WATER’s mission is to connect activists, religious leaders, students, scholars, and allies who are using feminist religious values to create social and religious change.
Website: https://www.waterwomensalliance.org/
Job Descriptions
Volunteers with WATER get to know the inside ways that a successful feminist nonprofit operates, and work and talk with women from around the world who are making a difference in religion and society. Since WATER is in the DC, Maryland, Virginia (DMV) where national news means local traffic snarls, WATER is attuned to and connected to the social justice struggles of the day.
Volunteers interact daily with WATER’s co-directors and other staff and have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with WATER colleagues and feminist scholars, as well as clients and visitors who come to the office. WATER tries to be a springboard for volunteers’ future work.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Planning programs and events
- Assisting in editing, brainstorming, and writing with projects such as WATERtalks, WATERrituals, WATERmeditations, WATERteas, the WATERwheel newsletter, journal articles, presentations, and books-in-progress
- Learning the various aspects of effective fundraising and donor cultivation
- Maintaining the website, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms
- Developing marketing opportunities for WATER resources, especially Diann Neu’s book STIRRING WATERS: Feminist Liturgies for Justice
- Reading newly published books and learning to write short book blurbs
- Participating in collegial work with other organizations in the Women-Church Convergence
- Communicating with WATER colleagues via phone, email, list serves, website
- Assisting in hosting visiting scholars, interns, and guests at the WATER office
All staff work on the routine office tasks as well as the program and organizational jobs. Volunteers can expect a fair balance.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to be successful include strong writing skills and website and social media skills. Both a college degree and a background in gender studies and/or religion are useful, but not required. WATER is a feminist organization with a commitment to intersectional justice. The ideal volunteer should be team-oriented, detail-oriented, creative, and self-directed. They also should be someone who takes initiative, appreciates variety, works well with diverse people, and is passionate about feminist issues, religion, and social justice.