Amnesty International

the strategy and impact department drives content, substance and strategy for aiusa's human rights impact. the department conducts domestic and leverages International research as a foundation for long-term strategic advocacy on the united states (and other) government and u.s. Corporations, leveraging their influence and holding them accountable on a range of pressing human rights issues domestically and internationally. the department develops targeted bursts of strategic campaigning to drive impact when a strong human rights opportunity or crisis emerges; all supported by a marketing and public-facing communications team that serves aiusa and the broader Amnesty movement. the department is comprised of the following units 1) programs, (continued on schedule o). Strategy and impact department (continued):2) government relations and advocacy, 3) campaigns and crisis response, 4) silicon valley initiative, 5) research, and 6) marketing and communication. 1) the programs unit consists of issue experts who manage ongoing bodies of work on human rights issues and who create and implement strategies to win human rights victories and make long-term human rights impact in particular thematic areas. 2) the campaigns and crisis response unit manages cross-functional efforts to campaign on and achieve timebound and intensified efforts to win human rights victories and help stop urgent human rights abuses. 3) the government relations and advocacy unit educates u.s. government officials on human rights situations around the world, and advocates for u.s. government policies and practices to help stop human rights violations by countries and other actors, in addition to ensuring the u.s. is not violating human rights abroad. 4) the silicon valley initiative is a joint endeavor between Amnesty International's International secretariat and aiusa to engage with the technology sector for the advancement of human rights.5) the research unit conducts original human rights research (reports, policy briefings, case fiels, amicus briefs, protest monitoring, and International advocacy) on domestic human rights issues in the united states. 6) the marketing and communications unit is responsible for leading aiusa's media/press work and engaging with us-based media, public-facing digital communications including aiusa's social media channels and website, multimedia production, and managing relationships with those in the entertainment and arts industry.

the movement building and membership engagement department at aiusa is composed of five key divisions: 1) organizing & activism, 2) events, 3) grassroots leadership &engagement, 4) individuals at risk (iar) and human rights education (hre) and 5) member communications. the movement building and membership department is comprised of the following units. (continued on schedule o).movement building and membership engagement (continued):1) organizing & activism - the organizing and activism unit organizes and builds mobilization capacity in the united states. 2) events - the events unit orchestrates the planning and coordination of aiusa's annual general meeting and annual regional conferences across the country that educate and mobilize aiusa members, activists, and attendees. 3) grassroots leadership & engagement - the unit builds capacity for grassroots advocacy by recruiting, coaching, and training volunteer member leaders. 4) individuals at risk (iar) and human rights education - the iar-me unit intersects with departments and units across aiusa, seeking to grow action-takers, build member engagement, and diversify the movement through the foundational lens of individuals at risk work, central to the movement.5) member communications member communications focuses on delivering high impact, digestible communications and strategies for members, simplifying and modernizing member-to-member and member-to-staff communication.

Equity, inclusion, and advocacy and governance initiatives - includes the following departments 1) inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility ("idea"), and 2) chief of staff. 1) idea - the idea group oversees ensuring more just, inclusive, and equitable work throughout aiusa, within our internal workplace practices, as well as the human rights work, we do globally. They use a strategic blend of surveying both member leaders and staff to assess issues of diversity and equity, identifying critical goals to be set, providing staff and member leader training, and developing and employing a set plan to implement this new agenda over a continued period. (continued on schedule o).2) chief of staff - the chief of staff department streamlines alignment between the International secretariat and aiusa as well as oversees the internal governance practices of the organization by collaborating with the board of directors and aiusa staff. In addition, the department manages an internal communications unit that is responsible for developing products and ensuring information flows that enable aiusa's community to function transparently, collaboratively, effectively, and in unison. Further, the department also oversees aiusa's planning & evaluation unit that is responsible for learning and reporting, including through mel evaluations. And, finally, the department manages the innovation & collaboration unit that is responsible for creating frameworks, systems, and processes to support collaborative project management and data-driven decision-making in organization-wide operations.