Overview
Formulates human rights strategies and advises on human rights matters relating to missing persons, enforced disappearance, and victim participation. Develops and implements policy and program changes to address human rights issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Formulates human rights strategies, including from a gender equality perspective.
- Develops a vision or direction for the work of the section.
- Creates conditions for implementing that vision or direction.
- Advises the Head on human rights matters relating to missing persons, enforced disappearance, victim participation and safeguarding frameworks.
- Negotiates directly with relevant parties the human rights elements of peace accords or the human rights concerns.
- Proposes policy directives and plan of action to appropriate United Nations bodies.
- Designs, develops and implements significant policy and program changes.
- Formulates the programme of work, budget and medium-term plan of the Section.
- 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 national accountability bodies.
- Provides strategic advice on institutional responses to missing persons and enforced disappearance.
- 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.
Required Experience
- A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in human rights, political affairs, international relations, law or related area is required.
- A minimum of five (5) years of professional experience directly engaging with victims, survivors, and/or families of missing or disappeared persons is required.
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience providing formal technical or strategic advice to national bodies addressing missing persons or enforced disappearance is required.
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience contributing to the design, establishment, or operationalization of transitional justice or accountability mechanisms is required.
- Experience drafting and implementing institutional victim protection frameworks, including confidentiality and informed consent procedures, risk assessments, and referral pathways is required.
- Experience working in or on Syria is desirable.
- Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
Qualifications
- 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.
