Lediga jobb Civil Rights Defenders i Stockholm

Are you passionate about marketing, copywriting, design and data-driven advertising? Do you want to use your skills to help defend and strengthen civil rights? Then you might be the one we are looking for.
About the roleAs Marketing Officer, your main responsibility will be to create marketing material to mobilise broad support from private individuals to Civil Rights Defenders' important mission.
As a part of the fundraising team, you will contribute to the delivery on the strategical and financial targets of the Fundraising Department and thereby the foundation for Civil Rights Defenders' continued work as a force for a world with democratic societies where we all enjoy civil and political rights.
Your key areas of responsibilities will be to create digital and printed marketing material as well as segmentation for advertising and target group analysis. You will also produce and optimize social media advertising and deliver tests in line with our funnel strategy for engagement. Content creation and text production for fundraising is also an important part of the role.
As Marketing Officer, you report to the Head of Fundraising.
The role offers great variety, including tasks such as:
Develop, design, layout and produce engaging marketing material in line with CRD’s strategies for fundraising and communication.
Develop and optimise digital advertising according to our funnel strategy and data driven marketing.
Content production of donor letters, advertising, newsletters, marketing material etc.
Creation of digital material: advertising, campaign websites, etc.
Design marketing material according to the tone of voice and the ambitions of the Civil Rights Defenders brand.
In close cooperation with the Development officers in the department, develop ideas and concepts for campaigns, engagement creation, and marketing activities.
Analyze behavioral data, test different versions of copy and/or design, to optimize results. Cooperate with other departments.
When needed, help all team-members in various tasks related to the Fundraising Unit.
About you
As a person you produce new ideas, approaches, or insights and create innovative ways of designing outputs in your field of work. You are a team player, and like to work in a fast moving, creative environment where we set high targets to deliver upon but also learn from our mistakes.
You structure complex information and present it in an engaging and understandable manner to engage the target group and the purpose of the activity.
Furthermore, you make rational judgments from information available and demonstrate an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a larger system.
We assume that you share our values.
To be suitable for this position you also have:
A degree in Marketing, Communication or similar.
1-3 years of relevant work experience.
Experience from design and copywriting.
Proven knowledge and experience in working with data-driven processes.
Experience from digital advertising, tracking and optimization.
Experience in Matomo/Google analytics, Facebook ads manager.
Proficiency in Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro and Wordpress.
Excellent written and verbal communications skills in Swedish and strong communications skills in English, since it is the working language in the organisation.
Experience in working with MS Office 365 tools especially Word, Excel and Teams effectively.
Proficiency in SEO and AI-tools, such as Midjourney, is a merit.
About the employment
This is a full-time temporary employment, from May 2025 until May 2026 with a 6-month probationary period and possibility of prolongation. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, at our headquarters.
Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 25 of April 2025. Please answer the application form in Swedish.
If you have any questions on the recruitment process, please contact Head of Fundraising, Anna Magnard at anna.magnard@crd.org.
Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).
About us Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.
Civil Rights Defenders has around 70 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org. Visa mindre

Are you a service minded administrator with experience in customer care and CRM? Do you want to use your skills to help defend and strengthen civil rights? Then you might be the one we are looking for.
About the roleAs Supporter Care Administrator, your main responsibility will be to ensure donor care within every contact with donors. This position is key for building and maintaining strong relationships with our supporters, ensuring they feel valued and connected to our cause.
An important part of the role includes CRM administration, membership administration, and general support and coordination to the departments activities to ensure smooth donor processes. The main purpose of this position is to increase supporter satisfaction and engagement, making this position vital to the success of our mission.
As a part of the fundraising team, you will ensure a service minded response to donor and member inquiries, via our different communication channels. You will be responsible for CRM administration, booking and registration as well as administrative support in different fundraising activities for successful relationship building and loyalty.
As Supporter Care Administrator, you report to the Head of Fundraising.
The role offers great variety, including tasks such as:
Responsibility for the donor services e-mail.
Provide service minded response, support and information to donors, potential donors and supporters in a timely manner.
Administrate tasks in the CRM system, with support from CRM superuser within the department.
Registration of donations and members, keeping data up to date and other tasks.
General administrative tasks in relation to fundraising activities, such as for example telemarketing, campaigns, donor letters, events etc.
Cooperation with the team and engaging in the departments activities to achieve the goals according to the department plan.
Always keep a donor perspective and ensure administrative processes within the department to flow smoothly.
Cooperation with other departments.
When needed, help all team-members in various tasks related to the Fundraising Unit.
About you
As a person, you show empathy by listening to, support and care for others wile adapting to their needs. You respond quickly to reactions and feedback and offer appropriate help and support.
You are a team player, who likes to work in a fast-moving, creative environment where we set high targets to deliver, but also learn from our mistakes.
At work, you monitor and maintain quality as well as focusing on the needs and satisfaction of internal and external partners while probing for further information or greater understanding of a problem in order to find a suitable solution.
Furthermore, you plan activities and projects well in advance and take account of possible changing circumstances in order to adjust to possible emergencies and crises.
We assume that you share our values.
To be suitable for this position you also have:
At least 1 year of relevant work experience, such as donor services, customer care, telemarketing sales or equivalent.
Experience in CRM administration.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Swedish, and good understanding and communications skills in English since it is the working language in the organisation.
Experience in working with MS Office 365 tools especially Word, Excel and Teams effectively.
Experience in Fundraising, BI and Salesforce is a great merit.
About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment, from May 2025 with a 6-month probationary period. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, at our headquarters.
Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 16 of April 2025. Please answer the application form in Swedish.
If you have any questions on the recruitment process, please contact Head of Fundraising, Anna Magnard at anna.magnard@crd.org.
Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).
About us Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.
Civil Rights Defenders has around 70 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org. Visa mindre

Are you a sharp and creative digital communicator with an eye for graphic design? Do you want to use your skills in content production to contribute to the human rights movement? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Digital Communications Officer you will be responsible for planning, scheduling and creating content for our social media channels and work with the ongoing maintenance of our website, and take the digital lead in our campaigns.

With our digital strategy as point of departure, you will develop content adapted to our target groups, with the goal of increasing knowledge about and creating engagement for civil and political rights.

You will be part of a strong communications team, with different responsibilities. We all work tight together and help each other out when needed. We work close to the Fundraising Team and the regional departments in our pursuit to support our network of human rights defenders all around the globe. You will be reporting to the Communications Director.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Responsible for the digital parts of our campaigns.

- Ongoing maintenance of and content production for the web.

- Responsible for our digital content plan and publishing calendar.

- Content production for social media channels, including text, images and moving images, as well as support for other communication officers.

- Monitor social media activities, handle comments and interact with our followers and other stakeholders.

- Handle social media advertising.

- Report statistics from web and social media channels and follow up on digital campaigns.

About you
As a person you like to take initiatives, initiate activities, and strive for results. You often come up with ideas and new approaches to work-related issues and have a solution- oriented mindset.

Furthermore, you take responsibility for your tasks, structure your work and drive your processes forward. If you also work well with other people and relate to them in a responsive and smooth way, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A few years’ experience of working with web and social media, including text production, and creation of image and moving material for digital channels.

- Good knowledge of digital development.

- Experience of working with digital packaging and presentations using WordPress, Microsoft Office packages, Adobe Photoshop and easier video editing for social media.

- Good understanding of how to work with target group and platform adapted content.

- Excellent writer, being able to write both longer news texts about complicated content adapted for websites, as well as catchy copy for social media.

- Experience in analysis and follow-up using tools.

- Experience of working in Meta Business Suite and with Facebook Ads manager

- Experience in handling external suppliers.

- Excellent writing and speaking skills in Swedish (level C2) and English (level C2).

We assume that you share our values.

About the employment
This is a full-time substitute employment starting in the beginning of March 2024, or according to agreement, and ending in December 2024. Good possibilities for prolonged engagement.

As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

We offer you a pleasant and modern workplace that values flexibility when it comes to working hours and the possibility to work remotely. We apply Collective Agreement with Fremia.

Please apply as soon as possible?as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 1 December 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact: Maria Granefelt, Communications Director: maria.granefelt@civilrightsdefenders.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/2152103/edit/maria.granefelt@civilrightsdefenders.org).

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us

Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Do you have experience of strategic planning, monitoring, learning and evaluation and a passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer is responsible for providing support to develop and ensure efficient, effective, uniformed and aligned processes, procedures and systems for planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning of Civil Rights Defenders. The PME Officer functions as an advisory support to the organisation on areas related to planning, monitoring, learning and evaluation. The PME Officer supports and facilitates learning and exchange throughout the organisation to help guide Civil Rights Defenders in line with its strategy.

As PME Officer you will report to the Head of Method Unit.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (PMEL) processes, frameworks and methods.

- Results Based Management (RBM).

- Strategic PMEL and RBM at organisational level.

- Organisational capacity building and internal learning on PMEL/RBM.

- Networking, learning and exchange on PMEL.

- Strategic results reporting at various levels.

About you
As a person, you are solutions driven and you tackle challenges with enthusiasm and flexibility to fulfil our mission and vision.

You have the ability to analyse numerical data and other sources of information, to break them into component parts, patterns and relationships and you apply your expertise and knowledge to achieve best results possible in any given situation.

It’s easy for you to build wide and effective networks both within and outside the organisation and you relate well to people at all levels. You express opinions, information and key points in a well-structured and logical way.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Law, Political Science, International Relations or similar
- At least 3 years of previous experience from developing/designing organisational strategic PME and learning systems/framework, methods, procedures, or guidelines in an international organisation.

- Experience from working in an international organisation.
- Experience with results-based management.
- Good understanding of development cooperation in general and Sweden’s support to civil society in particular.
- Good knowledge in rights-based approach to development, as well as gender, environment and conflict sensitivity.
- Good understanding of the principles of aid and development effectiveness.
- Basic skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word).


