FIXED-TERM, FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Women’s Rights Division
Multiple Locations Considered – Southern US most popular
Application Deadline: March 31, 2023

The Women’s Rights Division (WRD) of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is searching for a Research Assistant to assist the work of the Women’s Rights Division, with a selected give attention to advancing reproductive well being, rights, and justice primarily within the United States.

This is a one-year, fixed-term place with a chance of renewal, relying on funding, reporting to a Researcher within the Women’s Rights Division. The profitable candidate will ideally be primarily based within the Southern United States, however different areas within the US could also be thought of.

The profitable candidate could have the choice to work remotely. We intention to be as versatile and supportive as potential in each the recruitment for and onboarding of this place.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide analysis, advocacy, and administrative help to Women’s Rights Division researchers, together with desk analysis and cellphone interviews;

2. Develop contacts with and assist to construct and preserve relationships with reproductive well being, rights, and justice organizations, feminist activists, and native and worldwide officers; facilitate conferences with NGOs, authorities officers, and different people for analysis and advocacy;

3. Assist researchers in monitoring, gathering, and analyzing info from all kinds of sources, primarily on ongoing reproductive justice tasks, together with cervical most cancers disparities and within the intersection of local weather change and reproductive well being and rights;

4. Under the steering of WRD employees, present background briefings, written analyses, and, when acceptable, first drafts of briefing papers, letters, information releases, submissions to worldwide our bodies, and different HRW merchandise;

5. Assist WRD employees in figuring out advocacy alternatives at regional, nationwide, and international boards, and in designing, coordinating, and implementing research-based advocacy campaigns;

6. Assist WRD employees in designing and facilitating webinars, trainings, and different on-line occasions;

7. Under the steering of WRD employees, assist develop social media methods together with writing concise, participating, and legally correct posts to be used on HRW’s social media accounts;

8. Assist WRD employees in constructing and sustaining a media record together with journalists and influencers; and

9. Perform different duties, as could also be required.

Qualifications:

Education: A bachelor’s diploma in worldwide relations, legislation, journalism, communications, public relations, social sciences or research of a associated self-discipline, or equal working expertise, is required.

Experience: A minimal of 1 yr of expertise conducting analysis, ideally for an NGO, commerce union, media outlet, or comparable establishment, is required. Experience in advocacy work and group outreach and organizing is most popular.

Related Skills and Knowledge:

1. Experience working with reproductive well being, rights, or justice actions and a demonstrated dedication to ladies’s rights and racial justice is required.

2. Ability to multi-task successfully, together with having good planning and organizing abilities, self-motivated, and skill to work with steering however frequently independently is required.

3. Strong interpersonal abilities to work collaboratively inside HRW in addition to with exterior companions and the media is required.

4. Excellent oral and written communication abilities in English is required, and proficiency in Spanish is most popular.

5. Good communication abilities, particularly the way to talk sophisticated info in a concise and clear method is required.

6. Strong initiative and follow-through, the capability to suppose creatively and strategically, glorious writing and modifying abilities is required.

Other: Applicants should possess legitimate US work authorization. Human Rights Watch shouldn’t be in a position to sponsor work authorization for this function.

Salary and Benefits: This place is predicated within the United States and the wage vary can be USD 60,000- 70,000. Salary ranges outdoors of the United States range primarily based on location. Human Rights Watch provides complete employer-paid advantages, together with medical, dental, imaginative and prescient, incapacity and life insurance coverage, a retirement financial savings plan and twenty (20) days of trip per yr.

How to Apply: Please apply instantly or by March 31, 2023, by visiting our on-line job portal at careers.hrw.org and attaching a letter of curiosity and resume or CV. No calls or electronic mail inquiries, please. Only full purposes will likely be reviewed and solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted.

If you’re experiencing technical difficulties together with your utility submission, or in the event you require a disability-related lodging, please electronic mail recruitment@hrw.org. Due to the big response, utility submissions through electronic mail is not going to be accepted and inquiries relating to the standing of purposes will go unanswered.

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