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About the Role

This role offers the opportunity to gain initial work experience in an internationally active human rights organization. The focus will be on supporting the event management department, with opportunities to contribute to internal and cross-team projects and learn about political discussions on human rights issues.

Responsibilities

• Support subject matter experts in preparing, conducting, and following up on internal events for approximately 50 to 500 people, including the annual general meeting and member conferences.
• Assist in the further development of virtual and hybrid conference formats.
• Provide support for member and guest management during (virtual) events.
• Create information and instructions for the membership.
• Maintain supporter data and process inquiries.
• Handle internal and external correspondence and general office organization and administrative tasks.
• Participate in documenting work processes.
• Support the internal communications department.

Requirements

• Political interest in human rights issues and working in a large member organization.
• Knowledge of the MS Office suite and willingness to learn internal systems (e.g., Confluence).
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with an enjoyment of discovering background structures and contexts.
• Conscientious, independent, and structured work style, with a willingness to commit, learn, and take initiative.
• Ability to work well in a team, enjoy interacting with people, and possess a high level of service orientation.
• Good English language skills and very good German language skills, both written and spoken.
• Helpfulness, absolute reliability, and trustworthy handling of sensitive information and data.

Skills

• MS Office Suite
• Confluence
• Organization
• Communication
• English
• German

Location

• Berlin

Work Type

• Full-time
• 38 hours/week
• 12 months duration

Experience Level

• Entry-level

Salary/Compensations

• €530/month pocket money

Benefits

• Direct insight and participation in the work of a significant human rights organization.
• Freedom for initiative and the chance to take on initial responsibilities after thorough training.
• Further training opportunities and exciting seminars with other volunteers.
• 30 vacation days per year (for a 5-day week) plus days off on December 24th and December 31st.
• Additional benefits such as a subsidy for a public transport ticket and access to our benefit platform.
• Flexible and family-friendly working hours with flextime and home office options.
• A modernly equipped workplace in the heart of Berlin-Neukölln, easily accessible by public transport.

About the Company

• Diversity strengthens human rights – Together for justice!
• Justice, inclusion, and anti-discrimination are central to our self-understanding as an organization and shape our commitment to people and their struggles for justice.
• Amnesty International in Germany aims to become an organization that reflects the perspectives and life realities of our society – we continuously work towards a discrimination-critical organizational culture.
• We welcome applications from people regardless of their national or social origin, religion or belief, gender identity and sexual orientation, disability, or age.
• We particularly encourage applications from individuals with experiences of societal marginalization, including those with experiences of racism such as Black people, People of Color, Sinti, Roma, and/or applicants with a migration or refugee background, as well as trans* or intersex individuals, people from non-academic backgrounds, and people with disabilities.
• We are particularly committed to preferentially hiring severely disabled individuals with equal qualifications.
• In many countries, people who advocate for human rights are at risk.
• Governments and political groups repeatedly restrict human rights massively.
• Amnesty International is the world's largest movement advocating for human rights.
• Amnesty is independent of governments, parties, ideologies, economic interests, and religions.
• To ensure this independence, we finance our human rights work solely through donations and membership fees.
• Our campaigns and actions are based on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Amnesty International has more than ten million supporters worldwide and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.

Equal Opportunity

• We welcome applications from people regardless of their national or social origin, religion or belief, gender identity and sexual orientation, disability, or age.
• We particularly encourage applications from individuals with experiences of societal marginalization, including those with experiences of racism such as Black people, People of Color, Sinti, Roma, and/or applicants with a migration or refugee background, as well as trans* or intersex individuals, people from non-academic backgrounds, and people with disabilities.
• We are particularly committed to preferentially hiring severely disabled individuals with equal qualifications.