Job Vacancy: Job title: Human Rights Education (HRE) Assistant
Job description: JOB PURPOSE
As the Human Rights Education Assistant you will work to implement Amnesty International’s human rights education (HRE) work in Nigeria and to work with regional and global HRE teams to increase and strengthen mobilization for greater human rights impact through pioneering new human rights education models and approaches to engaging people for social change.
ABOUT YOU
You will have the ability to exercise high standards of servicing to a range of stakeholders (internal to the National Office and the Amnesty movement, media, governments, NGOs and beneficiaries of Amnesty International’s work, amongst others). You will understand the work of Amnesty International Nigeria Programmes Manager to enable him/her provide human rights education support to the Amnesty International Nigeria office and to stakeholders.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and implement a Human Rights Education (HRE) strategy and plan for AI Nigeria.
- Identify and conceptualize human rights education work with potential for successful fundraising, provide and present human rights education work in a way that helps to attract donors.
- Support improved human rights education capacity of staff in the Nigeria national office, as well as partners, activists, supporters and other participants by analysing HRE capacity building needs and facilitating capacity building initiatives for these target groups.
- Implement human rights education work online and offline, ensure the alignment with global and regional campaigns and contribute the human rights education perspective in the
- Ensure human rights education is part of an integrated and coordinated approach to human rights change in Nigeria, through liaising and collaborating with other staff, various global teams and partners.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- A Bachelor’s degree in the arts, social sciences, international relations, law, development studies, or related disciplines
- Experience working on or implementing HRE projects;
- Demonstrated commitment to human rights, e.g. through previous work, membership of a network etc;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English; other relevant local languages or additional foreign languages desirable;
- Knowledge of UN mechanisms as well as national and regional inter-governmental mechanisms in the promotion of human rights education
Please note that this role is based in Nigeria. Only those legally authorized to work in Nigeria are advised to apply for this job.
Location: Nigeria
Job date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:45:43 GMT
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