Description: Associates provide critical administrative and clerical assistance including, but not limited to:
- maintaining extensive files, contact lists and databases.
- maintaining communication among HRW's domestic and international offices and providing substantive, logistical and administrative assistance to local staff and staff in other field and main offices.
- retrieving and responding to requests for information, gift processing and event planning.
- 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, fundraising, hiring and training.
- drafting and editing correspondence and other documents.
- assisting with travel arrangements and follow-up.
- recruiting and coordinating interns.
- recording departmental finances including completing expense forms.
- word processing; photocopying; filing; faxing; answering phones; processing incoming mail.
- other tasking as may be assigned.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate must be self motivated, extremely well-organized, collegial and able to function under pressure and handle numerous tasks simultaneously. S/he 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, as well as a degree in Social Sciences or International Relations and/or relevant regional or thematic study or experience, are highly desirable. The candidate must have solid office/administration experience, demonstrated organizational skills and excellent computer skills. The candidate must have excellent written and spoken skills in English and at least one Middle Eastern language (Arabic, Persian or Hebrew). Fluency in French is a plus. Applicants for this position must possess current US work authorization valid for a minimum of two years from start date.
Salary and Benefits: Salary range starts at $34,436. 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 by emailing in a single submission: a letter of interest describing your experience, your resume, names or letters of reference and a brief writing sample (unedited by others) to ashrafa@hrw.org. Please use “MENA NY Associate” 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 (MENA NY 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 MENA division of Human Rights Watch monitors human rights developments from Morocco to Iran.