Experience in working in different geographic contexts is highly preferable as well as knowledge in international standards on human rights, gender, environment and conflict.

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting in January 2024 or according to an agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm at our headquarters.

We offer you a pleasant and modern workplace that values flexibility when it comes to working hours and the possibility to work remotely. We apply Collective Agreement with Fremia.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 9 December 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Naomi Eissinger: naomi.eissinger@crd.org

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you passionate about fundraising and human rights and want to contribute to the development and positioning of Civil Rights Defenders as an engaging brand in Sweden? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.



About the role
As Senior Development Officer Individual Giving, you will work strategically and operationally with a wide range of fundraising and campaign efforts, such as data analysis, marketing optimization, and contributing hands-on to the campaigns we run to maximize results.


You will join the Fundraising and Marketing team and be responsible to increase and retain unrestricted income from private mass market donors in Sweden, in order to deliver on CRD's vision and mission. This entails responsibility for the strategic development of the entire donor cycle: acquisition, retention and upgrading. You will be executing fundraising activities and mobilize engagement and support, to back up our network of human rights defenders. You will work closely with the Senior Development Officer Marketing and Campaigns in the execution of fundraising and engagement activities.

As Senior Development Officer you will also be responsible for our CRM system, donor segmentation and analysis. We work with an engagement and data driven approach to fundraising, with donor experience as our focus. As we intend to grow this segment, leading and supervising will become a more important part of the role further on.


You will report to the Development Director.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Proactively secure funding from mass market / private individuals. Continuously seek new ways for donors to be able to contribute to the CRD vision and mission.
- Lead and coach two colleagues in their daily operations.
- Project management and development of existing fundraising activities and manage contacts with relevant external partners.
- Innovate and be open to test new channels and methods for donor acquisition.
- Develop strategy and activities for new fundraising channels as we grow.
- Analyze donor behavior and develop response to upgrade and retain.
- Develop and continuously improve automized donor journeys and processes to increase efficiency and loyalty.
- Segmentation and target group analysis.

- Benchmarking and market analysis.
- Development of engaging fundraising campaigns relevant to the segments and convert engagement into donations.

About you

You are passionate about fundraising, and know the craftmanship of private individual donor development. You are familiar with the Swedish fundraising market and you probably both love data and analytics, and to find creative ways to raise funds when the opportunity arise.

As a person you like to plan, organize, and prioritize your work in an efficient way to keep time frames and deliver results according to organizational goals and quality standards.
You show interest, willingness, and ability to help others and strive to deliver solutions. You are open-minded, like to take initiatives, share your ideas and develop activities together with the team.

You have the interest and ability to collaborate with and relate to other people in a responsive and communicative way. You can remain motivated and effective despite temporary setbacks.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- Bachelor's degree in sales, marketing, business or equivalent .

- At least 3 years of experience from developing private sector mass market fundraising.

- Demonstrated experience in CRM development and processes.

- Knowledge in the Swedish fundraising market and in private individual donor development/sales.

- Fluency in Swedish and English.

- Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word).

- Excellent excel skills.

It is a merit if you have experience in ASXP for Salesforce and experience of communicating complex issues in a respectful manner. Certified fundraising skills, such as for ex. Giva Sverige's Certified Fundraiser is also a merit.

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment (with a 6-month probation period), starting as soon as possible. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm and work towards the Swedish market. We offer you a pleasant and modern workplace that values flexibility when it comes to working hours and the possibility to work remotely. We apply Collective Agreement with Fremia. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organization.

Please apply as soon as possible, by submitting your application in Swedish, as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 13 September 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Anna Magnard: anna.magnard@crd.org.

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).



About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Are you passionate about human rights and want to be part of a global movement of human rights defenders? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Civil Rights Defenders has secured funding to expand our work focusing on the rights of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Sweden and along the migration routes to/in the EU, and is now looking for an experienced human rights lawyer to be responsible for this work.

About the role
As a Legal Adviser (LA) you work in the Legal Department as part of a team of lawyers under the supervision of the Legal Director. The LA works to improve compliance with international human rights standards and to hold duty bearers to account, in Sweden and other countries, in cooperation with human rights defenders (HRDs) working in the local or regional context. The work is conducted in line with the organisation’s vision and mission, its strategy, and yearly action plans, as well as the core values and ways of working of the organisation.

The LA is responsible for developing and?implementing the organisation’s legal work, mainly in the thematic area of migration and cooperates closely with other staff in the Department and in other departments to achieve set goals and targets. The LA develops, manages, and implements projects and is responsible for coordinating the work of project staff in the Department and across the organisation and in other organisations that we partner with. The LA will be responsible for a new joint project with Human Rights Watch, focusing on the rights of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Sweden and along the migration routes to/in the EU.

The main areas of responsibilities are:

- Legal work, including strategic litigation, based on international Migration Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Law as well as EU law and national legislation in Sweden and other countries.

- Advocacy work, including: drafting of public reports and statements; organising of seminars and meetings with relevant stakeholders and; contributing to communications and media work, nationally and internationally.

- Capacity support to HRDs and partner organisations, including legal advice, legal trainings and financial support.

- Project development, implementation and management, including financial management.

- Strategy development, including legal and advocacy strategies.

About you

As a person, you are analytical and a strategist who identifies problems and develops workable solutions by extracting key information and evaluating the context using multiple perspectives. It is important for you to maintain and uphold high ethical standards and to take clear ethical stands.

You like to plan, organise, and prioritize your work in an efficient way to keep time frames and deliver results according to organisational goals and quality standards. You have the interest and ability to collaborate with and relate to other people in a responsive and smooth way, we are sure that you will thrive in this role.

Furthermore, you have shown proof of seeking out new challenges, assignments and responsibilities and wish to use these strengths to promote Civil Rights Defenders' cause in our work and challenges ahead.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have a Master of Laws, LL.M., or equivalent, with specialization in migration law, human rights law, international criminal law or related area and at least 3 years of relevant work experience?within in the areas?of human rights and asylum and migration. You are well aquainted with Swedish law in these areas.

You also have experience of litigating asylum and migration cases in national, regional and/or international courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights. You should also have work experience from a civil society organisation, an intergovernmental or governmental organisation, or tribunal focusing on human rights, international humanitarian law or international criminal law.

It is also a strong asset if you have experience of project management, legal and advocacy work related to asylum law, human rights, including report writing, and communications and media work.

We also believe that you have excellent knowledge and stylistic?writing?abilities in Swedish and English in speech and writing.

It is a merit, if you have

- Experience of working with regional or international systems for the protection of human rights, such as the Council of Europe, the Inter-American?or the UN systems, including judicial mechanisms.

- Experience of staff management.

- Contacts and networks within relevant authorities and organisations in the field of refugee and asylum law.

- Work experience in the areas of equality and non-discrimination, constitutional law and/or (international) criminal law.

- Experience of developing project proposals and raise funds from donors.

About the employment

This is a full-time permanent employment with an initial 6-months probation period starting in September 2023 or according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm at our headquarters.

We offer you a pleasant and modern workplace that values flexibility when it comes to working hours and the possibility to work remotely. We apply Collective Agreement with Fremia.

Please apply as soon as possible ?as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 20 August 2023.

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Mirjam Warne: mirjam.warne@crd.org (6-21 July) and Mikael Wu Björk mikael.wu.bjork@crd.org (from 31/7).

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us

Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights... Visa mindre

Are you passionate about strategic IT work and hands-on operations to develop the IT infrastructure and processes of a rapidly growing human rights organisation? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
We are now looking for a Head of IT to join our Security and Innovation Department. The department consists of a team of colleagues focusing on providing security focused and innovative supports to human rights defenders.

The overall responsibility of the role is to lead and develop the IT unit to ensure Civil Rights Defenders IT systems and processes are efficient and secure. You will lead and manage a small but growing team of colleagues, working cross-organisationally with all parts of Civil Rights Defenders both in the Stockholm-based head quarters and in regional offices.

The position is an operational position which mixes strategic IT work with hands-on support, all aimed to develop the IT infrastructure and processes of a rapidly growing civil society organisation.

You will be responsible for procurement and agreements regarding systems, support, maintenance, and licenses of IT systems and services; further developing and implementing a clear IT governance model; owning and keeping the IT roadmap up to date; and prioritize projects according to Civil Rights Defenders strategic objectives. You will be responsible of overseeing the internal IT systems, development environments, cloud infrastructure, and related processes and routines.

As Head of IT you are part of the Leadership Forum and report to the Security and Innovation Department Director.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Ownership and development of the Microsoft 365 platform. Civil Rights Defenders works in accordance with a clearly defined cloud strategy

- To lead and develop the organisation's Microsoft Modern Workplace platform based on Autopilot, Intune and Azure AD

- To fully understand the organisation’s cyber security defences and to monitor cyber security reports, both internal and those provided by third party suppliers.

- To assess IT related risks across the organisation, capture these on the risk register along with mitigating actions, and escalate risks to the Director of Finance and IT when necessary.

- To manage contracts with third-party suppliers, fully understanding the service provided and ensuring that these achieve value for money and that any supplier performance issues are successfully identified and addressed or mitigated.

- To be the human backup to colleagues in the IT unit, but also work closely with the Director of Security and Innovation together with third-party suppliers to ensure the organisation’s IT infrastructure is fit for purpose.

- To stay up to date with cybersecurity threats, and ensuring that processes, systems, and routines meet external and internal requirements.

- Managing colleagues in dedicated IT Unit within the organisation's Security and Innovation Department.

About you

As a person you prefer to set high goals for yourself as well as for the organisation and tend to work hard to achieve them. In the past, you have achieved these goals through collaborating with others in a responsive and smooth way, but also by leading, motivating, and empowering others to effectively reach common goals.

