Amnesty International Thailand (AI Th) is the movement of ordinary people who take action to promote and protect human rights in Thailand and worldwide.  We have an exciting opportunity for a talented professional to build and lead a new fundraising programme and make a real contribution to the global human rights movement 

Overall purpose of job:

            To be responsible for the management an activist program of Amnesty International Thailand which supporting the campaign themes. Coordinating and provide training and support to activists. The activism coordinator reports to Head of campaign and coordinator and works closely with policy advocacy coordinator and media and communication coordinator, the activism AI International Team and other staff and volunteers.

Responsibilities

- Providing research work and support for Human Right Defender and People on the Move campaign such as gathering information, documents and rewriting information to public;

Organising public events;

- Editing, translating, interpreting, and formatting materials such as reports, briefing papers, multimedia, and web content;

- Monitoring news regards human rights and political situation;

- Mapping potential Amnesty Club that could happen in the near future;

- Combining information for human rights education for different levels to use in class;

- Attending meeting, seminars, conferences as requested;

- Providing administrative support such as taking minutes at meetings, preparing for events, and internal meeting, scheduling;

- Carrying out other duties as requested

Qualifications 

- An undergraduate student in the 3rd or 4th year of study or a bachelor degree in Human Rights, Political Science, International Relations, Journalism, or Media and Communication

- Bilingual proficiency in Thai is required. Full professional proficiency in English is highly desirable.

- Excellent writing skill in Thai and/or English is required.

- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills are highly desirable.

- Ability to work independently under minimal supervision and ability to work well as a team member are required.

- Ability to work well on multiple tasks under pressure is required.

- Commitment to Amnesty International’s mission and principles is required.

- Strong interest in human rights, social justice, and public policy is highly desirable.

- Availability to travel out of Bangkok and working outside office hours are required.

- Candidate with ability for producing media work such as photoshop is an extra qualification 

Contracts: 3 months or longer

Salary: Unpaid

Application Procedures:

An application letter with an updated CV  should be sent by 8 August 2016 to recruit@amnesty.or.th.