Grassroots Legislative Advocacy Assistant (4 Month Fixed Term)

Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the global organization’s presence in the United States. We engage people in the U.S. to fight injustice all around the world, while we also work to protect people’s human rights here in the U.S. Amnesty International USA has more than one million members and activists in all 50 states, who are part of a larger global movement of 10 million people in 150 countries. We are a democratically governed, grassroots membership organization, which means that our members vote on key policy issues and elect our Board of Directors. Amnesty International USA’s elected Board members, staff, and members work together to lead the organization.

The Grassroots Legislative Advocacy Assistant (4-Month Fixed term) will play an important role in supporting projects that build and strengthen the Grassroots Leadership and Engagement (GLE) Unit, which is part of the Movement Building and Member Engagement Department. GLE staff build grassroots capacity to advance AIUSA’s human rights work through recruiting, retaining, and skills development of activists and broad national networks.

The Grassroots Legislative Advocacy Assistant (GLA Assistant) will have the opportunity to work across units at AIUSA to assist with the planning, organizing, and implementation of AIUSA’s Youth Power Action Activist Training and Lobby Day, to be held March 6 - 9, 2026. The ideal candidate will have a strong attention to detail, be a self-starter, organized, and prior experience working with high school and college-level students.

This is a 4-month fixed term role, with a start date of no later than December 2025 and will end by mid-March 2026.