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April 02, 2008

Women's Learning Partnership Job Opportunity: Program Associate

Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) is an international, non-governmental organization (NGO) established to advance communication and cooperation among the women of the world in order to protect human rights, facilitate sustainable development, and promote peace. WLP's programs focus on women's empowerment through implementing multi-country human rights advocacy campaigns, creating culture-specific multimedia skill-building curricula, and organizing grassroots workshops and training of trainer institutes on participatory and transformative leadership. WLP implements its training and capacity-building programs in cooperation with twenty partner organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Job Description: WLP's Program Associate is based at the WLP liaison office in Bethesda, Maryland (in the Washington DC metro area).
Responsibilities include:
-Liaising with WLP's partner organizations including Cameroon, Lebanon, Mauritania, and Morocco and assisting with coordinating the implementation and evaluation of grassroots training workshops, and national and regional training of trainer institutes.
-Coordinating the production of culture-specific language editions of leadership training handbooks, multimedia materials, and other training tools, including working with writers, reviewers, translators, editors, graphic designers, and printers.
-Assisting with implementation of online distance learning courses, radio webcasts, and video-conference meetings among WLP partners.
-Writing reports to funders, board, and partners, and enewsletter articles based on program results from the field.
-Assisting with planning and implementing international conferences and meetings.

Qualifications: Commitment and dedication to women's empowerment. Advanced degree in International Development, Human Rights or Political Science. Minimum 3 years experience working in the non-profit sector. Strong writing and editing skills. Ability to communicate with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Understanding of emerging technologies and proficiency with computers/word processing. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. Ability to manage multiple tasks and work under pressure.

Preferred Skills: Foreign language skills (Arabic and/or French strongly preferred). Familiarity with the politics, history, and cultures in Africa or Asia or the Middle East. Creativity and flexibility. International experience is desirable.

Salary and Benefits: Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent medical, dental, and retirement benefits.

Please send your resume, writing sample, and a list of three references to:
Search Committee
Women's Learning Partnership
4343 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 201, Bethesda, MD 20814
Fax: (1) 301-654-2775 | Email: wlp@learningpartnership.org
Web: www.learningpartnership.org
No calls please

Posted by fisherhe at April 2, 2008 02:12 PM

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