As a member of the Education Task Force, you will form a vital part of STAND's student leadership team. As a conflict specialist, you will draft regular news briefs on your region for our constituency; update and develop educational resources such as one pagers, blog posts, PowerPoints, and webinars; and advise the STAND Managing Committee on relevant policy points on your region.
As a Conflict Coordinator, your primary duties will be to assist the Education Coordinator with the Weekly News Brief by compiling and summarizing pertinent articles related to mass atrocity situations in your region of focus; and to inform STAND’s Leadership Team on possible avenues for policy leverage on conflict(s) in your region, currently mainly Yemen, Ethiopia, and Somalia. As events on the ground in each region are ever-evolving, you will be responsible for sending a policy brief once or twice a month to STAND’s leadership team.
Within your position, you’ll act as a resource for STAND’s leadership and membership on the conflict(s) in your region of focus, by assisting in the creation of educational materials and blog posts on the history, context, and root causes of the conflict(s); the research behind possible options for U.S. policy to mitigate the conflict(s); and assistance of the Managing Committee in developing national campaigns related to the conflict(s).
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