Dear John,

World BEYOND War is hiring for a part-time U.S. Organizer, based in the Washington, DC area! The application deadline has now been extended to November 30.

About the Position

The U.S. Organizer’s primary role is to enlarge and activate World BEYOND War’s membership base in the United States, building volunteer-run chapters to do educational, activist, and media work on global, national, and locally developed projects. This organizer will work to strengthen the peace/anti-war movement in the United States as a whole by working with and developing affiliate organizations, and by working in collaboration with allies in various coalitions, new and longstanding. Being located in, or near, Washington, D.C., the World BEYOND War U.S. Organizer will be responsible for organizing across the United States – mostly virtually, with occasional travel – but also for enlarging and making more visible the WBW presence in peace/anti-war events in the nation's capital, and for promoting WBW's U.S. work to U.S. media outlets. This is a remote, part-time (20 hrs/wk) position that must be based in or near Washington, DC. Compensation is $24,000 per year.

Apply here!

About World BEYOND War (WBW)

WBW is a global network with 28 chapters in 17 countries advocating for the abolition of war. WBW functions through a decentralized, distributed grassroots organizing model focused on building power at the local level. Key to World BEYOND War’s work is the holistic opposition to the institution of war at large – not only all current wars and violent conflicts, but the industry of war itself, the ongoing preparations for war that feed the profitability of the system.

We work locally and globally, using education, nonviolent activism, and media to move the world away from wars, militarism, and violence, and toward peace. We work to develop, inform others, and realize alternatives to the war system in which we live, through campaigns that envision and build a peace system by, for example, closing or converting military bases, divesting money from weapons, demilitarizing police, erecting billboards, restricting the arms trade, promoting unarmed civil resistance, ending wars, and shifting funding to human and environmental needs.

Responsibilities of the U.S. Organizer include:

Create, retain, and activate chapters and affiliates in the United States
Recruit, train, and manage WBW volunteers in the United States
Plan educational and activist events in the United States
Design and implement strategic issue advocacy campaigns across the United States with clear goals, targets, strategies, and tactics
Help organize large conferences and rallies, especially in Washington, DC
Produce creative and educational content for WBW’s website, email blasts, social media, fact sheets, and press materials
Generate media coverage by larger outlets
Engage in public speaking & media appearances to amplify WBW’s message and reach a wider audience
Organize intersectionally across issues to form a larger movement, move others toward anti-war/pro-peace advocacy, and move pro-peace groups toward total war abolition
Track war and peace related issues in the U.S. government and plan strategic campaigns around them
Manage databases to track relationships with U.S. volunteers and allies
Recommend and initiate new digital tools for outreach and movement-building to improve our work and grow our grassroots network

Required Qualifications:

At least 1-3 years experience in digital organizing
Excellent oral and written communications skills in English; fluency in other languages is an asset
Alignment with World BEYOND War’s mission to end all war and establish a just and sustainable peace
Highly organized, and able to manage multiple projects at once without sacrificing quality
Experience working remotely
Experience working with a nongovernmental organization or in the nonprofit sector
Strong understanding of online and offline organizing, mobilization, and direct action
Able to travel nationally and internationally on occasion
Proficiency with email, internet, and spreadsheet software, Google Suite, Zoom, Action Network, Wordpress, social media platforms, or similar systems
Experience working in a multilingual context across time zones
Experience creating and sustaining coalitions of varying capacities
Experience managing complex partner dynamics
Experience with strategic campaign planning
Experience with intersectional organizing that highlights racial justice, gender justice, climate justice, and Indigenous rights a plus

Applications are continuing to be accepted from now until November 30. Learn more and apply here!

Please forward this email widely with your networks in the Washington, DC area.

In peace and solidarity,

Greta Zarro
Organizing Director
World BEYOND War

World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of the institution of war.
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