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
Project Description:
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. WATER works to support feminist and gender-inclusive perspectives in religious spaces building an international network of change-makers devoted to addressing social injustices. Their work includes educational workshops, outreach, and publications that explore the intersections of feminism, theology, and ecology.
Job Title: Staff Associate
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Staff Associate will get to know the inside ways that a successful feminist non-profit 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 D.C., Maryland, Virginia (DMV) area 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.
All staff work on the routine office tasks as well as the program and organizational jobs. Volunteers can expect a fair balance.
Tasks and responsibilities include:
• Planning and preparing programs such as WATERtalks, WATERrituals, WATERmeditations, and WATERteas
• Editing, brainstorming, and writing for the WATERwheel newsletter, journal articles, presentations, and books-in-progress
• Learning the various aspects of effective fundraising and donor cultivation
• Maintaining the website, Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms
• Reading newly published books and writing short book blurbs
• Participating in collegial work with other organizations in the feminist/theological spheres
• Doing administrative tasks like communicating with WATER colleagues via phone, email, list serves, and the website
• Assisting in hosting visiting scholars, interns, and guests at the WATER office
Requirements:
Knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to be successful include strong writing, 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.