Overview
The Senior Human Rights Officer will coordinate and oversee the preparation of institutional reports, formulate strategic priorities, and advise on human rights matters. The role involves representing the Institution in high-level meetings and negotiating human rights elements of peace accords.
Tasks Summary
- Coordinates and oversees the preparation of institutional reports on mandate implementation for submission to intergovernmental bodies.
- Formulates and coordinates the implementation of strategic priorities, and workplans across sections including from a gender equality perspective; develops a vision or direction for the work and creates the conditions for implementing that vision or direction.
- Advises the SRSG on human rights matters
- Represents the Institution in high-level meetings and coordinates its engagement with Member States and international partners on Institutional matters. Negotiates directly with relevant parties the human rights elements of peace accords or the human rights concerns while long range solutions are sought.
- Proposes policy directives and plan of action to appropriate United Nations bodies for immediate and long- range solutions to human rights problems in general and specific geographical areas.
- Designs, develops and implements significant policy and program changes to address regional or global human rights issues, including their gender dimensions.
- Formulates the programme of work, budget and medium-term plan of the unit and participates in the overall formulation and approval of the programme of work, and administrative matters concerning the Section/Division or mission.
- Prepares human rights reports on key sectors or key regional developments.
- Develops and maintains relations with officials at the highest levels of governments and advises them on human rights issues and policies.
- Coordinates and oversees human rights research initiatives.
- Manages, coordinates, organizes and supervises other human rights officers or organizational segments as assigned.
- Leads team members efforts to collect and analyze data and provides insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. Ensures that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Experience Requirements
A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in human rights, political affairs, international relations, law or related area is required. Experience supporting senior leadership in coordinating reporting on the implementation of newly established humanitarian or human rights mandates to intergovernmental bodies is required. Experience coordinating engagement with Member States and international partners, including preparation of briefings and representation in high-level meetings, is required. Experience providing legal and policy outputs in support of an institutional mandate related to missing persons is required. Experience monitoring implementation of institutional priorities and workplans across multiple units or sections is desirable.
Qualification Requirements
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in law, political science, international relations, social sciences or related area. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
