European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international not-for-profit association of 50+ digital human rights organisations from across Europe and beyond. Through our advocacy, we build a movement of organisations and individuals and drive digital rights, freedoms and justice in a connected world.
EDRi is looking for a Senior Policy Advisor to join EDRi’s policy team in Brussels. This role will focus on digitalisation and society, artificial intelligence (AI), and the intersections between digital rights and climate / environmental justice. This is a great opportunity for an experienced individual to drive civil society efforts to promote data protection, privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, dignity and other fundamental rights at a time of multiple challenges to our rights and freedoms in the digital age.
About the role
The EDRi network has contributed to major impact on digital policy debates and policy-making in Europe and is considered a reliable source of expert knowledge in the field of digital regulation and fundamental rights. We are frequently featured in expert hearings, panels, interviews, podcasts, and news articles, and our work has been cited widely in EU lawmaking processes.
The new Senior Policy Advisor will work with the Head of Policy, other members of the policy team, and EDRi members and affiliates, to deliver EDRi’s strategic goals on digitalisation and society, AI, and climate justice.
In the last four years, EDRi has been instrumental in developing and leading a core group of dozens of NGOs and a wider network of 150 organisations who jointly contest structural harms from AI and advocate for a rights-respecting EU Artificial Intelligence Act. With the AI Act entering its next phase, the Senior Policy Advisor will build on these efforts and translate their success into a wide range of other contexts relating to AI and society, largely at EU level as well as at national level across Europe, and with regards to global AI governance.
The Senior Policy Advisor will draft robust and well-evidenced policy positions in collaboration with EDRi members and coalition partners, lead and coordinate joint advocacy efforts, and support communications, press and campaigning work.
The Senior Policy Advisor will also lead coalition-building efforts to strengthen civil society’s impact, take part in conveners’ efforts, inform and lead EDRi members accordingly and coordinate with organisations representing groups that are most affected by digitalisation and AI harms. This may include working on upcoming worker surveillance laws; on AI uses in the migration context; on future laws or policies on public sector uses of AI.
The Senior Policy Advisor will also lead the definition of an EDRi strategy on the intersections between climate justice and digital rights in the European context, together with the EDRi members involved in this work. This involves looking at the environmental impact of AI, as well as broader extractivist tech policies which cause harm in Europe and globally.
The role requires a significant amount of autonomous work, but the successful candidate will also be expected to collaborate with other policy colleagues to avoid silos, and to contribute to the strategic aims of the whole team. Depending on the profile of the candidate and the needs of the team, there may be opportunities in either the medium-term or the long-term to work on other digital rights laws, policies and topics.
Responsailities
The successful candidate will contribute to the work of the policy team in close collaboration with the EDRi team and EDRi members in the following areas:
*Candidates with minimum 1-2 years of relevant work experience are still welcome to apply, but if successful, would be offered the role at Policy Advisor level. The salary for a Policy Advisor role is €48,928.38 gross annual (monthly gross of €3,514.97) and the responsibilities will be adjusted in line with this.
How to apply
To apply, please fill in the application form before the above-mentioned deadline: https://hub.edri.org/index.php/apps/forms/s/ECsgk6LSaWBA3GnJao3ggRps
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
As an organisation, EDRi is committed to protecting and upholding the digital rights of all, and addressing discrimination, oppression and inequality. We have co-led a process aimed at decolonising the digital rights field in Europe. As an employer, we strive to have a working environment grounded in equity, inclusion and justice. We therefore encourage individual members of marginalised groups to apply for this post.
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