Location: Remote 

Commitment: minimum 15h a week 

About Solidarity Rising

Solidarity Rising is an international human rights organization dedicated to the common pursuit of justice and freedom. We stand in unwavering solidarity with occupied people’s with a strong focus on Western Sahara and Palestine and an ambition to include all  occupied people’s in our work. Our movement is powered entirely by the energy, creativity, and commitment of volunteers. We believe that we are stronger when we link our struggles, and we work every day to advocate, raise awareness, and build a global movement that is independent of political ideologies and government funding and committed to liberation and the end of occupations.

The Role

We are looking for a visionary, highly organized, and principled leader to serve as the Co-head of Solidarity Rising. As our movement grows, we need another leader who can navigate the complexities of international human rights advocacy while providing the structural backbone for a 100% volunteer-run organization. The position is unpaid as everyone in Solidarity Rising are volunteers.

You will be the bridge between our high-level mission and the day-to-day reality of leading an ever growing team of more than 60 volunteers and 5 active campaigns and projects, including the organizing of an international solidarity conference in the Saharawi refugee camps, the building of a resource database spanning books, documentaries, reports & more, coordinating university lectures around the world, doing political advocacy work in multiple countries and languages to name a few of our activities.

Your Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & capacity oversight

• Support Campaign Leads to ensure projects (from international speaking tours to digital resource databases) stay on track and meet their advocacy goals. 
• Make sure each team has the capacity it needs to reach its goal, both in terms of campaign leads and volunteers. 
• Ensure that each volunteer and campaign lead gets continued support, training and capacity building so that they grow in their work as activists and changemakers
• Support new initiatives and campaigns within the organization and make sure that they flourish and get the capacity they need

• Lead and inspire a diverse global diverse network of 60+ volunteers from all walks of life.
• Develop structures for recruitment, onboarding, capacity development and retention to ensure every volunteer feels valued, respected, effective and has the space to grow in their advocacy work with us
• Foster a culture of solidarity, accountability, and mutual respect.

Operational & “Back-End” Excellence

• Ensure the “engine room” of the organization runs smoothly: manage digital infrastructure, internal communications, and administrative workflows.
• Oversee organizational transparency and reporting to our donor base (The People).
• Streamline internal processes to make it easier for activists to join and take action without being bogged down by bureaucracy.

• Strengthen alliances with other solidarity movements and international human rights bodies.

Requirements: Who You Are

• A Movement Builder: You have experience leading grassroots or volunteer-driven organizations and understand how to motivate people without traditional corporate hierarchies.
• Expert Multi-tasker: You can shift seamlessly from discussing international law in Western Sahara to fixing an administrative bottleneck or helping a volunteer with a technical issue.
• Principled & Independent: You are deeply committed to the rights of occupied peoples and understand the nuances of working with multiple oppressed groups that each have their own cause with their own history and sensitivities
• Operational Architect: You enjoy building systems. You know how to use digital tools (Slack, Google Workspace, etc.) to keep a decentralized team synchronized.
• Communicator: You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and hopefully other languages as well, especially arabic, spanish and french

How to Apply

If you are ready to rise to this challenge, please send your CV and a cover letter detailing your experience, who you are, why this position is right for you and what motivates you to commit to leading an international organization.

Send your CV and cover letter to

solidarityrising@gmail.com

Solidarity Rising is an equal opportunity movement. We strongly encourage applications from people with lived experience of occupation, displacement, or marginalized backgrounds. The position is unpaid as everyone in Solidarity Rising are volunteers.