The Advocacy Project (AP)
Peace Fellowship
Bogota, Colombia

The Advocacy Project (AP) is a DC-based non-profit dedicated to strengthening civil society around the world. Using a grassroots approach, we support advocates who work in social justice and human rights at the community level. Our mission is to help community partners to produce, use, and disseminate information about their advocacy work. Each summer, we recruit Peace Fellows to volunteer directly with our partner organizations.

Currently, we have an immediate need to fill a Peace Fellowship in Bogota, Colombia. The Peace Fellow will volunteer with the Survivor Corps (Formerly known as Landmine Survivors Network.) The position is fulltime (~40 hours/weeks), unpaid, and for the duration of the summer (roughly 10-12 weeks, June-August). The Fellow will report to the director of Survivor Corps in Colombia as well as to the AP Fellowship Coordinator.

Job Description:

Colombia, based in Bogotá: Advocating for Greater Social Inclusion of Conflict Survivors Through Communications-Based Human Rights Advocacy

** Note: This Fellowship is sponsored! The Peace Fellow will receive a $1000 stipend plus $250 towards the cost of insurance.

Host: Survivor Corps Colombia (SCColombia). Formerly known as Landmine Survivors Network, SCColombia was established in June 2007.

Survivor Corps’ vision is a “Victim-Free World” where survivors of violence and war triumph over tragedy; a world where survivors are rebuilding their lives and thriving as leaders in their own communities, and raising their voices for peace. The three over-arching projects that the Colombia office has designed are:

1. Rebuilding communities through peer support: from victims to survivors, from former combatants to citizens
2. Rebuilding communities through social inclusion and peace building
3. The 1092 Campaign: putting into practice the right to work for people with disabilities in a context of armed conflict

SCColombia asks that the Peace Fellow’s work weave into the above projects with an emphasis on Communications Technologies, as follows:

Responsibilities:

• Help SCColombia and partners design a communications strategy to get its message heard locally and through a global constituency
• Help SCColombia design a communications strategy to take its message to advocacy targets
• Produce information on SCColombia work through blogs
• Train hosts to blog
• Provide a one day training of the whole range of tools available (photo libraries, video footage, social networking, AP website, contact databases –local, global, diáspora-environ-scan, eco-network, etc) to improve advocacy and lobbying : basic concepts with examples, addressed to a non IT audience
• Help SCColombia understand other ICT needs

Qualifications:

• Advanced Spanish (oral a must, and written preferred)
• Graduate level Fellow
• Understanding of issues relating to human rights, social justice and development
• Self-reliance, flexibility, and a sense of improvisation and creativity
• Experience networking and conducting outreach at national levels a must, international experience highly valued
• Experience working in a cross-cultural context highly valued
• Information and ICT skills
• Interest and knowledge of Latin America/Colombia highly valued
• Interest in working with survivors of conflict

Salary/Benefits: Stipend
Type of work: Full Time, Internship, Temporary
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Languages required: Spanish, English (Canadian), English (American)

To Apply:

Please e-mail cover letter and resume to aburrows@advocacynet.org as soon as possible. Please click here to view our FAQs.

To gain a better understanding of the Fellowship experience, applicants are encouraged to:

• click here to read the blogs written by past Peace Fellows. Blogs are organized by Fellow, Year, and Country.
• click here to review the AP Partner Pages.

Please Note:

Due to an overabundance of spam, messages sent to AP’s general email addresses sometimes get filtered out. To ensure that your application reaches us, please send it to the address listed (aburrows@advocacynet.org ). If you do not receive notification of receipt within a week, please follow up.

Applicant Restriction Notice:

The Advocacy Project is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or other personal factors. However, given the highly sensitive nature of some of our positions, we must occasionally limit recruitment to women only. This may be due to cultural and security constraints or to psychological considerations for beneficiaries. We hope you understand.