Consultant in human rights monitoring, civic space, democracy, rule of law, or related thematic work.

Overview

Consultant to strengthen operational readiness and improve data availability and quality for regional initiatives related to human rights monitoring and civil society organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop an inception framework including methodology, workflow, country coverage, quality assurance, risk mitigation, implementation priorities, and schedule.
• Create an operational data collection package.
• Consolidate and quality-review data, identify bottlenecks, and propose follow-up needs.
• Improve data quality, completeness, and usability, incorporating feedback.
• Produce final cleaned datasets, updated resources, filing materials, and a handover note.
• Participate in virtual meetings with civil society organizations where relevant.

Required Experience

Demonstrated experience in data collection, information management, desk research, database maintenance and quality assurance. Experience supporting human rights monitoring, civic space, democracy, rule of law or related thematic work. Experience working with structured datasets, online forms, Excel and similar tools. Ability to conduct open-source monitoring, organize traceable source records, and maintain structured shared filing systems. Familiarity with Latin American contexts, especially South America, is desirable. Ability to work in a highly coordinated environment, participate in regular technical review meetings, and incorporate substantive and methodological feedback from multiple stakeholders into ongoing work and revised outputs.

Qualifications

First university degree in information management, social sciences, political science, international relations, human rights, development studies, statistics, data management, communications, law or another relevant field required.

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