As a person you show interest, willingness, and ability to help others and strive to deliver solutions. You are open-minded and like to take initiative and generate activity. You collaborate with others and make sure to contribute to reaching common goals and you understand that responsibilities as well as rewards should be shared within the team.

It is fundamental for you to resist undue pressure in decision-making and to communicate key points and ideas with clarity. If you also understand how background, culture and group affiliation affects oneself and others and have the ability to take this into account when making decisions, you will be successful in this role.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have

- A Bachelor's degree in IT, equivalent education or other documented experience within IT

- At least 3 years of relevant operational working experience within IT, in or outside of the NGO sector

- A few years of documented experience of being part of and working in a management team or in a managerial position with broader strategic role

- Experience of managing Microsoft public cloud infrastructure

- Good understanding of compliance requirements such as GDPR and other privacy related legislation

- Good understanding of standards in accordance with the ISO/IEC 27001.

- Experience from and excellence in managing complex projects

- Fluency (orally and written) in English (level C1 required, C2 a merit); additional languages, such as Swedish, Russian or Spanish, are an asset.

It is a merit if you have ISO/IEC 27001 certification, experience from working in or close to the non-profit or civil society sector and/or knowledge or experience of IT management in rapidly changing environments in different geographies.

About the employment
This is a permanent employment (with a 6-month probation period). We have collective agreement (between Fremia and Unionen) and apply goal-oriented working hours. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden.

For more information about the position, please contact Marcin de Kaminski, Director Security and Innovation at Civil Rights Defenders: marcin.dekaminski@civilrightsdefenders.org (mailto:marcin.dekaminski@crd.org).

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than June 22, 2023.

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members wo... Visa mindre

Are you at the beginning of your controlling career and share our passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be our new colleague!

About the role

Civil Rights Defenders is now looking for a controller to join the team and work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world.

As a controller you will be part of our controlling team responsible for controlling projects and departments at Civil Rights Defenders, including budgeting, follow-up, resource allocation, reporting, and audit coordination.

The role also involves internal control in general, project and development work and cooperation with other departments. It is a very broad role that gives you insights in key processes and learning in many areas.

Job description

Controlling is primarily an internal support function where your objective is to secure that the departments are supported so that we together can reach our ambitious goals. As a controller, you have a wide variety of tasks from details to very strategic issues. You interact with many different colleagues. You work with quality, integrity, service mindedness and a pragmatic mindset.

Your main tasks will be:

- Establish budgets and forecasts
- Prepare financial reports
- Responsibility for development projects
- Maintain contact with internal and external stakeholders and manage financial reporting to international donors
- Guide financial decisions by establishing or improving policies and processes
- Develop, improve, and maintain financial controls and guidelines
- Achieve budgeting goals by proactive planning, analysis, and proactive actions
- Optimize results and limit risk
- Improve short- and long-term operational strategies


About you
As a person, you like to analyze numerical data and other sources of information to see patterns and context. To understand instructions, financial principles and adhere to the organization’s procedures and policies comes naturally to you and you fully understand that your individual efforts contribute to the results of the immediate team and strive to deliver accordingly.

To thrive in this role, you actively participate and you contribute and work together with the team towards common goals. You have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues and partners and support and care about others.

In addition, if you are guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for!

A relevant candidate will have:

- A Bachelor´s degree in business administration, preferably with accounting/controlling/systems emphasis.
- A few years of relevant experience from financial accounting and controlling and/or project accounting/controlling.
- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word), especially Excel.
- Good writing and speaking skills in English.


Experience from working in an NGO, working with business systems (we use Deltek Maconomy), international experience and a genuine and proven interest in Human Rights or similar are merits.



About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting in June 2023 or according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 14 May 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager jonas.thurdin@crd.org.

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Are you at the beginning of your controlling career and share our passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be our new colleague!

About the role

Civil Rights Defenders is now looking for a controller to join the team and work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world.

As a controller you will be part of our controlling team responsible for controlling projects and departments at Civil Rights Defenders, including budgeting, follow-up, resource allocation, reporting, and audit coordination.

The role also involves internal control in general, project and development work and cooperation with other departments. It is a very broad role that gives you insights in key processes and learning in many areas.

Job description

Controlling is primarily an internal support function where your objective is to secure that the departments are supported so that we together can reach our ambitious goals. As a controller, you have a wide variety of tasks from details to very strategic issues. You interact with many different colleagues. You work with quality, integrity, service mindedness and a pragmatic mindset.

Your main tasks will be:

- Establish budgets and forecasts
- Prepare financial reports
- Responsibility for development projects
- Maintain contact with internal and external stakeholders and manage financial reporting to international donors
- Guide financial decisions by establishing or improving policies and processes
- Develop, improve, and maintain financial controls and guidelines
- Achieve budgeting goals by proactive planning, analysis, and proactive actions
- Optimize results and limit risk
- Improve short- and long-term operational strategies


About you
As a person, you like to analyze numerical data and other sources of information to see patterns and context. To understand instructions, financial principles and adhere to the organization’s procedures and policies comes naturally to you and you fully understand that your individual efforts contribute to the results of the immediate team and strive to deliver accordingly.

To thrive in this role, you actively participate and you contribute and work together with the team towards common goals. You have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues and partners and support and care about others.

In addition, if you are guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for!

A relevant candidate will have:

- A Bachelor´s degree in business administration, preferably with accounting/controlling/systems emphasis.
- A few years of relevant experience from financial accounting and controlling and/or project accounting/controlling.
- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word), especially Excel.
- Good writing and speaking skills in English.


Experience from working in an NGO, working with business systems (we use Deltek Maconomy), international experience and a genuine and proven interest in Human Rights or similar are merits.



About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting in June 2023 or according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 3 May 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager jonas.thurdin@crd.org.

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Do you have a few years of accounting experience and share our passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be our new colleague!

About the role
As an accountant you will be part of the accounting team consisting of two other accountants and you will work closely with the Head of Accounting and Reporting, and controllers to ensure that all parts of the accounting are up to date according to schedule.

Responsibilities include management of expense process, reconciliation of balance accounts, bank payments and card transactions.

Your key activities will be to:

- Update accounting with daily transactions and reconciling bank statements

- Manage expense process and ensure staff reimbursements are timely

- Provide administrative support to staff in connection to expense process

- Reconcile balance sheets

- Record accounts payable and accounts receivable

- Bank payments

- Update manuals and guidelines on our common platform

- Provide administrative support during audits

About you

As a person, you like to analyse numerical data and other sources of information to break them down into components, patterns, and relationships. To follow instructions and adhere to the organisation's procedures and policies comes natural to you and you fully understand that your individual efforts contribute to the results of the immediate team and strive to deliver accordingly.

To thrive in this role, you actively participate, contribute, and work together with the team towards common goals. You have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners and supports and cares for others. If you’re also guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for.

This position requires good verbal and written communication skills in English and Swedish, meaning that you can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without strain and that you can produce both clear and detailed text.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A High school education, preferably in business administration

- A few years of experience of working with accounting and financial accounting systems

- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word), especially Excel

- Experience of project management activities

- Fluency in Swedish (verbal and written)

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Documented experience from NGO-work is preferable. Other merits for the position are:

- Experience of managing expense processes

- Experience from working in Deltek Maconomy accounting system

- Financial YH or University education in accounting

- Experience of project management activities

- Experience from working in larger financial accounting system

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with a 6-month probationary, starting as soon as possible. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, at our Headquarters.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 3 May 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager lidija.kovacevic@crd.org Lidija Kovacevic, lidija.kovacevic@civilrightsdefenders.org.

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Are you at the beginning of your controlling career and share our passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be our new colleague!

About the role

Civil Rights Defenders is now looking for a controller to join the team and work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world.

As a controller you will be part of our controlling team responsible for controlling projects and departments at Civil Rights Defenders, including budgeting, follow-up, resource allocation, reporting, and audit coordination.

The role also involves internal control in general, project and development work and cooperation with other departments. It is a very broad role that gives you insights in key processes and learning in many areas.

Job description

Controlling is primarily an internal support function where your objective is to secure that the departments are supported so that we together can reach our ambitious goals. As a controller, you have a wide variety of tasks from details to very strategic issues. You interact with many different colleagues. You work with quality, integrity, service mindedness and a pragmatic mindset.

Your main tasks will be:

- Establish budgets and forecasts

- Prepare financial reports

- Responsibility for development projects

- Maintain contact with internal and external stakeholders and manage financial reporting to international donors

- Guide financial decisions by establishing or improving policies and processes

- Develop, improve, and maintain financial controls and guidelines

- Achieve budgeting goals by proactive planning, analysis, and proactive actions

- Optimize results and limit risk

- Improve short- and long-term operational strategies

About you
As a person, you like to analyze numerical data and other sources of information to see patterns and context. To understand instructions, financial principles and adhere to the organization’s procedures and policies comes naturally to you and you fully understand that your individual efforts contribute to the results of the immediate team and strive to deliver accordingly.

To thrive in this role, you actively participate and you contribute and work together with the team towards common goals. You have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues and partners and support and care about others.

In addition, if you are guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for!

A relevant candidate will have:

- A Bachelor´s degree, preferably in business administration with accounting/controlling/systems emphasis.

- Ideally a few years of relevant experience from financial accounting and controlling and/or project accounting/controlling.

- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word), especially Excel.

- Good writing and speaking skills in English.

Experience from working in an NGO, working with business systems (we use Deltek Maconomy), international experience and a genuine and proven interest in Human Rights or similar are merits.



About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting in June 2023 or according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 3 May 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager jonas.thurdin@crd.org.

