North America Regional Coordinator - Summary Description
Location: This position is for the North America region and will primarily involve remote work with occasional travel. The candidate needs to live in and be a permanent resident in the USA or Canada.
Deadline: May 5, 2025
About URI: Founded in the year 2000, The United Religions Initiative (URI) is the world’s largest grassroots interfaith network with over 1,200 organizations and thousands of individual members in more than 113 countries. 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 is a non-religious, non-political, non-partisan, non-profit, bridge-building organization. For more information, please visit www.URI.org.
Job Summary:
The North America Regional Coordinator (RC) will serve as a regional member of the URI Global Staff to work to implement the strategic priorities and guide URI development in the region. The URI North America region consists of 82 interfaith organizations that have joined the URI network as Cooperation Circles (“CCs”) as well as over a hundred Individual Members. This RC, under the guidance of one of the directors of the Growth, Learning and Impact Team, will work collaboratively with an integrated regional staff team and a regional trustee team (and other global staff as needed) to help grow, uplift, organize, and share helpful practices and resources within the CC network to advance URI’s collective Purpose. They will work in alignment with URI’s priority strategic initiatives to facilitate network growth & vitality and build interfaith capacity and collaboration to prevent violence and heal our human and ecological communities.
The candidate is committed to practicing, modeling, and living out practices of cultivating diversity, equity, and belonging at the heart of URI’s purpose and guiding principles.
URI highly encourages candidates from diverse social and cultural communities to apply with special attention to applicants with collaborative work experience in North American indigenous, migrant, and religious communities.
URI is seeking either one full-time staff (40hrs/wk) or two part-time staff (20hrs/wk) for this role. Please apply if you have interest and capacity either in the full-time or part-time opportunity.
Please read carefully the COMPLETE JOB DESCRIPTION HERE.
Language: The contractor needs to be fluent in English. Preference may be given to candidates who are also proficient in additional languages, especially Spanish in the North American context.
Application Process: To apply, please complete this entire form below, answering the questions provided and uploading your resume by end of day Monday May 5, 2025.