Kenneth Roth Practitioner-In-Residence Program 2025-2026 (up to $88,000) – YOA

Deadline: December 11, 2025

Applications are open for the Kenneth Roth Practitioner-In-Residence Program 2025. With a longtime analysis, advocacy, and communications platform to draw from, they’re launching a mid-profession OPPORTUNITY open to human rights practitioners from around the globe. The intention is to help an rising chief within the human rights motion and work collectively to advance formidable human rights change.

The Practitioner-in-Residence can have the choice to be positioned in both the Program (analysis and investigations) or Advocacy departments. The Practitioner-in-Residence will work carefully on a venture round a precedence space of labor relying on the expertise that the practitioner brings. The residency is meant to be a full-time association for one 12 months, beginning mid-February 2026. The Chief Programs Officer will oversee the Practitioner-in-Residence with further administration depending on the position of the profitable candidate.

Responsibilities

• Research, monitor and doc human rights abuses by amassing and analyzing info from all kinds of sources together with governments, native media, NGOs, journalists, diplomats, safety forces and others within the area;
• Assist within the improvement and implementation of native, regional, and worldwide methods to change abusive legal guidelines, insurance policies, and practices;
• Write and publicize stories, briefing papers, letters, information releases, op-eds, and submissions to worldwide our bodies primarily based on the findings;
• Collect and analyze supporting paperwork and supplies equivalent to pictures, movies, police stories, medical stories, authorized/court docket paperwork, amongst others;
• Collaborate with HRW´s media crew within the manufacturing of audiovisual merchandise;
• Respond promptly to queries from the media, public, and colleagues within the human rights neighborhood and take initiative to venture considerations in public debate;
• Place abuses inside the broader political, social and financial contexts and current human rights considerations to authorities officers, opinion leaders, companion organizations, inter-governmental companies, donors and the media;
• Present human rights considerations to authorities officers, opinion leaders, inter-governmental companies, and the media;
• Work carefully with colleagues, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and different companions to be sure that the agreed-upon venture/strategy to human rights change enhances and enhances their very own work;
• Liaise successfully with HRW employees positioned in a number of places all through the world to guarantee efficient coordination and supply of actions;
• Travel domestically and abroad, as required, to conduct and lead truth-discovering missions or advocacy initiatives;
• Deliver outputs in a well timed method and keep consistency with the agreed technique and priorities; and
• Perform different duties as required.

Benefits

• HRW seeks distinctive candidates and gives complete compensation and advantages. If primarily based within the United States, the wage vary for this place shall be $80,000 – $88,000 USD. Salary ranges outdoors of the United States range primarily based on location.

Eligibility

• Applicant ought to have a stage of training that when mixed along with your skilled expertise as an rising or established human rights chief will adequately present you will have the aptitude, on this function, to work with HRW and contribute meaningfully to the human rights change recognized.
• A minimal of 5 years of human rights analysis or advocacy expertise and a monitor file of delivering human rights affect are required. The profitable candidate ought to ideally be a acknowledged or rising knowledgeable of their nation or thematic space who’s consulted by policymakers, journalists, teachers, activists, and others.
• Citizens of all nationalities are inspired to apply.

Related Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to establish and advise on methods to conduct analysis or advocacy is required.
• Ability and sensitivity to successfully talk with a variety of individuals, together with victims and witnesses is required.
• Ability to establish, analysis, analyze and successfully talk essential human rights developments within the space of specialty is required.
• Ability to effectively distil details about the nation or thematic situation in order to focus effort and time on problems with biggest significance or points which might be most able to being influenced is required.
• Knowledge of and expertise working in worldwide human rights and familiarity with worldwide human rights legislation is required.
• Proficiency in one other language as well as to English is strongly desired, as is familiarity with international locations or areas the place critical human rights violations happen.
• Self-motivation, capability to multi-job successfully, together with having good planning and organizing expertise and talent to work beneath strain are required.
• Strong initiative and observe-via, the capability to suppose creatively and strategically, wonderful writing and modifying expertise, and a dynamic public talking capability is fascinating.
• Strong interpersonal expertise to work collaboratively inside and outdoors of HRW are required.
• Demonstrated consciousness of and sensitivity to the wants and considerations of people from various cultures, backgrounds, and orientations are required.
• Ability to make sound choices in line with features is required.
• Demonstrated capability to suppose strategically concerning the world and native media environments and the way to use the media and digital media to additional advocacy targets is required.
• Ability to multi-job successfully required, together with having good planning and organizing expertise and talent to work beneath strain is fascinating.
• Excellent oral and written communication expertise in English are required.

Application

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For extra info, go to Kenneth Roth Practitioner-In-Residence.