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Are you a communicator at the beginning of your carrer looking for a chance to develop and broaden your competence within communications? Do you want to use your communication skills and expertise to contribute to the human rights movement? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
Civil Rights Defenders is looking for a Communications Officer for a temporary assignment during the period mid-April to mid-June. As a Communications Officer you will work operationally with a wide range of communication efforts, with the aim to support the human rights defenders we partner with. You will work close together with and have a supportive function towards your colleagues in Civil Rights Defenders' communication team.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Write, edit, and translate news articles and reports.
- Produce leaflets, invitations and other printed matters.
- Update Civil Rights Defenders' website and social media with relevant text and images adapted to different target groups.
- Produce digital material for Civil Rights Defenders' various social channels such as images, infographics and moving images.
- Social media channel moderation.
- Support our work with campaigns and events.
- Support our work with press and other media.


About you

As a person, you work well with other people and relate to them in a responsive and smooth way to reach common goals. You also set clearly defined objectives for yourself and plan, organise, and prioritise your work in an efficient way to get there.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- Experience from communications work within the fields of human rights, international relations, development cooperation or equivalent, including:
- Writing texts, translations and text editing for print and digital channels.
- Working with social media such as copy for different target groups, working with still and moving images.
- Having good knowledge of WordPress, Microsoft Office packages, Adobe Photoshop and easier video editing for social media.


- Being a fast and skilled writer and able to explain complicated contexts adapted to different target groups.
- Being good at solving all types of communicative tasks and challenges.
- Being responsible, structured, self-sustaining and has a strong delivery focus.
- Mastering the Office suite, Wordpress, Adobe Photoshop and/or simple video editing.
- Having excellent writing and speaking skills in English and Swedish (level C2).


About the employment
This is a temporary employment during the period mid-April to mid-June. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Please apply as soon as possible ?as we recruit on an ongoing basis!
For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Maria Granefelt: maria.granefelt@crd.org.

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Do you have a few years of accounting experience and share our passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be our new colleague!

About the role
As an accountant you will be part of the accounting team consisting of two other accountants and you will work closely with the Head of Accounting and Reporting, and controllers to ensure that all parts of the accounting are up to date according to schedule.

Responsibilities include management of expense process, reconciliation of balance accounts, bank payments and card transactions.

Your key activities will be to:

- Update accounting with daily transactions and reconciling bank statements

- Manage expense process and ensure staff reimbursements are timely

- Provide administrative support to staff in connection to expense process

- Reconcile balance sheets

- Record accounts payable and accounts receivable

- Bank payments

- Update manuals and guidelines on our common platform

- Provide administrative support during audits

About you

As a person, you like to analyse numerical data and other sources of information to break them down into components, patterns, and relationships. To follow instructions and adhere to the organisation's procedures and policies comes natural to you and you fully understand that your individual efforts contribute to the results of the immediate team and strive to deliver accordingly.

To thrive in this role, you actively participate, contribute, and work together with the team towards common goals. You have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners and supports and cares for others. If you’re also guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for.

This position requires good verbal and written communication skills in English and Swedish, meaning that you can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without strain and that you can produce both clear and detailed text.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A High school education, preferably in business administration

- A few years of experience of working with accounting and financial accounting systems

- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word), especially Excel

- Experience of project management activities

- Fluency in Swedish (verbal and written)

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Documented experience from NGO-work is preferable. Other merits for the position are:

- Experience of managing expense processes

- Experience from working in Deltek Maconomy accounting system

- Financial YH or University education in accounting

- Experience of project management activities

- Experience from working in larger financial accounting system

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with a 6-month probationary, starting as soon as possible. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, at our Headquarters.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 3 May 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager lidija.kovacevic@crd.org Lidija Kovacevic, lidija.kovacevic@civilrightsdefenders.org.

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you passionate about human rights and want to be part of a global movement of human rights defenders? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As a Legal Adviser?(LA)?you work in the Legal Department as part of a team of lawyers and administrators, under the supervision of the Legal Director. The LA works to improve compliance with international human rights standards and to hold duty bearers to account, in Sweden and other countries, in cooperation with human rights defenders (HRDs) working in the local or regional context. The work is conducted in line with?the organisation’s?vision and mission, its strategy, and yearly plans of action, as well as the core values and ways of working of the organisation.??

The LA is responsible for developing and?implementing the organisation’s legal work in certain thematic areas and/or regions and cooperates closely with other staff in the Legal Department and in other departments to achieve set goals and targets. One of the thematic areas the organisation engages in is the rights of the Sámi people in Sweden and the LA will contribute to strengthening this work. The LA develops, manages, and implements projects and may be responsible for coordinating the work of project staff in the Legal Department and across the organisation and in other organisations that we partner with.??

Main areas for your responsibilities will be:

- Legal work based on International Human Rights Law as well as national legislation in Sweden and other countries.
- Advocacy work, including drafting of public reports and statements; organising of seminars and meetings with relevant stakeholders and; contributing to communications and media work, nationally and internationally.
- Managing the organisation’s work on indigenous rights and the situation of the Sámi People as well as other thematic areas to be decided.
- Coordination and collaboration with Sámi representatives and HRDs.
- Capacity support to HRDs and partner organisations, including legal advice, legal trainings and financial support.?
- Project development and management, including financial management and reporting.
- Staff coordination.?
- Strategy development, including legal and advocacy strategies.??
- Work to support the Legal Department and the Organisation outside of specific projects or thematic areas of responsibility.


About you
As a person, you are an analyst and a strategist who develops workable solutions to problems by extracting key information and evaluating the context using multiple perspectives. It is important for you to maintain and uphold high ethical standards and to take clear ethical stands.

You like to plan, organise, and prioritize your work in an efficient way to keep time frames and deliver results according to organisational goals and quality standards. You have the interest and ability to collaborate with and relate to other people in a responsive and smooth way, we are sure that you will thrive in this role.

Furthermore, you have shown proof of seeking out new challenges, assignments and responsibilities and wish to use these strengths to promote Civil Rights Defenders cause in our work and challenges ahead.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have a Master of Laws, LL.M., or equivalent, with specialization in human rights law or related area and at least 2 years of relevant work experience?within in the areas?of human rights, equality and non-discrimination, indigenous and minority rights, constitutional law, (international) criminal law or international humanitarian law.??

We also highly value if you have work experience from a civil society organisation or an intergovernmental or governmental organisation or tribunal focusing on human rights, international humanitarian law or international criminal law.? Furthermore, it is an asset if you have conducted legal work and advocacy work related to human rights, including report writing, criminal or civil litigation, nationally or internationally and communications and media work.

We also believe that you have

- In-depth knowledge about? rights and rights violations of the Sámi People or other indigenous peoples.
- Working knowledge (B2) of English and Swedish in speech and stylistic writing abilities.
- Basic skills to use Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)?or other similar digital or online work environments?Example.


It is a strong merit if you have

- Experience from working with Sámi or indigenous culture or livelihoods.
- Knowledge in Sámi languages.
- Masters degree in international human rights law, international humanitarian law or international criminal law.
- Experience of working with regional or international systems for the protection of human rights, such as the Council of Europe, the Inter-American?or the UN system.
- Knowledge of non-discrimination law and work.
- Experience of working with migration law
- Experience of litigation or other legal action before courts or oversight mechanisms, nationally, regionally or internationally.?


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment starting in February 2023 or according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm at our headquarters.

We offer you a pleasant and modern workplace that values flexibility when it comes to working hours and the possibility to work remotely. We apply Collective Agreement with Fremia.

Please apply as soon as possible ?as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 12 February 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager John Stauffer: john.stauffer@crd.org.

Local union representative: joanna.hellstrom@crd.org (mailto:lia.hen@crd.org) (Unionen).



About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are viol... Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you passionate about human rights and want to be part of a global movement of human rights defenders? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? And you also speak Russian - then you might be one of our two new Programme Officers we are looking for!

About the role
As Programme Officer for the Emergency Fund your main responsibility will be to ensure the quality assurance of support given as part of the Civil Rights Defenders Emergency Fund. You will also identify relevant support for human rights defenders at risk, seeking or needing our support and identify flexible methods within our rapid response operations.

The Programme Officers reports to the Head of Rapid Response Unit.

In this role you will have the duties to:

- Respond to, or identify, human rights defenders at risk
- Assess needs of human rights defenders at risk and identifying relevant responses
- Coordinate with colleagues and Civil Rights Defenders partners to provide suitable rapid response support
- Be responsible for the full cycle of emergency grant making process
- Be responsible for reporting and monitoring of support results given under the Emergency Fund
- Work together with colleagues within the Security and Innovation department to identify flexible approaches to rapidly changing human rights challenges
- Build and maintain a good relationship with key actors in the local, regional, and international human rights community


About you
As a person, you are confident, stable and have self-insight. You see relationships in their proper perspective and distinguish between the personal and the professional, yet you have the ability to put yourself in someone else's situation when needed.

You can easily adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, you rely on your analytical ability to find solutions to emerging challenges, and you remain motivated despite setbacks and disappointments.

Furthermore, you value differences and understand how background, culture and group affiliation affect yourself and others and can take this into account when you make decisions. To be successful in this role you also have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Russian.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree relevant to the position;
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience;
- Experience or interest in working with community-based organisations, charities and NGOs, non-profits, media, human rights and/or civil society groups;
- Experience working with grant management/making;
- Experience from, and proven excellent delivery on, documentation and other administrative tasks;
- Excellent language skills in English and preferably in Russian; and
- Great skills in Microsoft Office 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word).


Merits for the position are:

- Experience working with vulnerable and at-risk groups;
- Knowledge of other languages;
- Experience from working in or with informal groups, communities, and networks; and

- Understanding of the situation of human rights defenders, living, and working in repressive environments.



About the employment
This is a full-time 12-months employment with the possibility to extend, starting date is as soon as possible.

As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than September 11, 2022.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Zinaida Muradova: zinaida.muradova@civilrightsdefenders.org (mailto:Marcin.deKaminski@civilrightsdefenders.org)

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).



