The Secular Student Alliance is seeking applicants for its New York City Campus Organizing Internship (COI). This internship pays $10/hr. and all expenses are covered. This internship will require approximately 10 hours a week. The internship will start in mid March and last through late May of 2008 with an option to extend the internship or restart it in the fall. We are willing to be somewhat flexible in terms of time and stipend to meet academic requirements.

While approximately half of the work for this position can be done from any location of the Campus Organizing Intern's choosing, the other half will involve working directly on campuses in New York City. Again, all travel costs will be covered. The position offers a highly flexible schedule.

The Campus Organizing Intern will help organize and support students who do not see theism as the source of morality--this includes atheists, agnostics, humanists, brights, rationalists and other non-theists. Duties will include working in person and remotely with student groups on campuses in New York City to improve their operations, provide them with resources and network them with each other and the broader secular movement. SSA senior staff will provide training, direction, and assistance with all of these tasks. The COI will also work to start groups on campuses without groups via flyering, tabling and networking. The position will involve some traveling, public speaking, record keeping, lots of phone and email communication, and some possible resource development.

The COI will work very closely with our full-time Field Director who is based at our headquarters in Albany, NY. The COI will work in New York City. Most collaboration with the Field Director will be via telephone, instant messenger and e-mail. However, the COI will need to briefly travel to Albany for training. We will work to ensure that this travel does not interrupt the COI's academic schedule. As with all travel, all expenses will be covered by the Secular Student Alliance.

There are many intangible benefits to this position. You will have the option to do at least some of the work in the comfort of your own home. You will have the opportunity to make enormous progress in furthering freethought and humanist goals. You will gain job experience involving more responsibility and independence than most jobs for college students offer. Finally, the COI position is a potential springboard to an ongoing career in the freethought and humanist movement.

Strong candidates will have direct experience with campus activism. Someone with experience leading or helping to lead a student group would be an especially strong candidate. She or he will have strong speaking and writing skills. The candidate will enjoy collaborating with people of different ages, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and philosophical or political beliefs.

The Secular Student Alliance hopes to select a Campus Organizing Intern in early March of 2008 and have him or her start shortly thereafter. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so apply soon.

If you would like to apply for this internship, please e-mail Alison Bates at hr@secularstudents.org with your name, address, phone number, best times to call, and the text of your resume in the body of your email. Please keep the formatting (e.g. bold, italics, off sets) to a minimum. Please do not send attachments. We will send a list of screening questions to help us learn more about you.

Our mission is to organize, unite, educate and serve students and student communities that promote the ideals of scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism, and human-based ethics. The best candidates will have a passionate, personal desire to see the realization of this mission. This position is being funded by the New York City Atheists.

The SSA was founded in 2000 and is a registered 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. You can learn more about the Secular Student Alliance at http://www.secularstudents.org.