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Executive Director, Amnesty International India Bangalore, Delhi Permanent About the role: With the leadership of our current Executive Director Ananth Guruswamy, Amnesty International has spent the last couple of years rebuilding its ground presence in India.   During this time Amnesty International, India have achieved impressive developments on the substantive human rights issues, built a wide network of human rights friendly schools, recruited 100,000 Indian members and about 2 million activists and supported a wide range of local human rights defenders and organizations. We have no doubt that Amnesty International will play an increasingly important role in establishing a rights respecting society not just in India but across South Asia and globally in the coming years. Our current Executive Director completes his term in June 2015 and so the organization is seeking a leader with a strong record of standing up for justice and human rights in India.  The incoming Executive Director will lead the organisation in continuing to achieve concrete improvements in human rights for individuals and communities in India. About you: Passionate about building the public constituency in India for human rights the ideal candidate will have the gravitas, profile, and credibility to lead and inspire not just the staff and members but the wider public in India. Our goal is to build on the legacy of the past and create a compelling future for our movement. By joining Amnesty International in India as our new Executive Director at this exciting time you will help us integrate our existing strengths, respond to the changing external reality, and leverage our increasingly strong ground presence in India for ever greater impact. About us: Amnesty International, made up of millions of individual members and supporters, is a global human rights movement. Of people who are passionate about defending human rights for all. Who believe the world would be a better place if together we took injustice personally.  And by mobilizing the humanity in everyone, shining a light on human rights abuses wherever they may occur and speaking truth to power, for over 50 years now we have been making a tangible difference in the lives of those who are denied their human rights, every hour, every day. Closing date: 15th February 2015 To apply, please visit: https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/1016/description