HRE TEAM ASSISTANT MENA (3761)

JOB PURPOSE

Providing a comprehensive, collaborative support that ensures an efficient running of human rights education (HRE) projects in the MENA region and smooth communication within the HRE team. Ensuring the efficient operational support including but not limited to: diary management, travel and accommodation booking and expenses processing, servicing of regular meetings and workshops, financial processing, facilitating communication and collaboration with other teams and functions across MENA Regional Office and other global teams as needed, and assist in budget forecasting and management and specific tasks relevant to designing and delivering HRE plans and activities including supporting monitoring, evaluation and reporting and HRE promotion and communications over social media. 

ABOUT YOU

You will have experience in providing administrative support to a busy team, including event planning and diary management. You will have a good working knowledge of technology systems including Microsoft Outlook, Sharepoint, and Office packages, and a willingness to learn management of communications and information over other systems.  

You will have excellent communication skills, with fluency in both Arabic and English, and fluency in French is desirable. 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide administrative support to the Regional HRE team including managing files, records and other information retrieval and sharing systems including Microsoft sharepoint.  

Provide first point of contact and a professional welcome in particular for Amnesty Human Rights Academy users and alumni, online or offline communities ensuring clear communication and prompt response or routing queries to the appropriate destinations. 

Support the development of human rights education materials including drafting, formatting, editing/proof-reading, coordinating translation with relevant team, distribution and promotion of HRE, including through social media and supporter journeys emails.   

Facilitate the organisation of local and regional HRE meetings, online/remote or offline events, including processing invoices/expenses, identifying venues and making logistic and travel arrangements and keeping minutes and reporting. 

Assist with implementing the M&E system by ensuring collection and entry of Data and supporting the M&E scale up and reporting to ensure that programs and projects meet quality standard and realise desired impact 

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Passion and experience in accompanying participants/ learners (Customer relationship management) in their learning journey in Amnesty. 

Experience in organising workshops, conferences and trainings (venue, visas, correspondence with participants…). 

Ability to draft invitations, correspondence and other documents on behalf of line manager or team.  

Experience of setting up and maintaining hard and soft information storage, retrieval and communication systems. 

Ability to communicate clearly in Arabic and English, French desirable – verbally and in writing, face to face, by email and over the telephone. 

Please see the attached job description for more information on responsibilities, skills and experience required. 

ABOUT US

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. We reach almost every country in the world.

Our aim is simple: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they're denied. And whether we're applying pressure through powerful research or direct lobbying, mass demonstrations or online campaigning, we're all inspired by hope for a better world. One where human rights are respected and protected by everyone, everywhere.

At Amnesty International, we are passionate about what we do and we are proud of our achievements as a movement. To compensate our employees for the critical work they do, we reward them through a combination of an attractive and sector competitive salary and benefits package, high levels of engagement and involvement, and a commitment to employee development.

Benefits include 37 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays and grace days), pension scheme, employee assistance programme, life assurance and many more benefits designed to suit your own personal lifestyle. All of this, in a professional, engaging environment.

For further information on our benefits, please visit https://www.amnesty.org/en/careers/benefits/

WHAT WE HOPE YOU WILL DO NEXT

If you are talented, passionate about human rights and want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to change the world then we would encourage you to click ‘Apply for this Role' below.

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N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.

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