Human Rights Officer

Org. Setting and Reporting

This post is found in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Regional Hub for East and Southern Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The incumbent will report to the relevant workstream lead under the overall guidance of the Regional Director or his/her delegated representative. The Human Rights Officer is responsible for conducting a wide range of tasks. Depending on the organizational setting, these may include monitoring and investigating compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law; analysing 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 Administrative Officer will be responsible for the following duties -Conduct substantive monitoring of the implementation of human rights and international humanitarian law and follow up on recommendations from human rights mechanisms, including treaty bodies, the UPR, and special procedures, as well as investigative findings, to ensure compliance with human rights and advance accountability. -Collect, document, and analyse evidence-based information on civil, cultural, economic, social, and/or political rights, including the right to development, to enable analysis, early warning and response, accountability, and informed decision-making, identifying gaps and contributing to ensuring human rights data is discoverable, interoperable, and appropriately shared, including from gender and leave no one behind perspectives. -Draft, review, and disseminate 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 processes, with attention to gender integration and leave-no-one-behind perspectives. -Collect, verify, and analyse multi-source information relevant to the human rights thematic and/or country-specific situation, ensuring data quality and methodological compliance, including from a gender perspective and leaving no one behind. -Provide advisory and substantive support to national and/or regional counterparts to strengthen their human rights systems, institutions, and frameworks, including complaint mechanisms, victim and witness support services, and engagement with human rights mechanisms, including reporting and implementation of recommendations. -Design and deliver human rights capacity-building programmes for State institutions, security forces, NHRIs, civil society, and o...