About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Are you an experienced press communicator looking for a chance to develop and broaden your competence within communications? Do you want to use your media skills and expertise in content production to contribute to the human rights movement? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Press and Communications Officer, you will work strategically and operationally with a wide range of communication efforts. The overall objective is to support the human rights defenders we partner with and to increase awareness and knowledge of the work of Civil Rights Defenders, in Sweden as well as globally.

You will be part of a team with other Press and Communications Officers. Together you are responsible for Civil Rights Defenders presence in media, including all proactive and reactive media work, and other public advocacy work. You will have your own responsibility for communication outputs for specified regions but will work tightly together with the other team members to meet our overall communications targets.

The Press and Communications Officer reports to the Communications Director.



About the role

- Plan, implement, coordinate communication efforts relevant to the organisation and its various target groups.

- Act as one of Civil Rights Defenders’ press contacts responsible for our press phone and press mail on a rotating schedule.

- Conduct press and media work, including news monitoring and news evaluation, proactive and reactive media work in Sweden and abroad, conduct media analysis, preparation of media material, such as press releases, Q&As; etc.

- Provide support to Civil Rights Defenders spokes persons, including media trainings.

- Write news articles and other texts for publication in traditional media, website etc.

- Produce reports, leaflets, invitations and other print material.

- Provide communication support to departments when arranging public seminars.

- Update the organisation's website and social media with relevant and customised text and images.

- Produce digital material, for example infographics and movie clips.



About you
As a person, you work well with other people and relate to them in a responsive and smooth way to reach common goals. You also set clearly defined objectives for yourself and plan, organise, and prioritise your work in an efficient way to get there.

To be successful in this role you have the ability to look at the long-term significance of things and can remain motivated and effective despite temporary setbacks. If you also are a strong communicator who can explain complex issues in an engaging and expressive manner, we believe that you are the one we are looking for.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- Several years of experience with press work, including good knowledge of how to independently handle and meet needs in press matters, internally and externally.

- An academic degree with a focus on communication.

- Good knowledge to evaluate and make prioritise of news and communication efforts.

- Excellent oral and written language skills in both Swedish and English with the ability to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects.

- Good experience from project management, working with teams from different fields, leading the communication aspect of the project.

- Good understanding of human rights.

- Good understanding of social media and how to work with target specific content.

- Great skills in WordPress, Adobe Photoshop and easier video editing for social media.

- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word.

It is a merit if you are proficient in other UN languages and or have experience from working in the NGO sector or outside Sweden in an international civil society environment.

About the employment
This is a full-time temporary employment (parental leave) during the period of mid February until December 31 2023. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based at our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 8 January, 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Maria Granefelt: maria.granefelt@crd.org.

Local union representative (Unionen) Lia Hen: lia.hen@crd.org.

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you passionate about human rights and want to be part of a global movement of human rights defenders? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
We are now looking for a Security Officer to join our Security and Innovation Department. The department consists of a team of colleagues focusing on providing security focused and innovative supports to human rights defenders.

The overall responsibility of the role is to contribute to the development and maintenance of the organisational security framework at Civil Rights Defenders; to support the Chief Security Officer (CSO) in increasing the readiness, resilience and overall security of the organisation.

The Security Officer reports to the Director Security and Innovation.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Make sure the organisational security policies are both up-to-date and helpful for colleagues.
- Support Civil Rights Defenders staff members with travel security preparations.
- Ensure there is proper systems support (i.e. IT solutions and needed frameworks) to maximize security compliance among staff.
- Support Civil Rights Defenders regional department in making risk assessments for staff and operations; including security from both a physical site and personal perspective.
- Tailoring and rolling out risk management processes.
- Incident- and crisis management, including incident investigations.
- Compliance management.
- Teaching, training and presentations.


About you
As a person you show interest, willingness, and ability to help others and strive to deliver solutions. You are open-minded and like to take initiative and generate activity. You collaborate with others and make sure to contribute to reaching common goals and you understand that responsibilities as well as rewards should be shared within the team.

It is fundamental for you to resist undue pressure in decision-making and to communicate key points and ideas with clarity. If you also understand how background, culture and group affiliation affects oneself and others and have the ability to take this into account when making decisions, you will be successful in this role.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (such as risk management or information security etc).
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience in crisis management and risk management, preferably from work in conflict environments.
- Experience in staff travel security arrangements and preparations.
- Experience in security frameworks such as ISO 27001.
- Knowledge of security and privacy legislation such as GDPR.
- Experience from working in an international environment. ?
- Fluency (orally and written) in English, strong language skills in another language is a merit (Swedish, Spanish or Russian).


Together with the CSO and other colleagues in the related roles, you will be tasked with duties directly connected to development and upholding the organizational security policies and procedures.

Civil Rights Defenders is currently undergoing rapid expansion and the Security Officer role will initially be focused on scaling up existing frameworks and routines, as well as developing new organizational systems for Risk management, travel security compliance and information security.

Therefor we expect you to have experience of security related rollouts and confidence-building efforts along with good understanding of the current threat landscape and how to mitigate external risks in an effective manner.

Understanding of the situation of human rights defenders, living and working in repressive environments is a strong merit.

About the employment
This is a permanent employment (with a 6-month probation period). As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden.

For more information about the position, please contact Marcin de Kaminski, Director Security and Innovation at Civil Rights Defenders: marcin.dekaminski@civilrightsdefenders.org (mailto:marcin.dekaminski@crd.org).

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than September 9, 2022.

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you passionate about human rights and want to be part of a global movement of human rights defenders? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Programme Officer for the Emergency Fund your main responsibility will be to ensure the quality assurance of support given as part of the Civil Rights Defenders Emergency Fund. You will also identify relevant support for human rights defenders at risk, seeking or needing our support and identify flexible methods within our rapid response operations.

The Programme Officer reports to the Head of Rapid Response Unit.

In this role you will have the duties to:

- Respond to, or identify, human rights defenders at risk
- Assess needs of human rights defenders at risk and identifying relevant responses
- Coordinate with colleagues and Civil Rights Defenders partners to provide suitable rapid response support
- Be responsible for the full cycle of emergency grant making process
- Be responsible for reporting and monitoring of support results given under the Emergency Fund
- Work together with colleagues within the Security and Innovation department to identify flexible approaches to rapidly changing human rights challenges
- Build and maintain a good relationship with key actors in the local, regional, and international human rights community


About you
As a person, you are confident, stable and have self-insight. You see relationships in their proper perspective and distinguish between the personal and the professional, yet you have the ability to put yourself in someone else's situation when needed.

You can easily adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, you rely on your analytical ability to find solutions to emerging challenges, and you remain motivated despite setbacks and disappointments.

Furthermore, you value differences and understand how background, culture and group affiliation affect yourself and others and can take this into account when you make decisions. To be successful in this role you also have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree relevant to the position
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience
- Experience or interest in working with community-based organisations, charities and NGOs, non-profits, media, human rights and/or civil society groups
- Experience working with grant management/making
- Experience from, and proven excellent delivery on, documentation and other administrative tasks
- Excellent language skills in English
- Great skills in Microsoft Office 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Merits for the position are:

- Experience working with vulnerable and at-risk groups
- Knowledge of other languages
- Experience from working in or with informal groups, communities, and networks

- Understanding of the situation of human rights defenders, living, and working in repressive environments


About the employment
This is a full-time temporary employment until end of December 2022 with the possibility to extend, starting date is as soon as possible. We do require a work-permit for Sweden for this position.

As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than May 6, 2022.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Zinaida Muradova: zinaida.muradova@civilrightsdefenders.org (mailto:Marcin.deKaminski@civilrightsdefenders.org)

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).



About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you experienced in financial accounting systems and share our passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Accountant you will be responsible for ensuring that all parts of the accounting are up to date according to schedule. Responsibilities include reconciliation of balance accounts, bank payments and card transactions as well as system administration and maintenance of our financial system "Maconomy".

In this position you will work closely with the Head of Accounting and Reporting, the Accountant and Controllers.

As Accountant you report to the Head of Accounting and Reporting.

Your key activities will be to:

- Administration and maintenance of financial system "Maconomy" including support matters
- Update book-keeping with daily transactions
- Tracking and reconciling bank statements
- Reconcile balance sheets
- Record accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Update expense reports
- Bank payments
- Reconcile monthly time reports
- Provide administrative support during audits


About you
As a person, you like to analyse numerical data and other sources of information to break them down into components, patterns, and relationships. To follow instructions and adhere to the organisation's procedures and policies comes natural to you and you fully understand that your individual efforts contribute to the results of the immediate team and strive to deliver accordingly.

To thrive in this role, you actively participate, contribute, and work together with the team towards common goals. You have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners and supports and cares for others. If you’re also guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for.

This position requires good verbal and written communication skills in English and Swedish, meaning that you can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without strain and that you can produce both clear and detailed text.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A High school education, preferably in business administration
- At least 3 years experience of working with financial accounting systems
- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word), especially Excel
- Experience of project management activities


Documented experience from NGO-work is preferable. Other merits for the position are:

- Experience from working in Deltek Maconomy accounting system
- Financial YH or University education in accounting
- Experience from working in larger financial accounting system


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with a 6-month probationary, starting as soon as possible. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, at our Headquarters.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 19 June 2022.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Lidija Kovacevic, lidija.kovacevic@civilrightsdefenders.org.

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).



About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you an expert on the political and human rights situation in Eurasia? Do you want to use your strategical skills to contribute to the advocacy work of Civil Rights Defenders? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Program Officer you will work directly with the Department Director to manage and follow up on the programme and long-term partnerships with human rights organisations in the Eurasia Region. You will be responsible for setting programme priorities and tracking political developments in the Eurasia Region.

