Campaign Director The Prometheus Radio Project (fwd)

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Nan Rubin

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Campaign Director
The Prometheus Radio Project is looking for an experienced community organizer to join our staff as our campaign director.


The Prometheus Radio Project is a grassroots organization that works to expand and protect community radio stations, and to promote a more democratic and accountable media in the United States and around the world. From Black Panther-led community centers in Tanzania to farmworker groups in Oregon, we help groups build their own radio stations as tools for their vital social justice organizing.

Every day, we advocate for these groups and their stations, help them organize with allies near and far for their rights, and work with them to keep their stations thriving and to help leaders teach new radio pioneers the skills needed to own your own media. We help community groups navigate the Federal Communications Commission and the radio licensing process, and we provide technical assistance to groups building radio stations. We also advocate in Congress and at the FCC to protect community radio, and actively participate in the broader campaign for a better media. We are tireless in our fight to make community radio stations and other appropriate technologies available to every neighborhood, every city, every town that needs them.


As we reflect on almost ten years of political organizing to establish, defend, and expand community radio in the United States, the Prometheus Radio Project is searching for a Campaign Director. This person will communicate with the leaders of the media reform and media justice movement, with community radio stations, and with social movements working to build a just country and a just world.
In concert with these people and groups, the Campaign Director will design campaigns to expand community media and keep corporate media accountable in the United States and around the world. From creating tools to help people file comments at the FCC, to executing legislative campaigns and organizing tours, to working with the entire Prometheus collective to plan the strategic future of the organization and its role in community radio, this person will have an opportunity to lead strong and successful efforts to put media in the hands of communities who need it.


As a part of a collective-run organization, this person will have the opportunity to help build systems which ensure the sustainability of the organization and the movement of which it is a part, and to participate in the shared political education of a very beautiful group of people.
This job is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and we cannot currently consider telecommuters.

Duties Include:
- community and grassroots organizing in small groups and with large organizations
- building coalitions with the ability to win policy battles and gains for affected groups
- crafting communications for supporters, community media, and corporate media outlets
- representing Prometheus or community radio goals in local, national, and international coalitions
- leading and managing the time and tasks of designated volunteers and interns
- serving as a mentor/liason between interns, volunteers and staff


Required skills/experience:
- Very self-motivated and self-directed, with a strong ability to juggle several projects at once
- Organizing experience with diverse communities
- Demonstrated success designing, managing, and winning organizing campaigns
- Demonstrated success promoting goals and messages with a constituency, with press, and to allies
- Strong word processing skills and experience with spreadsheet or database software
- Passion for community media and for building a just world



Helpful skills/attributes include:
- Fluency in languages besides English
- Public speaking

- Experience managing website content or designing websites
- International organizing experience
- Community radio experience
- Knowledge and experience with consensus decision-making
- We tend to travel fairly often. Having a driver's license and car is a plus
Prometheus is an egalitarian office, where all full-time staff earn equal hourly pay. We currently pay eleven dollars per hour, up to 40 hours per week. The pay may go up if we are successful in fundraising. We offer medical and dental coverage. Everyone takes a turn mopping the floor and taking out the trash. Hours are flexible, though as an activist organization we all work very hard. Our office is located in West Philadelphia, in the community center basement of the Calvary Methodist Church. Be ready to smell delicious cooking, hear the shouts of children learning martial arts, people singing gospel, or holding a self-help meeting.
Everyone from every kind of background is welcome to apply -- don't be shy!


Please be advised that while everyone is invited to apply, we need an experienced organizer for this position and will likely not be interviewing folks without very strong experience (as a professional or volunteer) in organizing,communications, or campaigns.
To apply, send a resume, cover letter, and two writing samples to [e-mail], and include "Campaign Director Job Applicant" in the subject line. First evaluation deadline is March 30th. We will keep this call open until we find the right person for the position.
Our web site -- http://www.prometheusradio.org -- can tell you more about us!

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