Fresh Jobs at Amnesty International

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and coordinate the planning, development and implementation of AI's strategy for the protection and promotion worldwide of economic, social and cultural rights, including migrant labour issues, and to ensure that AI takes an effective and coordinated approach on these issues.
• Manage the Economic and Social Juctice team, ensuring planning, coordination and distribution of work within the team, setting priorities, agreeing work plans, budgets and schedules; supporting research in progress and approving final outputs; monitoring adherence to operating standards, including the agreed guidelines on self-servicing; establishing systems to ensure feedback, mutual support and accountability; and identifying training and development needs.
• Act as the movement's principal law and policy adviser on economic, social and cultural rights, including migrant labour issues, underpinning the quality assurance process with respect to major outputs; developing AI's policies and research, advocacy, and membership strategies on these issues and monitoring adherence by IS programs and the movement in order to ensure consistent and coordinated implementation at the international level, including in the context of the relevant AI campaigns.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong track record of the provision of legal and policy advice with respect to economic, social and cultural rights
• Strong track record of interdisciplinary work – knowledge of economics/social sciences/development desirable
• Demonstrated significant experience of managing people and resources
• Experience of fundraising from foundations and trusts

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MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead research on unlawful targeted surveillance against civil society and research into the surveillance industry
• Track surveillance companies and technical infrastructure of spyware and phishing attacks against civil society
• Assist Human Rights Defenders with digital security and forensics analysis of their devices
• Capacity building for partner organisations to assist them to do research on targeted surveillance
• Collaborate with colleagues in the Security Lab and other parts of the Amnesty movement to ensure that research supports broader campaigning and advocacy activities
• Build relationships with other civil society organisations working on combating unlawful surveillance of human rights defenders

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in technical investigations to identify, map and track spyware or phishing campaigns, in threat intelligence, and in malware analysis, with emphasis on confidentiality and operational security
• Proven ability to investigate cyber-surveillance from state actors and the surveillance industry
• Significant experience doing mobile device forensics on Android, iOS, or both
• Knowledge of how sophisticated digital threats, including surveillance, impact civil society globally, and/or in a specific world region Existing record of publications on digital security or surveillance issues
• Development knowledge (preferably in python or go) will be a plus
• Familiarity with risk assessment methodologies and ability to conduct them during investigations and research projects