Programme Assistant – Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – Article 19 Retour vers les opportunités

Responsible to: MENA Civic Space Programme Officer

Key Relationships: MENA team in Tunis and abroad, Projects’ teams

Contract: FTC 1 year (renewable)

Working hours: Full time, 40 hours a week

Salary: 20796 TND (net salary per year)

Location: Tunis, Tunisia

Travel: This position may require occasional international travel, some weekend and evening work

ABOUT US

Established in 1987, ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination. Our mission is to promote and defend the universal human rights of freedom of expression and information around the world, through international advocacy, legal analysis, and regional and national projects.

In the previous five years, one of the key achievements of ARTICLE 19 has been expanding and strengthening our international reach by consolidating our presence outside the UK, recruiting national or regional staff, and establishing strong and operationally autonomous national or regional offices. Being based in the countries and regions on which we work, we believe we have a better understanding of regional and national realities and local needs and thus have greater impact on freedom of expression developments. We are able to respond more swiftly to opportunities or crises. We are closer to our partners, and thus more capable to respond to their demands and strengthen interactions and capacities. ARTICLE 19 regional/national offices are able to rely on ARTICLE 19’s international work, legal and policy expertise, and its reputation for delivery and impact, and bring all of these qualities and characteristics to national debates for a stronger protection of the right to access to information and freedom of expression.

ROLE SUMMARY

Under the supervision of the MENA Civic Space Programme Officer based in Tunis, the MENA Programme Assistant will contribute to the coordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the MENA projects. He/she will contribute to the proper execution of activities, such as the organization of meetings, seminars, training and workshops. He/she will also participate in writing concept notes for activities, reports for internal use and for donors and funding proposals.

The MENA Programme Assistant will also coordinate with the various national and regional ARTICLE 19-MENA’s projects stakeholders and partners. He/she will contribute to broaden ARTICLE 19’s network in the MENA region.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure the coordination of projects’ activities and deliverables so that to the expected results and objectives of projects are met.
• Support the proper organization of workshops, trainings, meetings and seminars under the MENA ongoing projects.
• Monitor the proper execution of activities and deliverables within the framework of the MENA ongoing projects.
• Participate in the drafting of reports for donors and the international office, as well as drafting training, workshops and seminars programs, and activity reports of projects.
• Ensure contacts to broaden ARTICLE 19’s network in the MENA region;
• Undertake research on issues relating to freedom of expression, freedom of media and other related fundamental rights in the MENA region;
• Monitor the legislative framework related to freedom of expression, freedom of media and other fundamental rights in Tunisia and key priority countries in the MENA region;
• Designing and updating a database of main organisations, associations and other actors working on freedom of expression and other related fundamental rights in the MENA region;
• Contribute in coordination with the MENA Team and the Fundraising Team, to the development of funding proposals for future work of ARTICLE 19 in the MENA region;
• Collect and maintain the documents related to the activities and projects of the organisation;
• Understand, support and comply with internal organizational policies;
• Uphold and promote the highest standards of ethics and the organization’s code of conduct;
• Undertake other duties commensurate with the role as may reasonably be assigned by the Line Manager.