Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of Digital Director to leadits digital efforts around the world. The Digital Director will leverage the successes of Human Rights Watch’s award-winning Communications program. Human Rights Watch has an ambitious strategy to grow our global footprint and spread content to key decision makers in innovative ways. HRW is looking for a strategic digital thinker with a deep understanding of the communications landscape and/or media business experience and strong management, project leadership, and organizational skills.
The successful candidate will develop comprehensive digital solutions across web, mobile, tablet and social. This is an opportunity to expand an innovative digital program at Human Rights Watch, a global resource for human rights information online.
The Digital Director will report to the Deputy Executive Director, External Relations, and collaborate closely with the Communications and Multimedia directors. This position will be based in one of HRW’s offices in New York or Los Angeles.
Responsibilities:
1. Manage a complex and growing digital program, advocating for digital and a new model of shorter shareable content;
2. Strategize on how the Online Division can support front-line researchers around the world with custom-tuned social media and digital outreach strategies;
3. Manage and grow a small core digital team consisting of technology management, social media, and contract support expertise;
4. Determine the scope of a website overhaul or redesign and oversee the implementation of that process;
5. Create strategy for multiple languages worldwide;
6. Build an innovative, compelling mobile presence for hrw.org;
7. Empower staff to extend the digital reach of HRW’s content;
8. Collaborate with the Communications Division on rapid response media outreach;
9. Collaborate with the Multimedia Division to promote visual content;
10. Collaborate with Development Department to support donor engagement cultivation and fundraising campaigns; and
11. Carry out any other tasks as required.
Qualifications:
Education: A degree in Communications, Journalism or related field is required; an advanced degree is highly desirable.
Experience: Minimum 7-10 years of progressive leadership-oriented digital experience, with NGOs, global institutions or media companies; at least five years in a senior management position is required.
Related Skills and Knowledge:
1. Knowledge of innovations in the changing global media environment and online campaigns is required.
2. Demonstrated leadership and organizational skills are required as is the ability to manage complex internet projects.
3. Technical skills necessary to manage a complex ecosystem of digital tools, technical staff and contractors are required.
4. Strong communications and presentation skills, interpersonal communications, and writing skills are required.
5. An energetic thinker who combines intellectual curiosity with analytical skills and technological savvy is highly desirable.
6. Capacity to see the big picture, have a keen attention to detail, and be hands-on.
7. Strong integrity and a commitment to the highest degree of professional excellence are required.
8. Current experience in social media, campaigns, content development, and innovative digital storytelling tools is required.
9. Content expertise and writing skills in human rights or global diplomacy is a plus.
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.
Contact: Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a brief writing sample (unedited by others), salary requirements and contact information for three references to webjobs@hrw.org. Please use “Online Director Ref: ONL-12-1045-A” as the subject of your email.
Only complete applications will be reviewed and only qualified candidates will be contacted.
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.
Human Rights Watch is an international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization known for its in-depth investigations, its incisive and timely reporting, its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in changing the human rights-related policies and practices of influential governments and international institutions.
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