- Location: New York, NY
- Salary Range: 40,000
- Sector: Non Profit
- Organization URL: http://www.crisisaction.org
- Experience: Entry Level / Mid Career
- Last Date To Apply Jan-13-2012
- Date Posted Dec-15-2011
Description
Salary: $40,000
Benefits:25 days of vacation; health insurance paid in full.
Starting date:March 5, 2011
Responsible to:New York Director
Location:New York (applicant will be expected to have relevant permissions to work in the US)
Deadline for application:January 13, 2012.
Interviews:January 20-27, 2012.
1. Support of coalition campaign activities – The main area of your work will be working with the New York Director and the Head of Advocacy and our partner organizations to support campaigns that mobilize the resources and influence of civil society to the greatest possible effect. This process will involve supporting diverse advocacy activities. These could include supporting: meetings with key UN officials; media work, including drafting media materials; campaign stunts; and preparation of reports. As such, you will liaise with leading international NGOs, the media, UN officials and diplomats. Working with colleagues in our other offices, you will support our international campaigns and will be asked to assist with devising and implementing our core work.
2. UN Political Analysis - Focusing on actual or potential conflicts of most concern to our partners, you will ensure that Crisis Action supplements their understanding by supporting our analysis of the policy positions of key government missions, members of the UN Security Council and UN Secretariat officials. You will monitor UN briefings, Security Council meetings and the UN press corps. You will help feed this intelligence into our global campaign groups, strategies and analysis.
3. Administrative Support to New York Office – Within the New York office, you will play a key role in making sure the office runs smoothly and will provide administrative support such as setting up conference calls, maintaining contact list and databases, ordering stationery, assisting with financial record keeping, ensuring the upkeep of insurance and other office policies. You will also provide IT support such as setting up new email accounts on Outlook, installing software on new computers, etc. You will assist in intern recruitment processes and other HR matters where required and provide guidance to interns as needed.
Current conflict priorities for Crisis Action in New York include Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (and emergencies as they arise, such as Syria at the moment). You will have the opportunity to learn about global conflicts and interact with high-level policy makers.
Qualifications
Personal Skills
The following are essential:
- A degree in politics, international relations or a similar field and/or related experience.
- Excellent writing skills, including ability to draft advocacy and media materials to a high standard.
- Knowledge and understanding of international human rights issues and armed conflict situations.
- Experience and understanding of advocacy and media work.
- Knowledge of the UN Security Council and how to influence UN policies and processes.
- Excellent political judgment and instincts, especially with regard to international relations.
- First-class interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to interact professionally with high-level policymakers and the media.
- High levels of organization, efficiency and professionalism.
- Initiative to spot what needs to be done, as well as to respond to specific direction.
- Excellent administrative and computer/technology skills and Microsoft Office proficiency.
- High levels of energy, enthusiasm and ambition.
- Ability to cope with multiple internal and external demands.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Ability to prioritize with minimal supervision and to work independently.
- Ability to work as a collegiate member of a small team, and to assist in building the capacity of office interns.
- Understanding of the challenges involved in organizing NGO coalition campaigns.
- Additional languages, such as Arabic, Russian, Chinese, French.
- Experience in using social media in campaigning.
Disabilities: We are committed to making every reasonable adjustment to the workplace or working arrangements so as to accommodate people with disabilities.
Contact Details
- Contact: Crisis Action
- Email: newyork1@crisisaction.org
Application Instructions
Send a resume and cover letter to newyork1@crisisaction.org
