HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER - Regional Project Coordinator (TJO)

Org. Setting and Reporting

This position is located in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), West Africa Regional Office (WARO) based in Dakar, Senegal. The Human Rights Officer reports directly to the Regional Representative of the West Africa Regional Office. The Human Rights Officer is responsible for conducting a wide range of tasks. Depending on the organizational setting, these Set the strategic approach and provide authoritative legal advice may include monitoring and investigating compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law; analyzing and managing data to inform early-warning, accountability and policy; drafting evidence-based reports and strategic advice; integrating human-rights perspectives into peace, humanitarian and development planning; advising UN leadership and national authorities on protection of civilians, rule of law and transitional justice; and fostering partnerships, capacity-building and advocacy initiatives that advance equality, accountability and the promise to leave no one behind.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Human Rights Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

• 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 undertake analysis and prepare analytical papers, including on lessons learned, to inform human rights strategies, crisis management, prevention, and response policies, programmes, and other strategic decision-making processes. - Lead the provision of substantive advice and technical support to national and/or regional counterparts to strengthen their human rights systems, institutions, and frameworks, including complaints mechanisms, victim and witness support services, and engagement with human rights mechanisms, including reporting and implementation of recommendations. - Lead and coordinate substantive research, analysis, guidance, and policy advice on human rights issues in the context of economic policy and sustainable development, with a focus on poverty, inequalities, and development financing, including as relevant to UN Common Country Analysis and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks. - Lead the engagement with youth networks to advocate for youth rights and mea...