SayPro Human Rights Associate Programme

Description

• Contribute to the planning, organization, and coordination of work to support human rights defenders and affected communities, investigate human rights violations, engage with people in power on solutions.
• Monitor human rights developments and serve as a credible, reliable source of human rights information, both internally and externally.
• Provide research assistance to the Human Rights Specialists and other relevant team members by identifying potential candidates for interviews and collecting evidence of violations.
• Assist with preparing, drafting, editing, formatting, translation, and distributing publications, such as press releases, op-eds, briefing papers, open letters, reports, multi-media productions, web content.
• Support strategic advocacy with government officials, elected representatives, members of the diplomatic community, representatives of U.N. and other international agencies, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and other key decision-makers, influencers, and stakeholders.
• Develop positive and supportive relationships with human rights defenders, organizations, and affected communities. In collaboration with Human Rights Specialists, identify key partners to work with on a sustained basis to strengthen local responses to human rights violations.
• In coordination with relevant team members, contribute to tailored trainings or participatory workshops, assist with research and documentation efforts, and implement other tasks to respond to the needs identified by partners.
• In coordination with the Operations Associate, provide logistical and administrative support for activities. This may include assisting with the coordination of research trips, delegation visits, workshops and trainings, and other activities.
• Facilitate the timely and accurate translation of written documents including interview transcripts, publications, research material, etc. Facilitate necessary interpretation to support activities.
• Work closely with development team to contribute to fundraising and monitoring and evaluation processes. Contribute to timely reporting through regular monitoring and reporting on project activities and support the development team in tracking and gathering data to evaluate the progress of projects.
• Work closely in collaboration with the team to ensure effectiveness, scale the organization’s impact, and ensure sustainability.