Advocacy Assistant

Overview of FRH

Ruwad al Houkouk is a non-profit and apolitical NGO that aims at enhancing the human rights of vulnerable marginalized groups in Lebanon. The association’s target population is the refugees, stateless persons and migrant workers. Its main activities include legal services, produces policy papers and conduct advocacy activities.

Description:

The Advocacy Assistant will support the advocacy team in their day to day general activities and assist in the preparations of Association’s events / meetings. This position will report directly to the advocacy officer.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Handle the full scope of organizing and managing the logistics of the advocacy department activities and events and draft activity admin brief.
• Attend meetings and workshops and take minutes of the meetings.  
• Organize and maintain the filing system for the events in hard copies and electronic as per the Association’s rules and procedures.
• Search and compile information and data as required by the Advocacy Officer.
• Scanning and archiving advocacy researches and activities files.
• Maintain and update the Association’s Database of contacts.
• Organize the agenda of advocacy team and handle the logistics of their meetings (compile minutes and reports for meetings).
• Assist in posting / retrieving data from social Media platforms under advocacy officer guidance.
• Draft weekly brief and monthly work achievement report. And contribute in Advocacy department annual report.
• General research support as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Social sciences, Journalism, communications, or a related field
• 4 years of relevant experience in advocacy work
• Must be Proficient with Microsoft Office and Google products
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in Arabic and English
• Excellent in work organization and administrative tasks
• Experienced in archiving systems
• Flexible and multi-task
• Excellent organization skills and eye for detail