Witness for Peace International Team Application for Mexico
2011 Application
If you would like to join the Witness for Peace International Team in Mexico, please use the
application below to tell us about yourself. If you have any questions about the application,
please email Sharon Hostetler, Executive Director, at hostetler@witnessforpeace.org.
Please complete the application and email it to hostetler@witnessforpeace.org as a Word
attachment by November 15, 2011. Applications received after this date will not be considered.
BASIC INFORMATION:
Name:
Address:
City:
Phone:
Email:
DOB:
Gender:
Occupation:
Birthplace:
Passport #:
Valid until:
Permanent Address:
How did you hear about WfP?
HEALTH AND EMERGENCY INFORMATION:
The work of an International Team Member with Witness for Peace is often emotionally,
mentally, and physically gruelling. The schedule could require intense amounts of travel while
balancing other responsibilities. For this reason it is important to consider your health needs
when applying for this position.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments, due to a disability or health
condition, which you wish us to take into account when considering your application.
Whom should we contact in case of emergency?
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
All International Team members are expected to be conversationally fluent in Spanish. Witness
for Peace will conduct an evaluation of language skills to ensure that applicants meet the
minimum required skill level.
Spanish level: fluent conversationally fluent good fair minimal
How did you become fluent?
Other languages?
Please attach a resume listing all relevant work and educational experiences, including
internships, full-time, part-time, and volunteer jobs. Please include names and emails for 3
personal and professional references.
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SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS: (Please limit responses to each question to 100
words)
1) Describe your work style. How do you relate to employers? Other employees? What is
your greatest source of work related stress and how do you handle it?
2) What are your strengths?
What are your challenges or weaknesses?
3) What experience have you had living/working in cross-cultural settings? How did those
experiences affect you?
4) What experiences have you had living in rural “underdeveloped” conditions?
FAITH AND CONSCIENCE:
As a community of people guided by faith and conscience, Witness for Peace takes inspiration
from sacred texts, as well as other literature on faith. Would you be comfortable participating in
group reflections and other forms of interfaith expressions?
FUNDRAISING:
-Is there a worship body or religious judicatory which could sponsor you while you are a
volunteer?
-Would you be willing to participate in and support a team fundraising effort?
ESSAY QUESTIONS: (Please limit responses to each question to 250 words or less)
1) What motivates you to work for peace and justice?
2) Why do you want to work on the WfP International Team and in the Mexico program in
particular? What skills and experience would you bring to the position?
3) What is important about the work of WfP in Latin America and the Caribbean? In the
U.S?
4) What do you think are the principal effects of U.S. policy in Latin America and the
Caribbean and specifically in Mexico? What do you think should be the role of U.S. citizens
in Latin America?
5) What other experiences, that you haven’t discussed previously, have prepared you to
work with WfP in Mexico?
6) What is your understanding of the interrelationship between various forms of
discrimination (i.e. gender, race, sexual orientation, class, language, etc)?
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7) Discuss your identity and background and how they relate to your understanding of
discrimination.
8) What does non-violence mean to you and how would you relate to it in working with
WFP in Mexico?
9) What do you think are the root causes of poverty? What experiences have led you to
these conclusions?
10) How do you respond personally to the face of poverty?
12) Write simply and concisely (one page) the story of your life. Include the persons and
events that you consider of greatest significance in your personal and professional
development