United Religions Initiative North American - Briefings

Dynamic young nonprofit seeks Muslim Initiatives Coordinator to build capacity of Muslims to engage in interfaith service-learning.

Summary of Position: The Muslim Initiatives Coordinator will advance interfaith youth service-learning work within the Muslim community in the United States. The position will begin with a full-time, grant funded project to increase civic engagement among Muslims nationally. The successful candidate will have several years’ experience proactively working in Muslim communities, with a focus on young people, civic engagement and/or capacity building.

Members of URI Cooperation Circles around the world have been engaging in a dialogue that has been both tense and constructive with regard to how to respond to the current war and humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. All perspectives are represented — some sympathize more strongly with the Palestinian and/or Lebanese suffering, some with the Israeli’s living with the daily threat of terrorists’ suicide bombs and rockets. The one thing that seems to be clearly uniting us is the need to recognize the humanitarian crisis on the ground — and more importantly react to it. We must be peacebuilders on the ground, helping those directly in need.