Seeking Four Community Regional Leads

Team CommUNITY is looking to hire four Regional Community Leads who will be responsible for cultivating and strengthening our regional communities, by connecting individuals, understanding individual needs and helping connect them to resources. The Regional Community Leads will elevate and support young and new voices in digital rights from their region, paying particular attention to both individuals from marginalized and underrepresented communities, and technologists hoping to grow their own solutions.

We are looking for folks who are in the beginning years of their careers (1-3 years of experience) and are passionate about community management, digital rights, internet freedom, and equity.

• Position: Regional Community Lead 

• Job level: Entry-level

• Contract: 12 month consultancy, 20 hours per week

• Compensation: 20,000 USD

• Location: Remote

We are looking for 4 regional leads

• Africa Regional Lead, Speaks English fluently, Swahili or any other African language is a plus, based anywhere within UTC-1 through UTC+4.

• Asia Regional Lead, Speaks English, Mandarin or Hindi fluently, any other languages spoken in Asia are a plus, based anywhere within UTC+5 through UTC+9

• Latin America Regional Lead, Speaks English and Spanish fluently, any other language spoken in Latin America is a plus, based anywhere within UTC-8 to UTC-3

• MENA Regional Lead, Speaks English and Arabic fluently, Amazigh, French or any other languages spoken in the region are a plus, based anywhere within UTC+0 through UTC+4

What we provide

• A hands-on learning experience in which they are paired with mentorship and training on community organization, community health and holistic security

• The opportunity to refine a set of skills and knowledge to further your professional goals

• Exposure to Team Community’s programming and operations

• Engagement with a large set of digital rights organizations and practitioners from the region and globally

Key Responsibilities

• Moderate regional monthly meetups

• Write monthly regional briefs to highlight digital rights updates and initiatives

• Build and cultivate engagement in diverse virtual community spaces, ensuring that members feel safe and supported.

• Outreach to communities and groups from the region who should be part of important conversations centered on advancing digital rights

• Build and cultivate engagement in diverse virtual community spaces, ensuring that members feel safe and supported

• Help answer questions or provide regional expertise to digital rights and circumvention tech projects hoping to improve their offerings in a particular area/country in the region

• Help co-host Team CommUNITY online events  

Who we are looking for

• Passionate about TCUs mission and impact, and interest in working within the digital rights, internet freedom, or human rights field

• Passionate about bringing people together, and advancing important conversations in the region at the intersection of tech and human rights

• Good writing and community research skills

• Can facilitate virtual events, and understand how to use virtual tools

• Good skills cultivating communities online, through tools such as mailing lists, online chat rooms, and others. 

• Ability to work with efficiency, flexibility, and good humor

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide array of people from diverse backgrounds

As a community-centered organization, diversity of life experiences makes a big difference in how we identify needs, and design and implement our programs and services. Women, People of Color, LGBTQI+, and disabled folks are highly encouraged to apply and self-identify in the application.

How to apply

Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis but we are accepting applications until February 20.

Please send your resume and answers to the following four questions to ops@digitalrights.community. Please use subject “Regional Leads - [LOCATION]

1. Why are you applying to this job?

2. What are the main community organization challenges and gaps for human rights organizations and groups in the region you are applying for?

3. What methods and strategies are useful to cultivate a healthy, engaged community? 

4. What timezone will you be working from?

Who We Are

‌Team CommUNITY (TCU) is a community-based membership network that fosters and nurtures healthy, resilient, and inclusive networks of digital rights defenders across the globe. We believe that the Internet must be co-designed with diverse communities to ensure the privacy, security,  and humanity of all users are protected. Our regional community groups as well as the need for community managers have incredibly grown since we have shifted from curating one yearly physical event (IFF) to sustainable online community spaces amid Covid-19.

TCU is housed at ARTICLE 19 which 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, campaigns, legal analysis, and regional and national projects. ARTICLE 19 operates internationally: although our international secretariat is based in London, we have regional teams based in the Americas, Asia, MENA, Europe, and Africa through an established network of offices and personnel.