EVENT PLANNER

LiP Magazine, a national quarterly of radical politics, culture, sex, and humor, is looking to add an Event Planner to our team.

LiP's mission is to use a well-written, well-edited magazine with an accessible pop sensibility to promote a structural understanding of contemporary US and global society while providing tools, strategies, (as well as badly-needed comic relief), for equitable transformation. It's twice been nominated by Utne, in 2003 for Best Online Cultural Coverage, and again in 2004 for Best New Title, and has also garnered a 2005 Best Magazine distinction from Clamor Magazine, and two 2005 Project Censored awards. LiP is also the only non-women-centric independent publication in the U.S. with a majority female editorial group, contributor base, and readership.

The Event Planner would plan and organize four large fundraising events per year; each event would serve to raise $2000-4000, promote LiP in communities we would like to reach out to, increase subscription sales, and generate press coverage. One of these events, the Books for a Better World Sale, is a soon-to-be-annual event that will take place in February; planning for this event is already underway.

Specific duties would include: presenting new, creative fundraising/event ideas to LiP editors and the publisher; obtaining appropriate venues for the events; arranging for all necessary equipment, food, and outside work (DJs, bands, artists, speakers, etc.); coordinating volunteers to work the event; arranging for all in-kind donations necessary for the event (and for volunteers); advertising events and promoting in local press; and following up with—and thanking—all those involved with the event.

SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS:

Past experience in planning and executing successful fundraising events is a must. The Event Planner must live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and would ideally already have existing connections with various venues and radical spaces in San Francisco and the East Bay. The Event Planner must be able to commit to at least one year, and must be aware that this position is, for the foreseeable future, unpaid. Alternative means of compensation (gift certificates, books, trinkets, or platonic love) may be available.

TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION:

Please send resume to: jobs@lipmagazine.org, with "Event Planner" in the subject line.

LiP welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds, and especially those currently or formerly involved with social change work, artistic endeavors, or other interesting side projects. People of color and/or typically marginalized genders are especially encouraged to apply.

You may also send all materials via snail mail, to:

LiP: Informed Revolt
PO Box 3478
Oakland, CA 94609

"LiP is what radical journalism should be, but rarely is in the U.S.: sharp, witty, and unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom."
-Tim Wise, antiracist activist and author of White Like Me: Notes From a Privileged Son

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-Andrei Codrescu, poet, novelist, and commentator for National Public Radio