CALL FOR LEADERS: PAKISTAN COUNTRY SPECIALIST

Amnesty International USA seeks a volunteer Country Specialist to help monitor the human rights situation in Pakistan and support in mobilizing action to promote and protect human rights in that country.

AIUSA’s Country Specialists serve as country experts and strategists and are part of a corps of volunteer leaders known as the Coordination Group program, which is organized by sub world region.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Monitoring - Routinely monitor the political and human rights situation in Pakistan, with a solid understanding of AI’s policy and specific concerns pertaining to Pakistan.
• Strategy Building - Develop and implement action strategies for Pakistan in coordination with Amnesty International’s researchers and campaigners around the world and the AIUSA Advocacy Director of Eurasia.
• General Assistance to AIUSA Members - Provide general assistance, information, and actions to AIUSA members and activists seeking to work on issues related to human rights in Pakistan.
• Working With Other Human Rights Organizations - Assist the organization in developing and maintaining contacts with counterparts in other human rights organizations, solidarity groups and other stakeholders.
• Collaboration - Collaborate with AIUSA Advocacy Directors on any aspects of AIUSA’s legislative work pertaining to Pakistan i.e. communicating with US State Department desk officers, US embassies abroad, foreign embassies in Washington DC and consulates throughout the US.
• Liaison - Serve as AIUSA’s liaison to colleagues working on Pakistan at Amnesty’s International Secretariat.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must live in the United States.
• Minimum two-year commitment.
• Engaged and responsive.
• Able to commit a sufficient amount of time to accomplish the tasks outlined above.

You’re The Ideal Pakistan Country Specialist Candidate If You Have These Qualifications:

• Substantive knowledge of human rights issues and trends in Pakistan.
• Familiar with advocacy or research relating to the rights of civilians in conflict, women, peace & security, and/or minority rights.
• Experience with grassroots campaigning and/or Amnesty International.
• Familiarity with international human rights standards.
• Experience studying or supporting civil society, human rights, gender equality, LGBTI rights, or fundamental freedoms in Pakistan.
• Comfortable speaking out on human rights either on social media, in front of a public audience, by lobbying members of congress or through writing.
• Urdu or other regional languages.