There are several ways to get involved with The Sentinel Project.

SPREAD THE WORD

Follow us on Twitter – @sentinelproject and retweet our updates.
Join our Facebook group and share our updates with your network.

DONATE TO SUPPORT OUR OPERATIONS

We currently accepting donations by cheque or money order – online donations are coming very soon. Let us know at the time of donation if you want your identity to be kept private or publicly recognized. Please makes cheques or money orders payable to “The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention” and mail them to:

The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention
2705-2360 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6P 4B2
Canada

VOLUNTEER WITH US

The Sentinel Project is an exciting new approach to achieving a world without genocide, and we want you to be a part of it. All of our currently open positions are listed below. The time commitment for each role is approximately 10 hours per week. The overall team will have a sync-up meeting once per week but there are no other fixed time commitments. We manage our work by tracking to milestones and assessing progress made on each milestone each week during the sync-up. Between meetings, we coordinate via email and our private online network.

If you are interested, please send an email to contact@thesentinelproject.org with relevant details about yourself. We also request a resume so we can identify unique ways in which you may be able to help.

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FUNDRAISER

The Sentinel Project is an on-going initiative and to be truly successful it needs some level of financial support to sustain a prolonged monitoring and assessment effort.

We are currently looking for people to implement our fundraising strategy along the following avenues:

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PUBLIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR

The Sentinel Project is an on-going initiative and to be truly successful it needs an effective and sustainable public relations program.

We are currently looking for an assistant program coordinator to help design and implement our public relations strategy along the following avenues:

1. Developing Sentinel Project messaging – information packets, website content, posters, etc

2. Establishing a network of contacts within the media – keeping contact with relevant journalists, magazines and other venues

3. Representing the Sentinel Project at appropriate outlets such as conferences and summits

4. Develop on-going creative campaigns to publicize the issues that the Sentinel Project works on and the organization itself via channels such as Twitter and Facebook

You will be part of a compact team with complete responsibility for developing and implementing a public relations strategy. You will also be a part of the Sentinel Project core leadership and will have input in its overall direction.

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RESEARCH ANALYST

The Sentinel Project’s core mandate depends on an effective predictive model – the ability to efficiently identify the warning indicators for potential genocidal violence from a large amount of input data using a repeatable, but flexible, process.

We are currently looking for a dedicated volunteer to join our team as the Sentinel Project’s Research Analyst to help:

1. Develop and document a formalized analytical process to be used by the Sentinel Project in assessing situations-of-concern around the world

2. Work with the Sentinel Project’s tech team to develop the technical platform which will support the needs of the analysis process

You will be given a key role in developing the early warning model, and may have chances to publish research results should the opportunity arise. If interested, you will also eventually work with an associated team of volunteer analysts in implementing the predictive model as part of our monitoring process. You will also be a part of the Sentinel Project core leadership and will have input in its overall direction.

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OUTREACH COORDINATOR

We are currently looking for a dedicated volunteer to join our team as the Sentinel Project’s Outreach Coordinator. Responsibilities include:

1. Actively reaching out to relevant organizations and exploring productive partnership opportunities

2. Maintaining relationships with existing partners, keeping track of new developments and communicating new Sentinel Project developments to them

3. Designing a high school and university outreach program

4. Recruiting for the Sentinel Project’s Board of Directors

You will be given complete responsibility for managing all outreach activities for the Sentinel Project. Eventually this will include managing a team of volunteers to implement all of our outreach initiatives. You will also be a part of the Sentinel Project core leadership and will have input in its overall direction.

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