Village Resilience Builder

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Are you in search of a purpose-filled internship? One that believes social change is centered around shaking up systems, deep healing, dedication, and community?

Shakti Rising is a social change organization transforming the lives of women, girls, and the larger community by cultivating their health and emerging leadership, ultimately empowering their personal transformation as a catalyst for positive change in their own life as well as that of their families and communities.

Our model for collective success includes the following interwoven principles:

• women centered, holistic & trauma informed
• sustainable
• based in cultivation of creativity, leadership and community

Our work actively promotes community well being, creating woman & child friendly societies that are safe, healthy, vibrant, diverse, sustainable and culturally alive. Part of how we do that is through programs & offerings that support women to achieve financial health and sufficiency, enabling them to create new economic realities in their families & communities.

Creator of Sustainable Foundations

Do you want to help women turn their beliefs about money upside down? Grow resilience and break cycles of self-limiting beliefs about sufficiency & enoughness? Do we have an opportunity for you!

Tasks will revolve around creating specific programs and online offerings that weave Shakti’s Women & Money, Women & Meaningful Work, and Sustainability principles and systems; attuning to their resources and aligning their economy with their values.

This position is created with a focus on:

• Establishing foundations that help women build resilience and find creative ways to meet their needs
• Cultivating activities that allow others to identify, receive and share inner and outer resources
• Strengthening solidarity by connecting women with other women in communities around the world
• Rooting into right action

Project-based skills we seek to align with:

• Strong writing and creative capacities
• Clear grasp of strategy
• Genuine understanding that the heart of fundraising is authentic human connection and the possibility of transformation
• Knowledge of or adaptability to work with Salesforce and mail programs
• Willingness to develop skills of connecting with donors
• Some design capacity, especially with newsletter creation
• Openness toward the possibility of research and prospecting

Human-based qualities we seek to align with:

It is imperative that any candidate share a genuine care for this work, women, and people in general. Self awareness, heart-centeredness, balance of the head and heart and infusing products with love and authenticity are all celebrated throughout all of Shakti as well as the power of a positive attitude and excitement toward life and personal growth for self and others.

It is also important that candidates be comfortable with:

• Embracing risks and initiative
• Embodying self-motivation
• Taking into account the value of the natural world and the dignity of all people
• Maintaining accountability
• Wanting to have fun with the work they’re undertaking
• Being comfortable with some degree of woo
• Ideally, showing interest in how natural models, like gardens, can inform this work

This is an unpaid volunteer internship with an opportunity to gain valuable skills and make an undeniable difference in women's lives across the country.

This position will work directly with the Founder & Vision Keeper, which will also entail working with the Director of Resource Development and possibly with other staff. As part of this internship, you are invited to staff meetings and trainings, allowing you to not only deepen within your position but within the organization as well.

Our invitation for you, is to join us!

Start Date: February 2021

Term: 6 months -1 year

Hours: Flexible, 5+ hours/week

Location: Remote

This is an unpaid volunteer internship with an opportunity to gain valuable skills and make an undeniable difference in women's lives across the country.

Note from an intern:

"My name is Willa and I completed my 9 month internship at the end of June. I am only leaving the position because I'm moving across the country. Chelsea is an amazing leader and mentor, and working with her is joyful and rigorous. She leads in a way that is embodied, loving, and disciplined and has allowed me to learn more about my own strengths as a leader and how I want to lead in my life. I feel that my gifts have been brought forward and honored and I am leaving this position a stronger leader than when I came in. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions (about my experience)!" willa.conway@gmail.com