Deputy Program Director

 Full-Time Position Available:

 DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Program Office

Application Deadline: June 30, 2010

Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly-qualified applicants for the position of Deputy Director with the Program Office.

Description:  Human Rights Watch seeks a Deputy Program Director (DPD) to function in a senior management role and assist in providing strategic direction for the organization’s human rights investigations, reporting and advocacy.  HRW’s Program Office supervises the directors of all the organization’s regional and thematic divisions and programs and, through them, a staff of approximately 150.  It aims to maintain the organization’s high standards and to ensure that the organization’s research, reporting and advocacy are timely, accurate, and designed to achieve maximum impact.  The Program Office is primarily responsible for prioritizing and managing the organization’s research, reporting and advocacy agendas, ensuring the quality of its publications (by conducting the final editing of all reports), integrating work across the organization’s various divisions and programs, coordinating the workflow process with the organization’s legal and media specialists, and overseeing the recruitment, training, and supervision of research and advocacy staff.  The DPD may be based in HRW’s New York headquarters or one its major offices in Washington, DC, London, Brussels or Geneva.  

Qualifications:  The successful candidate will have at least fifteen years of extensive, varied experience in international human rights or related work including investigations, reporting, and advocacy, with at least five years in a management position. S/he will have vision and creativity; recognized management experience supervising senior professional staff; interpersonal skills; a proactive mindset, always looking for opportunities to intensify pressure on abusive officials; excellent political judgment; exceptional English writing and editing abilities; the capacity to appropriately plan and prioritize and to manage multiple, sometimes competing demands efficiently in a challenging, fast-paced environment. The candidate will have proven leadership skills within a comparable role and organization and a depth and breadth of management and organizational skills, including the demonstrated ability to lead a team of talented professionals in multiple global locations. Relevant international field experience and familiarity with human rights research methodologies are required.  

Salary and Benefits:  HRW seeks exceptional applicants and offers competitive compensation and employer-paid benefits.  HRW will pay reasonable relocation expenses and will assist employees in obtaining necessary work authorization, if required; citizens of all nationalities are encouraged to apply.

PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY by emailing in a single submission: a letter of interest describing your experience, your resume, three names or letters of references, salary requirements, and a brief writing sample (unedited by others) no later than June 30, 2010 to .  Please use ”Deputy Director Ref PRO-10-1030-K” as the subject of your email.  Only complete applications will be reviewed.  It is preferred that all materials be submitted via email.  If emailing is not possible, send materials (please do not split a submission between email and regular post and/or fax) to:

Human Rights Watch

Attn:  Search Committee (Deputy Director Ref PRO-10-1030-K)

350 Fifth Avenue, 34^th Floor

New York, NY 10118

Fax: (212) 736-1300

Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate

in its hiring practices and, in order to build the strongest possible workforce,

actively seeks a diverse applicant pool.