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Job Announcement: WPSR 2021 Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Internship

Start date: January 2021

Length of internship: 3-6 months

Compensation: $600/month stipend

Hours: 10-12 hours per week

Supervisor: Carly Brook, WPSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Organizer

Internship Position Description:

The mission of WPSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition program is to reduce and ultimately eliminate nuclear weapons and the threat they pose to human health and survival. We do this primarily through building a grassroots, coalition-based anti-nuclear movement that can effectively influence Members of Congress on our nuclear weapons policy priorities. We engage health professionals in this work, and play a key leadership role in a broad-based coalition across Washington State that mobilizes and organizes local communities to take action on the gravest threats to human health, including nuclear weapons. As preparation for the internship, our interns participate in monthly task force calls and do pre-reading to begin to learn background information issues related to nuclear weapons.

Due to the conditions of COVID-19, this internship will start, and be conducted until conditions allow otherwise, remotely. WPSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program interns have the opportunity to engage in meetings with Members of Congress, learn skills for coalition building, learn the basics of community organizing from a health perspective, and build project management skills. They will be supported with relevant materials to learn about the content area of WPSR’s programs. 

Qualifications:
Successful candidates will demonstrate:

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Initiative, resourcefulness, and the ability to be a self-starter

  • Willingness to proactively engage with and learn program content

  • Stellar people skills and the ability to work with diverse members of the Washington Against Nuclear Weapons Coalition and support participants in this grassroots movement

Job Duties:

  • Interest in learning about intersectional organizing with other movements (eg: climate justice movement, movement for economic justice)

  • Experience organizing with different methods/tactics for advocacy and movement-building

  • Media work- publishing advocacy pieces, working with journalists to publish activist perspectives

  • Crafting professional communications with diverse constituents

  • Support the administration and growth of the WANW Youth Front

  • Assist with policy advocacy tasks and coalition organizing tasks like writing, social media, website and education

Learning objectives (subject to adjustment based on candidate):

  1. Learn about the history of nuclear colonialism and its present day impacts on marginalized communities.

  2. How to conduct effective capacity building to reach new audiences and constituencies

  3. Explore what highly impactful activism looks like in regard to issues not on the forefront of most people’s minds like nuclear weapons proliferation.

  4. Learn how to act as an effective liaison, and recognize intersectionality, between the health care community, marginalized communities, and politicians/political entities.   

How to apply:

  • To apply, please send a resume to carly@wpsr.org with a brief statement of your interest in the position. Carly Brook, WPSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Organizer, at carly@wpsr.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position will remain open until filled. No phone calls please.

We seek to recruit and retain talented applicants from a diverse candidate pool. We especially welcome applicants who support our organization’s core values: science, sustainability, compassion, peace, justice, and equity. WPSR provides equal employment opportunities with no discrimination against any individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.

Thank you for your interest! To learn more about our organization, please visit www.wpsr.org.