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.
People Champion Role Description
We believe that people are central to building a feminist organization. Some organizations would call this role “HR” - but to us it’s so much more. We want someone who will be our “People Champion”: our go-to person for building a feminist organization based on the people in our community. We want someone who will champion the individuals in our community, and help us build an organization that centres care, inclusion, and collaboration in how we work.
Responsibilities
Help us build a feminist organization that puts people at the centre of our work
Identify gaps in organizational capacity and work
Recruit and onboard new team members
Support individual team members personal and professional growth
Support the growth of the OGIP community
Integrate feminist values into how we work with each other
Support operational needs
Promote community cohesion and help mediate community conflict
Identify and facilitate training for OGIP community members
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 work with people from all backgrounds
Experience in human resources or organizational management, including recruitment of team members
Knowledge of human resources best practices, and bright ideas on how to make HR more feminist
Ability to set timelines and work independently to meet organizational needs
Conflict management skills
Commitment to OGIP’s values and working principles
Respect for diversity and commitment to anti-oppression
Flexibility and adaptability to work collaboratively with a diverse and remote team
An understanding of feminist principles, women human rights, youth movements and feminist advocacy
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 OGIP’s three pillars. Applications will be assessed based on:
Your alignment with OGIP’s 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 organization 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.