[NFCB] Whoah! 2.4 Jobs Available at Prometheus Radio Project!

[pete tridish]

Whoah! 2.4 Jobs Available at Prometheus Radio Project!
Prometheus is hiring for two permanent full time jobs-- Station  
Support Organizer and Campaign Director. And we are also hiring for a  
part time, temporary Bookkeeper to cover for our beloved  
Administrative Director while he recovers from a serious bike accident  
for 2-4 months.

The Prometheus Radio Project is a grassroots organization that works  
to expand and protect community radio stations, and to promote a more  
democratic and accountable media in the United States and around the  
world. From Black Panther-led community centers in Tanzania to  
farmworker groups in Oregon, we help groups build their own radio  
stations as tools for their vital social justice organizing.

Every day, we advocate for these groups and their stations, help them  
organize with allies near and far for their rights, and work with them  
to keep their stations thriving and to help leaders teach new radio  
pioneers the skills needed to own your own media. We help community  
groups navigate the Federal Communications Commission and the radio  
licensing process, and we provide technical assistance to groups  
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 other appropriate technologies available  
to every neighborhood, every city, every town that needs them.

Campaign Director:
This person will communicate with the leaders of the media reform and  
media justice movement, with community radio stations, and with social  
movements working to build a just country and a just world.

In concert with these people and groups, the Campaign Director will  
design and conduct campaigns to expand community media and keep  
corporate media accountable in the United States and around the world.  
 From creating tools to help people file comments at the FCC, to  
executing legislative campaigns and organizing tours, to working with  
the entire Prometheus collective to plan the strategic future of the  
organization and its role in community radio, this person will have an  
opportunity to lead strong and successful efforts to put media in the  
hands of communities who need it.

As a part of a collective-run organization, this person will have the  
opportunity to help build systems which ensure the sustainability of  
the organization and the movement of which it is a part, and to  
participate in the shared political education of a very beautiful  
group of people.

Responsiblities Include:

- community and grassroots organizing in small groups and with large  
organizations
- building coalitions with the ability to win policy battles and gains  
for affected groups
- crafting communications for supporters, community media, and  
corporate media outlets
- representing Prometheus or community radio goals in local, national,  
and international coalitions
- leading and managing the time and tasks of designated volunteers and  
interns
- serving as a mentor/liason between interns, volunteers and staff

Station Support Organizer
This new position at Prometheus Radio Project will be responsible for  
maintaining the relationships with 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. You will also be responsible for  
outreach that will build community radio capacity in social justice  
movements. You will be the primary point of contact for people who  
seek support  from our work--  demystifying technology and the  
political system so that community's can take back their airwaves!

The Station support organizer will be responsible for maintaining  
reliable information usable by Community Radio stations to answer  
their legal, engineering, governance and related problems.

Responsibilities include:
                   Managing incoming requests and integrating them  
into Prometheus' operation. This involves being responsible for  
providing them information relating to their request and connecting  
them with appropriate legislative and regulatory campaign leaders.
                   Identifying potential candidates for our more in  
depth engineering services
                   Creating collaborative tools for low power stations  
to share their knowledge and experience
                   Helping Prometheus  sustainability by integrating  
these stations and station wannabes into our fundraising.
                   Managing our membership program
                   Promoting and organizing events
                   Managing outreach campaigns to build the community  
radio movement.

Other skills that would be very helpful, for either job:
•Fluency in other languages
•Web development
•Public speaking
•Radio engineering, or comfort with technical matters
•Consensus decisionmaking, mediation
•A drivers lIcense
•International experience
•Audio Production ( importantly, not a part of this 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 a bit of production)

Temporary Bookkeeper:
Job Responsibilities Include:

Disbursements & receipts
Record and process payment of bills/taxes, payroll, invoices and  
reimbursements
Track petty cash
Monthly Reconciliations and Reporting:
Make monthly bank reconciliations and generate deposit summary reports
Generate basic monthly financial reports for staff and board
Budgeting: help track current FY budget (w/ board and staff)
Help prepare annual budget (w/ board and staff)
Help maintain donation records (w/ development director)
Manage insurance policies,  unemployment and related business  
responsibilities.
Help provide necessary information to our accountant to prepare annual  
fiscal review  and tax filings (w/ staff and accounting consultant)
Qualifications:
Knowledge of quickbooks and general bookkeeping practice.
good business skills
Social Justice orientation and support for our mission of freeing the  
airwaves from the corporations!


These jobs are based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and we cannot  
currently consider telecommuters. Prometheus is an egalitarian office,  
where all full-time staff earn equal hourly pay. We currently pay  
eleven dollars per hour, up to 40 hours per week. The pay may go up if  
we are successful in fundraising.  We offer medical and dental  
coverage. Everyone takes a turn mopping the floor and taking out the  
trash. Hours are flexible, though as an activist organization we all  
work very hard. The bookkeeper position is a temporary part time  
contract, which is not a collective member, earns 12.50/hour for up to  
16 hours per week, and has no benefits.  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.

Everyone from every kind of background is welcome to apply -- don't be  
shy!

To apply, send a resume, cover letter, and two writing samples and  
references to:
  Jobs <<at>> prometheusradio.org
Include "Campaign Director Job Applicant" or "Station Support  
Organizer" or "Bookkeeper" in the subject line. First evaluation  
deadline is March 30th. The Bookkeeper is needed immediately- we will  
make that hire very very quickly.  We will keep this call open until  
we find the right person for the position for the other two jobs.

Our web site -- http://www.prometheusradio.org -- can tell you more  
about us!



pete tridish
director of electromagnetism
prometheus radio project