United Religions Initiative Fellowship
Description:
United Religions Initiative (URI) is making a daily difference in people’s lives around the world. Through our network of grassroots interfaith organizations—called Cooperation Circles (CCs)—half a million people of diverse faiths from all corners of the globe are working together to better their communities: mediating religiously motivated conflict; building schools, orphanages and health clinics; campaigning for citizenship and women’s rights and more.
The 2011 Beatitudes Society Summer Fellowship at URI will support URI's strategic plan to grow for sustainability and impact through a project (or set of related small projects) that would be planned and completed within the two months of the summer experience. The Fellow would be supervised by URI's Communications Manager, with additional guidance from the program staff, potentially in the areas of peacebuilding, youth, the environment, or communications. The Fellow will have opportunities to reach out to URI's members in almost 80 countries or to targeted audiences in URI's 8 regions, including partners and media. Fellows in recent years worked on event production, development of curricula for youth, web development, online community organizing and resource organization and creation.
Depending on the skills and interests of the particular individual(s) considered for this fellowship, the tasks will be adjusted to maximize the experience and the final products of their work. The Fellow will also document the experience (processes, challenges, recommendations, etc.) for others who may follow up after the fellowship is completed.
Skills Required:
- A natural networker who has a mind for connecting ideas, people and resources.
- Comfort and ease with online communication (social networks, blogging and e-mail).
- Training and/or experience in multimedia management (video conversion and basic editing), OR public relations, OR electronic library/archive organizing.
- Solid writing, editorial, and verbal communication skills.
- Organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Superior interpersonal skills with sensitivity and the ability to project professional competence and personal maturity.
- Independent, creative and critical thinking with common sense.
- Team-oriented, task-oriented and performance-driven.
- |Ability to take initiative and follow direction as appropriate to the task.
- Knowledge of other cultures and languages is a plus.
- Willingness to take on tasks as needed to help fulfill URI’s Purpose.
Unique Opportunities this internship Provides:
- Experience with a 10-year old global, grassroots community (nearly 500 member groups in nearly 80 countries)
- Work in a diverse, multicultural, intergenerational, interfaith context
- Direct access to URI's executive staff
- URI office is located in the Presidio of San Francisco, a hub of non-profit organizations focused on interfaith, environment, conflict resolution and many other important issues of our time, as well as the LukasArts/ILM campus. For more information, visit www.uri.org,www.thoreau.org, and www.presidio.gov. www.uri.org, www.thoreau.org, and www.presidio.gov.
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