Date/Time
Date(s) - 24/09/2017
All Day
Location
Columbia Law School, New York
Categories
The Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute advances international human rights through education, advocacy, fact-finding, research, scholarship, and critical reflection. We work in partnership with advocates, communities, and organizations pushing for social change to develop and strengthen the human rights legal framework and mechanisms, promote justice and accountability for human rights violations, and build and amplify collective power.
Founded in 1998 by the late Professor Louis Henkin as the anchor for human rights within Columbia Law School, the Human Rights Institute promotes engagement and knowledge of human rights within the law school, throughout the University, and around world. Across the many substantive areas of its work, the Institute builds bridges between scholarship and activism, develops capacity within the legal community, engages governments, and models new strategies for progress.
The Human Rights Institute (HRI) Columbia Law School Managing Director will be responsible for managing and leading the programming, operations, administration, and fundraising of the Human Rights Institute. This position reports to HRI’s Faculty Co-Directors.
Responsibilities
- Working with HRI’s faculty directors and project directors to provide overall strategic direction to the Institute.
- Initiating and implementing human rights programming at Columbia Law School in collaboration with HRI’s Faculty Directors, and other staff. HRI’s programming includes a robust speaker series, panels, conferences, symposia, workshops, trainings, and meetings with civil society groups, government officials, academics, and others. The Managing Director initiates and develops ideas for programming, conducts outreach to speakers, manages event budgets, and organizes and implements all event logistics and publicity.
- Overseeing HRI’s external and internal communications, including through drafting press releases, alerts, newsletters, and informational brochures; and regularly managing and updating HRI’s website and social media; alumni relations; maintaining HRI’s listserves; responding to inquiries.
- Facilitating, coordinating, and organizing HRI’s team meetings, advisory committees, student fellow and practitioner-in-residence programs, and symposia.
- Serving as the primary liaison to human rights and public interest student groups and university offices and centers at the University and working with student groups on student-led human rights programming.
- Maintaining the Institute’s finances, including researching funding opportunities; preparation of grant proposals and budgets and financial reports; tracking expenditures and meeting appropriate deadlines; preparation of the annual budget for the Institute; processing invoices; reconciling expenses; overseeing Institute spending; and serving as the primary liaison to Columbia Law School’s Business Office.
- Overseeing the coordination and administration of theoperational aspects of HRI’s projects, including by supervising administrative support, and providing someadministrative support and logistical assistance to HRI faculty and project directors, including through drafting and editing correspondence, and managing report dissemination, travel arrangements, meeting scheduling, and expense reports.
Qualifications
Core minimum requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent related experience.
- A minimum of five years of related work experience.
- Demonstrated commitment to and participation in human rights, public interest, or social justice issues and activities.
Additional desirable requirements:
- Ability to effectively oversee and manage a growing organization engaged on a wide range of international and domestic social justice issues.
- Ability to develop and implement a strategic vision in a human rights and social justice context.
- Experience fundraising and administering grants with external donors.
- A deep commitment to advancing human rights through research and education, and strong interest and ability in pursuing innovative human rights programming.
- Substantive knowledge across multiple human rights issues.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and creatively and work quickly and well under pressure.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, administrative, and organizational skills.
- Experience with managing, editing, and maintaining a website.
- Experience at facilitating and coordinating meetings, networks, and committees.
- Capacity to effectively use social and other media.
- Experience with budgeting and basic accounting.
- Ability to effectively represent the Institute to internal and external constituents.
- Ability to function independently and to exercise discretion and judgment in sensitive matters.
- Excellent computer/technology skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat Professional, Google documents etc.
- Ability to identify and respond to the needs of the organization, initiate work and follow-through with minimal supervision, work under pressure, be part of a collegial team, adapt to changing priorities, and balance competing assignments, and a deep personal commitment and ability to work in mutually empowering partnerships.
- Personal creativity and initiative.
All applicants must apply online through the Columbia University job portal at:
https://jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=164405
No deadline, open until filled
Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer –Race/Gender/Disability/Veteran.
