We rely on a network of volunteer country specialists who work directly with researchers at our International Secretariat to ensure that we remain engaged and informed of human rights developments around the world, including those that might not directly relate to any one of our core campaigns, or work on individuals.
 
We call these specialists Country Coordinators and together they make up the Country Coordinators Forum.

• Read our Country Coordinators blog
• Get the full list of countries and contact details

These dedicated volunteers are organised into 13 regional teams, each covering a defined geo-political area of the world. A Regional Coordinator leads every regional team and they help to shape the work of the team as a whole - developing ‘regional action plans’ with their team. 
 
Local groups can opt-in to work on one or more of these 13 regions and are then supported directly by their regional team of coordinators.

World regions

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The Coordinators Steering Committee

To ensure that the 13 regional teams can share and develop best practice, the regional coordinators sit on the Coordinators Steering Committee. When it gets together at our Annual General Meeting, the Country Coordinators Forum also elects a Chair and Vice-Chair to this Committee.

The team

• Chair Deepa Shah
• Vice-Chair Chris Peel
• North America and Caribbean Sue Bingham
• Central America Sheila Royce
• South America Graham Minter
• Middle East and Gulf Paul Dawson
• North Africa Beverley Foulkes-Jones
• West and Central Africa Krisztina Saroy
• Horn and East Africa Beatrice Mahoney
• Southern Africa Cindy Asokan
• Former Soviet Union Barrie Hay 
• Europe Deepa Shah
• South Asia Jerry Allen
• South-East Asia Rachel Alcock
• China and East Asia Kenny Latunde-Dada

Vacancies

We currently have the following vacancies:

• Southern Africa (One vacancy focusing on Swaziland, Lesotho and Zambia)
• West & Central Africa (One vacancy focusing on Burkina Faso, Central African Republic and Gambia)
• North Africa (One vacancy focusing on Algeria & Libya)

Please see the role description for detail of what is involved in volunteering as a country coordinator.

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Sunday 28th May 2017.

To apply please email the completed application form to activism@amnesty.org.uk with the subject FAO Michael Quinn.