Urban Unrest

31 March 2008 | Opportunities | Ernesto Aguilar

Prometheus is excited to announce the creation of a new staff position: Station Support Organizer! Applications are now being accepted. Please send a resume, cover letter, 1-2 writing samples, and references to jobs (at) prometheusradio.org. Application deadline is April 11th!

Prometheus is a grassroots organization that works to expand and protect community radio and promote a more democratic media in the United States and around the world. From Black Panther-led community centers in Tanzania to farmworker groups in Oregon, we help community groups build their own radio stations as tools for social justice organizing. Our day to day work consists of advocacy, grassroots organizing, and direct services. We help civil society groups navigate the radio licensing process and provide technical assistance in building radio stations. We also advocate in Congress and at the FCC to protect community radio, and actively participate in the broader campaign for a better media. We are tireless in our fight to make community radio stations and appropriate technologies available to every neighborhood, every town that needs them.

Prometheus Radio Project is now taking applications for a new position: Station Support Organizer.

This new position at Prometheus Radio Project will be responsible for maintaining the relationships among the thousands of people that contact Prometheus in their quest to build a radio station, and the hundreds of groups that rely on Prometheus for advice and connection to the community radio movement.

This position will also be responsible for outreach that will help build awareness and capacity for community radio in social justice movements. Prometheus seeks to demystifying technology and the political system so that community’s can take back their airwaves! As the primary point of contact for people who seek support from Prometheus, the Director of Community Radio Support is charged with maintaining reliable information usable by Community Radio stations to address their basic legal, engineering, governance and related challenges.

Responsibilities include:

* Managing incoming requests by integrating them into Prometheus’ operation. This involves providing information in response to basic requests, connecting people with appropriate legislative and regulatory campaign leaders, and directing people to appropriate support among the Prometheus staff;

* Helping to strengthen the community radio movement by designing and managing outreach campaigns and organizing and promoting events that raise awareness and spread knowledge across the US on the power of participatory radio;

* Spearheading the creation of collaborative tools which low power and other participatory stations can use to share their knowledge and experience;

* Implementing methods to assess the needs of our constituents and make recommendations to Prometheus on we can better serve these communities;

* Helping Prometheus’ sustainability by identifying potential candidates for our more in-depth engineering services and integrating stations and station hopefuls into our fundraising efforts.

A candidate for this position needs:

* In-depth knowledge of radio station administrative operations - an excellent job for a former station manager or community radio participant

* Excellent written and verbal communications skills

* Familiarity with computers, various software applications and the internet

* Strong organizational skills and methods

* Comfort with and willingness to engage in fundraising work

* Community organizing experience

Other skills that would be very helpful:

* Fluency in multiple languages

* Web development skills

* Radio engineering knowledge, or comfort with taking on and communicating technical matters

* Experience in consensus decision-making and mediation

* A drivers license

* International experience

* Audio Production (importantly, this is not a part of the job; we are not a radio station or a radio network, and we do not shape the content of the stations that ask our support. But you might on occasion have cause to teach some audio production)

Prometheus is an egalitarian office, where all take part in decision-making and all full-time staff earn equal hourly pay. We can pay you eleven dollars per hour, up to 40 hours per week; and we offer full medical and dental coverage. Everyone takes a turn mopping the floor and taking out the trash, etc. Hours are flexible; there are no clocks to punch, and there is no one breathing down your neck to manage your time. However, you are responsible for getting results and serving our goal of empowering social movements through ownership and control of community media outlets. This means we all work very hard and occasionally work long hours; especially during events and barnraisings, we engage in intense commitments for weeks at a time.

Our office is located in West Philadelphia, in the community center basement of the Calvary Methodist Church. Be ready to smell delicious cooking, hear the shouts of children learning martial arts, people singing gospel, or holding a self help meeting.

As far as we’re concerned, discrimination sucks. Everyone is invited to apply. Don’t be shy!

Send a resume, cover letter, and two writing samples to: jobs@promemetheusradio.org.

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