The Eurasia Programme Officer reports to the Eurasia Department Director.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Follow and analyse the human rights situation in the Eurasia region.
- Identify, prepare, assess and implement program activities.
- Conduct human rights activities together with partners.
- Initiate and participate in lobbying and advocacy actions.
- Monitor, evaluate and report on partnerships and activities.
- Be a capacity building resource for our partners.
- Provide the management with draft editorials and write articles, appeals and statements for our website and media.
- Establish and maintain contacts with relevant actors such as various donors.


About you
As a person, you like to take initiative and generate activity. You collaborate with others and make sure to contribute to reaching common goals and you understand that responsibilities as well as rewards should be shared within the team.

Furthermore, you see the long-term significance and further consequences of things and can accept and tackle demanding goals with enthusiasm and flexibility to fulfil our mission and vision.

It is fundamental for you to resist undue pressure in decision-making and to communicate key points and ideas with clarity. If you also understand how background, culture and group affiliation affects oneself and others and have the ability to take this into account when making decisions, you will be successful in this role.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Law, Political Science, International Relations or similar, including education on international human rights mechanisms.
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience.
- Good knowledge of civil society actors in the region.
- Documented experience of NGO-work, project management and/or advocacy work.
- Fluency (orally and written) in English and Russian.
- Strong reporting skills.
- Strong IT skills, including good knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word).


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. The duty station is either our headquarters in Stockholm or our office in Tbilisi.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we recruit on an ongoing basis. Last day of application is April 7, 2022.

Local union representative (Unionen) Lia Hen: lia.hen@crd.org.

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog. Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We continue to expand, which has opened up many new interesting job opportunities. Are you an Human Resources professional with general HR working experience? Do you want to use your analytical and interpersonal skills to contribute to the human rights work of Civil Rights Defenders? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
At Civil Rights Defenders we are proud of our HR work and we are aiming to be a market leader in HR within our field of business. As Human Resources Partner your mission is to enable the organisation's managers to make the right decisions in HR related issues and to help make them successful in their leadership.

You will act as an operational and strategic partner to the managers with qualified support from the Head of HR as well as managing Civil Rights Defenders recruitment processes for our headquaters in Stockholm as well as globally. Another part of your over all responsibilities will be to develop, maintain, and implement HR policies and HR processes.

As HR Partner you report to the Head of Human Resources.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Supporting the Head of HR in both operational and strategic matters

- Managing recruitment processes together with mangers.
- Develop and implement CRDs job architecture on existing and new positions.
- Participate in trade union collaboration and act as a negotiation support to the Head of HR
- Working independently with work environment issues
- Manage rehabilitation matters together with mangers and occupational health services
- Manage HR related administration and reporting
- Contribute to the strategic development of CRDs broader HR agenda.




About you
As a person you are accommodating and flexible and have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners. You apply expertise and knowledge to achieve the best possible results as well as prioritising effectively and work in a systematic and methodical way to reach them.

Furthermore, you have well-founded and clear values that you are guided by in crucial situations at work and you make sure to comply with legal obligations and safety requirements for your role as HR Partner as well as for the organisation.

To learn from sucesses and failures comes naturally for you and you promote organisational learning. You communicate well, for example by expressing opinions, information and key points of an argument in a structured and logical way and you demonstrate an interest in and understanding of others by attentive listening and by providing feedback.

If you also have the courage to challenge prejudice, bias, and intolerance in the workplace and see diversity as an asset that makes groups and organisations stronger, we definitely believe that you will be successful in this position.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this position you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Management or other education that the employer considers equivalent
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience within human resources, for example from an HR generalist role
- Documented experience from working with labor law issues
- Documented experience from working with competency based recruitment
- Good knowledge of coaching/consultative approach and practicies
- Ability to use the Swedish and English languages flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes and to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects
- Strong IT skills, including good knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Proficiency in Russian and/or Spanish is a merit. Other merits for the position are:

- Experience from working in Teamtalior or other recruitment systems
- Experience from working with assessment tools such as Aon
- Experience from working with salary mapping
- Experience from the NGO sector
- Experience working with HR in an international context


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting in Febraury 2022 or as soon as possible. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 31 December.

Mikael Wu Björk, Head of HR: mikael.wu.bjork@civilrightsdefenders.org

Lokal union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you experienced in administration and service? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.
About the role
As Department Assistant for the Global Department your main responsibility will be to provide administrative support to the department and the Department Director. You will also act as a coordinating service function to simplify and streamline the department's work.
Since this is an entirely new position you will also have the opportunity to be involved in the process of shaping the role and the working methods.
As Department Assistant you report to the Global Department Director.
Your key activities will be to:
Manage calendars and schedule meetings
Prepare written documentation, such as meeting notes and power point presentations
Attend and keep minutes during meetings
Manage the Department Director's inbox and, if necessary, prioritize among tasks
Be a contact person for other departments and for external parties to relieve the Global Department daily work



About you
As a person, you have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners and always tend to support and care for others and show a willingness to deliver solutions.
To follow instructions and adhere to the organisation's procedures and policies comes natural to you as well as adapting your interpersonal style to suit different people and situations. If you’re also guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely believe that you will be successful in this role.
This position requires good verbal and written communication skills in English and Swedish, meaning that you can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without strain and that you can produce both clear and detailed text.
We assume that you share our values.
To be suitable for this role you have:
Relevant post-secondary education in administration and business support or similar, or equivalent experience
1 - 3 years of relevant professional work experience with administration and documentation as well as managing customer relationships, internally or externally
Previous experience of having worked as a chief assistant, department coordinator or similar
Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word)
Documented experience from NGO-work is highly preferable.

Other merits for the position are:
Experience from working in a non-profit organisation
Experience from working in an international organisation
Experience from human rights work / volunteerism



About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with a 6-month probationary, starting according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, at our Headquarters.
Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis.
About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.
Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org. Visa mindre

We continue to expand, which has opened up many new interesting job opportunities. Are you an Human Resources professional with general HR working experience? Do you want to use your analytical and interpersonal skills to contribute to the human rights work of Civil Rights Defenders? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
At Civil Rights Defenders we are proud of our HR work and we are aiming to be a market leader in HR within our field of business. As Human Resources Partner your mission is to enable the organisation's managers to make the right decisions in HR related issues and to help make them successful in their leadership.

You will act as an operational and strategic partner to the managers with qualified support from the Head of HR as well as managing Civil Rights Defenders recruitment processes for our headquaters in Stockholm as well as globally. Another part of your over all responsibilities will be to develop, maintain, and implement HR policies and HR processes.

As HR Partner you report to the Head of Human Resources.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Supporting the Head of HR in both operational and strategic matters

- Managing recruitment processes together with mangers.
- Develop and implement CRDs job architecture on existing and new positions.
- Participate in trade union collaboration and act as a negotiation support to the Head of HR
- Working independently with work environment issues
- Manage rehabilitation matters together with mangers and occupational health services
- Manage HR related administration and reporting
- Contribute to the strategic development of CRDs broader HR agenda.




About you
As a person you are accommodating and flexible and have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners. You apply expertise and knowledge to achieve the best possible results as well as prioritising effectively and work in a systematic and methodical way to reach them.

Furthermore, you have well-founded and clear values that you are guided by in crucial situations at work and you make sure to comply with legal obligations and safety requirements for your role as HR Partner as well as for the organisation.

To learn from sucesses and failures comes naturally for you and you promote organisational learning. You communicate well, for example by expressing opinions, information and key points of an argument in a structured and logical way and you demonstrate an interest in and understanding of others by attentive listening and by providing feedback.

If you also have the courage to challenge prejudice, bias, and intolerance and see diversity as an asset that makes groups and organisations stronger, we definitely believe that you will be successful in this position.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this position you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Management or other education that the employer considers equivalent
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience within human resources, for example from an HR generalist role
- Documented experience from working with labor law issues
- Documented experience from working with competency based recruitment
- Good knowledge of coaching/consultative approach and practicies
- Ability to use the Swedish and English languages flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes and to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects
- Strong IT skills, including good knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Proficiency in Russian and/or Spanish is a merit. Other merits for the position are:

- Experience from working in Teamtalior or other recruitment systems
- Experience from working with assessment tools such as Aon
- Experience from working with salary mapping
- Experience from the NGO sector
- Experience working with HR in an international context


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting in Febraury 2022 or as soon as possible. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 31 December.

Mikael Wu Björk, Head of HR: mikael.wu.bjork@civilrightsdefenders.org

Lokal union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities.Are you an expert on the political and human rights situation in Eurasia? Do you want to use your strategical skills to contribute to the advocacy work of Civil Rights Defenders? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Program Officer you will work directly with the Department Director and Senior Program Officer to manage and follow up on the programme and long-term partnerships with human rights organisations in the Eurasia Region. You will be responsible for setting programme priorities and tracking political developments in the Eurasia Region

The Eurasia Programme Officer reports to the Eurasia Department Director

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Follow and analyse the human rights situation in the Eurasia region
- Manage a portfolio of grants assigned by the Department Director
- Travel frequently in the region (approximately 30 days/year)
- Identify, assess, and propose new partners and activities
- Conduct human rights activities together with partners
- Initiate and participate in lobbying and advocacy actions
- Monitor, evaluate and report on partnerships and activities
- Be a capacity building resource for our partners
- Provide the management with draft editorials and supportive documents for debates, etc, and write articles, appeals and statements for our website and media
- Establish and maintain contacts with relevant decision makers
- Identify fundraising opportunities, write concepts notes and applications for funding
- Mentor junior staff/interns, when applicable


About you
As a person, you like to take initiative and generate activity. You collaborate with others and make sure to contribute to reaching common goals and you understand that responsibilities as well as rewards should be shared within the team.

