[Fwd: Job Opportunity: Please circulate]

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Subject: Job Opportunity: Please circulate
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:24:43 -0400
From: larcom <larcom@bcpl.net>
To: BLarcom@afsc.org

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>Posted April 18, 2002
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>Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR) seeks a National Coordinator to run its
>national office in Washington D.C.
>
>For seven years, CLR has mobilized grassroots activists in solidarity with
>international campaigns to end sweatshop abuses.  CLR has been called the
>"grassroots mobilizing department" of the US anti-sweatshop movement.
>Coordinating with communities across the country as well as other national
>and international labor rights groups, CLR attacks the root causes of
>poverty, oppression, and economic disparity. We prioritize campaigns which
>have the goal of worker empowerment through union recognition and
>collectively bargained contracts, and we build campaign strategies in
>collaboration with the workers whose livelihood and lives are at stake.  CLR
>promotes a broad understanding of sweatshops by locating them within the
>current structure of neo-colonialism (corporate-centered globalization) and
>related systems of oppression, and we promote resistance to these systems in
>local communities.
>
>The National Coordinator will have a variety of responsibilities including:
>
>Program:
>~ Work with staff to develop and coordinate outreach and education programs.
>~ Work with staff to develop and facilitate CLR involvement in various
>coalitions and networks.
>
>Personnel Coordination:
>~ Coordinate CLR's small staff (3-4 people).
>~ Coordinate Volunteer and Internship Programs.
>
>Administration:
>~ Raise the annual budget by maintaining existing fundraising programs.
>~ Facilitate CLR's administrative and financial relationship with the
>Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ).
>CLR is a member project of the AGJ.
>
>We are seeking a Coordinator committed to the mission of the organization
>and to a collaborative work style.  The Coordinator should have experience
>in leading an organization through changing political, economic, and social
>environments; strong public speaking and organizational, financial
>management and personnel coordination skills; and an understanding of or
>experience in labor organizing and the anti-sweatshop movement.  Strong
>preference for the ability to speak Spanish.
>
>CLR is an equal opportunity employer - women, people of color, and LGBTQ are
>strongly encouraged to apply.  Salary for the National Coordinator will be
>in the middle 30's and is negotiable and will be based on experience.
>Excellent benefits will be provided.  The position is full-time with
>flexible hours, and will sometimes require travel, night and weekend work.
>
>To apply: Please send your resume, cover letter, 3 references, and a 2-3
>page writing sample to:  Campaign for Labor Rights, National Coordinator
>Search Committee, 1247 E Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003.
>
>Deadline: Rolling until the position is filled.