Work contract: Online monitoring at fairplay prevention - point of contact against dehumanizing ideologies
fairplay, the initiative for diversity and anti-discrimination at the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC), has been campaigning for diverse and non-discriminatory sport since 1997. Together with associations, clubs, fan clubs, migrant and youth organisations, measures against discrimination, for diversity, for sustainable development & human rights and against misanthropic ideologies in sport are developed and implemented.
The fairplay team awards a work contract for the work area of the contact point against misanthropic ideologies for the prevention of political and religious extremism in Austrian sport. The focus of the work is on the development and implementation of online monitoring.
The aim of the project is to counteract extremism in the long term and remove its basis - through education and awareness-raising, educational programmes and the reduction of discrimination and the visualisation of extreme devaluation ideologies in Austrian sport, as well as by increasing the resilience of sports clubs and athletes.
Systematic monitoring in the field of combat sports aims to document current developments, activities and structures. Multilingual monitoring also provides a further and deeper insight into relevant scenes in the martial arts landscape. Online monitoring at fairplay prevention serves to document and analyse developments in the Austrian martial arts landscape and to develop countermeasures.
Monitoring tasks
- Development and implementation of online monitoring of actors and networks of misanthropic ideologies in combat sports
- Networking and knowledge exchange with relevant stakeholders in the field of monitoring
- Regular internal reporting of the results of online monitoring
- Expectations
- Expertise in the areas of extremism prevention, countering right-wing extremism and/or religious extremism
- Knowledge of the field of sports intervention and Austrian sports structures (cooperation with sports associations and clubs is an advantage), especially martial arts
- Enthusiasm for promoting an inclusive and open sports and club culture without discrimination as a basis for combating extremism, radicalisation and violence
- Experience with various social media platforms
- Experience with online monitoring is an advantage
- High affinity for the topics of martial arts, diversity or anti-discrimination
- Good knowledge of German and English (languages such as Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, Kurdish, Chechen or BKS an advantage)
- Good IT application skills
We offer
- Varied and challenging work in the context of sport, anti-discrimination and educational work to prevent extremism as well as creative freedom and personal responsibility
- Period of 6 months: interim reports, final report September 2024
- Amount depending on detailed agreement: €10,000 - €15,000
- A follow-up project until December 2025 is planned
Application process
We look forward to receiving a brief application (letter of motivation and CV) to: wachter [AT] vidc [DOT] org, Attn: Kurt Wachter, Head of Division. The application deadline is Monday, 18 March 2024.
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age or sexual orientation.
