Unless you are
• decisive but also a good listener!
• committed to social justice!
• someone who likes working with people!
• someone who can juggle lots of different projects and pieces of information!
Are you already underpaid in a managerial position? Then we have a managerial position where you'll be severely underpaid (actually, not paid at all), but make a huge difference in the life of incarcerated people. The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project is seeking a new general coordinator and you could help steer this grassroots community project. While the project is all volunteer run and attempts to share responsibility and decision making throughout the volunteer base, a general coordinator is still needed to act as a nexus for information, ideas, and logistics around all the volunteer efforts.
The general coordinator does things like:
• Schedule planning meetings
• Identify and troubleshoot problems with the project
• Responds to media inquiries
• Answers e-mail directed to the project
• Meet and develop collaborations with other community groups
• Delegate other volunteers to take on pending tasks
• Act as a point person for Indiana University students taking part in service-learning coursework
• Act as the go-between between Pages and its partner organization, Boxcar Books
• Stay abreast of the progress of filling letters, sending packages, returns, and other aspects of the project.
• Write grants
If you like challenges like these and like doing things you may have never done before, you might be the right person for this very important volunteer role. The ideal candidate will have some experience working with nonprofits, grassroots community organizations, or social justice movements. Familiarity with issues surrounding the prison industrial complex is preferred and formerly incarcerated people or those with family or other loved-ones who have been incarcerated are strongly encouraged to apply.
Someone is needed to fill the position in June 2009, but training should start ASAP. This position requires a 4-10 hour a week time commitment and the ability to check and respond to e-mail on a frequent basis. A minimum 1-year commitment is needed for this position.
If you are interested, please e-mail mwpp [at] pagestoprisoners.org
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