About the Role
We are looking for you to help shape the human rights education of the largest human rights movement. You will network state, private, and civil society actors to improve human rights education, gain new cooperation partners, and expand existing ones.
Responsibilities
- Independently conceptualize, develop, and implement innovative human rights education measures and training offers within the framework of our campaign and educational work for various target groups.
- Contribute expertise on societal conflict situations, civil society engagement, protest movements, and the handling of societal dissent by state and other actors to the further development of our educational work.
- Support the systematization and further development of human rights education formats for existing and new target groups and multipliers.
- Plan, coordinate, and realize educational projects together with civil society organizations, educational providers, institutions, and other cooperation partners.
- Build and expand strategic cooperations and networks to attract new target groups for human rights education.
- Further develop our digital education and learning offers as well as our digital learning platform in terms of content and concept.
Requirements
- A degree in educational sciences, pedagogy, or a comparable field, or comparable practical experience in the education and training sector.
- Experience in the conception and implementation of educational, training, or campaign formats, ideally on the topics of civil society scope for action, social participation, democratic resilience, or related human rights issues.
- Ability to translate complex social and political developments into innovative educational and participation concepts.
- Good knowledge of human rights education in theory and practice, and interest in innovative learning settings.
- Initial experience in designing participatory, diversity-sensitive educational formats.
- Competencies in project management as well as networking and development of strategic cooperations, ideally also in fundraising.
- Experience with digital education tools.
- Goal-oriented, strategic, and conceptual work style.
- Strong solution orientation, creativity, and a high degree of personal responsibility and initiative.
- Tactfulness in coordination with various actors, enthusiasm, and joy in working with volunteers.
- Team player with strong communication skills and a confident demeanor.
- Interest in current political events and core Amnesty concerns.
- Familiarity with the structure and working methods of Amnesty in Germany is a plus.
- Expressive and fluent in German and English.
- Proficient in MS Office.
Skills
- Human rights education
- Training
- Campaigning
- Networking
- Project management
- Digital education tools
- Fundraising
- MS Office
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Part-time
- Temporary
- Mobile work
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Degree in educational sciences, pedagogy, or comparable field, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- Remuneration according to internal pay scale
Benefits
- 13th month's salary
- 30 vacation days per year
- Additional days off on December 24th and 31st
- Company pension plan
- Capital-forming benefits
- Subsidy for Deutschlandticket
- Access to benefit platform
- Monthly benefit budget
- Flexible working hours
- Flexible and family-friendly working hours
- Modern office in Berlin-Neukölln
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 on 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 welcome applications from people with marginalized social experiences, including people 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 persons in case of equal suitability.
- In many countries, people who advocate for their 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 welcome applications from people with marginalized social experiences, including people 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 persons in case of equal suitability.
