Community Jobs

1. Organizer for the Global Marshall Plan at the Network of Spiritual Progressives

Build a national movement to support our Strategy of Generosity as the path to "homeland security" through our Global Marshall Plan. Full time plus plus and must work from office in Berkeley, Ca.

The Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP), an international, interfaith grassroots organization based in Berkeley, California, seeks a full-time organizer for our Global Marshall Plan campaign, an intensive effort to start a national conversation about generosity and open-heartedness as a route to homeland security.

Successful candidates will have organizing experience, excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, a ton of energy for social transformation work, and resilient idealism. You will need to be courageous and visionary enough to talk about generosity and love in political and union contexts where those words are often considered too "soft."  A sense of humor and a thick skin are both big pluses!

Specific day-to-day duties will entail

• setting up and carrying out meetings with union leaders, political officials, clergy, and activist leaders to ask for endorsements of the Global Marshall Plan
• speaking to groups (unions, faith communities, political party units, etc.) about the Global Marshall Plan with the aim of receiving organizational endorsements
• recruiting and coordinating groups of activists to collect signatures, build campaigns to pass city council resolutions; lobby Congresspeople; write letters to the editor, etc.
• do outreach to media representatives to seek coverage of the Global Marshall Plan campaign and other NSP efforts
• fielding inquiries via email and phone
  

This salaried position will require some evenings and weekends. The position will be based out of our Berkeley office. Salary commensurate with your experience.

Please read carefully all of the information on our website, www.spiritualprogressives.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@tikkun.org or  fax to 510-644-1255 a truly self-revealing letter about yourself and your own process of political and spiritual development, the kind of organizing you've done in the past and what worked and what didn't, what speaks to you most in the NSP vision and what speaks to you least.  Please indicate what draws you to want to do this kind of work,  what questions you have about the Global Marshall Plan (read the Q&A about it on our website), how your skills fit our needs, and what concretely you would do to start building public awareness of the Global Marshall Plan and start getting organizational endorsements and political endorsements from city councils and the State Legislature and Congressional people. Send copy of your letter to RabbiLerner@Tikkun.org, Pete@Tikkun.org and Nichola@Tikkun.org

2. TIKKUN MAGAZINE: ASSISTANT EDITOR

We seek an editor with excellent English language skills and who is  familiar with the Siddur and Tanakh, and well-versed in the range of current intellectual issues that are central to public intellectual life both within the academy and in the journals and magazines of contemporary politics and culture, and who shares the NSP/Tikkun perspective as articulated at www.tikkun.org/core_vision, and in the editorials on Israel and on the Global Marshall Plan in the May/June 2008 issue of Tikkun (copies of which you can get by calling our office 510 644 1200).
Work includes recruiting authors (including new talented people in their twenties and thirties), editing, proofreading, production of the magazine, work with the printers, the distributors and finding and working with advertisers, plus advocacy for Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives, and much more. It also includes representing Tikkun and distributing leaflets and pamphlets that urge membership in Tikkun or the NEtwork of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) at events at least one night a week and one weekend a month attendance at conferences at which you promote TIKKUN and the NSP. This is a professional job, not an hourly job, and like most work in publishing, don't even begin to think you can count the hours you work, which will be way more than 40 hours per week. We need someone with strong capacity to communicate well, get along with others, deal with stressful work demands, and someone who has a pronounced and positive sense of humor and can be both utopian in ideology and realistic in time scheduling for the production process of the magazine.
TO APPLY: WRITE A SELF-REVEALING PERSONAL LETTER
which lets us get a real understanding of who you are at the deepest level of self-revelation of which you are comfortable. Tell us about your life, your aspirations, your experience, your previous experiences with editing, your understanding of the ideas behind the NSP and Tikkun magazine, with Jewish Renewal,Judaism and/or Jewish Studies and/or Religious Studies, your computer, Excel, Mac and layout skills, which articles you liked best in the past few issues of Tikkun and which you would not have accepted (why?) or would have edited differently (how?), what parts of the vision of the Network of Spiritual Progressives makes you feel most excited and which part most weary, why you'd be good to work with Rabbi Lerner and Tikkun magazine, your ideas for ways that you think Tikkun magazine should grow and change, and specifically what steps you would take to get people in their twenties and thirties to read Tikkun and/or become active with the Network of Spiritual Progressives. and why Rabbi Lerner would enjoy working with you. And send names of 3 reference people. To RabbiLerner@Tikkun.org.
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