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- maintaining extensive files, contact lists and databases.
- maintaining communication among HRW's domestic and international offices and providing substantive, logistical and administrative assistance to field offices.
- retrieving and responding to requests for information; preparing, formatting and distributing documents such as press releases, reports, tables, charts, briefing papers, op eds, publications and web content.
- assisting with research, electronic clipping, wires, and translations.
- preparing for and taking minutes at meetings.
- assisting with advisory committee matters.
- assisting with special events, hiring and training.
- drafting and editing correspondence and other documents.
- assisting with travel arrangements and follow-up.
- recruiting and coordinating interns.
- recording departmental finances
- word processing; photocopying; filing; faxing; answering phones; processing incoming mail.
- other assigned tasks.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate must be self motivated, extremely well-organized, collegial and able to function under pressure and handle numerous tasks simultaneously. The successful candidate must be willing to take initiative, prioritize with minimal supervision and work independently as well as function as a member of a team. Strong interest in international human rights and women’s rights is highly desirable. The candidate must have solid office/administration experience, demonstrated organizational skills and excellent computer skills. Outstanding communications skills in both written and oral English are essential; proficiency in French is preferred. Applicants for this position must possess current U.K. work authorization valid for a minimum of two years from the start date.
Salary and Benefits: Salary range starts at £19,000. Human Rights Watch offers excellent employer-paid benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, an outstanding pension plan, and twenty (20) days vacation per year.
PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY (no calls or email inquiries, please) by emailing in a single document a letter of interest describing your experience, your resume, names or letters of references, and a brief writing sample (unedited by others) no later than June 3, 2008 to wrd@hrw.org. Please use "WRD Associate Application" as the subject of your email. Only complete applications will be reviewed. It is preferred that all materials be submitted via email. If emailing is not possible, send materials please do not split a submission between email and regular post) to:
Human Rights Watch
Attn: Search Committee (WRD Associate)
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
Fax: (212) 736-1300
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Human Rights Watch is an international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization known for its in-depth investigations, its incisive and timely reporting, its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in changing the human rights-related policies and practices of influential governments and international institutions.
The Women’s Rights Division (“WRD”) of Human Rights Watch was established in 1990 to monitor state-sponsored or state-tolerated violence and sex discrimination against women in all regions of the world. Much of its work consists of gathering detailed information on abuses against women and publishing reports that are as reliable, comprehensive and timely as possible, so as to effect change in repressive practices and improve respect for women’s rights throughout the world. The work of the WRD seeks to expand the scope of human rights work to address abuses against women that traditionally have been overlooked or misunderstood, as well as achieve greater accountability for violations of women’s human rights.
