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Campaign Coordinator – Slums Amnesty International

Campaign Coordinator (x2) Slums

One permanent and one fixed term contract of 18 months in duration
£41,124 per annum
London
Focusing on some of the key areas that keep people poor, Amnesty International’s flagship Demand Dignity campaign will help us achieve our overall goal: an end to human rights violations. We’re currently looking for two Campaign Coordinators to make the contributions crucial to our success on the Slums and Informal settlements theme.
About the role
As Campaign Coordinator you will be working in a team in the creation and delivery of key projects and integrating campaigning with communication and activism. You’lldesign, develop and implement high profile, international campaign strategies that are central to our success. , It’s all about working together to raise awareness of slums and housing rights issues. So you’ll not only lead, manage and coordinate the campaign actions, you’ll also support, liaise and provide expert advice to other programmes within the International Secretariat, the AI movement and outside networks – bolstering support, ensuring maximum impact of the campaign and helping to reach our global objectives.
About you
An enthusiastic campaigner with substantial experience of developing campaigns at national and international level with innovation and impact.you’ll be thoroughly familiar with the issues that surround this work. Your proven knowledge of leading and implementing campaigns at the national and international level will help you to deliver to the needs of the campaign and while you will use your innovative and creative campaigning and communication techniques to inspire existing activists and appeal to new audiences across the globe, especially in the global south and east. You will also need to have sensitivity to different cultures. But just as important are your excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships both throughout Amnesty and externally.
About us
Our aim is simple: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, freedom and truth wherever they’re denied. Already our network of over three million members and supporters is making a difference in 150 countries. And whether we’re applying pressure through powerful research or direct lobbying, mass demonstrations, human rights education, or online campaigning, we’re all inspired by hope for a better world. One where human rights are respected and protected by everyone, everywhere.
For more information and to apply, please visit www.amnesty.org/jobs
Closing date: 7th June 2012.
CVs will not be accepted.