Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 10th Aug 2020
We are currently seeking an Executive Director with inclusive leadership skills to inspire, lead and manage performance to achieve Digital Rights Watch’s operational and strategic goals.
This is a unique opportunity to support the growth of a human rights non-profit, shaping its day-to-day operations, and collaborating with an active and engaged board.
You will be responsible for guiding our small but growing team to further the strategic plan of the organisation. You will represent the interests of Digital Rights Watch to government, corporate partners and the technology sector. You will lead our engagement with organisational partners both here in Australia and globally to further the collective impact of the digital rights movement.
You’ll be responsible for securing ongoing funding for Digital Rights Watch’s work from public donations, philanthropic sources and corporate partnerships. You will work with our Board, staff, and volunteers to develop policy positions and engage with partners to advocate for positive change.
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 and experience are less important to us than the right attitude and passion. If you’re interested in this role, please do apply.
Digital Rights Watch is a non-discriminatory employer. Women, gender-diverse people, queer people, people with a disability, people of colour, and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
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.
DRW exists to defend and promote this vision - to ensure fairness, freedoms and fundamental rights for all Australians in the digital world. We do this by building alliances across civil society, raising public awareness through the media, and participating in policy development within government and industry. We aim to create a world where there is a strong and diverse movement of advocates capable of holding government and industry to account for policy decisions.
Privacy and Personal Information
Apps and digital platforms track our behaviour in the digital world, and increasingly in the physical world, through internet connected cameras, facial recognition systems and other internet-enabled devices. We advocate for a world of data sovereignty, where people control how personal information about them is collected, used and stored.
Surveillance and Security
Often in partnership with the private sector, the government is making use of digital technology to manage and monitor its citizens. Surveillance is a serious problem for whistleblowers and journalists, but it’s also a problem for anyone who relies on government services. We need laws that prioritise digital security, rather than allow the surveillance state to weaken and break technology like encryption for its own interest, while we all as a society bear the consequences.
Connectivity and Power
Access to technologies and the digital products and services they offer are often determined by financial interests and market forces that fail to consider marginalised and vulnerable communities. Technology gives immense power and control to corporations and governments that can negatively impact our democracy and our fundamental rights. We aim to keep this power in check.
Artificial Intelligence and Automated Decision Making
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are automating processes that once involved human involvement and accountability. While there will be significant benefits, the potential lack of accountability, bias and discrimination, and the difficulty with reviewing automated decisions can create a host of challenges. We work for accountable, transparent and fair automated decision making.