URI staff gathered at the 2023 Global Leadership Conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
We work with hardworking, compassionate, and innovative peacebuilders from a wide array of backgrounds around the world. Check this page for opportunities to join our team.
Open Position
Marketing and Communications Contractor - Part Time
The Marketing and Communications Contractor will support the URI Global Staff to advance URI 3.0 goals and objectives. This position is responsible for increasing the visibility of URI by leveraging social media, visual content, newsletters, and other marketing tools to expand the network, attract new donors, and support the organization’s growth. The contractor will work in alignment with URI’s priority strategic initiatives related to expanding network visibility and ending religiously motivated violence. This position is ideal for a proactive and detail-oriented professional who enjoys working with a small staff team and dedicated board members in a mission-driven nonprofit environment. The Marketing and Communications Contractor upholds and models the Preamble, Purpose and Principles stated in the URI Charter (see https://uri.org/what-we-do/charter).
The Marketing and Communications Contractor, which falls within the Development and Communications team, is accountable to the Development and Communications Manager.
Application Guidelines
Send a cover letter expressing why you are interested in working at URI, resume, creative samples, and list of three references to [email protected] no later than March 15. Incomplete applications will not be considered. URI does not provide relocation support. No phone calls, please. The likely start date for this position is April 16, 2025.
Full Job Description
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About URI
The United Religions Initiative (URI) is the largest grassroots interfaith network, with members and activities in more than 110 countries. URI was founded in the year 2000 as a non-profit organization.
The Purpose of URI is threefold: to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. URI connects grassroots groups and individuals working in support of its Purpose across the globe into a vibrant network.
Group members of the network are called Cooperation Circles (CCs). There are currently over 1,190 CCs in 113 countries. These Cooperation Circles address local issues that impact their communities through community projects focused on URI's purpose.
The URI global support office and 20 regional offices on six continents support its decentralized global network of grassroots groups – providing them with training, mentoring, coaching, communications systems, and connection to a global network.