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Job
Opportunity:
National
Field
Director,
Marijuana
Policy
Project
9/30/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/405/mppjob.shtml
The Marijuana Policy Project
is hiring a National Field Director to spearhead MPP's grassroots organizing
efforts in targeted congressional districts and nationwide. This
is an excellent opportunity to play an exciting role in a fast-paced, well
respected lobbying organization.
The National Field Director,
based in MPP's main office in Washington, DC, is the primary liaison to
grassroots supporters and allied organizations for MPP's Federal Policies
Department. The National Field Director is responsible for inspiring
and organizing these individuals and groups to take action in support of
legislation such as the upcoming Hinchey-Rohrabacher medical marijuana
amendment.
Applicants should have political,
legislative, or campaign experience and excellent oral and written communications
skills, and be hard- working and highly organized.
The National Field Director
is charged with the following tasks:
1) Build long-term relationships
with national and local organizations, with an eye toward:
-
establishing coalitions favoring
marijuana policy reform;
-
encouraging representatives
of supportive organizations to meet with or contact members of Congress,
as well as to energize their grassroots bases;
-
encouraging organizations to
use the MPP grants program to advance or initiate their work on issues
relating to marijuana policy reform; and
-
encouraging organizations to
develop positive position statements on marijuana policy issues.
2) Serve as the online link
between MPP and its grassroots supporters by:
-
writing alerts that urge MPP's
e-mail subscribers to take action in support of pending federal legislation;
-
writing sample letters for subscribers
to send to their members of Congress, as well as sample letters-to-the-editor;
and
-
maintaining and updating the
content on MPP's web pages that relate to federal legislative activity.
(No web or programming experience is necessary, as the process is automated
and user-friendly.)
3) Manage field organizers and
coordinate grassroots lobbying activities by:
-
managing seven remotely-based
field organizers who conduct campaigns to pressure members of Congress
to support medical marijuana;
-
recruiting community leaders,
medical marijuana patients, and other individuals whose lives have been
harmed by marijuana prohibition to lobby their elected officials; and
-
helping to arrange meetings
between MPP supporters and their members of Congress in their home district
offices or in DC.
4) Inspire grassroots activism
in target congressional districts for the purpose of focusing extra pressure
on select members of Congress to support MPP's medical marijuana legislation.
Specifically, the National Field Director encourages MPP supporters to:
-
distribute flyers outside of
congressional offices and elsewhere;
-
coordinate the writing and placement
of op-eds and letters-to-the- editor in local newspapers in the district;
-
attend town hall forums and
other events where members of Congress are featured; and
-
organize protests or demonstrations
when appropriate.
The annual salary of the National
Field Director is $40,000 to $45,000, depending on experience. Full
health insurance and an optional retirement package are included.
The National Field Director reports to MPP's Director of Government Relations,
who in turn reports to MPP's Executive Director.
See MPP's application guidelines
at http://www.mpp.org/jobs/process.html
for information on how to apply. Applications are due by October
20. Note that interviews are being conducted on a rolling basis,
and interested individuals are encouraged to apply as soon as possible,
as the position may be filled before the deadline.
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Issue #405
-- 9/30/05
Commentary:
Direct
from
Kabul
--
DRCNet
on
the
Scene
in
Afghanistan
This
Week
and
Next
|
On
the
Scene
I:
European
Think
Tank
Calls
for
Licensed
Opium
Cultivation
at
Afghanistan
Conference
--
Response
Varied
|
On
the
Scene
II:
Afghanistan's
Neighbors
Look
With
Interest
at
Licensing
Proposal
|
On
the
Scene
III:
Beyond
Treatment
and
Prevention
--
Harm
Reduction
in
Afghanistan
|
Denied:
Massachusetts
Jury
Slaps
Down
Overreaching
District
Attorney
in
"School
Zone"
Bust
|
Methamphetamine:
House
Democrats
Challenge
Harsher
Penalties
in
Federal
Methamphetamine
Bill
|
Methamphetamine:
SAMHSA
Says
Meth
Use
Steady,
Problem
Use
Increasing
--
Data
Says
Yes
But
Not
as
Much
as
SAMSHA
Implies
|
Needle
Exchange:
LA
Cops
Hassle
NEP
Clients
--
Complaint
Filed
|
Harm
Reduction:
Canada
Health
Minister
Says
More
Safe
Injection
Sites
Should
Open
If
Communities
Approve
|
Web
Scan:
GAO
Report,
Cascade
and
AAPS
Blast
Meth
Madness,
New
Orleans
Jail
in
the
Flood,
MedMj
Legal
Brief
Bank,
Charles
Shaw
on
Alternet,
DEA's
Microgram
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
|
DRCNet
T-Shirt
Design
Contest
|
OSI
Offering
Justice
Fellowships
in
2006
--
Deadline
Next
Month
|
Job
Opportunity:
National
Field
Director,
Marijuana
Policy
Project
|
Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
|
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