Gemstones in the Sun Contracting Services Announcement

MOVEMENT CHAPLAINS – FOR LOCAL AND REGIONAL FIELD COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS IN THE USA

Contract Description

The GITS Movement Chaplaincy position fuses two primary activity areas into one area: Nonviolent Socio-Economic Justice Movement Building and Intercultural, Interfaith and Community-Wellness Capacity Building. The skills for this work need be put to good use by our Movement Chaplains within and between various POC communities, simultaneously. GITS’s work is a spiritual care approach to healing and transformation in the service of human recovery, societal evolution, and restorative justice. The personal and collective work in which GITS participants take part is designed to serve under-served and marginalized members of society, many of whom are POC. GITS honors and embraces the common wisdom of all faith traditions and spiritual perspectives, as well as humanists and agnostics, to best serve the personal and collective care needs of a growing POC population; a population that encompasses a wide range of community activities, concerns, hopes, and crises where diverse languages are written and spoken.

Roles

The Movement Chaplain’s primary role is to facilitate and manage several small to mid-sized local gatherings and/or mid-sized to large regional gatherings of POC. We call these gatherings GITS Freedom Circles. GITS Freedom Circles are composed of POC in America who desire to participate in an ongoing spiritual recovery process, working together in solidarity to lessen greed and lack through on-going discernment about POC beliefs, shifting, values and resources. A primary role for the Movement Chaplaincy position involves community engagement and mobilization primarily in POC communities for the purposes of galvanizing participation in GITS Freedom Circles and in support of GITS’s mission. General public promotion of GITS via wider public engagement is an important secondary-degree requirement for this role.

Contract Requirements

● Commitment to the principles and goals of GITS.

● Deep interest and commitment to community, equity and social justice issues.

● Commitment to bottom-up organizing, grassroots leadership, and collective decision-making.

● Understanding of the role of coalition member-based organizing and its distinction from other organizing strategies and forms.

● Must have strong relational skills and the capacity to build relationships through one-to-one conversations with faith leaders and community stakeholders on a consistent and regular basis

● Experienced in facilitating healing spaces and/or have done one’s own work in healing internalized oppression

●Must be social media savvy

● Must have experience training, directing, and supervising volunteer staff.

● Must have experience planning and implementing organizing campaigns and/or project management skills.

● Must have the ability to handle several areas of responsibility and execute them effectively.

● Must have the ability to motivate people.

● Must be hard-working, self-disciplined, and work well under pressure.

● Must be willing to work evenings and some weekends.

● Must have good written and verbal communication skills.

● Must have grant writing, data processing skills.

● Must have access to a car or reliable transportation and access to telecommunication and internet services.

● Must have the capacity to undertake digital work remotely, when required.

● Must have respect for and the ability to work with a diversity of people, communities, and cultures.

● Must have capacity to think strategically and analytically about issues impacting communities

● Willingness to work in a team setting, including participating in development and implementation of effective conflict resolution skills.

● Must have a desire to learn and openness to challenge yourself, while maintaining a healthy sense of humor at least 85% of the time.

Experience

Community organizers with a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in local and regional grassroots capacity-building, or relevant canvasing and/or other relevant practical field experience in the areas of Life coaches, Cross-cultural psychologists, Spiritual psychologists, Interfaith Chaplains, Conflict Managers, Community psychologists, Grassroots organizers, Ethnic studies teachers, Addiction counselors, Campus Interfaith or Community-Life Community Organizers, Healing-Justice Leaders, (Public Church) Ministers, or students who are pursuing studies and have mastered solid skills in these areas, are a plus.

Compensation

Compensation is a set stipend.

Application Procedure

Email a cover letter (stating why you would be the ideal contractor for this contract), resume (in PDF format), and sample outreach plan to us online at gemstones@gemstonesinthesun.com Be sure to place “GITS MC Position Candidate” in the email subject line. Applications accepted until the number of contracts we have available are filled. Applications received by May 24, 2021 will be reviewed first. If you need assistance or experience any technical difficulties with your online application, please contact us. NO phone calls, please. Resumes may be kept on file and may be referenced again by GITS staff as new openings become available.

People of color, women, people who identify as LGBT, and people with disabilities located in the US are encouraged to apply.