Jahwar Amber Fund Blogging Opportunity

About JAF

The Jahwar Amber Fund is part of the Unitarian movement that has developed worldwide as a response to the traditional politics of socialism, liberalism, and conservatism. Our main tenets are ecology and sustainability, democracy and human rights, self-determination and justice. 

We place particular emphasis on gender democracy, meaning social emancipation and equal rights for women and men. We are also committed to equal rights for cultural and ethnic minorities and to the societal and political participation of immigrants. Finally, we promote non-violence and proactive peace policies.
 

We are a green think tank, a local policy network, and are active in ecology, spiritual democracy and human rights in East Africa with 3 offices across Kenya.
 

Our Regional Office for Rift Valley and Western Kenya is based in Isinya, District of Kajiado County since 2012.
 

Jahwar Amber Fund Inc. has 501(c) 3 tax-exempt status in Canada and is registered as a community based organization (CBO) in Kenya. The Canada office helps with fundraising.
 

The JAF Blogger Executive Volunteer!
 

This one is tasty! Our Balozi Journal Program is looking for a Blogger Outreach Executive to help with their engagement and outreach. We produce cutting-edge, innovative content and are in need of a highly sociable person to build the online relationships necessary to spread the word and seed quality links to support the JAF strategy.
 

As the Blogger Outreach Executive you will be working closely with the creative team, using editorial judgement as well as working on who sees the content produced.

The company is based in charity but the role is in the content creation branch and will be largely about building relationships online, and is a hybrid between online PR and JAF. 

This role is custom built for a sociable, proactive candidate who is as happy on the telephone as they are in social media. 

This is not a charity role but a reasonable level of numeracy as well as taking pleasure in task-solving is a bonus.

This organisation is smart and it has produced smart internship enterprise; our innovation
is valued from the bottom all the way up. Their mantra is that ‘a good idea is a good idea’.

Here is a great opportunity to work in a gloriously cool office in Kajiado West where innovative content is mixed with cutting-edge diplomacy. 

You will start learning as soon as you walk through the door of our field office and build invaluable
relationships as part of a leading organisation with plans for further growth.
 

A bit about us... (since you asked).

We're not like other recruiters. really, we're not.
 

A reason for that - we don't make a penny from placing you. We provide a free service to the market (and naturally it's free for you too). It means you'll only ever get real advice from us - we'll never sell to you. It also means that our client base for entry level jobs is much, much bigger than other recruiters so you'll get more jobs under one roof (ours).
 

We send our intern Matt (www.jauufc.net/meet-matt) into the digital market to act as your eyes and ears, sharing his experiences and learnings in his blog. There's loads of other useful stuff on our very own blog as well - have a nose around our Entry-level pages and you'll find tips on your CV, cover letter, interview preparation, a glossary and loads more (not to mention our dazzling Digital Agency Star Chart).
 

Why? 

Good question. It's about growing our charity network - it's a good way to get to know people like you who are looking to enter the digital market. It's a pretty small market once you get in, so it's good for us to know you, to have helped you, for you to feel like you can trust us
 

What of the online sites? 

We have a wordpress blog and a facebook page (www.jauufc.wordpress.com / www.facebook.com/jauufc ) which will form part of your working domains. 

You will be our executive blogging volunteer!
 

What you will actually do:

• Acquire high quality links on behalf of our clients
• Data-mining the web for potential link prospects
• Building and managing relationships with potential blogger partners and webmasters
• Manage production of articles and blog posts to be submitted to link partners
• Take part in creative link building brainstorms
• Develop creative link ideas with the support of team leaders
• Undertake link removals where required
• Provide on page optimisation support
• Copy editing and content generation

Application Process
 

To be considered for the blogging executive, please forward the following materials by July 12, 2013:
 

1. A cover letter in which you state:

• that you understand the blogging is unpaid
• where you found the blogging vacancy posting
• your specific dates of online availability
• the number of hours you will be able to work each week
• why you would like to blog about at the Fund, your specific interests related to human rights work, and your language abilities

2. A resume
 

3. The names, phone numbers, and email addresses of at least three references
 

4. A short writing sample (no more than three pages) on a topic of your choice; a paper from an academic course is acceptable.
 

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Please submit all application materials via email to wnyokabi@yahoo.com ; adhengo@libero.it
 

Possible blogger inquiries may be addressed to the Director of Programs on 0733867644