Furthermore, you see the long-term significance and further consequences of things and can accept and tackle demanding goals with enthusiasm and flexibility to fulfil our mission and vision.

It is fundamental for you to resist undue pressure in decision-making and to communicate key points and ideas with clarity. If you also understand how background, culture and group affiliation affects oneself and others and have the ability to take this into account when making decisions, you will be successful in this role.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Law, Political Science, International Relations or similar, including education on international human rights mechanisms
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience
- In-depth regional expertise about the political and human rights situation
- Good knowledge of civil society actors in the region
- Documented experience of NGO-work, project management and/or advocacy work
- Experience from working with freedom of speech
- Solid written and verbal communication skills in English and Russian
- Strong reporting skills
- Strong IT skills, including good knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Knowledge of the Swedish language is a strong merit.

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we recruit on an ongoing basis.

Local union representative (Unionen) Lia Hen: lia.hen@crd.org.

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Through advocacy, legal processes, and public campaigns, we advance people’s rights globally. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

At our headquarters, located on Södermalm in Stockholm, we are about 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you passionate about human rights and want to be part of a global movement of human rights defenders? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be one of the two we are looking for.

About the role
As Programme Officer for the Emergency Fund your main responsibility will be to ensure the quality assurance of support given as part of the Civil Rights Defenders Emergency Fund. You will also identify relevant support for human rights defenders at risk, seeking or needing our support and identify flexible methods within our rapid response operations.

The Programme Officer reports to the Security and Innovation Director.

In this role you will have the duties to:

- Respond to, or identify, human rights defenders at risk
- Assess needs of human rights defenders at risk and identifying relevant responses
- Coordinate with colleagues and Civil Rights Defenders partners to provide suitable rapid response support
- Be responsible for reporting and monitoring of support results given under the Emergency Fund
- Work together with colleagues within the Security and Innovation department to identify flexible approaches to rapidly changing human rights challenges
- Build and maintain a good relationship with key actors in the local, regional, and international human rights community


About you
As a person, you are confident, stable and have self-insight. You see relationships in their proper perspective and distinguish between the personal and the professional, yet you have the ability to put yourself in someone else's situation when needed.

You can easily adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, you rely on your analytical ability to find solutions to emerging challenges, and you remain motivated despite setbacks and disappointments.

Furthermore, you value differences and understand how background, culture and group affiliation affect yourself and others and can take this into account when you make decisions. To be successful in this role you also have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- Experience or interest in working with community-based organisations, charities and NGOs, non-profits, media, human rights and/or civil society groups
- Experience from, and proven excellent delivery on, documentation and other administrative tasks
- At least 4 years of relevant working experience
- Great skills in Microsoft Office 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Merits for the position are:

- A Bachelor’s degree relevant to the position
- For one of the positions, experience or knowledge of the human rights situation or human rights organisation in Burma is a merit
- Knowledge in Russian or other languages
- Experience from working in rights based civil society organisations
- Experience from working in or with informal groups, communities, and networks
- Understanding of the situation of human rights defenders, living, and working in repressive environments


We assume that you share our values.

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment starting in December 2021 or according to agreement.

As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 28 Nov.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Marcin de Kaminski: Marcin.deKaminski@civilrightsdefenders.org

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

Do you have experience of strategic planning and project design and a passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Officer your responsibilities will be to develop and ensure efficient, effective, uniformed and globally aligned working processes and procedures for planning, monitoring and evaluation of Civil Rights Defenders programming.

You will work in close collaboration with geographic and thematic Departments and function as a learning hub for all Departments on issues related to planning, monitoring and evaluation. The PME Officer will also work in close concert with Civil Rights Defenders thematic advisors.

For guidance in this new and exciting role, you will have Civil Rights Defenders' Vision and Mission and our Management System (CRD-W). The PME Officer reports to the Global Programme Director

Your key activities will be:

- Programme Performance Monitoring such as monitor follow-up actions based on management decisions
- Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation, for example ensure that the HQ Departments and partners use a uniform, well-prioritised and realistic plan of monitoring and evaluation activities
- Programme Performance Planning such as develop and maintain PME systems for project and core granting procedures
- Evaluation, including to establish a process for documenting and tracking PME processes, outcomes, evaluations and learnings
- M&E Capacity Building, for example contribute to partner collaboration of monitoring capacity building, and corresponding activities for implementation in the context of the IMEP or joint UN monitoring plan
- Communication and Partnerships, including to partner with Department Directors to ensure that current and accurate data and results are included in reports, analysis, and relevant internal communication
- Key end results


About you
As a person, you are solutions driven and you tackle challenges with enthusiasm and flexibility to fulfil our mission and vision.

You have the ability to analyse numerical data and other sources of information, to break them into component parts, patterns and relationships and you apply your expertise and knowledge to achieve best results possible in any given situation.

It’s easy for you to build wide and effective networks both within and outside the organisation and you relate well to people at all levels. You express opinions, information and key points in a well-structured and logical way.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or an equivalent education
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in strategic planning, or project design, monitoring and evaluation
- Experience with results-based management
- Solid understanding of and experience in knowledge management for the purpose or learning
- At least 3 years of relevant professional work experience, especially in project monitoring and evaluation, statistics and data management
- Good understanding of development cooperation in general and Sweden’s support to civil society in particular
- Good knowledge in rights-based approach to development, as well as gender, environment and conflict sensitivity
- Good understanding of the principles of aid and development effectiveness
- Basic skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)
- Knowledge of and experience working with Management Information Systems



Experience in working in different geographic contexts is highly preferable as well as knowledge in international standards on human rights, in gender and development, environment and conflict.

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting according to an agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Gabrielle Gunneberg: gabrielle.gunneberg@crd.org.

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org. (Unionen)

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Through advocacy, legal processes, and public campaigns, we advance people’s rights globally. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

At our headquarters, located on Södermalm in Stockholm, we are about 100 employees working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities.Are you an expert on the political and human rights situation in Eurasia? Do you want to use your strategical skills to contribute to the advocacy work of Civil Rights Defenders? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Program Officer you will work directly with the Department Director and Senior Program Officer to manage and follow up on the programme and long-term partnerships with human rights organisations in the Eurasia Region. You will be responsible for setting programme priorities and tracking political developments in the Eurasia Region

The Eurasia Programme Officer reports to the Eurasia Department Director

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Follow and analyse the human rights situation in the Eurasia region
- Manage a portfolio of grants assigned by the Department Director
- Travel frequently in the region (approximately 30 days/year)
- Identify, assess, and propose new partners and activities
- Conduct human rights activities together with partners
- Initiate and participate in lobbying and advocacy actions
- Monitor, evaluate and report on partnerships and activities
- Be a capacity building resource for our partners
- Provide the management with draft editorials and supportive documents for debates, etc, and write articles, appeals and statements for our website and media
- Establish and maintain contacts with relevant decision makers
- Identify fundraising opportunities, write concepts notes and applications for funding
- Mentor junior staff/interns, when applicable


About you
As a person, you like to take initiative and generate activity. You collaborate with others and make sure to contribute to reaching common goals and you understand that responsibilities as well as rewards should be shared within the team.

Furthermore, you see the long-term significance and further consequences of things and can accept and tackle demanding goals with enthusiasm and flexibility to fulfil our mission and vision.

It is fundamental for you to resist undue pressure in decision-making and to communicate key points and ideas with clarity. If you also understand how background, culture and group affiliation affects oneself and others and have the ability to take this into account when making decisions, you will be successful in this role.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Law, Political Science, International Relations or similar, including education on international human rights mechanisms
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience
- In-depth regional expertise about the political and human rights situation
- Good knowledge of civil society actors in the region
- Documented experience of NGO-work, project management and/or advocacy work
- Experience from working with freedom of speech
- Solid written and verbal communication skills in English and Russian
- Strong reporting skills
- Strong IT skills, including good knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Knowledge of the Swedish language is a strong merit.

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we recruit on an ongoing basis.

Local union representative (Unionen) Lia Hen: lia.hen@crd.org.

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Through advocacy, legal processes, and public campaigns, we advance people’s rights globally. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

At our headquarters, located on Södermalm in Stockholm, we are about 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you service minded professional with working experience within human rights? Do you want to use your administrative skills to contribute to the work of Civil Rights Defenders? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Program Administrator you will work closely with the Department Director and EURASIA Programme Officers to manage the grants for the EURASIA region.

Your main responsibility will be to give input and assess partners reporting and provide other programmatic support, such as assisting your colleagues in monitoring and analysing the human rights situation in EURASIA.

The Programme Administrators reports to the EURASIA Department Director.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Assisting in monitoring and analysing the human rights situation in the EURASIA region
- Assisting in conducting human rights activities and capacity building according to the annual plan of action
- Assisting in evaluating and reporting of the grants
- Assisting in tracking programme budgets
- Maintain regular communication with the partners and give feedback on the grant’s management
- Overseeing the following office facilities: equipment, inventory, purchases and office cleanliness
- Procuring office equipment and services
- Managing logistics for seminars, workshops and project-organised public events including printing, facilities, trainee logistics, banners, signage etc.
- Liaising with government agencies on customs, visa and other issues
- Other duties as may be assigned from time to time by Department Director and programme staff, and that are consistent with the duties of a project administrator


About you
As a person you easily adapt to changing circumstances and you see the possibilities in change. Although you like to plan, organise, and prioritize your work in an efficient way to keep time frames and deliver results according to organisational goals and quality standards.

Furthermore, you have the interest, willingness and ability to help others and strives to deliver solutions.

If you also tend to remain motivated and effective despite setbacks and have the interest and ability to collaborate with and relate to other people in a responsive and smooth way, we are sure that you will thrive in this role.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this position you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Law, Political Science, International Relations or similar, including education on international human rights mechanisms
- At least one year of working experience with human rights
- Documented experience of work in the NGO sector, and/or advocacy work
- Experience in working with budgets, grants
- Fluency in English and Russian
- Strong IT skills, including good knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting as soon as possible or according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience, and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we recruit on an ongoing basis.

