var _items = [{ __factory: 'Job', rssName: 'Contract Attorney – Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Fellowship', rssDescription: 'Non-Exempt Full-Time Contract Position \r\n\r\nPurpose of Job:  Legal Aid Society seeks a licensed attorney to serve as the first Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Fellow for the term of 2010 - 2012. The Wyatt Tarrant & Combs Fellowship ("Fellow") is an opportunity for an attorney to gain court experience in representing low-income clients, particularly clients faced with family law issues arising out of domestic violence. The Fellow will receive intensive training on civil litigation skills and on the substantive legal issues which clients living in poverty often face. The Fellow will be assigned a caseload and will be responsible for representing clients in all phases of litigation. \r\n\r\nThis Fellowship is designed to provide the Fellow a rich experience in developing litigation skills. The Fellow will be part of Legal Aid Society\'s staff for a two-year term during which the Fellow will receive a greater understanding of the legal issues of the low-income client community and of the work of the public interest law sector. At the conclusion of the term, the Fellow will have developed strong trial practice skills, skills in client interviewing, counseling and negotiation, and related oral and written advocacy skills. The Fellow will find these skills immeasurably helpful in future career positions, either in the private or public sector. \r\n\r\nThis position is a two-year position and is funded by a generous gift from Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs. \r\n\r\nWork Environment:  Work performed in the office setting, in the courts, in administrative agencies and in the community. \r\n\r\nA full description of the job duties can be found at http://www.laslou.org.\r\n', rssCity: 'Louisville', rssState: 'Kentucky', rssCountry: 'United States', rssViewUrlInContext: 'http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/366161-282/c', rssAuthor: 'hr@laslou.org (Legal Aid Society of Louisville)', rssPublishDate: 'Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:57:06 GMT', __foo: '' },
{ __factory: 'Job', rssName: 'Associate Regional Representative', rssDescription: 'The <b> Sierra Club</b>, a leading national environmental organization, seeks an Associate Regional Representative for Kentucky. This is a six-month grant-funded position which requires extensive travel. Location TBD, based on qualifications (Western Kentucky preferred).\r\n\r\nThe Associate Regional Representative is responsible to recruit, train and involve volunteers on public education campaigns to develop strong community-based committees and presence in Kentucky on issues related primarily to stopping new coal power plants, any coal to liquid or coal to gas proposals in the region, and western Kentucky coal mining issues. The Representative will carry out the strategies and activities for campaigns and programs in the region and participate in the development of strategies and priorities. \r\n\r\nTo view your job description and our other job opportunities, please go to http://www.sierraclub.org/careers\r\n\r\nSierra Club offers competitive salary package commensurate with skills and experience plus excellent benefits that include medical / dental / vision coverage, and a retirement savings 401(k) plan \r\n\r\nSierra Club is an EOE committed to a diverse workforce. “Explore, enjoy and protect the planet.”\r\n\r\n', rssCity: 'Kentucky', rssState: 'Kentucky', rssCountry: 'United States', rssViewUrlInContext: 'http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/365970-281/c', rssAuthor: 'resumes@sierraclub.org (Sierra Club HQ - HRD)', rssPublishDate: 'Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:32:20 GMT', __foo: '' },
{ __factory: 'Job', rssName: 'Organizer Trainee (OT) in Lexington, Kentucky', rssDescription: 'For a brief video introduction to this position visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shv8jeHyn0E\r\n\r\nThe DART Organizers Institute is a paid, field school for those wishing to launch a career in community organizing. The Organizers Institute includes a seven-day classroom workshop with veteran organizers from the field and 15-weeks of in-field training with a grassroots community organization. After graduating from the DART Organizers Institute, organizers continue in the field as professional organizers in fulltime, salaried positions working to build the power of low-income communities throughout the country in their struggles for justice and equality.\r\n\r\nEssentially, the formula is simple: learn to organize from the best in the business then go onto a fulltime career building power for justice. \r\n\r\nUsing strategies and techniques taught by the DART Center, organizations throughout the United States have held government and economic systems accountable and won important victories on a broad set of race and poverty issues including: \r\n\r\n    * Education reform in low-performing public schools,\r\n    * Affordable housing\r\n    * Access to healthcare\r\n    * Youth services\r\n    * Environmental protection\r\n    * Job training\r\n    * Fair immigration policies, and\r\n    * Dozens of other issues important to low-income communities.