For over 50 years, Amnesty International has been working in Africa, through our African and global membership, campaigning for protection of human rights and speaking truth to power wherever justice, freedom and truth are denied. We've reshaped policies, challenged governments and taken corporations to task, changing lives around the world.
About the role - Advocacy Coordinator
Based in our East Africa regional office in Nairobi, you’ll play a crucial role in the development, coordination and implementation of AI’s regional advocacy and lobbying activities throughout Africa to ensure that AI’s human rights research, advocacy positions, global campaigns and recommendations are effectively promoted to influence key regional bodies and decision makers in the region.
You’ll monitor and analyse developments and advocacy opportunities within the African Intergovernmental bodies (mainly the African Union and the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, but also the Pan-African Parliament and NEPAD Agency) and through your engagement with these and other vital Inter Governmental Organisations, individuals and groups in Africa you will play a key role in catalysing our response to various on-going human rights violations in Africa, including those being committed in conflict and crisis situations across the continent.
About you
You will already have extensive experience of advocacy and engagement with the key African IGOs, and ideally will currently be in a comparable role but looking for new challenges of a different organization’s agenda in the region. You will be highly motivated by the Amnesty International regional advocacy agenda and will bring to the organization an energetic and creative approach along with your keen and politically astute analysis on current and future opportunities for advocacy based on your experience to date and your well developed understanding of international relations, international human rights law and international humanitarian law.
Of course as part of your experience you will be an expert in producing analysis, policy briefs, position papers, and research for advocacy purposes, including field research on human rights issues. With relationship building skills as a key strength you will be able to form effective working relationships internally with colleagues across the continent and in other offices around the globe; driven to support the regional advocacy goals you will be able to work autonomously and within a matrixed team. An influential communicator you will be fluent in English and ideally will also have fluency in French and other key regional languages.