Programme Officer to Civil Rights Defenders in

il y a 2 semaines


Brussels, Belgique Civil Rights Defenders Temps plein

**We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you interested in leading advocacy and relations with EU institution? Are you passionate about human rights and want to be part of a global movement of human rights defenders? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.**

**About the role**:
As Programme Officer you will be responsible for leading advocacy and relations with EU institutions. Your responsibility will involve organizing and executing advocacy rounds focused on target countries or specific thematic issues (for human rights defenders and/or civil society actors).

The Programme Officer is based in Brussels and reports directly to the Head of Programme Unit Europe.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Drafting of briefings and program related documents
- Delivering of training on EU advocacy and lobbying for human rights defenders,
- Developing partnerships with different donors, representing CRD at all events and meetings in Brussels, including in Human Rights and Democracy Network
- Following and analysing human rights situation in Europe overall
- Analysing and reporting on EU policies related to human rights
- Regular communication with colleagues from the Europe team
- Communication and advocacy assistance to other regional departments (eg. Latin America, Eurasia, Asia, Africa)
- Administrative work related to Brussels office.

**About you**:
As a person you like to take initiative and generate activity and have the ability to lead, motivate, and empower others to reach common goals. You also see to the long-term significance and further consequences of things and act accordingly.

Furthermore, you like to engage in teamwork and contribute constructively, and through clear communication, you ensure that messages are reached and that expectations are clear to all parties involved. We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this position you have:

- A Bachelor's degree in Law, Political Science, International Relations or similar
- At least 3 years of relevant work experience within_ _advocacy work
- Fluency in English (orally and written, level C1)
- Solid skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word)

It is a merit, if you have:

- Experience in working in/on the Western Balkans and/or Turkey
- Fundraising experience (especially for the EU funded projects)
- Fluency in Spanish/French

**About the employment**:
**About us**:
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org.



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