Global Repository Project Coordinator (10-month consultancy, with a possibility of extension)

Core responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day coordination of the Global Repository project, ensuring that milestones, timelines, and deliverables are met.
• Serve as the main point of contact between internal teams and external partners, managing stakeholder engagement with political awareness and cultural competence.
• Develop and maintain core project documentation, track progress, identify risks and dependencies, and propose solutions as needed.
• Guide the design of the repository's information architecture and data models, ensuring information is logically structured and easy to navigate.

This role creates positive change by developing a central hub that makes human rights data more accessible and usable, strengthening documentation practices for human rights defenders and organizations worldwide to support accountability, advocacy, and long-term social change.

Required qualifications:

• Demonstrated understanding of the international human rights system and legal/accountability mechanisms.
• Proven experience in project management in remote, international, and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong self-management skills with ability to work independently and meet deadlines, with excellent attention to detail.
• Applied knowledge of information architecture and database design principles, with familiarity with feature specification data structures.

Compensation and perks:

• HURIDOCS operates a localisation policy where compensation is competitive within the non-profit sector and adjusted based on the consultant's location and experience.
• Fully remote work arrangement with flexible hours to accommodate coordination across time zones.
• Supportive working environment based on values of honesty, transparency, appreciation, well-being, compassion, care, growth and learning.
• Diverse and inclusive team that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds.

HURIDOCS is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to strengthening the documentation practices of human rights defenders, civil society organisations, and justice-oriented institutions around the world by designing and supporting tools, strategies, and partnerships that help collect, organise, analyse, and mobilise information for accountability, advocacy, and social change.