HOURS:        Full-time (37.5 hours/week)

DURATION: Temporary (Parental leave cover): May 2026 – November 2027

SALARY:      $101,012.80 per annum

TRAVEL:      Hybrid work environment (Ottawa or Toronto Office)

 The Manager of Activism & Movement Engagement leads the Activism Team in developing and implementing the organization's mobilizing and organizing strategies in support of its priority human rights campaigns. To achieve this, the Manager ensures team members continuously refine supporter journeys and strategies to grow, engage and diversify the organization's activists and member leaders, and implements improvements to systems, tools and practices. The Manager and the team work closely with colleagues in Communications and Policy, Advocacy & Research Teams (and often, but less frequently with Fundraising) to co-create these strategies for achieving human rights change through harnessing people power within our movement.

· Lead the Activism team to develop and implement the organization's organizing and mobilizing strategies to grow, engage, train and diversify our activist base, in support of our priority human rights campaigns.

 · Ensure that plans are compelling, transformative, and use people power to advance human rights change while also incorporating goals for growing and diversifying Amnesty’s base of activists and donors and engaging them in supporter journeys.

· Ensure that activist structures and supporter journeys remain dynamic, creating structures for AICES to recruit, support and encourage increased grassroots, supporter and volunteer engagement.

· Oversee the development of a comprehensive program of capacity building and leadership development for activists, both online and offline, that provides a wide range of opportunities to suit all learning preferences, with the goal of creating a skilled activist base.

· Manage the organization’s development and delivery of Human Rights Education programs and/or resources to ensure there is a comprehensive offer of reference guides, self-learning tools, guides, and templates for taking action.

· Collaboratively develop and execute a strategy to address any under-representation in AICES’s activism and supporter base, to identify and work to address gaps in representation across different criteria including geography, demographics, knowledge and skills.

· Work with counterparts at the Francophone Branch of Amnesty International Canada, other Amnesty sections, and with IS staff, to ensure alignment between activism strategies and objectives and those of Amnesty International’s global movement.

 · Build and foster relationships and collaborations with a variety of external stakeholders, including marginalized and underrepresented movements in Canada that share a common purpose.

· Lead the Activism team and resources, including operational planning, resource allocation and impact reporting.

· Ensure the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of annual operational plans and priorities, including the implementation of strategic and data-driven shifts to these priorities and their impact on staff workloads, roles and responsibilities.

· Lead, line manage, coach and mentor staff (and youth-in-residence, consultants, interns, etc. as appropriate) to support them in developing team operational plans as well as individual goal setting and professional development.

· Cultivate and model positive and collaborative team dynamics through regular and ad hoc team meetings as needed.

· Support the team’s skills development, strategic coherence, and quality assurance across the team to advance our mobilizing and organizing goals for human rights change.

· Monitor and oversee the development and implementation of budget decisions to ensure appropriate resource allocation.

· Provide oversight and support with all hiring processes in collaboration with Equity, People and Culture.

· Support cross-functional and innovative team approaches to advance and achieve strategic goals.

 

Other duties as required

 

The successful candidate will have a deep and abiding commitment to tackling systemic issues affecting historically marginalized employees and communities with a specific lens of anti-racism, feminism, intersectionality, and accessibility to external and internal work. This includes an ability to support in building an environment that reflects Amnesty International Canada’s promotion of a culture of respect, equity, and fairness.

University degree in human rights, political science or a related field, with on-going need for updated training

· 5-7 years of experience in grassroots organizing and working with activists, supporters or membership groups to create change through campaigns and initiatives, or an equivalent of professional, education and related experience.

· 3-5 years of experience with people management or human resources supporting a team, including goal setting, motivating, leading, evaluating, and developing a capable team of professionals. 

· Experience working with or within membership-based organizations, grassroots social movements, or with volunteers to organize or mobilize for human rights change.

· Experience within a global NGO such as Amnesty International would be an asset, but not essential.

· Proven experience in grassroots mobilizing, organizing, and/or people powered-campaigns, including developing strategic plans and theories of change

 

 Knowledge/Skills:

· Proven people management skills, including ability to coach and motivate team members in multiple locations/hybrid work environment to achieve common goals

· Strong project management skills, including financial

· Knowledge and training in project monitoring, evaluation and learning techniques

· Knowledge, training and experience applying anti-racism, anti-oppression, decolonization, diversity, equity and inclusion principles

· Training in conflict resolution

· Knowledge of change management principles

· Knowledge of organizing and mobilizing trends and tactics, both on and offline

· Knowledge of online organizing and community-building platforms 

· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and able to speak to the work to a variety of internal and external audiences or in a variety of media/platforms

· Strong emotional intelligence

 

Amnesty International is a movement of 10 million ordinary people in more than 150 countries who come together to achieve extraordinary results in defending and promoting human rights. We get discriminatory laws changed and prisoners of conscience released. We’ve helped stop torture, commute death sentences and worked to end violence against women. We are in solidarity with Indigenous peoples demanding that their rights be respected.

Amnesty International Canada is committed to employment equity, actively seeks diversity in the workplace, and welcomes and encourages applications from members of equity seeking groups including women, transgender, non-binary, and LGBTI individuals; First Nations, Metis, and Inuit individuals, persons with disabilities, and members of racialized and marginalized groups. We believe our work is stronger when it benefits from the experience, knowledge and wisdom of people who have faced systemic barriers, and encourage applications from qualified candidates who have lived experience as a member of historically underrepresented communities. 

AIC values qualified diverse candidates who bring skills that contribute to our anti-racist and anti-oppression transformational journey. At AIC, employees are expected to contribute to an inclusive environment and bring the knowledge, experience, and ability to incorporate anti-racism, anti-oppression, intersectionality, gender mainstreaming, inclusion, and accessibility practices to external and internal work and to all interpersonal interactions. Click to learn more about our Equity Journey.

At Amnesty International Canada, we are passionate about what we do, and we are proud of our achievements as a movement. To compensate our employees for the critical work they undertake, we reward them with an attractive, sector competitive salary and benefits package plus the opportunity to develop professionally.

 

 

Together with your resume, please forward a 1-page cover letter (250 words maximum) that includes your responses to the following questions: 

1. How do you relate to Amnesty International Canada’s mission?

2. How would your skills and experiences (personal and professional) translate into success in an activism role?

3. What does a commitment to People Power, ARAO and DEI mean or look like to you?

 

Applications must be submitted electronically through out Work With Us careers page.

We thank everyone for their expression of interest-and truly appreciative of the time individuals put into applying-but with the limitation of time only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Amnesty International Canada is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier free experience to applicants with accessibility needs. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage during the recruitment process