Join the AlgortihmWatch team: We’re looking for a Policy & Advocacy Manager

We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Policy and Advocacy Manager

to join our team in Berlin. Fluency in German and English required.

Your Role

As Policy and Advocacy Manager you develop, lead and implement our overall policy and advocacy strategy related to automated decision-making systems, in close coordination with the executive board.

The purpose of this role is to take forward AlgorithmWatch's work on the governance of automated decision-making (ADM) systems, advocating for rights-respecting, participatory approaches that enhance the public good and individuals’ life chances.

You will, together with other members of AlgorithmWatch’s strategic leadership team and through close and direct engagement with our project teams and partners, develop policy positions and recommendations on key issues, and design and execute a strategy to disseminate and foster adoption of those positions by key decision-makers. Positions and recommendations will be based on your own analyses and on the results of AlgorithmWatch’s primary research areas ADM in the workplace, ADM in the public sector, ADM and information intermediaries and sustainability aspects of ADM systems.

You identify key forums and processes where policy interventions from AlgorithmWatch and our partners would have a particular impact, and coordinate networks with like-minded civil society organizations. Depending on the outcome of pending funding decisions, you will build a team of policy experts to expand these activities.

What we are looking for

What we offer

AlgorithmWatch is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of our hiring and promotion process and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

How to Apply

Deadline: 15 January 2020 (23h59 CET)

Please address the following documents to the attention of Ms Kristina Penner (as pdf, via email: jobs@algorithmwatch.org):

Please note that only duly completed applications (cover letter, CV, work samples) will be considered. Interviews are likely to be scheduled starting the week of February 10th 2020 in our Berlin office or remotely.

Location is Berlin and regular office presence is assumed; we can accommodate work from home to some extent. Although we invite non-EU citizens to apply, as a small and predominantly project-funded organization we cannot provide financial support for relocation or visa applications. Please also be aware that you would need to have a work permit for Germany at the starting date.

Please briefly indicate how you became aware of our job post.

Due to the high volume of applications and limited resources, we will confirm your application via email and will contact only shortlisted candidates personally. Thank you in advance for your understanding.


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