Have you ever wanted to be a part of a grassroots collective in Olympia, while learning how to run a unique publication?

Here is you chance to get involved with a local independent publication in collaboration with Olympia Free School.

The Free School aims to provide classes, workshops, programs, and events committed to free, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical education. The Free School promotes a safe environment supportive of self-directed learning – for all ages. And Natural

Learning for the past 2 years has been our medium for informing the community about our classes and other educational alternatives.

Currently Natural Learning needs to fill three coordinator positions to make Free School’s catalog a continual dependable and resourceful publication of the community. Experience with non-profit groups in the areas of writing, fundraising, editing, advertising, or publishing are beneficial, however certainly not required. We are also willing to train the right candidates for these positions, for those with strong interest.

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The first position is the Editing Coordinator, who is responsible for communicating with our Assistant Editors and Free School staff. Some of the duties involve collecting (via e-mail) content, and making final edits before being sent off to the Layout Coordinator.

The second position is the Layout Coordinator, who is in continual contact with the Editing Coordinator. Other duties involve preparing images, content, and advertisements for the purpose of print. The Layout Coordinator delivers the final product for publishing.

And the third position is the Advertising Coordinator, who communicates directly with local business sponsors in order to cover our print costs. Some of the duties as the Advertising Coordinator are to: introduce new businesses to our sponsor package, maintain positive relations with existing sponsors, drop off/mail invoices, and manage all account transactions. The Advertising Coordinator also sends advertisements (primarily electronically) to the Layout Coordinator.

All of these positions can also be accommodated as Intern possibilities or chalked up as learning opportunities. If interested, we’d be glad to provide the energy into showing you a new skill. After all we are the Olympia Free School!

For further information about these opportunities, please contact Paul: naturallearning@riseup.net or (206) 551 -9630