[Intl-tobacco] Job Announcement: Essential Action's Aiding Global Tobacco Control Project

[Robert Weissman]

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Job Announcement
Project Coordinator
Aiding Global Tobacco Control Project
Essential Action
Washington, D.C.


Project and Job Description:

Small levels of funding for anti-smoking programs and activism in
developing countries can translate into huge public health gains.

Essential Action is launching its Aiding Global Tobacco Control Project
to convince governmental aid donors, as well as private voluntary
charitable and development organizations, of the merits of investing in
tobacco control.

While there are countless pressing demands for funding in the global
South, investments in global tobacco control offer enormous potential
payoffs in terms of lives saved and health benefits imparted. Sound
public health policy can significantly reduce smoking rates, saving
countless lives. Tobacco control is also good development policy;
diminished healthcare costs and gains in labor productivity are major
benefits flowing from reduced tobacco consumption.

But while there are increasingly large public and private investments in
anti-smoking programs in industrialized countries, there is a paucity of
funding for global tobacco control. The result is that there are very
few full-time tobacco control advocates in developing countries, either
in the governmental or nongovernmental sector. Essential Action's Aiding
Global Tobacco Control Project aims to change that.

The project will be staffed by a single coordinator, who will work in
conjunction with Essential Action's co-director and the coordinator of
Essential Action's Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control.

The Project Coordinator's areas of responsibilities will include:

o Developing materials to persuade aid donors of the value of investing
in tobacco control;

o Working with developing country tobacco control activists to craft
strategies and implement plans for advocacy approaches for use with aid
donors inside developing countries.

o Organizing one-on-one meetings and workshops for aid donors,
foundations and other potential funders to urge them to provide
financial support for tobacco control programs in developing countries.

The position is intended to be based in our Washington, D.C. office. We
will, however, consider applicants who would like to be based elsewhere.


Qualifications:

Applicants must be passionate about advancing global public health
efforts and corporate accountability. They should be hard-working,
energetic and strategic minded.

We are looking for applicants who are:

o =09Excellent communicators, skilled both in developing written material
and in making compelling oral presentations;
o =09Comfortable and effective working in a variety of contexts -- from
formal meetings with governmental representatives to informal settings
in poor countries;
o =09Willing and able to undertake extensive international travel;
o =09Highly organized;
o =09Able to work independently, with low levels of supervision;
o =09Ready to creatively experiment with new advocacy approaches.

Fluency in or working knowledge of languages other than English is a plus.

We are seeking applicants with a bachelor's degree and either three
years experience in advocacy or tobacco control positions or an advanced de=
gree.


Salary and Benefits:

Annual salary for the Project Coordinator position is $30,000. Health
insurance coverage is provided, as is two weeks paid vacation.


About Essential Action:

Essential Action is a Washington, D.C.-based corporate accountability
group. Our Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control networks anti-tobacco
groups from more than 100 countries and 40 U.S. states. We employ a wide
array of tools -- from demonstrations to lobbying government officials,
from publishing heavily documented technical reports to parodying
corporate abuses (for example, see www.licensedtokill.biz) -- to advance
our advocacy goals.

Information on Essential Action is available at www.essentialaction.org.
For information on our tobacco work, see
www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/index.html and www.essentialaction.org/toba=
cco/trade.


To apply:

E-mail cover letter, resum=E9 including references, and short (up to 5
pages) writing sample to Robert Weissman (rob@essential.org).
Applications will be considered as received. Follow-up inquiries by
e-mail only please.


Posted April 23, 2004