement building, Collective Power promotes an inclusive agenda that advances reproductive rights and health, and social and economic justice. Collective Power is a fiscally sponsored project of Third Sector New England, Inc. (TSNE) (tsne.org).

Essential Functions

Collective Power for Reproductive Justice (CPRJ), is currently hiring two students from the Five Colleges to be Conference Committee Coordinators (CCC). Collective Power is a national Reproductive Justice organization who hosts an annual reproductive justice conference in Amherst MA: Collective Power, facilitates an national internship program which offers up to 40 undergraduates social and reproductive justice internships, and produces research on challenging population control and eugenics.

The CCCs will work under the supervision of the Campus and Conference Program Manager at Collective Power, from September 2024 to June 2025. Their key responsibilities include networking and building relationships with Five College students by hosting at least five on-campus info sessions throughout the year. These sessions will focus on getting involved with Collective Power and advancing reproductive justice.

In addition, CCCs will promote the Collective Power 2025 conference, recruit Five College students to join the 2025 Student Organizing Group, and assist with coordinating event logistics during the conference, which will take place from April 4th-6th, 2025.

Five College Outreach:

• Represent Collective Power at Five College events
• Foster relationships with appropriate contacts at all colleges (activist student groups, feminist studies, identity-based centers, etc.)
• Promote Collective Power events and Student Organizing Group through newsletters, flyers, and social media post

Conference Outreach:

• Work with Collective Power’s Communications Manager to implement CPRJ branding and language for the upcoming 2025 conference
• Promote the conference to college and highschool students in our programmatic areas
• Distribute outreach materials for the future student organizing group, Collective power 2025 in the Pioneer Valley

Post-Pandemic Infrastructure Preparation & Planning

• Vision and plan for the next phase of the Student Organizing Group: Research RJ workshops, speakers, and activists to engage with and bring on to campus for students
• Vision for the social justice topics of interest you would like to bring to students and plan events around those topics
• Plan, host, and promote at least three Info-sessions about the Student Organizing group, and upcoming 2025 conference to local students in the Pioneer Valley from October-November and two more in the early Spring

2025 Conference Weekend Coordination April 4th, 5th, and 6th (Required Attendance):

• Coordinate volunteers for conference set-up, maintenance, and clean-up
• Assist with registration
• Emcee/moderate and/or monitor plenaries
• Represent Collective Power to conference attendees, speakers, and the press

Preliminary Recruitment for the 2025-2026 Student Group

• Before and after Collective Power 2025 work to recruit Five College students for the 2025-2026 volunteer Student Organizing Group
• Table for Student Organizing Group at Collective Power 2025

We will consider exceptional candidates who demonstrate a strong combination of the specific qualifications and skills described below.

• A strong RJ analysis
• Committed to dismantling racism and queer/transphobic rhetoric
• Ability to effectively communicate with supervisor and eventually other prospective Student Group members
• Ability to work in teams and empower leadership of peers
• Ability to incorporate direction and feedback into creative work plans; design, implement, facilitate, or provide logistic support for events
• Have existing (and ability to build) networks in Five Colleges and beyond
• Comfort with public speaking; working-knowledge or interest in facilitation
• Ability to be flexible and to fit into existing systems of organization
• Ability to work across differences
• Comfort with word processing, email communication, speaking on the phone, maintaining excel spreadsheets
• Detail-oriented
• Interest and knowledge in reproductive justice and social justice issues
• Growing understanding of systems of oppression and intersections of social justice issues

Students who hold one or more identities that have been pushed to the margins are strongly encouraged to apply for this position: BIPOC, LQBTQIA+ fat, disabled, LATINX, and AAPI.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those for this position. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. Work is performed in an office environment and in close proximity to other workers.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to:

• Handle, or feel objects, tools or controls;
• Reach; traverse; sit (usually for longer periods of time); occasionally ascend/descend; and position self (to) move;
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds;
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate;
• Job is not subject to significant occupational or environmental hazards;
• Likelihood of personal injury would be relatively slight;
• Environmental and work hazards are not present to a measurable degree.

Compensation and Benefits

Location: Work will be primarily performed Amherst, MA.

Compensation: The starting salary for this position is $15.00/hr and is commensurate with experience.

Benefits: This position is is not eligible for benefits.

TSNE/CPRJ strives to achieve excellence through a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment that embraces all of our individual and collective differences. Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Middle Eastern and North African, Bilingual and/or Bicultural candidates, and LGBTQ2SIA+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We value and honor the unique talents, learning styles, and lived experiences of each individual that enrich and strengthen our workplace culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

All employment conditions are based on an individual’s performance and job qualifications. TSNE/CPRJ prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, creed, color, religion, native language, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, parental status, pregnancy, race-based hairstyles, or any other protected characteristic stated by federal and state law. Regardless of any class’ protection under the law or lack thereof, TSNE/CPRJ celebrates diversity and values the strengths that come with having a diverse team of employees. It is represented in our workplace culture, and it is who we are.

TSNE/CPRJ's EEO statement extends to volunteers, interns, contractors, vendors, and clients.

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