Overview
Leads and manages the Community Outreach programme, developing strategies and maintaining relations with communities and institutions to address community rights issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading and managing the Community Outreach programme, including staff based at the Mission HQ in Skopje and at the Field Office in Tetovo.
- Developing strategies, guidelines and standard operating procedures for field teams.
- Establishing and maintaining regular contact and relations with all communities and relevant Host Country institutions.
- Identifying community related issues, analysing their implications and advising on programmatic policies.
- Developing and implementing strategies to implement recommendations and policy decisions.
- Proposing the design, development and implementation of programmatic activities.
- Providing updates and briefings to management on developments.
- Coordinating with other programmes on programmatic/outreach priorities and preparation of joint analytical papers.
- Co-operating with the Mission’s gender team to integrate gender issues.
- Serving as one of the Mission’s two Early Warning Focal Points.
- Performing other duties as required.
Required Experience
- Minimum 6 years of relevant, diversified and progressively responsible professional experience, including at least 3 years at the management level relevant to the actual position.
- Extensive knowledge of international human and community rights standards.
- Previous experience working on community rights issues, with governments, and/or other relevant stakeholders.
- Proven project and budget management experience.
- Strong leadership and managerial skills and experience in leading multinational teams.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and constructive working relationships with internal counterparts and external interlocutors.
- Proven ability to collect and analyse data on a variety of thematic issues dealing with community rights.
- Proven ability to design and implement strategic programming on community issues.
- Computer literate with practical experience in Microsoft applications.
- Experience in negotiation/mediation (desirable).
- Previous experience in field missions, preferably in South Eastern Europe (desirable).
- Sound knowledge of the Council on Europe’s Framework Convention on National Minorities and the international policy and legal framework on community rights (desirable).
- Knowledge of the legislative framework in the host country related to human rights and community rights (desirable).
Qualifications
Second-level university degree in political sciences, international relations, public policy, law, international human rights law or other human rights related fields; first-level university degree in combination with 2 years of additional qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of second-level university degree.
