Program Director

Human Rights Watch ,
London, Greater London
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FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY Program Director Program Department New York, London, or Berlin Office Application Deadline: January 20, 2020 Organization Overview Human Rights Watch (HRW) advances human rights worldwide. We investigate wrongs, expose the facts, offer solutions, and challenge those with power to respect rights. We collaborate with people claiming their rights, learn from partners, and engage the public. Human Rights Watch upholds the freedoms and defends the protections that promote dignity, equality, and justice. Our 500 staff based in more than 50 countries conduct research into human rights abuses, publicize our findings, and advocate for change; we raise money to sustain our work, ensure our security, and manage a complex operations environment. That mission is as urgent as it has ever been, and it faces complex new challenges. We must contend with the failures of governments to meet their obligations on water, land, education, and food. We must respond to conflict and crisis on an extraordinary scale, and we must confront the persistence of repression around the world. Climate change, the resurgence of authoritarian populism, rapidly advancing technologies, and the effects of deep inequality all compound these threats to rights. Innovation, efficiency, and diversity are critical to our success in meeting these challenges, and to delivering sustained impact. HRW's guiding principles include independence, accurate and fair fact-finding, an impact orientation, and engagement with partners. Our core internal values include transparency, diversity and inclusion, learning and trust, safety and resilience, and accountability. Position Overview Compelling fact-finding that influences policy is at the heart of Human Rights Watch's capacity for impact. We are looking for an accomplished human rights professional to serve as Program Director and lead our regional and thematic divisions carrying out integrated research, advocacy, communications, and partnerships work. The Program Director should be a strategic thinker, a strong manager, and an inspirational communicator and advocate in the field of international human rights. The Program Director should have proven dedication to the defense and advancement of human rights and deep knowledge of human rights issues and research methodologies. The Program Director must lead, motivate, and provide an overarching vision for more than 200 Program staff based around the world, many of whom work in challenging environments. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to foster the safety and resilience of staff, to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and to ensure the highest research standards in a culture of learning, trust, teamwork and collaboration. The Program Director must ensure that the proven strength of our approach in addressing all dimensions of human rights is complemented by new tools, and by research that responds to the challenges of populism, new technologies, climate change, migration, and inequality. The Program Director must accomplish these responsibilities in the context of closing space for civil society, while advancing the internationalization of our work, ensuring our credibility, and fostering authentic partnerships with others in the human rights movement. The Program Director sits on the Executive Management Team, the organization's most senior leadership body, and reports to the Deputy Executive Director. The successful candidate, in coordination with other members of the Executive Management Team, will provide the dynamic vision, strategy and leadership of HRW's programmatic work for maximum impact in defending human rights and dignity worldwide. The Program Department is the largest department at HRW and is primarily responsible for the organization's research and reporting worldwide. The department consists of more than 200 staff in 6 regional programs and 10 thematic programs. The Program Director, with four deputies in the central Program Office, is responsible for ensuring the quality and integrity of HRW's entire research output and the cross-institutional collaboration required to advance human rights across the globe. Responsibilities 1. Provide the overall vision and strategy for the Program Department and ensure coherence across a diverse set of regional and thematic divisions with staff spread across many time zones; 2. Lead the Program Office's core strategic role to integrate research, advocacy, communications, and partnerships work, and to further develop and roll out our monitoring and evaluation strategy; 3. Oversee the formulation and implementation of the annual plans of the research divisions, ensuring that plans include clear goals and benchmarks, and that they align with the broader strategic plan and priorities of the organization; 4. Develop and propose organizational programmatic priorities that meet the challenges and opportunities of the human rights movement and ensure successful implementatio

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