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Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them. As a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.

PHR investigates and reports on human rights abuses, provides evidence in support of justice and accountability, and promotes health systems that advance well-being and dignity. PHR's research, forensic and advocacy programs are internationally recognized, and have contributed to investigations in Sierra Leone, genocide convictions in Rwanda and Bosnia, increased government funding for global health, and to the US Supreme Court decision ending the death penalty for juveniles.

PHR’s goals for its health professional student program are to:

• Advance a global understanding of health and human rights amongst health professional students and health-related institutions
• Work with students to provide educational opportunities on a range of PHR’s issues
• Organize and link campus chapters to local, national and international policy debates and campaigns
• Promote student skill development and activism on key health and human rights issues
• Support and strengthen PHR student chapters’ capacity to become effective health and human rights activists

The Student Program Coordinator reports to the Director of Outreach and Constituency Organizing and will be based in our Cambridge, MA office. The position is full-time and funded through June 2010. There is a possibility the program will be extended if resources permit.

Responsibilities include:
• Providing leadership and vision for PHR’s health professional student program.
• Overseeing the growth of PHR’s national and international student chapters, including assessment of chapter strength, recruiting new members and designing on-campus activities that promote a deepening understanding of health and human rights issues.
• Organizing annual national student conference and regional trainings to advance understanding of broad-based human rights issues and advocacy tools to create change.
• Strengthening student leadership opportunities, including Student Advisory Board and regional leadership structures
• Creating and distributing educational materials to chapters to support activism on a variety of PHR issues.
• Working with PHR issue-based teams to design and disseminate action alerts, advocacy actions and other advocacy methods to support larger issue-based campaign goals, such as creating field-based organizing plans.
• Continue to build PHR’s signature Health and Human Rights Education Program by providing support to student chapters who are creating curriculum, fostering stronger relationships with academic institutions and other human rights education organizations, and by providing sector-wide leadership and advocacy to transform the paradigm of medicine to embrace human rights
• Working with the PHR web team to design and maintain web-based materials and learning activities accessible to PHR’s chapters and individual advocates.
• Developing and maintaining high-quality and regular communication with students through web site, listserv, personal outreach, etc.
• Representing PHR at conferences and among other student organizations and coalitions.
• Participating in grant reporting and proposal writing, as required.
• Designing and monitoring the annual work plan and budget for the Student Program
• Conducting regular monitoring and evaluation for the Student Program’s over effectiveness
• Working collegially with other staff and participate in PHR-general and student-specific activities as needed.
• Developing a growing expertise on issues related to health and human rights such as global health policy or the health consequences of the genocide in Sudan and torture, for example.
• Executing other duties as needed and assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree;
• 2-4 years field organizing and/or campus activism
• Proven ability to organize trainings and/or large scale events
• Knowledge of the Web as a strategic organizing and communications tool
• Ability to develop issue and/or campaign-related materials to use on campuses
• Energetic, creative and friendly
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to complete projects in timely way
• Ability to work both individually and as a team member
• Strong writing and public speaking skills.
• Experience working with partner groups and in coalitions.
• Background in and demonstrated commitment to health and human rights a plus
• Ability to travel is required.

Please send cover letter and resume by November 30, 2009 to resumes@phrusa.org or mail to Resume Coordinator, Physicians for Human Rights, 2 Arrow Street, Suite 301, Cambridge, MA 02138. For more information about PHR, please visit our website at www.phrusa.org. No calls please.