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you experienced in financial accounting systems and share our passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Financial Assistant you will be responsible for ensuring that all parts of the accounting are up to date according to schedule and that the project administration is in good order. You will also manage registration and control as well as reporting payroll materials in contact with our external payroll vendor in collaboration with HR.

In this position you will work closely with the Head of Accounting and Reporting, the Accountant and support Controllers in project administration activities.

As Financial Assistant you report to the Head of Accounting and Reporting.

Your key activities will be to:

- Update book-keeping with daily transactions
- Track and reconcile bank statements
- Reconcile balance sheets
- Record accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Update expense reports
- Manage bank payments
- Reconcile monthly time reports
- Adjust time reporting between projects
- Upload project budgets to financial system
- Support controllers in project administration
- Provide administrative support during audits
- Participate in maintaining order in relevant folders on Sharepoint


About you
As a person, you like to analyse numerical data and other sources of information to break them down into components, patterns, and relationships. To follow instructions and adhere to the organisation's procedures and policies comes natural to you and you fully understand that your individual efforts contribute to the results of the immediate team and strive to deliver accordingly.

To thrive in this role, you actively participate, contribute, and work together with the team towards common goals. You have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners and supports and cares for others. If you’re also guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for.

This position requires good verbal and written communication skills in English and Swedish, meaning that you can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without strain and that you can produce both clear and detailed text.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A High school education, preferably in business administration
- 1 - 3 years of relevant professional work experience with financial accounting systems
- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word), especially Excel


Documented experience from NGO-work is preferable. Other merits for the position are:

- Experience from working in Deltek Maconomy accounting system
- Financial YH or University education in accounting
- Experience of project management activities
- Experience from working in larger financial accounting system


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with a 6-month probationary, starting in October 2021 or according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, at our Headquarters.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 31 August.

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 70 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

We are in an expansion phase, which has opened up many interesting job opportunities. Are you experienced in financial accounting systems and share our passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Financial Assistant you will be responsible for ensuring that all parts of the accounting are up to date according to schedule and that the project administration is in good order. You will also manage registration and control as well as reporting payroll materials in contact with our external payroll vendor in collaboration with HR.

In this position you will work closely with the Head of Accounting and Reporting, the Accountant and support Controllers in project administration activities.

As Financial Assistant you report to the Head of Accounting and Reporting.

Your key activities will be to:

- Update book-keeping with daily transactions
- Track and reconcile bank statements
- Reconcile balance sheets
- Record accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Update expense reports
- Manage bank payments
- Reconcile monthly time reports
- Adjust time reporting between projects
- Upload project budgets to financial system
- Support controllers in project administration
- Provide administrative support during audits
- Participate in maintaining order in relevant folders on Sharepoint


About you
As a person, you like to analyse numerical data and other sources of information to break them down into components, patterns, and relationships. To follow instructions and adhere to the organisation's procedures and policies comes natural to you and you fully understand that your individual efforts contribute to the results of the immediate team and strive to deliver accordingly.

To thrive in this role, you actively participate, contribute, and work together with the team towards common goals. You have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners and supports and cares for others. If you’re also guided by ethics and values in crucial situations at work, we definitely think that you are the one we are looking for.

This position requires good verbal and written communication skills in English and Swedish, meaning that you can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without strain and that you can produce both clear and detailed text.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A High school education, preferably in business administration
- 1 - 3 years of relevant professional work experience with financial accounting systems
- Great skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, PPT, Word), especially Excel


Documented experience from NGO-work is preferable. Other merits for the position are:

- Experience from working in Deltek Maconomy accounting system
- Financial YH or University education in accounting
- Experience of project management activities
- Experience from working in larger financial accounting system


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with a 6-month probationary, starting in October 2021 or according to agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, at our Headquarters.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 31 August.

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 70 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org). Visa mindre

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Är du en skicklig administratör med erfarenhet från service- eller insamlingsbranschen? Vill du använda din talang för service till att stärka mänskliga rättigheter? Då kanske det är dig vi letar efter.

Om rollen
Som givarservice och CRM-administratör har du huvudansvar för att säkerställa ett gott och professionellt bemötande vid varje kontakt med våra givare.

Du kommer att svara på förfrågningar, ge service och se till att våra givare känner sig som en del av vår rörelse. En viktig del av rollen är CRM-administration och samordning för att stödja avdelningens aktiviteter och säkerställa smidiga givarprocesser.

Dina huvudsakliga arbetsuppgifter att:

- Ge serviceinriktad respons, support och information till givare och potentiella givare utifrån behov
- Administrera uppgifter inom CRM-systemet med stöd från CRM-superuser på avdelningen
- Registrering av gåvor, uppdatering av givardata och andra löpande uppgifter
- Administrera uppgifter i samband med insamlingsaktiviteter, såsom telemarketing, kampanjer etc
- Samarbeta med teamet och delta i avdelningens aktiviteter för att uppnå målen enligt verksamhetsplan
- Att alltid ha ett givarperspektiv och se till att administrativa processer inom avdelningen flyter på
- Samarbeta med andra avdelningar


Insamlingsavdelningen är ett litet team på 3 personer där alla hjälps åt och förväntas hugga i där det behövs. Arbetet präglas ofta av snabbfotat arbete och flexibilitet då omvärlden snabbt kan förändra förutsättningarna för vårt arbete. Vi samarbetar nära med främst kommunikations- och regionala programavdelningarna för att skapa de bästa förutsättningarna för insamling.

Om dig

Som person drivs du av kombinationen av att skapa positiva relationer och samtidigt skapa ordning och reda för lyckade projekt. Du sätter givaren i centrum och fokuserar på att ge bästa service.

Du stöttar andra samt visar respekt och positiv inställning till andra människor. Du trivs med ett omväxlande tempo där det är lika stora delar planerat som reaktivt arbete. För att lyckas i den här rollen är du en stark kommunikatör i det svenska språket, både muntligt och skriftligt. Då Civil Rights Defenders arbetsspråk i huvudsak är på engelska är det viktigt att du kan förstå och ta till dig information samt att interagera med kollegor på förståelig engelska.

Vi utgår ifrån att du delar våra värderingar.

För att passa den här rollen har du:

- Examen inom relevant utbildning alternativt arbetserfarenhet ifrån insamlings- eller kundservice eller andra serviceyrken
- Erfarenhet av arbete med att tillhandahålla tjänster till givare eller kunder såsom: givartjänster, kundservice, telemarketingförsäljning eller motsvarande
- Erfarenhet av CRM-administration
- Hög nivå av erfarenhet i Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Erfarenhet av insamling och arbete i Salesforce är meriterande.

Om anställningen
Detta är en tillsvidareanställning på deltid (50-75 %) utifrån diskussion med 6 månaders provanställning, med start under hösten enligt överenskommelse. Det finns på sikt goda möjligheter för tjänsten att öka i omfattning eller övergå i en heltidstjänst. Som organisation strävar vi efter mångfald och vi ser din bakgrund, erfarenhet och personlighet som ett bidrag till organisationen. Din arbetsplats kommer vara på vårt huvudkontor i Stockholm.

Ansök så snart som möjligt då vi rekryterar löpande, men senast 15 aug. För mer information om tjänsten, vänligen kontakta: HR Chef Mikael Wu Björk: mikael.wu.bjork@crd.org mellan 15-31 Juli eller Development Director Anna Magnard: anna.magnard@crd.org efter 2 aug. Fackligt ombud Lia hen: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen)

Om oss

Civil Rights Defenders är en internationell människorättsorganisation som är politiskt och religiöst obunden. Vi försvarar människors medborgerliga och politiska rättigheter i några av världens mest repressiva regioner. Vi bedriver påverkansarbete, juridiska processer och informerar om situationen för mänskliga rättigheter globalt. Vi är lokalt representerade på fyra kontinenter och i samarbetar med tusentals människorättsförsvarare. Tillsammans med våra partners utkräver vi ansvar av de som kränkt människors medborgerliga eller politiska rättigheter. Vi fungerar också som Sveriges watchdog för mänskliga rättigheter.

På vårt huvudkontor, beläget på Södermalm i Stockholm, är vi cirka 70 anställda som arbetar i olika funktioner mot vår vision - en värld av demokratiska samhällen där vi alla åtnjuter våra medborgerliga och politiska rättigheter. Läs mer om oss och vårt arbete på www.crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1092305/edit/www.crd.org).

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Are you a skilled administrator with experience from work providing services? Do you want to use your talent for customer service to contribute to the human rights movement? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Donor Success Officer your main responsibility will be to ensure donor care within every contact with donors. You will provide service, answer inquiries, and invite donors to feel part of our movement. An important part of the role includes CRM administration and coordination to support the department's activities and ensure smooth donor processes.

The Donor Success Officer will have the duties to:

- Provide service minded response, support and information to donors and potential donors when needed
- Administrate tasks within the CRM system, with support from CRM superuser within the department
- Registration of donations, keeping the data up to date and other tasks
- Administrate tasks in relation to fundraising activities, such as telemarketing, campaigns etc
- Cooperate with the team and engage in the department's activities to achieve the goals according to the plan of action
- Always keep a donor perspective and ensure administrative processes within the department to flow smoothly
- Cooperate with other departments


The fundraising department consists of a small team of 3 dedicated colleagues that support each other in their daily work. The day-to-day business needs a flexible and agile approach since the preconditions for our work often changes rapidly. We cooperate closely with other departments, mainly Communications and the regional programs, to create the best possible fundraising opportunities.

About you
As a person, you are driven by the combination of creating good and sustainable relations to... Visa mindre