National FEMA Trailer Tour

KatrinaRitaVille Express FEMA Trailer Tour
Project Coordinator Job Description

The newly formed Gulf Coast Peoples’ Movement for Full and Fair Recovery is seeking a pro-active, self-motivated, strategy-minded person with significant experience in Gulf Coast recovery issues and demonstrated dedication to a just and comprehensive recovery. The KatrinaRitaVille Express will consist of two FEMA trailers traveling to presidential debates, campuses, churches, concerts, and evacuee communities, and making other fertile and purposive stops. It will educate the public, building a national advocacy campaign by using indigenous images, voices, and stories to depict the current nature and status of our entire region’s “recovery.” The KRV Express will focus attention on the unmet needs of hurricane survivors and on what is required for a holistic, effective, full, and fair recovery. Each trailer will combine a mobile museum exhibit and multi-media messaging station, presenting both relevant films and video as well as live feeds from the Gulf Coast.

The coordinator will be a fulltime employee of Gulf Coast Peoples’ Movement for Full and Fair Recovery, a Mississippi-based non-profit. The position will require substantial travel. When not traveling the coordinator will work from a home/office of that person’s choosing. The duration of the position is hoped to be at least through the 2008 elections. The coordinator will oversee all aspects of logistics and scheduling, and will facilitate the planning process, for the 14-month tour of the two 32-foot trailers.

Qualifications needed:

• Self-motivated with a capacity to work independently
• Experience in advocacy, organizing, and convening communities and NGOs
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills
• Experience with fundraising processes and institutions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent group process and facilitation skills
• Event planning experience
• Attention to detail and the ability to maintain a variety of projects and activities
  simultaneously
• Knowledge of Gulf Coast recovery issues and a commitment to a just and sustainable recovery

Job responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects and logistics regarding scheduling and trailer management
• Coordinate planning and communications among steering committee members and among tour personnel (”talent,” staff, volunteers, et al.)
• Travel to trailer stop locations when necessary
• Conduct outreach to potential partners and supporters
• Coordinate the network of volunteers that are helping with the tour
• Help coordinate media strategies and work with the media/communications team
• Assist with procuring resources for the tour, through fundraising and soliciting in-kind contributions

Contact us to inquire about this position.