• Are you a passionate and motivated Human Rights Defender?
• Do you have great organisational skills and experience managing volunteers?
• Opportunity to make the role your own and be a valued member of the team

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Movement and Supporter Engagement teams! At Amnesty, our Volunteers play a central and vital part in our work to protect and defend human rights. Our Volunteers work with staff, activists and the public to deliver projects and support ongoing work. Reporting to the Movement Manager, you will be supporting the running of effective volunteer programs as well as working with two fantastic senior leaders. This is a diverse role and no two days will look the same.

This is a real opportunity to make the role your own and offer valued support to a large team. You will put your solid volunteer managing experience and superior administrative skills to use by ensuring the consistency and effectiveness of the volunteer program, ensuring the team has appropriate volunteer support and completing all administrative tasks in a timely and effective manner.

You will be responsible for:

• Collaborating and liaising with the Movement Manager, other volunteer-focused roles, volunteers and staff to support an integrated, effective and positive volunteering program at AIA
• Assessing the capability of staff and coordinating training or other support to ensure staff meet volunteer management expectations
• Developing training materials on volunteer and staff responsibilities relating to the Volunteer Code of Practice
• Ensuring that volunteering resources are centralised
• Driving continuous improvements in volunteer recruitment, induction and management including setting and evaluating indicators for success
• Ensuring Supporter Engagement and Movement teams have effective volunteer programs
• Scheduling team meetings, note-taking and agenda management/facilitation where required
• Administration, scheduling and travel support for Directors and teams as required

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Experience in team administration, eg. meeting scheduling, note-taking, processing invoices and expenses
• Well developed organisational and logistics management skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and face to face)
• Experience in managing and coordinating office-based volunteers
• Passion for human rights and an interest in human rights issues
• An understanding of working in a not for profit including; mass mobilisation, activism and organising techniques

This role is ideal for someone wanting to build on their volunteer coordination experience and build their career in the human rights space, with a desire to contribute to the movement. This is a part-time role working 60 hours per fortnight.

In return, you will be rewarded with generous and flexible working conditions, a fantastic environment working alongside committed and dedicated individuals and an opportunity to directly contribute to the long term sustainability of our organisation. To view some of the fantastic benefits that you will be offered as an employee, please visit our website.

If this role sounds like you please apply below, you will be required to answer a few short selection criteria and attach your cover letter and CV.

To learn more about this role, please view a detailed position description below.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at Amnesty

We are committed to equal opportunities in all areas of our work, community and partner relationships. We want people to achieve their full potential, which will positively impact on our work and the communities in which we operate. At AI Australia, our values empower people to be themselves within an inclusive and supportive environment. We are a movement of people from all walks of life around the world. We intend to actively contribute to building a more diverse and inclusive team.

About Us:

Amnesty International Australia is one of Australia’s largest not for profit organisations. We are an independent, global movement that campaigns courageously for human rights for everyone.

We’re ordinary people from all walks of life, standing together for justice, freedom, human dignity and equality. We use our passion and commitment to bring torturers to justice, change oppressive laws and free people imprisoned just for voicing their opinion.

We’re independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion to ensure we can speak out on human rights abuses wherever they occur.

Every day we move closer to a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.

We stand for equality, justice, freedom, and human dignity and uphold these values:

• Empowerment - we build people power
• Persistence - we are resolute in pursuit of our goals
• Integrity - we hold ourselves to the highest standards
• Courage - we are fearless in upholding human rights