WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change. 

WITNESS is seeking a Program Coordinator to work at its Brooklyn headquarters in New York. The position will have a primary focus on supporting partnerships and implementing trainings to enable human rights organizations and concerned citizens in the U.S. to integrate video and related online technologies into their advocacy campaigns.

WITNESS was conceived by musician and advocate Peter Gabriel and founded in partnership with the Reebok Human Rights Foundation and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) in 1992.  Today, WITNESS is a highly respected and rapidly growing independent nonprofit organization with an annual budget of over $4 million and staff of twenty-seven.
 
This position provides an exciting opportunity to build WITNESS’ first full-scale North America program, building on an existing record of collaboration and partnership with groups within the US.
 
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) ‘Core Partnerships’ Coordination: Support and maintain relationships with a core group of 2-4 WITNESS NGO “core partners” who are using video in advocating for human rights; provide training in filmmaking and strategic video usage in international human rights advocacy; assist NGOs in identifying opportunities to produce and distribute video that can be used to create change in human rights policy and practice; create and implement campaign strategy around the use of video including alliance building with relevant civil society organizations, inter-governmental organizations, decision makers and other key campaign allies;
• Video Production: Work as producer on specific video projects related to North America-based core partners, including pre-production, production, post-production (AVID and Final Cut Pro) and distribution; oversee the development of accompanying materials such as promotional packaging, screening guides, education or advocacy packets for use in video advocacy campaigns, and online supplementary materials;
• ‘Seeding Video Advocacy’: Provide short-term trainings in the uses of video in human rights advocacy to key networks of human rights and social justice groups; assist in implementation of WITNESS’ Video Advocacy Institute; identify and cultivate strategic allies with human rights and social justice media communities and a broad range of civil society organizations working in human rights and new media; develop training materials and curriculum for use by NGO partners; identify useful non-WITNESS training materials, workshops and resources; coordinate all ‘Seeding’ activities with human rights groups focused on North America;
• ‘The Hub’:  Conduct outreach and trainings within North America to support widespread, effective usage of the Hub (hub.witness.org <http://hub.witness.org/> ) by organizations and individuals; provide support to the Hub team on content and editorial related to human rights issues in the US and elsewhere in North America; bring human rights perspective to discussions of how best to develop the Hub and related participatory media initiatives;
  

Framework: In collaboration with the WITNESS Program Director and other staff, develop and implement program priorities that will advance overall quality of program activity and growth of the WITNESS project; assist in development of evaluation materials and carry out evaluations; develop regional organizational plans and budgets.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Interns/Volunteers: Supervise interns, volunteers, fellows and e-interns;
* Research: Keep abreast of relevant thematic and regional human rights issues;
* Administrative Functions: Undertake necessary administrative functions, including database maintenance and coordination of logistics relevant to NGO partners and ‘Seeding’ initiative;
* Outreach and Communication: Participate in public presentations; act as a media spokesperson; provide input on promotional materials.

This position provides an exciting opportunity to build WITNESS’ first full-scale North America program, building on an existing record of collaboration and partnership with groups within the US.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Forward completed application materials to programcoordinator@witness.org