CIVICUS Job Opportunity: Civic Space Research Officer

About CIVICUS

CIVICUS exists to defend folks energy. As a rising international alliance of over 15,000 members in 188 nations, we work collectively to watch violations of fundamental civic freedoms, name out the perpetrators of violations and strengthen the ability of individuals to arrange by supporting a extra accountable, efficient and progressive civil society. We try to advertise excluded voices, particularly from the Global South

About the Role

The Civic Space Researcher position is accountable for contributing to CIVICUS’ civic area analysis priorities together with the functioning of the CIVICUS Monitor, a number one international participatory analysis platform, targeted on Central, West and Lusophone Africa.

Responsibilities embody:

• Developing curated analysis and every day high-quality content material for the CIVICUS Monitor
• Supporting the strengthening of the Monitor’s international analysis collaborations
• Advance CIVICUS’ civic area analysis agenda by means of the publication of top of the range periodic analysis papers, in-depth evaluation of world traits and common and continued monitoring of civic area circumstances together with violations, abuses and optimistic developments.

Job Details:

• Contract Type: Permanent topic to profitable completion of probation and funding
• Salary: 36,061 USD (excluding advantages)
• Location: Remote based mostly, with a desire for CIVICUS headquarters, Johannesburg, South Africa

Key Requirements                                                                                                

• A Master’s diploma ideally in following domains: Political science, Law, Sociology, International relations, Journalism and Development;
• A minimal of three years skilled expertise working immediately with civil society organizations and/or human rights defenders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities in English.
• Competence with a variety of languages – these might be both UN or non-UN languages – is taken into account a robust asset, competence in French is required and necessary, extra competence in Portuguese fascinating.
• Good understanding of world civil society, human rights and improvement points and civic area traits, significantly in West, Central and Lusophone Africa.
• An understanding of worldwide human rights frameworks associated to basic freedoms of affiliation, peaceable meeting and expression.
• Basic laptop literacy, with any web-based publication expertise a bonus.
• Previous expertise of drafting paperwork for publication, preferable in English
• Strong interpersonal abilities and talent to work as part of a various crew.
• Well-organized, with the flexibility to work independently.
• Ability to research complicated units of knowledge and reveal traits.
• A dedication to enhancing respect for human rights.

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How to Apply

The closing deadline for functions is on the 09 February 2025 at 11:59pm SAST.

Interested candidates ought to fill out this kind Here

Your application ought to comprise of

• A full CV, together with academic {and professional} {qualifications}, a full employment historical past displaying the extra important positions, tasks held, and related achievements
• A protecting notice of no more than 1 web page outlining your motivation for making use of for the position.

Short listed candidates shall be contacted 2 weeks after the time limit to schedule interviews.

See call for applications

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