This is a unique opportunity to support the growth of a human rights non-profit, shaping its day-to-day operations and working with an active and engaged board to develop its strategic direction.

Key Responsibilities

As the Campaigner/Project Officer, you’ll coordinate various components of Digital Rights Watch’s ongoing campaign and project work - designing and implementing campaign plans, building and supporting a powerful coalition of partners and allies, and overseeing our social, email, web, mobile and data programs. Dependent on your skill set, this could include:

Campaign execution

• Implement our flagship campaigns, including a ban on facial recognition, winding back the Assistance and Access Act and developing a data ethics platform for organisations and corporations
• Coordinate the creation of campaign and project resources for public engagement purposes - developing online actions, guides, blogs and other resources

Communications and outreach

• Manage our database of supporters and members of the public, growing and engaging them further in digital rights advocacy
• Create engaging emails and content for our social media, web and mobile platforms
• Develop compelling, highly shareable creative content (e.g. videos, graphics, etc.) that moves people to action and tells the story of our campaign
• Coordinate the release of public and media statements and seek increased coverage of key digital rights issues

Organising and relationship management

• Oversee and be responsible for the partnerships we hold with other key human rights groups, legal firms and academic institutions
• Implement our partnership strategy for coalition members that advances our sector’s campaigning and growth priorities

Team management

• Coordinate our network of volunteers - set high-level priorities, coach, and hold accountable to targets
• Work with our volunteer board members to manage their time and make use of their expertise and experience

Personal attributes

• You’ve got direct prior experience in the fields of technology, privacy, human rights or political campaigning
• You’ve got a diverse range of skills, in organising, strategy, communications, media or policy development
• You’re an innovative and autonomous worker who can think outside the box
• You’re a team player who works well with a wider volunteer support team

Digital Rights is an emerging field of human rights work around the world. Whilst experience with this work is preferable, campaign skills and experience from other fields are also applicable. Formal qualifications are less important to us than the right attitude, passion and drive. So if you’re interested in this role, apply.

Salary and contract

This is a part time (0.6FTE) fixed term 3 month contract (with possibility of extension to 12 months).

The salary being offered is $72,000 per annum (pro-rata 0.6FTE) including 9.5% superannuation.

About Digital Rights Watch

Founded in 2016, Digital Rights Watch is a national charity whose mission is to ensure that Australians are equipped, empowered and enabled to uphold their digital rights. We believe that digital rights are human rights which see their expression online.

Our vision is for a digital world where all humanity can thrive, and where diversity and creativity flourishes.

To ensure this, our digital world must be underpinned by equality, freedom and established human rights principles. Its evolution and future must be guided and driven by the interests of all people and the environments we live in.

Digital Rights Watch exists to defend and promote this vision – to ensure fairness, freedoms and fundamental rights for all people who engage in the digital world.