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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Position: Coalition Coordinator (30 hours/week)

Location: New York City

Start Date: ASAP

 

Job Summary:

The Coordinator will provide overall coordination and administrative support for the Peoples’ Justice.  The Coordinator will work with the coalition’s leadership body to plan, carry-out and evaluate PJ projects and programs and will, in particular, play a key role in the development of the city-wide Cop Watch Network.  The Coordinator will also help develop and implement key aspects of the coalition’s communications strategy.  The Coordinator will work closely with and be supervised by PJ’s Co-Chairs.

 

Responsibilities

Coordination:  The Coordinator will work closely with PJ’s Co-Chairs to:

  • Coordinate the leadership body to develop, carry-out and evaluate PJ projects and programs
  • Coordinate the leadership body to develop coalition infrastructure and policies
  • Ensure proper coordination, communication, and accountability among organizational representatives
  • Coordinate PJ volunteers

Administration and Communications: 

  • Maintain coalition files and records
  • Respond to email and phone inquiries
  • Coordinate responses to media requests and speaking invitations
  • Work with the coalition’s leadership body to develop and maintain the coalition’s online presence (including public list-serve, Facebook, Twitter and website.)

Programmatic

  • Coordinate the coalition’s leadership body to train and mentor new Cop Watch teams
  • Coordinate the coalition’s leadership body to develop infrastructure for the Cop Watch Network
  • Coordinate Know Your Rights and Cop Watch trainings for community groups

 

Experience and Skill Requirements:

  • Demonstrated commitment to the goals and work of Peoples’ Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability
  • Knowledge of the landscape of the New York City anti-police violence movement 
  • Ideally at least four years of experience leading grassroots organizations and/or campaigns in low income/communities of color/ LGBTQ communities
  • Ideally at least two years of Cop Watch experience
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a clear, logical and timely fashion
  • Strong administrative, management, facilitation, interpersonal and leadership development skills
  • Collaborative person who is also capable of working independently
  • Organized and detail-oriented with ability to write clear and concise emails, statements and letters

Compensation:  Compensation with benefits is competitive and commensurate with experience.  Please note this is a part-time position (30 hours/week) and will require some work on evenings and weekends.

 

To Apply:  Please send a resume and thoughtful cover letter outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and your analysis of police violence and its impact on low-income communities of color (including its impact on immigrant, homeless, disabled and LGBTQ community members.) Please state in your cover letter or email how you heard about this opportunity. Please send application to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it using the following conventions:

Subject line:  Application: Coalition Coordinator

Cover Letter:  yourfirstname_yourlastname_coverletter.doc

Resume:  yourfirstname_yourlastname_resume.doc

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with priority given to those received before May 30, 2012. Application deadline open until filled.

 

About Peoples’ Justice:

Peoples’ Justices for Community Control and Police Accountability (PJ) is a coalition of grassroots organizations working in Black, Latino, Asian and LGBT New York City communities.  The coalition was formed in the wake of the 2006 New York City Police Department killing of Sean Bell and shooting of Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman in order to respond to the incident and hi-light the systemic nature of police violence.  PJ’s founding organizations are former members of the historic Coalition Against Police Brutality, which helped organize massive protests in response to the 1999 killing of Amadou Diallo and aided in the dismantling of the notoriously brutal Street Crimes Unit that was responsible for his death.

PJ is committed to building the power of New York City communities of color to respond to and prevent biased, unlawful and violent policing.  Our current work includes creating public art aimed at community education and empowerment, conducting street outreach and Know Your Rights and Cop Watch trainings through out the city, and developing a city-wide network of Cop Watch teams that are equipped and empowered to document police activity as a deterrent of abuse.

PJ’s member organizations include:

Audre Lorde Project (ALP)

CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (CAAAV)

Justice Committee

Long March Collective

Make The Road New York

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)

Nodutdol for Korean Community Development  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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