[opirgyork] OPIRG Summer Jobs - deadline TOMORROW!

[OPIRG York]

*Summer Employment at OPIRG York!*

Interested in working in social justice, education and action?

*OPIRG York is currently hiring for TWO summer staff positions:*
Resource Centre Assistant
Special Events and Programming Coordinator

*Deadline: *May 28
*Interviews will take place:* June 3-6th
Positions begin Monday June 10th.

Please read below for more detailed job descriptions. For more information
on OPIRG York, please visit opirgyork.ca

*How to apply:*
Please specify which job you are applying for. If you are applying for both
job positions, please submit separate applications each. Applicants must
provide a resume and a one-page cover letter. Please explain in the cover
letter why you are interested in working with OPIRG-York and your
understanding of social justice organizing from an anti-oppressive lens.

OPIRG York encourages individuals from marginalized communities to apply.
Please self-identify. This includes Aboriginal people, people of colour,
women, queer, transgendered, trans-sexual, inter-sexed people, working
class people, single parents, immigrants and people with disabilities.
Eligible applicants are: between the ages of 15 and 30 years of age;
registered as a full-time student in the previous academic year and intend
to return to school on a full-time basis in the next academic year; and
are legally entitled to work in Canada

Applications are due 6pm May 28, 2013. Please email applications to *
opirgyorkhire at gmail.com.*
Please include “Canada Summer Job Application” in the subject of the email

*Qualifications*
-Experience working within a collective, or consensus-based decision making
-familiar with the mandate of OPIRG York
-strong ability to work independently and to take initiative within
deadlines
-strong time management and multi-tasking skills
-interpersonal communication and info/skill-sharing skills
-additional knowledge in graphic or web design a plus

*Job Descriptions*

*Resource Centre Assistant*
20 hours a week @ $15.00/hour for 12 weeks
This position will develop the resource centre for the fall of 2013.

*Duties include:*
- Maintain catalogue and subscription database and coordinate programming
out of OPIRG York’s Alternative Resource Centre
- Research York-community authors and writers to feature in the resource
centre
- Attend OPIRG York Alternative Resource Centre committee meetings
- Maintain lending system for OPIRG York’s Resource Centre with software
Small Library Organizer Pro
- Create promotional materials for Resource Centre
- Develop writing and research workshops on: writing skills,
community-based research, creating and distributing zines
- Develop bi-weekly summer reading groups and create a fall plan for
continued reading groups (this includes booking facilitators for reading
groups and promoting reading groups)
- Plan fall events such as book launches, talks by authors or film
screenings
- Liaise with independent bookstores and publishers to build catalogue

*Special Events and Programming Coordinator*
20 hours a week at $15.00/hour for 12 weeks
This position will assist the Volunteer Coordinator with the programming of
OPIRG York, including preparing for event coordination for the fall 2013.

*Duties include:*

- Assist with the summer programming at York University including monthly
workshops, film screenings and events
- Assist volunteer coordinator in process of planning for week long
Disorientation for September 2013
- Assist in coordination of Disorientation Committee – including
coordinating meeting times with other student and community organizations
- Research and approach North york organizations and artists to invite for
Disorientation
- Research and plan exciting new events to host on and off the york
University campus
- Assist in planning Back to School Fair including Alternative
Disorientation concert and Social Justice Fair
- Administrative support around event planning with Volunteer Coordinator
- Plan and connect with organizations and groups on campus to work on
events throughout the summer and fall
- Assist in coordination of logistics for Fall Volunteer Recruitment Drive


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-OPIRG York
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www.opirgyork.ca
416-736-5724
opirg at yorku.ca


*There are many ways to get involved at OPIRG. We currently have 8 OPIRG
York working groups:*
Art For Justice, Justice is Not Colour Blind, Students for a Free Tibet, YU
Free Press, Environmental Justice York, Progressive Filipino Canadians for
Community Empowerment and Development (PFCCED), Students Against Israeli
Apartheid, and the Vanier Prison Support Line working group. You can contact
Victoria Barnett, our volunteer coordinator, about ways to get involved in
these working groups: victoria at opirgyork.ca.

*We also have three different collectives: *PrOPIRGanda Radio, Radical
Reading Room and PrOPIRGanda Zine- see the callouts below. You can contact
us about ways to get involved in these collectives: opirg at yorku.ca.
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