Summary
Description
Location: Remote
Level of Effort/Duration: Approx. 8 hours/day for 3 months
Solidarity Center's Program Coordination team is seeking a Writer and Copy Editor from April through June to provide short-term services on a consultancy basis in the following areas:
- Edit project narrative reports or other assigned documents for clarity, grammar, flow, and consistency across attachments, raising questions if language is not clear or requires additional explanation, and review language to ensure it is appropriate for public view as the reports are subject to FOIA through the donor agencies
- Select information from field reporting and synthesize for global reporting
- Write documents that require summarizing large quantities of information.
- Contact staff following edits to ensure that changes did not modify the intended message.
- Exercise quality control function, to ensure that all outgoing documents are well-written, free of errors, and presented in a professional manner.
Requirements
The consultant should possess:
● Extensive experience drafting and editing grant proposals, reports, and other funding related documents
● Experience working in international democracy, rights, and labor programs
● Knowledge of and experience with US federal funding agencies, specifically USAID, US State Department, and/or US Department of Labor
● Familiarity with unions and labor rights
● Exceptional writing and editing skills
● Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Instructions for Application
Please submit a cover letter, resume, and writing sample, ideally from a funding proposal or program report. Also please include the names and contacts (telephone and e-mail addresses) of three professional references familiar with your qualifications and work experience, ideally clients or supervisors for whom you have consulted or worked.
Background
The Solidarity Center is the largest U.S.-based international worker rights organization. Its programs are based on the principle that, by exercising their right to freedom of association and forming trade unions and democratic worker rights organizations, working people can collectively improve their workplaces, call on governments to uphold laws and protect human rights, and be a force for democracy, social justice and inclusive economic development. Its programs in more than 60 countries focus on human and worker rights awareness, union skills, occupational safety and health, gender equality, migration and human trafficking and pro-legal strategies, as well as bolster workers in an increasingly informal economy. The organization’s primary sources of funding are from the National Endowment for Democracy and U.S. government agencies, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State’s Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and the Department of Labor (DOL), in the form of cooperative agreements or grants.
The Solidarity Center cultivates the values of diversity, equality, and inclusion among its staff and partners. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under applicable law. Candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us at information@solidaritycenter.org.
