Human Rights Officer; TJO

The Human Rights Officer will lead and coordinate monitoring and reporting on human rights and international humanitarian law implementation, manage evidence collection, and support capacity building through training. The role involves producing analytical reports and ensuring confidentiality and compliance with UN data privacy standards.

• Lead and coordinate the monitoring of the implementation of human rights and international humanitarian law and ensure appropriate follow-up on recommendations from human rights mechanisms, including treaty bodies, the UPR, special procedures and investigative findings, to support compliance with human rights and advance accountability.
• Coordinate and manage the collection, documentation, and quality control of evidence-based information on civil, cultural, economic, social and/or political rights, including the right to development, to support early warning, accountability and informed decision-making, identifying gaps and ensuring the proper handling and sharing of human rights data, including from gender and leave no one behind perspectives.
• Lead and coordinate the production and substantive review of human rights reports, briefings and other communications, with legal analysis as appropriate, and prepare analytical papers to inform strategies, policies, programmes, crisis management, guidance and decision-making, with attention to gender integration and leave-no-one-behind perspectives.
• Maintain confidentiality and integrity and handle sensitive information with discretion, ensuring compliance with the UN data privacy, security requirements, and standards.
• Coordinate and lead the delivery of training programmes and workshops using various platforms for different audiences to enhance the capacity of UN staff and partners.

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in human rights, law, political science, international relations, social sciences, economics, public policy, sustainable development, humanitarian affairs or related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in human rights or related areas is required.
• Relevant experience may include, but is not limited to political affairs, public affairs, international relations, law, social sciences, economics, development, humanitarian affairs, or other related areas.
• Skills in drafting human rights reports, policy and other documents is required.
• Knowledge of chain of custody procedures in the context of human rights investigations is required.
• Knowledge of human rights monitoring, documentation, analysis, research and reporting methodologies, including planning, coordinating and conducting field missions is required.
• Knowledge of international humanitarian law and its application is desirable.
• Skill in applying and maintaining confidentiality, integrity, and availability principles is desirable.
• English language proficiency at UN Level III in reading, writing, listening and speaking.

• Human Rights Monitoring
• Human Rights Reporting
• Human Rights Investigation
• Chain of Custody Procedures
• Field Mission Coordination
• Human Rights Documentation
• Policy drafting
• Analytical Reporting
• International Humanitarian Law
• Confidentiality Management
• Data Protection Compliance
• Capacity Building
• Research Methodology
• Legal Analysis
• International Relations
• Policy Analysis
• Social Science Research

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