HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER

Org. Setting and Reporting

This post is found in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Country Office in Sudan, based in Kosti. The incumbent will serve as Human Rights Officer and lead the Kordofan team. The incumbent will work under the supervision and guidance of the Head of the OHCHR Country Office or her/his Deputy.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Human Rights 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.
• Conduct human rights monitoring and field verification missions, including assessments and early-warning exercises, in accordance with UN methodology, gender indicators and victim/witness protection standards, and draft comprehensive reports on findings and recommendations.
• Conduct fact-finding or investigative missions to document violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, ensuring adherence to victim and witness protection standards and facilitating cross-component collaboration as necessary.
• 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.
• Provide substantive advisory support to civil society on the integration of human rights into protection, rule of law, the human rights economy, transitional justice and accountability, exercising professional judgment under the guidance of senior staff.
• Contribute substantively to advisory engagement with UN leadership and UN partners on the integration of human rights into protection, rule of law, the human rights economy, transitional justice, and accountability.
• Contribute substantively to the development of strategies on protection of civilians, conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), and child protection, translating early warning into coordinated responses.
• Engage substantively in the Office’s partnership‑building activities, including supporting the identification, development, and maintena...