Icarus is hiring a part-time organizer to work out of our New York office and focus on campus student organizing. Here's the info -- please spread this around!

College Campus Coordinator
Supporting Icarus Education & Outreach Programs

The Icarus Project is a website community, support network, and media project created by and for people who experience extreme states of consciousness commonly labeled as ‘mental disorders’.
Check out our website www.theicarusproject.net

Focus Areas:
- Develop workshops and peer discussion groups around mental health and wellness for college campus settings.
- Utilize popular education model to integrate anti-oppression analysis into workshops, ie relating mental health discussions to issues of gender, sexuality, race, class, trauma and abuse.
- Work to create a Campus Icarus program that can be replicated across the country.
- Support student interns already working at NYU Icarus.
- Train student workshop facilitators and field test workshops.
- Encourage students to give Icarus presentations in classes, groups, clubs and residence halls at the beginning of and throughout the academic year.
- Track attendance and frequency of campus Icarus events around the country.
- Create database of contacts for Campus Icarus.
- Give presentations, meet, network and collaborate extensively with college students, professors/advisors, and campus wellness center staff.
- Develop popular education materials that support campus Icarus and related workshops while collaborating with other Icarus work groups.
- Report progress to funders to ensure grant compliance.

Campus Icarus Coordinator will collaborate and cooperate extensively with Education/Outreach Coordinator, building relationships and working within the vibrant Fountain House community.

Coordinators are responsible for:
- Participating in regular collective conference calls and being a part of Icarus decision making body.
- Responding to email correspondences and inquiries.
- Take an active role in collaborating with other Icarus working groups, volunteers and extended radical mental health community.


Qualifications:
- Experience with workshop and curriculum development
- Experience working with volunteers and coordinating group efforts
- Demonstrated ability to work collectively and collaboratively with others
- Dedication to and familiarity with anti-oppression and non-hierarchical community organizing strategies
- Knowledge and interest in radical and alternative approaches to mental health
- Highly flexible and independent
- Sensitive to and respectful of our community
- Ability to relate to student population

Personal background with mental health diagnosis and experience is preferred. People of color, women, queer folk, psychiatric survivors and others from marginalized groups are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates must have community organizing and volunteer coordination experience, as well as office skills. Email your resume, a cover letter explaining why you are interested in the position and why you feel qualified, and list of 3 references familiar with your work to icarus.orders@gmail.com.

Deadline to apply: October 1, 2008
Interviews to be held on Friday, October 3 or Friday, October 10.
Start date: Immediately after hire   

    * Location: New York City
    * Compensation: $500 Monthly stipend based on approximately 8-10 hours of work per week.
    * This is a part-time job.
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