What is OGIP? Our Generation for Inclusive Peace (OGIP) is a feminist platform that aims to advance, shape, and influence the Women, Peace, & Security (WPS) and Youth, Peace, & Security (YPS) agendas to be more inclusive, intersectional, and decolonized through advancing young voices and experiences. Through our three pillars-research, advocacy, and outreach-we provide a platform for young voices to expand and push forward conversations on WPS and YPS. We aim to advocate for the redistribution of power in security spaces, aiming to contribute to an inclusive, positive peace.
Operations Coordinator Role Description
As the Operations Coordinator you’ll be the backbone of OGIP. You will be the focal point for OGIP’s central work, be key in the logistics and day-to-day running of OGIP, and make sure that we continue to adhere to our feminist working principles. You will work collaboratively with each team to set organizational goals for the year, and endeavour to make sure that we are working collaboratively across all lines of effort to meet them.
Responsibilities
Oversee the implementation of OGIP’s working principles
Coordinate team meetings across several time zones
Help OGIP teams set annual goals and associated work plans
Build bridges across OGIP’s lines of efforts to prevent work being done in silos
Event coordination on an ad hoc basis
Identify tools and initiatives to help our business operations run smoothly
Skills and Experience
Here are some of the skills and experience that we think would help you in this role. But don’t be limited to just this list - we’re more interested in hearing what skills and experience you think are needed for this role:
Ability to maintain oversight on several ongoing activities and implement working principles
Good attention to detail and strategic vision to reach goals
Experience in organizational goal setting and facilitating cross-team collaboration
Excellent organizational skills
Event coordination
Ability to set timelines and work independently to meet organizational needs
Commitment to OGIP’s values and working principles
Respect for diversity and commitment to anti-oppression
An understanding of feminist principles, women human rights, youth movements and feminist advocacy
Flexibility and adaptability to work collaboratively with a diverse and remote team
Application process Through the application process we want to get to know you, what you stand for and what you will bring to OGIP. For the application we ask you to submit your CV and respond to the following four questions. Your response can be in written, video, audio or any alternative form of media. 1. What does feminist peace mean to you? 2. Why are you interested in engaging with OGIP? 3. What will you bring to OGIP? And to this role?
4. Why do you feel that ensuring the inclusion of diverse youth voices in peace and security is important? Responses to the application will be reviewed by a recruitment committee formed of a member of each of OGIPs three pillars. Applications will be assessed based on:
Your alignment with OGIPs values
Your motivation to be involved with OGIP
The experience, perspective and skills you can bring to OGIP
Once shortlisting has taken place successful candidates will be invited to interview with the recruitment committee. Interviews will take place over Skype and time will be flexible to take into account time zones and other commitments you may have.
Please submit your CV and responses to the four questions above to OGIPcontact@gmail.com by 2nd May, 2020. Please contact us if you require any accommodations, assistance, or more time to submit your application.
Working practices
OGIP is an intersectional feminist organization that has a non-hierarchical structure. In practice this means that everyone in the organization has equal say and equal power in decision making processes. We meet on a biweekly basis and aim to communicate regularly. As a voluntary role we do not dictate the amount of time you will need to dedicate weekly to OGIP; this will be flexible depending on the changing workload of your role and your personal commitments. We do, however, ask that before applying you ensure that you are driven to engage with a new and developing organization and have in mind the level of commitment you will be able to make as this will be discussed during your interview.
The OGIP team is global and all work is undertaken online through various platforms. We work across global time zones which is taken into account in team planning.
OGIP believes in fair compensation for labour. However, we believe that compensation need not always be defined as monetary. Currently, all members of the OGIP community are involved on a voluntary basis and their valuable work is compensated in diverse ways. We have intentionally not yet registered as a charity to maintain the grassroots nature of this platform. This means that there are no funds currently involved with the administration and programs of OGIP. While we are highly sensitive to the gendered impact of unpaid labour, especially on youth, we work hard to compensate our community for their time in other ways, whether it is through professional development, building your network, support in job hunting, or educational opportunities. Please come to your interview prepared to discuss how you would like to be compensated for your work if you are to join the OGIP community.
Founding membership OGIP is still very new, having launched in 2019, and is a continually growing organization. We are looking for individuals who will shape and influence who we are as an organization as we continue to develop over the coming months and years. By joining the organisation at this stage you will be considered a ‘co-founder’.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
As OGIP is a youth led organization we will only be accepting applications from those aged 35 and under.(1) OGIP is an intersectional feminist organization and accepts applications from anyone of any gender identity.
We particularly encourage applications from individuals from groups who are currently underrepresented in global decision making processes, in peace and security, including but not limited to Black, Indigenous, minority ethnic, people of colour, residents of the global south, disabled and LGBTQI+ applicants.
Please submit your application to OGIPcontact@gmail.com by 2nd May, 2020. Please contact us if you require any accommodations, assistance, or more time to submit your application.
(1) Please get in touch if you feel as though this age bracket of youth is not applicable in your cultural context, OGIP’s definition of youth is flexible extending the binary definition based on contextual realities and national youth policy directives to acknowledge the flexibility of the concept.