\r\n       \r\nOur classroom and field training covers such topics as:\r\n\r\n    * Identifying and training local leaders\r\n    * Strategic planning and issue cutting\r\n    * Researching and targeting decision makers\r\n    * One-on-One relationship building\r\n    * Developing and training leaders to take successful Direct Action on issues\r\n    * Fund Raising for the long-haul\r\n    * Congregation-based coalition building\r\n      \r\nLocations, Dates, & Benefits : The DART Organizers Institute will begin with a 7-day classroom training at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 17, 2010.  Following the classroom training Organizer Trainees will be placed on staff with local DART affiliates for fifteen weeks of training from July 24 - November 5, 2010. Organizer Trainees could potentially be placed with local DART affiliate including organizations in Kentucky, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Indiana. We will be sending several Organizer Trainees to DART\'s Kentucky organizations for training including Lexington or Louisville. We will take into account the Organizer Trainees\' preferred location, but placements will be determined in order to provide the best training experience possible. Organizer Trainees will learn of their infield training location six weeks before the start of training.  \r\n\r\nDART will pay for hotel and gas expenses in route to their placement, as well as, provide a stipend of $7,000 over the course of the 15-week training to cover living expenses. DART will also reimburse any work related travel costs incurred during training. After completion of the 15-week in-field training, DART will work to place successful graduates into fulltime, salaried positions with a DART affiliate. Initial salaries start at $32 - 35,000/year, plus benefits including health and paid vacation. They will also be placed onto a two-year advanced training track to ensure ongoing support and professional development. \r\n\r\nResponsibilities:\r\nOTs will be provided with an intensive classroom orientation, but most of the training will take place while working to build the power of one of the local DART affiliates. OTs will be expected to create a work plan based on the goals set by the local leadership, execute the techniques and strategies they learn during the classroom training, be accountable to DART and local organizing staff through written weekly reports and check-ins, and should continuously evaluate their own progress toward becoming a skilled professional community organizer. <P><P>', rssCity: 'Lexington', rssState: 'Kentucky', rssCountry: 'United States', rssViewUrlInContext: 'http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/365479-253/c', rssAuthor: 'jobs@thedartcenter.org (Direct Action & Research Training Center)', rssPublishDate: 'Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:04:21 GMT', __foo: '' },
{ __factory: 'Job', rssName: 'Organizer Trainee (OT) in Louisville, Kentucky', rssDescription: 'For a brief video introduction to this position visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shv8jeHyn0E\r\n\r\nThe DART Organizers Institute is a paid, field school for those wishing to launch a career in community organizing. The Organizers Institute includes a seven-day classroom workshop with veteran organizers from the field and 15-weeks of in-field training with a grassroots community organization. After graduating from the DART Organizers Institute, organizers continue in the field as professional organizers in fulltime, salaried positions working to build the power of low-income communities throughout the country in their struggles for justice and equality.\r\n\r\nEssentially, the formula is simple: learn to organize from the best in the business then go onto a fulltime career building power for justice. \r\n\r\nUsing strategies and techniques taught by the DART Center, organizations throughout the United States have held government and economic systems accountable and won important victories on a broad set of race and poverty issues including: \r\n\r\n    * Education reform in low-performing public schools,\r\n    * Affordable housing\r\n    * Access to healthcare\r\n    * Youth services\r\n    * Environmental protection\r\n    * Job training\r\n    * Fair immigration policies, and\r\n    * Dozens of other issues important to low-income communities.\r\n       \r\nOur classroom and field training covers such topics as:\r\n\r\n    * Identifying and training local leaders\r\n    * Strategic planning and issue cutting\r\n    * Researching and targeting decision makers\r\n    * One-on-One relationship building\r\n    * Developing and training leaders to take successful Direct Action on issues\r\n    * Fund Raising for the long-haul\r\n    * Congregation-based coalition building\r\n      \r\nLocations, Dates, & Benefits : The DART Organizers Institute will begin with a 7-day classroom training at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 17, 2010.  Following the classroom training Organizer Trainees will be placed on staff with local DART affiliates for fifteen weeks of training from July 24 - November 5, 2010. Organizer Trainees could potentially be placed with local DART affiliate including organizations in Kentucky, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Indiana. We will be sending several Organizer Trainees to DART\'s Kentucky organizations for training including Louisville or Lexington. We will take into account the Organizer Trainees\' preferred location, but placements will be determined in order to provide the best training experience possible. Organizer Trainees will learn of their infield training location six weeks before the start of training.  \r\n\r\nDART will pay for hotel and gas expenses in route to their placement, as well as, provide a stipend of $7,000 over the course of the 15-week training to cover living expenses. DART will also reimburse any work related travel costs incurred during training. After completion of the 15-week in-field training, DART will work to place successful graduates into fulltime, salaried positions with a DART affiliate. Initial salaries start at $32 - 35,000/year, plus benefits including health and paid vacation. They will also be placed onto a two-year advanced training track to ensure ongoing support and professional development. \r\n\r\nResponsibilities:\r\nOTs will be provided with an intensive classroom orientation, but most of the training will take place while working to build the power of one of the local DART affiliates. OTs will be expected to create a work plan based on the goals set by the local leadership, execute the techniques and strategies they learn during the classroom training, be accountable to DART and local organizing staff through written weekly reports and check-ins, and should continuously evaluate their own progress toward becoming a skilled professional community organizer. <P><P>', rssCity: 'Louisville', rssState: 'Kentucky', rssCountry: 'United States', rssViewUrlInContext: 'http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/365476-153/c', rssAuthor: 'jobs@thedartcenter.org (Direct Action & Research Training Center)', rssPublishDate: 'Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:02:19 GMT', __foo: '' },
{ __factory: 'Job', rssName: 'Center Director', rssDescription: 'The Center Director will plan, organize, and direct USO operations in Ft. Campbell, KY to provide quality programs to active military personnel and their families.\r\nResponsibilities / Duties\r\n•Program Planning and Execution: Plan and execute USO Ft. Campbell programs 	and activities; evaluate program service using the USO Standards of Excellence evaluation program.\r\n•Strategic Planning: Conduct periodic reviews of service member and family \r\nneeds to make realistic assessment for the long term as well as ongoing revision, expansion, or introduction of programs and services. \r\n•Personnel Management: Manage all employees and conduct supporting personnel 	activities, to include recruitment, training, supervision, and appraisal meeting all 	legal requirements and in accordance with USO Arlington HR Policies.\r\n•Financial Operations: Develop financial resources through budget planning, grant/local support, fundraising/special events, etc. as appropriate with sensitivity to other local military organizations; conduct regular financial monitoring, analysis, and recordkeeping.\r\n•Financial Reporting: Prepare and submit consolidate financial operational and statistical reports as required by USO Arlington.\r\n•Development: Using the resources of the USO Arlington Development \r\nDepartment, provide advice, support and direction to the Advisory Council for whom fundraising is the key responsibility; recruit and develop donors of funds or in-kind \r\nsupport for programs and services establishing long-term partnerships with local donors and sponsors; exercise good stewardship of all funds raised keeping records \r\nof donor contacts and donations; work with USO Arlington to ensure local \r\ncommitments to partner-donors and sponsors and appropriate recognition/access to USO clientele are met and are in line with Development standards and procedures. \r\n•Marketing and Communications: In conjunction with USO Arlington, develop and manage an aggressive public affairs program to “brand” USO Ft. Campbell as the premier military support organization; represent the USO to the local officials, military commands, U.S. and State government officials, sponsors, and key personnel in the business community and to the other organizations, creating a favorable public image; encourage media coverage of USO Ft. Campbell activities.\r\n•Advisory Council: Develop a local Advisory Council to assist with program direction & local fundraising; work with the USO Ft. Campbell Advisory Council in developing a team approach to USO plans, program, and fund-raising activities; provide administrative support to the Advisory Council & its committees by scheduling & coordinating Advisory Council meetings, & other administrative activities of the Advisory Council.\r\n•Volunteer Program Management: Recruit and maintain a local USO volunteer corps to assist with the USO center administration, delivery of other USO services, and participation in special events & activities; develop pro-bono relationships w/professional specialists; maintain volunteer contact database.\r\n', rssCity: 'Ft. Campbell', rssState: 'Kentucky', rssCountry: 'United States', rssViewUrlInContext: 'http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/364251-243/c', rssAuthor: 'jobs@uso.org (USO)', rssPublishDate: 'Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:57:54 GMT', __foo: '' },

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