NAIT Invites Candidates For Two Positions in Chicago Headquarter The North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) is a waqf, serving Muslims in the United States and their institutions. NAIT supports and provides services to ISNA, MSA, their affiliates, and other Islamic centers and institutions. NAIT is a not-for-profit entity, governed by its Board of Trustees. The President of ISNA is an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees of NAIT.
This year’s theme for Torture Awareness month is “Healing a Culture of Torture,” encompassing the need to reflect, pray, and act about the deep physical and spiritual harm caused by torture. NRCAT has prepared a Torture Awareness Month toolkit available on its website (www.nrcat.org/june2013) with bulletin inserts, prayers, litanies, and a downloadable poster. During Torture Awareness Month, NRCAT will highlight the need to: • Urge the Senate Intelligence Committee to release its 6,000page report on CIA torture. • Share the report of the Task Force on Detainee Treatment of The Constitution Project, a high-level bipartisan report on U.S.-sponsored torture. • Encourage people of faith to learn the facts about prolonged solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, including the placement of youth in solitary. • Urge people of faith and religious institutions to participate in NRCAT’s efforts to end the use of prolonged solitary confinement. To help plan for June’s Torture Awareness Month activities, visit www. nrcat.org/june2013 to download the Torture Awareness Toolkit and for ideas and materials to mark the month.
dignity of each human being by ensuring that torture never happens, either abroad or in our prisons and detention centers. NRCAT is working to ensure that we, as a nation, learn the facts about torture in U.S. prisons, as well as the facts about torture of 9/11 detainees is made public. Through vigils, educational forums, letters-to-editor campaigns, programs in congregations and other activities, we aim to raise the nation’s consciousness about torture as a moral issue that must be addressed in public policy.
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Paz Artaza-Regan is the director for program and outreach of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.
Islamic Horizons May/June 2013
Manager – Waqf Development
General Manager
Raise funds for NAIT’s Waqf services to Islamic Centers.
Manage NAIT services and programs to achieve NAIT’s services to Muslim community.
Core Considerations: • Capability of fund raising in diverse settings, especially as a follow up to a Jumuah khutbah or a khaterah. • History of working with grass-roots organizations and volunteers. • Islamic mindset.
Core Considerations: • Corporate, business, and legal skills. • Ability to effectively relate with the diverse Muslim leadership and communities across all schools of thought and ethnicities. • History of working with grass-roots organizations and volunteers. • Islamic mindset.
Responsibilities: • Educate Muslim community about Waqf tradition. • Develop a strategic plan to achieve funding priorities for NAIT. • Cultivate, solicit, and steward support from donors; potential individual and institutional donors. • Focus on acquiring donations from face-to-face contact with small groups of major potential donors. • Engage with appropriate decision-makers for corporations, foundations, planned giving, trust, estates, real estate, and other tangible assets. • Give Jumuak Khutbahs and Khaterahs at Masajid.
Responsibilities: • Educate Muslim community about Waqf tradition. • Promote Islamic centers’ participation in NAIT’s Waqf program and Islamic Centers Cooperative Fund (ICCF). • Visit Islamic centers to promote NAIT services. • Provide regulatory and quasi-legal guidance to Islamic centers. • Attend to Corporate matters (including States’ Filings). • Engage with outside counsels defending lawsuits targeting Islamic centers. • Interact with NAIT Board of Trustees . • Step up in the absence of the Executive Director.
Qualifications & Experience: • Bachelor›s degree • At least three years’ experience in fundraising, sales, and/or marketing. • Skilled in raising money, cultivating donors, and organizing events. • Proficient in the Waqf legacy of Muslims, and its role in the growing Muslim community of the USA. • Bi-lingual (or multi-lingual) speaking ability • Able to travel extensively • Demonstrated communication, organizational, and people skills. • Committed to abide by the best charitable giving guidelines and donors’ stipulations.
Qualifications & Experience: • Law (preferably) or Masters’ degree in Business • At least ten years’ experience in public dealings • At least five years’ experience in Muslim community/ college organization • Preferably five years’ experience in Legal matters • Exposure to real estate and securities industry • Skilled in preliminary investment analysis • Public Speaking & writing skills • Able to visit communities in the United States • Demonstrated communication, organizational, and people skills.
Respond to the General Manager/Executive Director.
Respond to the Executive Director and NAIT Board of Trustees.
Compensation: Commensurate with competence; will include health insurance for family.
Compensation: Commensurate with competence; will include health insurance for family.
Send Resume to mcheema@NAIT.net and Chairman@NAIT.net • These positions are full time jobs, requiring all successful applicants to work out of NAIT’s headquarter office in Oak Brook suburb of Chicago, Illinois. • Successful applicants will receive competitive salary and benefits. Pay is commensurate with education, skills and experience. • NAIT is a religious, not-for-profit organization which serves Muslim communities across North America. Successful applicants for these positions would be practicing Muslim with a high level of integrity and commitment to the American Muslim community and Islam. CONTACT Interested persons should email a comprehensive resume stating education, work history, references, and salary requirements along with a cover letter and copies of relevant academic certificates to: mcheema@NAIT.net and chairman@NAIT.net OR mail to: Mujeeb Cheema, Executive Director, North American Islamic Trust, 721 Enterprise Drive, Oak Brook, IL 60523. 45